You'd soon run out of cash in the DH world. I pimp socom will rush you £6k these days.
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£4.5k to spend on a bike.................what would you buy...
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Posted 2 years ago #
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This thread reminds me of a question a supply teacher asked us when i was 10 (25 years ago). She asked what would you spend 1 thousand pounds on? I said a VW beatle, a new surf board and some cool alloy wheels, and a trip to Hawaii. Of course not knowing how much stuff cost in the real world, and forgetting that i couldn't drive as i was 10, and obviously insurance wasn't an issue to me either!!!!
I'd love to be able to find a consultant that'd diagnose my knee problems and then provide the surgery and after care all for 4.5K, more like 20K!!!
A lot of people out there don't think anything much about spending 4.5k on a bike, it's pretty common actually. The difference between those that think it's more than they'd ever be able to spend on a bike is that the folk spending that much on a bike are out working, so spending less time either at home on the internet, or at work not getting promoted as they are spending time on the internet.
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I have never, and probably will never have £4.5k to spend on a bike. However i do not doubt that over the years i have spent well over £4.5k on bikes and ended up with a bike worth around £4.5k.
1991: Townsend mild steel piece of poo 100
1993: Marin Eldridge Grade: 400
1994: Cannondale M1000: 750
1997: Giant MCM Team: 1200
2006: Klein Attitude, built up with odd bits from here and there: (approx) 750
2009: Kona Jake: 450, Giant Anthem build: (approx) 1100
Grand Total:4750Christ!!!!! how the F did that happen!!
...and that's not including parts, clothing etc.
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here's how to spend 4.5K +
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...are you seriously telling me that costs 4.5k??
b-b-b-b-b-but?
Am I missing something here?
...it's just a black bike, with wheels and some forks.
4.5k?????
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4.5k plus (rrp prices) !
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Oh!
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alex - i think it's full retail price would be frightening !
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here's a couple of mates' bikes that rrp in excess of 4.5k :
see a trend developing here ?
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That top one is very very nice.
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But I'd be £3000 short
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Yes, what colour is that nice Nicolai with the red decals? Pistachio?
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Well seeing as we're doing this...
You don't need to buy an ugly German bike to go to £4500:
That was £4500rrp off the shelf, add a new seatpost (£170), stem (£70), bars (£100), shifters (£80), rearmech (£175), pedals (£120), chainrings (£100), bar ends (not in photo, £40), skewers (£90), tyres (£90), bottle cage (£60), various bolts (£50), chain (£50), and that leaves nearly £5700 on a Specialized...
Start with the 2010 one and it's going to be over £6000 by the time you make the upgrades. Like it or not, few 'top of the range' bikes are <£4500.
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I really think bike and component manufacturers are taking the pi** with prices at the moment.
How can a few tubes of alu or carbon, some pretty low tech parts and pretty basic R+D cost to more than a car or a motorbike?
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How can a Ferrari cost 200 times more than a Kia Sorento or something?
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This would do for me.
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Chainline - Member
Thank you for your kind words and yes it WAS my Jones, now it's some scutters, here's another of my ex fugly 135mm Phil WOOD FRONT dishless front hub
**** me Phil that is/was a Fugly hub, here's my better one
in thin wheel mode, the fat one has the same good looking hub.
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i like the large flanged hub better john, your's looks like a cheap formula/quando type thing.
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Right a few bottles of wine in and an edit to previous post for those grumbling about money spent on bikes.
Of all the places that i get he "how much" sh1t STW is the last place i would expect to see grumblings about coin spent on bikes. Friends, family, no nothing colleagues yes but STW poor form chaps
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