Following on from this…

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/thud-issue-73-has-landed?replies=58

Answer the following 4 questions.

How old are you?
How much would you spend on a bike?
How much would you spend on a jacket?
How much would you spend on a set of front lights?

Me.

Age – 43
Bike – £1500
Jacket – £80
Lights – £100

I dress to the left.

Today is ‘no pants Thursday’.

Questions are a burden upon others, answers a prison for oneself.

Today is wear Mitch’s Wednesday pants Thursday.

You know those people who stop you in the street when you’re walking through town?

You’re like one of them, you are.

Sorry I’m in a hurry.

43
£2k
£100
£200

You know those people who stop you in the street when you’re walking through town?

You’re like one of them, you are.

Harry’s a mugger?!! 😯

Or worse, a chugger. Fooken vermin the lot of them!

Edit – oops I had a bit of a moment there.

Little fluffy bunnies, little fluffy bunnies.

“Well bloody sod yer then”

I was trying to get a serious answer and once again it descends into the usual drivel and talk of Mitch’s nether garments, or the lack of them.

Data from our last reader survey…

Average age – ‘Mid thirties’
No. of bikes – 4
Average cost of last bike purchased – £1500

40
2k
120
67

I’m above average.

Same as you OP.

How does that make you feel?

Depressed.

You should feel mature… I thought Al was a teenager.

37 and as much as I can get away with on all counts

😀

TSY: the true Big Hitter is a failed middle aged man.

I’ve got a few years to go to reach such dizzy lows then…

No. of bikes – n + 1

FTFY 😉

How old are you? 38

How much would you spend on a bike? I’ve never bought a brand new bike

How much would you spend on a jacket? £50

How much would you spend on a set of front lights? £100

How old are you? – 40
How much would you spend on a bike? – As much as I could afford. If I had the money I could easily spend 6k+ but I’m materialistic when it comes to bikes.
How much would you spend on a jacket? £150 – Endura Stealth
How much would you spend on a set of front lights? Lumin Liberator Mk2 – £165 and still going strong.

I think Hora needs an extra question:

How much would you spend on a pair of cowboy boots? Just to lend this exercise some perspective

Wierd that. On some things I’d go ‘mental’ whereas on something that gets lots of wet gritstone slop, stones banged up etc etc I really don’t see the point in spending anything close to ‘silly’.

Are we talking about cowboy boots now?

Wierd that. On some things I’d go ‘mental’ whereas on something that gets lots of wet gritstone slop, stones banged up etc etc I really don’t see the point in spending anything close to ‘silly’

Assuming you are talking about bikes, and “gritstone slop” isn’t some ghastly euphemism, I agree.

I got my main bike in 2005 for £1300 and will keep it going until I kill the frame. Everything on it has been swapped out as it wears or breaks. A £3k bike wouldn’t make me a better rider. In fact the best upgrade I ever had was spending £80 on a skills day.

My SS is made of bits. The CX was a 40th present from the wife and the road bike was on Ride-2-Work.

My only bike currently has a 12yr old XTR rear mech and a mkI saint driveside chainset with a mkII XT non-driveside arm, 6yr old Chris King headset and a bashed up Hope wheelset.

If I was buying a roadbike it’d be totally different though.

I’m 41, and this is where I’d probably start to cop myself on and draw the line- so what I would spend if I had the money:

Bike £2500
Jacket £200
Lights £200

I’ve never actually spent that much on any of these things though, and probably never will!

Just anecdotally I’d say the amount of money people spank on bikes tends to be inversely proportional to how much they actually ride them.

I probably don’t even need to mention Llandegla car park as the obvious example of this. The people I generally see out all the time on my local East Lancs trails – usually on very ‘lived-in’ looking hardtails) – being the opposite end of the spectrum

31
£1500
£100
£100

I’m winning by only being 31, er…..

How much would you spend on a bike? I’ve never bought a brand new bike

Where did it specify it had to be brand new?

Just turned 40!
The only complete bike I have ever was my ss, 2nd hand for £300..
Jacket – £20 (nice ones have been pressies!)
lights – £90 for the bars (got my helmet light on a long term loan from a mate!)

Does this make me a middle aged cheapskate 😳

How old are you? thirty eighteen
How much would you spend on a bike? Don’t, they are built from bits – so c£250 for the SS (my only bike BTW)
How much would you spend on a jacket? £80 or less
How much would you spend on a set of front lights? £50 from Ebay.

But, I’m a tight Yorkshireman whose teenage kids are bleeding him dry.

I’m 55 you know.

Have you still got all your own teeth?

Oh you cheeky young man!

Age-59
Bike-£1000 (s/h Mount Vision)
Jacket-£53 (just bought an Endura Gridlock)
Lights-£47 (Deal extreme)
BTW some lol answers so far

Age 27
Main bike about £2800 built from bits mainly bought S/H.
Jacket and lights about £100-£150 I guess.

The last time I bought a complete bike was 01/02!

* pops head in, decides I would get pointed and laughed at so pops out quietly *