Consider it done. Yaaar.

After telling work to whistle, I'd go on holiday for a month or 10. Probably on a motorbike through America and Canada.

Then I'd come back, buy a whopping great big house in town, kit it out with decent but basic furniture and go round finding homeless people and giving them somewhere to live for free, on the condition that they got a job or some training and moved out when they were sorted. If they needed medical/drug help I'd provide it. If the hose got trashed, hey who cares?

Every time I saw a little kid on the TV who needed £40k or whatever for an operation or £5k a new wheelchair etc and they were tying to raise the money, I'd just pay up anonymously for the whole lot. You could make a lot of people happy with money like that, or ruin your own life very easily

I'd love to be able to do that. I don't think I could live with myself if I kept the whole lot, or blew it.
£5m would be enough for me – Decent 5 bed house with some land and a nice big garage/workshop and games room, a few flash cars, nothing silly, and s small, snug cottage in the countryside and I'd be happy.

Keep 10m. Give away 35m.

Even at 10m, I'd be staggeringly rich. Who needs the rest?

(Oh, and I'd also buy the M25, but rather than turn it into a race track, I'd build the new Berlin Wall, and keep all those London types locked down.)

First thing would be FIRST CLASS flights to America to see the wife's folks. That's FIRST CLASS. And hire a luxury motor at the other end. Then I'd drop a few grand in Attitude Sports in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and probably head over to the Hostel Shoppe in Steven's Point which is an enormous recumbent dealer with some truly amazing things in it.. like an off-road 3 wheeler complete with lockable diff and fully independent suspension… I'd also buy a cabin in the countryside there.. and possibly one of the nice houses on 4th St for peanuts.

Then I'd come back and buy a new Prius in white with all the trimmings, and a VW Sirocco or an Audi TT – both diesel.

I'd have to think hard about giving money to family and friends and all, but I think in the long term I'd set up a bike shop somewhere with enough staff to run it; then I could spend some time in the shop and some time doing whatever I fancied. Then I'd employ my mates there too highly paid and extremely flexible, which would be a good way of giving them a good life but not actually handing out cash.

As for bikes.. well I fancy a track bike, maybe a DH monster and perhaps BMX. Then of course I'd buy land on which to build places to ride them (and of course open it to the public).. including an indoor Veolodrome or three, cos we don't have enough of those in the UK.

I'd also upgrade my Patriot to XTR and get some coil forks. Some Am Classic wheels for the Kona.. Fox shock and possibly Magura Thors for the 5.. a new road bike with better kit, a wireless powertap and a bigger frame.

First thing I would do is get to a place of solitude to get my head around the fact that I had just won £45million and life was never going to be the same again.

One thing I would do though is always fly first class, no more cattle class.

I would pay for Kylie to come round to my home to sing to my little one who is mad on her.

Wonder how much that would cost me?

😉

sing to my little one

[SNIGGER]

Whores, Cristal and Coke.

Lithuanian & Honduran hookers, ecstasy and viagra in large quantities.
Plus that house close to the sea and some good hills, with my own uplift.

I'd buy a large chalet in a top ski resort and take all my friends for a fortnight, including all new gear for each one.

Then what PeterPoddy said with the rest.

Oh yes a new full sus for me and the hubby.

Some people are seriously lacking imagination here!

a new full sus for me and the hubby.

A new bike for every day of the week and every possible riding niche, a house built specially for them and a small army of butlers to clean them.

There, that's better.
And at the end of every year I'd give them away to Youth groups/cycle clubs etc to help get more people into the sport. Some would probably end up being sold for £50 down the pub for the next drugs hit but you never know, the next Steve Peat may just turn up because of it.

hey marsden man thats pretty damn decent of you .i've priced e, up and the estimate is £45 millipounds [ including the price of two new knees].

moses, your choice of hookers is quite specific – is this experience talking? good call though.

i doubt if i'll spend much my of my £45m on 'things', other than a decent car and house. i'd prefer experiences, travel, mad adventures with my kids, giving it away, etc.

incidentally, some bloke in northern ireland is being plagued by people who think he was one of the winners.

@binners:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1198892/guarding_sugar/

Start up a proper UK mtb bike company, 100% UK production and revel in UK engineering expertise.

Stonehenge, then sit in a deckchair in the middle in the rain telling the A303 to **** off

I'd buy XH558! Then when grahamt1980 goes out chav hunting with his paintballing spitfires, I could come along and carpet bomb the neds too 😀

£45million should keep me in avgas and paintballs for a few months.

Anonymity

A beer.

Then I'd sell everything and home school my kids by taking them around the world.

Then a chunk of Spain (or other similar country) to run a mountain biker's retreat.

amazed that no one has mentioned a blue vauxhall corsa or a holiday in menorca – give me strength……

New teeth, by the most expensive dentist/orthodontist I could find.
New shoes, so I could walk more (well, if I had £45 million, I wouldn't be in any sort of hurry, I could take my time doing anything I wanted.)

First thing I'd do is not tell anyone 'cos I couldn't be arsed with all the "can we have £X for X" requests you're bound to be inundated with.

The sort out family & close friends etc.

Then figure out what to do with the rest of my life avec the wife.

Might buy a nice car or two and a proper nice country place to to keep them in and the inevitable horses that the other half would buy.

Then…………..