What would i buy? Enough lessons to do my bike justice...
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Money no object?
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Something hand-built, where i work with builder one-on-one.
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Easily one of these, but i'd have to take the gears off it! I used to have a Taurine singlespeeded and i deeply regret selling it...Oh, and i would buy out commencal and dump all of their stock in the middle of the atlantic.
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a harley
without doubt, leave my indy in the shed!
and enough time to take it across the globe
pref with a hot bitch on the back
(think that is the term used for a nice lady who is fond of motorbikes and ok with the shaag thing)Posted 2 years ago # -
One of anything I like the look/idea of - Ti, Carbon, road, CX, MTB, whatever. Keep what I enjoy riding, sell/give-away the rest.
A big chunk of land with rolling hills, woods, open space etc and a lake with s bit of sandy/beachy shore to it and get a few diff people to come a build a variety of trails for me; someone to build some techy north shore style stuff, someone for some fun DJs and pump track, someone for some sweet flowy singletrack, someone for some hero DH tracks.
A big enviro-focused shed/chalet to hang out and have all the bikes in, etc fully decked out with everything I'd ever need.
A whole heap of coaching to get me some rAd sKillZ on the bike and to fix the bikes all back up when those skills let me down or to fettle if I don't wanna actaully ride.
Then repeat but the Ski version.
Then repeat again but the ocean/beach version.
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the most competant fully i've ridden. €2000 for the frame alone. then i'd have the various rear-ends allowing me to adjust the travel.
you can run it as a lightweight XC bike and get the weight down to ~10.5kg or beef it up as an enduro/freeridey bike and get away with a realistic 14kg.
kitted out with Syntace bits.
loadsa money!!!
lots of garish colours, too....
several friends have one (some have two, but they work with/for the company).
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Skidsareforkids I think I can take criticism of my lovely Commencal from someone who aspires to that ridiculous looking thing!
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That's w**k really isn't it. 'Passion and soul' are just qualities you've projected onto a selection of metal tubes and various components. The passion and soul stuff's in you, not your bike.
Some people just dont get it...?
You telling me that an alfa is the same as a kia, you telling me that the alpha doest have a bit of soul, or take it to the extreme, what about a ferrari and a mondeo, i know which car has more passion. Sure the driver/rider brings his own personality to the ride.
But the bike/car definitely has differing degrees of passion,soul and dare i say it a personality. This trait then brings it out of the driver.
Drive a high end car down a high street or bike down a trail and see how your personality changes, how you feel like a million bucks, and then tell me that a car/bike doesn't engender different emotion in you.
Perhaps you have never ridden said bike, or perhaps you wouldn't know even if you did.
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You telling me that an alfa is the same as a kia
Essentially yes. They're both just cars designed by engineers and stylists. At a the price point Alfa are working to (> than Kia!) they may have given the alfa comparably better performance and styling.
The difference of 'soul' you are talking about is really just branding, and you have bought it!
Same holds true for bikes. Given an identical set of 6068 aluminium tubes welded together with the same geometry in a Taiwanese factory, does, say an On-One have more soul than a Marin? Applying cold, hard logic they are really pretty much exactly the same and any difference is in your head.
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Right I'm bored so here we go:
Cotic Hemlock (not that glamorous but I want one) - Cane Creek Double Barrel shock, Ti spring
Fox Vanilla 36 RC2 FIT forks 1 1/8" steerer- custom Titanium spring
DT Swiss EXC400 (yes 400g, carbon, wide rims) built with Chris King Hubs
XTR - Cassette, shifters, derailleurs, chain
XTR cranks but with outer ring replaced with Saint M800 bash ring
Brakes - Formula R1 200mm front, 160mm rear
Thompson Stem and seatpost
Specialized Alias saddle
Oury lock on Grips
Wide low rise bars - TBC
Cane Creek headset
Shimano Deore(yes really)rear QR skewerPosted 2 years ago # -
Some people just dont get it...?
You telling me that an alfa is the same as a kia,
TBH I thought the point being made was that a great bike is a great bike, regardless of whether it's made by Trek, Specialized, or a "boutique" brand such as Transition or Tomac and to believe anything else is swallowing the marketing of the whole "soul" and "passion" thing.
I don't think that the point being made was that all Kia's are as good as all Alfa's but if Kia made a car which was every bit as good as an Alfa, are you saying that someone would choose the Alfa because it's made with more "passion" ?
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£2,800 frame only. Seven Cycles Sola 29 S. Ti handmade in the USA
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Heres mine, very simiar to the one above but
Cotic Hemlock - Cane Creek Double Barrel shock, Ti spring (all gold plated)
Fox Vanilla 36 RC2 FIT forks 1 1/8" steerer- custom Titanium spring (gold plated)
DT Swiss EXC400 (yes 400g, carbon, wide rims) built with Chris King Hubs (gold plated)
XTR - Cassette, shifters, derailleurs, chain (gold plated)
XTR cranks but with outer ring replaced with Saint M800 bash ring (gold plated)
Brakes - Formula R1 200mm front, 160mm rear (gold plated)
Thompson Stem and seatpost (gold plated)
Specialized Alias saddle (gold plated)
Oury lock on Grips (gold plated)
Wide low rise bars - TBC (gold plated)
Cane Creek headset (gold plated)
Shimano Deore(yes really)rear QR skewer (gold plated)I'd be known as the 'king of bling' and Id probably spend loads of money on things like go kart race tracks in my back garden. I'd carry on where Michael Carroll left off and become the Daily Mails most hated man
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Incidentally, I would suggest that Fiat and Kia are poor examples as the statement being made was that it was sad that people would be choosing "mainstream" bikes as their "money no object bikes".
Kia aren't exactly mainstream, and Alfa are owned by Fiat - one of the largest car companies in the world. Perhaps a better comparison would be Ford and Mercedes against Morgan or Bristol?
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One of these
Or these
Start htting the options list hard - ( ti frame on the davinci etc) and you can get to over £10 000 on each of these
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yeti guy
i currently ride a yeti asr sl with a nice spec cos it floats my boat in many ways however a trek 9.8 remains one of the most entertaining bikes i ever owned.
as you say you need to actually ride a bike to know.
dont reckon you have ridden that trek up there have you?Posted 2 years ago # -
59 times the pain - Why didn't I think of that?
Am I allowed to change my request to as above but all platinum plated?
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Damn it, I'm late...
Tootin, do you mean like this one:
Dunno what I'd have to be honest, without wanting to sound like a total cock I can pretty much have whatever I want for an MTB, maybe get some Innolite/Tune wheels for the Fuel.
So I'd probably say a Pinarello Prince with Di2 and some pimpy carbon wheels, FFWD F4R 190s or something.
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Indy Fab.
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The difference of 'soul' you are talking about is really just branding, and you have bought it!
SSSSH!!! He might start thinking his mac is just an expensive PC if you keep that up!!
For me I'd buy a crossbike like this.
And a roadbike like this
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Ibis Mojo SL, surely? And a whole bunch of lessons to actually get the best out of it...
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Incidentally, I would suggest that Fiat and Kia are poor examples as the statement being made was that it was sad that people would be choosing "mainstream" bikes as their "money no object bikes".
Totally agree - where's the originality in a load of Treks or Giants? If you're talking cars - that Seven is the Saleen S55 of the bike world.
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thread ruined
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If money were no object...
After visiting our council refuse yard at the weekend I'd start a charity, collecting old bikes, repairing as necessary & shipping to where they'd make a difference. I'm sure there are organisations out there doing this already, but another one wouldn't hurt. There were dozens, & I mean dozens, of perfectly serviceable looking bikes slung in a skip pending Xmas replacements. A shame they couldn't be put to use rather than melting down to make more cheap bikes.And then I'd get an Ibis Tranny.
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I don't really get the whole 'why would you buy a mainstream bike' argument. Ok, it's not exclusive, but who really cares? Is that just elite brand snobbery?
Having had a really nice bling Titus, and had a lot of problems with it, compounded by pretty disastrous customer service I would think long and hard before buying from a niche manufacturer.
With Spesh S-Works Stumpys/Epics costing £5500 it's not really a cost thing, you could build up a very nice Mojo or whatever for a fair bit less, so what is the relationship? Car analogies are redundant because of this, if people were saying an Apollo Letdown or whatever, then you could compare to a Kia/Fiat/Heaposhit, but when the mainstream bikes are often lighter, perform better and are better specced than something more 'rare' who cares?
And I'm not just saying that because I have a Trek
As an aside, for anyone who thinks Seven are a good idea, read Daftpunk's thread on Bike Magic!
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I think the analogy might work better if you said 'would you prefer an Audi or a Morgan?'
Having ridden a lot of boutique bikes, 9 times out of 10 I'd prefer a non boutique one, especially when it comes to suspension bikes.
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ok, i seem to be on my own here .......
but so was the first guy that said the world was round!
wrong analogy re: cars, yada yada yada. Who cares?
The fantastic thing is we all have our opinions, and in mine, if i won the lottery i wouldnt buy a trek.!
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I don't get the "niche/boutique = better" argument either.
Going back a few years to when I first started working in a bike shop, Cannondale were still a fairly boutique brand trading heavily on their "Handmade in America" tag and a fair chunk more expensive than the other brands (Specialized, Trek, Kona, Ridgeback) that we sold.
Far and away the most problems with warranty, returns, failures etc was Cannondale, in fact we had more failures with them than all the other brands we sold put together.I know that things have moved on but those early days put me off Cannondale for life, I would never ever buy one.
A lottery win would see me paying a visit to one of the Specialized Concept stores for one of these:
But I'd custom build any MTB that I bought, I'd have to think about that one for a while.
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The fantastic thing is we all have our opinions, and in mine, if i won the lottery i wouldnt buy a trek!
Good for you. What do you mean you seem to be on your own though, it seems there are tonnes of people who wouldn't buy a top end bike from a mainstream manufacturer, I'm just intrigued as to why. Is it the perceived exclusivity? Can't be quality related, as my experience and crazy-legs has told, that's a non-starter!
Similarly, I'd far sooner have an Audi R8 than a Koenigsegg, for example. Nothing to do with who they're made by, just what I think is the better car.
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Money no object.
I would buy myself time. Not a Time. Just some time. And I'd ride what I have in places I'd never been to.
I might do a bit of test piloting ton/hora style, but on the whole it would be about the experince of riding in lots of places and without time pressure than it would be just owning stuff.
Though I would still have a C50 with Super Record. Obviously.
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Strangely enough I shall be in the "fortunate position" you have posed early in the new year if the relevant people get their shit together...
What do I want? New brakes for the Dialled PA, new forks for the Cannondale,new tyres for everything (5 or them) and thats about it.....Posted 2 years ago # -
Assuming you mean that money truly will be no object then that's even weirder than avoiding mainstream brands on principle.
How can you not have multiple sets of tyres anyway!?
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Holy Shiz njee, that must have cost a bomb
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