Each October the World Ironman Championships are held on Hawaii’s Big Island. This enormous triathlon–in both distance and popularity–brings a couple thousand of the best triathletes, and and their equipment, to one place.
This picture shows the bicycle staging area where the more than 1,500 triathletes transition from the 2.4 mile swim to the 112 mile bike ride.
Some surveys have placed the average cost of each bicycle at over $3,000 with some costing upwards of $8,000.