Have what can only be described as a stable of bikes, but I want another one.
I can almost (sort of) justify it by saying I want a single speed street bike for lunchtime bashes at work.
Sort of like this (exactly like this in fact).
Convince me that I can just amend a bike I already have with some new bits.
But that, up there, 🙄 is a fine price at the moment.

That is all.

You could buy it, or you could donate some of that money and save a life or two maybe in Pakistan. But realistically, very few of us would do that (myself included probably).

How about that for an answer?

Edit: I feel cruel for wielding the claymore of truth. It's nothing personal.

Well for me the formula fits as with a longer commute coming up I just bought a rack and pannier, then realised the commuter frame I have doesn't have a rack mount, so now I need another frame with rack mounts on to tranfer all the parts over to.

I hate to say it but if you amend a bike you already have, you'll be losing a bike – how will you replace that one? 😉
And at that price…surely the saving justifies it? 😛

On a serious note…modify an existing bike. Spend the remaining money that you would have spent on upgrades for another bike, or in fact treat yourself (or your SO?) to something nice 🙂

nah you need another 😉

Long travel hardcore hardtail
Lightweight medium travel hardtail
Ultra lightweight XC whippet express short travel hardtail
All mountain FS
Lightweight XC whippet express medium travel FS
DH suicide machine FS
Ultra long travel freeride FS
Jump bike
Street bike
BMX
Retro cruiser
Fixed gear hipster mobile
Single speed rigid CAMRA infiltrator
Pretty retro effort with a basket
Road bike
Pub bike
Unicycle
Tandem

lol. The other half said I should if it makes me happy. It's a classic bluff tactic that always works. Now I feel guilty so probably won't…
Fair call about Pakistan, totally absent in the media over here in Aus, shocking really, some celebrity's son going off the rails is bigger news.

Anyway, am very tempted I can tell you. It'll save a bundle on trying to make the existing bike work like that one, which it never will thanks to incorrect dropouts and a frame that's too large.

Hmm, convinced myself, but I bet I don't – 'n' for me is five at the moment… too many.

@ bravohotel9er. Marvellous, I do feel better now.

Buy a bmx….

because.. despite what nonsense men like to try and pretend to themselves.. men LOVE shopping..
It's not about getting out and getting hardcore.. It's about shopping..

Imagine if Gok Wan's insidious show was about bikes… hmmm.. see what I'm saying..?
Men LOVE shopping.. the internet has freed that ability and MTB disguises it behind a macho exterior..

You'll see them bicker on here occasionally about the latest fashion in shoes or hats too… oh yes.. just cos the shoes ain't manilo blanik doesn't make it any less… err… about shopping..

ooh ooh.. look.. its the new 2011 shimano groupset.. oh I HAVE to have it.. isn't it darling!! Does it match my eyes..? Does it make my bum look big..? OH it's simply divine.. Bob at the office will be like SOOOO jealous!

Men LOVE shopping..

Men LOVE shopping..

True, but if you call it "satisfying the hunter/gatherer instinct" instead then it sounds a bit more macho.

10" travel DH bike Fs
Freeride 9" travel FS
6/7" all mountain FS
6" trail all day bike
4/5" whippet light FS
3" travel softtail
7" freeride HT
5" travel all day HT
4" travel whippet light HT
85mm travel weight weenies HT
Rigid geared x country whippet machine
Rigid singlespeed 26"
Rigid singlespeed 29" (just to try out)
Jump bike 26" singlespeed
Jump/DS 26" geared
Street bike 24"
Race BMX
Street BMX
Flatland BMX
Commuting road bike
Cyclo cross bike
Rohloff city bike
Lightweight carbon road bike
Old school UK steel sportif bike custom
Round the world epic Thorn type 26" trekking bike
Road tandem
FS Tandem (custom as wife is very small)
Touring tandem
Trike
Cafe bike, something SS and looks good but relaxing to ride and with propstand and mudguards. Customs sprayed maybe
Commuting folder
Lightweight road folder
Electric bike (have you seen them things move uphill?)

I only have 2 of the above, so I've a long way to go.
I think I'll need a bigger cellar.

C'mon people, don't ignore recumbents. They're bikes too, y'know!

You should only ever buy one complete bike. Buying more than that is greedy, ungreen, and ostentatious.

However it is perfectly ok in the course of using it to do preventative maintenance and replace components with upgraded parts. This is a green thing to do.

Now to stay green and environmentally friendly you should not dump the old parts. Just retain them in the shed.

After a while you will have done sufficient upgrading to your original bicycle (usually after replacing the frame) to realise that you have enough parts to build another bike. This is called "recycling" and gives you great credentials as an environmental crusader.

Naturally you will wish to upgrade this "new" recycled bike because it closely resembles your original bike, and so the process starts again.

Only this time you have 2 bikes to upgrade. This requires serious dedication. Fortunately you now seem to be on first name terms with your local lbs, and if you bring biscuits, they'll even give you the odd discount.

Soon you will have 4 bikes, the lbs will have a shiny new van, then you will have 8 bikes, followed by 16, 32 etc. I believe there is a branch of mathematics devoted to the study of this phenomenon.

Unfortunately about this time you will need to find a new lbs because the original has retired to the Bahamas even though he was quite young.

Fortunately this will not be a problem, because Chain Reaction will be delivering your parts in a dedicated limousine.