Like I said, chap I met was using Lightweights on his winter bike, I later rode with him actually, and he said they were 10 years old. Obviously not doing too badly...
The 4ti Egg Beaters are lighter than anything else though, the CK Ti headset is actually heavier than the standard one, and has the same bearings. Totally pointless except as a show piece!
When i was a nipper i spent all my paper round money on a Caloi Team Issue frame, Rock shox Mag 21 ti SLs amd a Tioga Disc Drive, With a full XTR group set.
This was 15 years ago when XTR was rare as fook!
I think all in all i spent over £3000.00 all my saving and every penny i had for about a year!
3 months later it was stolen and i found a load of the bits in the cash converters in Bedford!! ****
220 quid on my front light. It's obscene but it is one fantatsic light. Never spent anywhere near that on any other single component.
2400 for a frame and 2500 for a set of power cranks, the true extent of that was never known to my ex....
Thread resurrection time, I enjoyed this one 
£549 for my Lyriks, did save £400 though, and they are so plush and I am worth it.
Tracey
£330 brew bmx race frame
pikes £450 ish
£250 on second hand crossmax's
£120 on e13 drs took some understanding at work
180mm profile cranks for bmx £140 ish
Lupine lights £250 (no one 'gets' this one)
Just realised my light cost £100 more than my frame.
Most obscenely expensive component: my body.
Quite scary to think how many K I've spent on it, in smokes (given up), booze (giving up), and kebabs (mmm...).
Went to the LBS on Monday for a X.0 Rear mech for my DH Bike. Came out £4400 ligher and a new Orange 224 World Cup turned up two days ago.
Anyone wanna buy a 223? See my ad!!
£900 on a rear Zipp disc ,but I have had that back in prize money so there you go
Most stuff I buy for my bike is second hand, so whenever I buy something new (helmet for 80 quid) it's pretty hard to swallow!
Rusty, a BREW bmx frame went on ebay for £10.50 last month. no one knew what it was!!!
I woulda had it but had just sold my bmx and didn't have funds to build another 
My silliest purchase would have to be £45 for a TUNE ti seatpost clamp.. oh dear
This thread makes my £150 on a 2nd hand coffee machine seem like small beans 
and £350 on a pair of DT Swiss wheels a bargain.
2600 for a frame
46+0 for some brakes.
About eighty quid for some mudguards.
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/mudguards/road/product/koken-mudguards-32924
I bent the first one on its second outing. It bent back though. I love having a layer of beautiful hand-made shininess between me and the filth.
Ian, your post just reminded me to add your bike to the blog. And have another little wince on your behalf.
£350 on some handlebars. It sounds wrong even to me.
£240 on Ay-Up lights was and still is a source of amusement to my non-biking friends. About to click 'buy' on a RF Deus XC crankset today and I may treat myself to a new wheelset next month.
Pwew I thought I was bad, some of you make me look frugal..
2nd the Chris Kind headset as an expensive uneeded purchase.
Xpedo ti pedals, even at half price was double there true worth.
But my most stupid was a £45 chain because it was in a sale and gold coloured!!
I liked the Xpedo ti/ti pedals, but they didn't last 5 minutes!
High maintenance them pedals, have to be stripped and greased often then they last better, still dont think they are as easy to clip into as a 520 though... Got a cheap set of low spec ones off here and rebuilt the ti ones back into working order using the new pedal bodies.
It has to be lights.
a) because we all had as much fun in the dark (if not more) when we just had cheap 10w jobbies
b) and as soon as one rider turns up with a Wilma, nobody else can see so everybody has to fork out for an upgrade.
£1400 on a frame
£500 on some pete matthews wheels (the rear on broke on the 1st descent in the alps) 
Chris King Ti headset. Don't want to remember how much it cost, and it doesn't really do the job any better than the Cane Creek it replaced.
But it's shiny.
AND when I'm bent over puffing up a hill, the condensation of my breath makes the lettering stand out - can't read it otherwise.
I think the 50 odd quid for the replacement damper for the AMP linkage forks I had way back when. Mostly as I broke the forks just after I got it. 350 for the forks was a lot to me at the time too.
They were the most "oooh, what are those" component I've every had though.
Prob the most i've spent was £1800 for my last bike, since then the most i've spent was £390 for some new Float 32 RLCs, that scared me a little seeing as my financial birds were coming home to roost at the time. F*ck it sprung to my mind at the time!
burgtech pedals, they'r just so violent/beutifull looking i cant bear to take the V8's off and put them on!
The pins are so feking huge that my shoe doesn't even touch the pedal! Anyone with a lathe fancy shortening and sharpening the end of 10 bolts for me?
£80 on a pair of Mavic shorts that have fallen to bits in 3 months! Rubbish!
£27 for a pair of bling gold coloured jockey wheels for my XO rear mech.
cheaper than the PLASTIC OEM ones and to be honest do feel better (in my head)
after one weekend the gold colouring has worn off!
3 clicks on ebay after a few beers 
Mine would proberbly be -
£1200 for a set of used SRM cranks, still got a good deal though
Got my Lightweight wheels for a bargain!
Would hate to add up the total value of all my kit though!
£100?
I was once lying on a hospital bed with both bones broken in my leg and it was all floppy.
The nurse came and said she was going to cut my rather expensive shorts off before I went down to surgery.
I said NO! and Mrs BigJohn said "why not? its only a pair of shorts" I then had the dilemma of admitting how much I paid or losing them.
When I told her, she glared at me but whipped them off sharpish. Stung a bit.
£1697 in Halfords last week
£950 for my Soda frame! Most of the rest of the kit is secondhand or I spent ages hunting around for the best price, so forks were £200, wheels I think £100 and so on. Although I may shortly spunk c£150(?) on a Royce BB - even I'm struggling to justify that one...
£700 for a CaneCreek Double Barrel with Ti spring - It's lovely none the less
£1200 for a frame. At trade. Complete bike is around £5k insured.
Current client buys himself and his wife new £8000 road bikes every year. Seems nuts to me, but then I don't have bling unless it's going to last, or someone else is buying/replacing it. Both of my road bikes together are < £2k.
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