Given most of us on here spend a lot of money on bikes, how do you justify your spending?

What do you reckon is a reasonable price per mile ridden for a bike?

Why would you have to justify something you do for fun?
Just a thought….

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how do you justify your spending

Me want, me buy.

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I look at my wife’s shoe collection and realise that anything i’ve spent pales into insignificance

I reckon I’ve coughed up about £6K on bike toyz this year. Really don’t want to do the maths on that thanks!

As a long time owner of DH bikes, I will never, ever, look at cost per mile 😯

I look at my wife’s shoe collection

I don’t have a wife and/or girlfriend so I have plenty of disposable income.

*my life is pathetic waaaaaa*

ooooooooooooooooh shiney…

I put some 2nd hand grips on the other day, and changed a bearing 1 side of my external BB, spent about £5 total in the last couple of months. I am not counting the oil and some cleaning stuff.

I don’t really justify it. If I want/need it and can afford it then I buy it.

If I had some kind of cost/mile justification then my Inbred could be dripping in fancy bits and cost less/mile than the Stumpy.
As it is though, the Inbred gets as little as possible spent on it, while I tend to splash out a bit for the Stumpy.

If I buy a road bike soon, then I will probably start upgrading the Inbred with some nice bits.

My commuter cost me £600, via Cyclescheme. I’ve spend a small amount on it for tyres, chains, cables, etc. but probably less than £100.

My commute’s 1000 miles per year. Sometimes I’ve used a different bike, but I’ve also used this bike for other-than-commuting to probably the same extent.

I’ve had the bike for just over 3 years, so let’s say 3000 miles.

£700/3000miles = 23p per mile

I’ve a fairly comprehensive spreadsheet for commuting miles.

Works out at about 19p/mile, taking into account things bought mainly for commuting use (but not food).

Or it saves me about 17.5p/mile compared with catching the train.

Jus-ti-fy? 😕

Nope, dunno what you’re talking about?

njee20 – Member
Jus-ti-fy?

Nope, dunno what you’re talking about?

+1 🙂

njee and jackal + 10000 😉

£3000 per mile

A lot…

First time I’ve had a credit card annual statement. Total of all transcations for the year = £37,873.68p.

Nearly 40K! What the **** have you been buying??

As a long time owner of DH bikes, I will never, ever, look at cost per mile

Hehe, they make owning a Ferrari look cheap in cost per mile comparison, and MX bikes good value!

Anyway, having to justify your hobby? I’m not into throwing money away on things for the sake of it, but if I have spare cash and I want something, then why not buy it? I’m currently not in a position where spare cash is at all prevalent, so I only buy any absolute necessary parts (new brake pads, new bearings) to keep what I’ve currently got going, but if that changes, then I’ll buy what I like again.

It seems the amount I spend on a bike is inversely proportional to amount of miles I clock up on it. My Freeeride full-suss is the most expensive by a long way and not ridden much at all considering the price tag, my mid-priced Chameleon sees to most of my off-road riding but my sub £300 commuter singlespeed gets by far the most miles.

Ask me how much fun I’m having when I’m riding each bike though and its a different story.

Don’t do it!

It’s still cheaper than playing with cars. That’s the best I can come up with.

First time I’ve had a credit card annual statement. Total of all transcations for the year = £37,873.68p.

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My wife has horses, I don’t need to justify ANYTHING!

My road bike all in was about £1500. Got over 5000 miles on it so far, but I reckon it’s still got another 1000 or so before I get a new one (mostly out of want rather then need).

So that’s less than 30p a mile. On my mtb I don’t really note distances or anything so would be harder to work out.

Double post.

I got told off once by Sideways Tim for using the phrase “I don’t need one of those” in his shop. The point being, it’s not a “need” kind of shop 😀

£££ per hour is more relevant so you can compare road bikes with BMXs etc etc

Easy, i spend a few minutes every day I go to my local (FoD) talking to the 60-70 year olds still riding bikes. I want to be like that, also would probably be 16 stone and smoking if it wasnt for my two wheeled addiction

Commuter bikes are easy – 45p per mile to run a car, according to HMRC (my employer) so a 24 mile daily commute soon pays off.

MTb and road bikes for “fun” are a little harder to justify – I suggested that it was better to spend the money on bikes rather than drugs or hookers, but she pointed out that drugs and hookers would probably have been cheaper and caused fewer injuries….. 😛

It’s not the miles that count, it’s the smiles.

£1800 on a road bike.
A rough underestimate of 3 40 mile rides a week.

(Rough because it’s less in the winter, but probably double that during spring and summer and early autumn.)

So 480 miles a month, over a year is 5’000 plus miles.
The bike is 30 months old, which is 14’000 miles or so.

Relatively cheap cost per mile, and still going strong.

About a £1200 on a road bike + all the kit and upgrades.

7000 since purchased a year ago.

3 stone lost and many friends gained.

Priceless.