[Closed] Your most extravagant/ridiculous purchase?

Speccy Carbon Camber impulse bought on Friday. I've already got a 29er, and an Orange fice and plenty of other bikes. But I wanted one.....

£2000 on a canon 10d + 24-70L lens when I was skint.

snickers duo. and i didn't do any excercise.

(am trying to lose weight at the mo)

A jumper for £100.

It's really itchy too.

Probably the second Russian mail-order bride. Svetlana was not impressed

A full carbon, stupid light XC full sus that I've owned for 4 years, cost a king's ransom and I've probably done 300 miles on.

It's nice to know I own one though.

Hand made titanium wood burning stove for my tentipi. Still value it, but in all honestly we've only used 5 times.
About £550.
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A Panasonic 3DO - Paid £400 for the thing only for the format to flop 2 years later. 😯

Its only extravagent/ridiculous if it either doesn't do its intended role or you are just paying someone to do something that you could both do and have the time to do.

So for me it'd be something to do with eating out and/or holidays.

a £200 pair of jeans. Over £500 for a circular saw when I already had one that was very much like it. £6k on an MGB GT when walking home with a cash and carry gin hangover, it became my 25000 mile a year only car for about 5 years even though I had to wear more clothes than I could properly move in to drive it in the winter, and being 6'6" getting out of it I looked like a giraffe being born. My plan had been to by something practical and sporty, perhaps a Punto.

patriotpro - Member

A Panasonic 3DO - Paid £400 for the thing only for the format to flop 2 years later.

Hand made titanium wood burning stove for my tentipi.

Titanium and burning wood in the same object?!!?
I demand pics!

Stoner - added one above, but also see here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingswelike/page4/

Fox 36 Vans RCs new for £525, or Formula The Ones new for £300. 😳

oh thats lovely.
The colour of the flue is amazing - is it temporary during a burn or permananet?

Im getting one of these
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thanks to ski
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/gas-bottle-log-burners#post-4182140

Fox 2013 32 F29 120 CTD-ADJ FIT White 15QR 1.5T.
£759 for a pair of xc forks FFS.
mind you, my mate got some 36's for his 456C & they were nearly a grand!

The colour from the heat is permanent - changes every time we use it. Looks great.

That's a great price Stoner (around what we should have paid lol). Enjoy!
We needed a lightweight one, because we've got 36 steps up to our house from the car, but that doesn't look too heavy. Especially if you separate the pipe from the stove.

Beautiful Navajo silver bracelet for my wife... what was I thinking.

My extravagant purchase
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£100 on the best portable shortwave radio in the world - and BBC turned off SW signal in Europe shortly afterwards 🙁

EDIT: Alex, it says it weighs 12Kg. I shall hopefully have my hands on it in a day or so and installing it in my workshop - but also for use when camping.

Sorry Stoner 😉

I have just bought a second hand Clarks wood turning lathe, the chisels are going to cost me more than the lathe!

Going to be turning loads of wooden bar ends 😉

Either £150 for some very light stans disc rotors
Or more than I will admit for a full ti cassette

Stoner can you post up a review of that or e-mail as i was mighty tempted by it as well

A 2nd gen Sony Aibo robot dog. Cost just under 2k inc accessories.

will do JY

Couldn't really afford my Cinelli at the time, but I'm glad I bought it so that's ok. Just bought a second hed 3, which was a bit silly.

Junkyard - Member
Stoner can you post up a review of that or e-mail as i was mighty tempted by it as well
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It might just satisfy the portable barbecue requirement!

Junkyard - Member

Stoner can you post up a review of that or e-mail as i was mighty tempted by it as well

A friend of mine has one which he uses with a campervan and his awning.

Needs feeding constantly, with kindling, but if you are sat with a beer in your other hand its not a big issue apparently 😉

Stacks down to nothing and fits into the back of the camper.

A Nexus 7.

Sold for a New iPad.

A friend of mine has one which he uses with a campervan and his awning.

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Speccy Carbon Camber impulse bought on Friday. I've already got a 29er, and an Orange fice and plenty of other bikes. But I wanted one.....

I have seem to have a clone! Bought a Speccy Camber Carbon on Saturday. I've already got an Orange Five and plenty of other bikes. But I wanted one....

I did a fab 50miles on it on Sunday before the rain really came in. I really must get rid of a bike or two now!

AlexSimon - Member

patriotpro - Member

A Panasonic 3DO - Paid £400 for the thing only for the format to flop 2 years later.

"Don't buy a Dodo, buy a... "

Tell me about it 😆 I was only 16 and earning about £30 a week at the time.

Probably a $250 custom made midi controller from the USA. Definitely didn't need one, but a shed load of well paying dj sets and a few beers later and I one ordered. It'd a lot of fun and looks great, but doesn't do anything that something half the price would do.

Gold Alligator Mini I-Link cable set.

I am such a tart(but they do look good) 🙂

Tuned Kawasaki ZX7R off a mate, just finishing sorting it out and it'll be for sale as I don't need 2 bikes and second child is due in 6 weeks.

Lotus Elise S1
Oh boy I wish I could have kept it

The Cannondale CAAD10 I'm planning to buy in early November. Not so much that the bike itself is ridiculous, but it is going to live in Spain at my parents house and I live in Yorkshire. It would be far cheaper to hire one when I go out there, but I can afford it so why not have my own and set it up how I want it.

My £550 quid air rifle at 17 yo.

wysiwyg - Member

My £550 quid air rifle at 17 yo.

My car... OK, it's not remotely extravagant- it's a scabby Mondeo. But it's fairly ridiculous, because the decision making process went like this:

1) Get something economic and slightly faster than my old Focus 1.8
2) Get one with service history and as few miles as possible
3) Buy on condition rather than spec

And then instead I bought the cheapest, scabbiest 2.2 TDCI in the country, purely because it had character. And by character, I mean rattles and dents and twice as many miles and zero service history and a wonky gearbox. But we get on.

A La Croix shirt in Paris. The exchange rate is a lot more favourable now.
My Ted Baker suit for my wedding was twice as much as my wife's dress. But I've worn it a lot more.

£1900 for a new Turner 5 spot frame. Now worth £700 odd. A year old. I'll never make that mistake again. Reduced or 2nd hand FTW. Don't believe distributors. They lie.

A £50 HDMI cable when buying a magic box for the telly. £50 for a cable? What was I thinking?

AlexSimon - Member

wysiwyg - Member

My £550 quid air rifle at 17 yo.

Wow! - Walnut stock? Engraved?

Rifles still worth £350 ish after all these years. Good thing about guns in general, dont depreciate much.

roger_mellie - Member
A £50 HDMI cable when buying a magic box for the telly. £50 for a cable? What was I thinking?

That reminds me - I paid £60 for 3metres of QED speaker wire complete with fitted terminals. I convinced myself the price difference was worth the extra.

😀

My Ted Baker suit for my wedding was twice as much as my wife's dress. But I've worn it a lot more.

S works Enduro

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A Supernova P-99D HID light. Just before LEDs really took off. Doh. 😳

Alfa Romeo GTV, didn't need it, lost a fair chunk of cash handing in my car at the time, then lost loads every month until I sold it.

Still, nice car though...

£4.8k on my 2 current electric bikes. needs must tho i suppose.

Santa Cruz Tall Boy frame.

Already knew I preferred hard tails, just to prove it again in a very expensive manner.

£390 on a car that I may only use twice a month.

How many times have you worn your wife's dress then?

Probably 3 weeks in Greenland. £3.4k plus flights to iceland, insurance etc.

Sums up one side of the "what's it worth?" argument perfectly: incredible experience, amazing snow, first ascents/decents, polar bear encounter. Now nothing but (pretty damn great) memories and photos.

Compare it to the £2k we spent on the Mondeo: Served us very well, doing it's job perfectly well 4 years on, still worth a good chunk of that £2k if we sold it.

A Lavardin IT amplifier - several thousand pounds which stayed in my system for about a year before I sold it on for something much cheaper and equally capable.

A 2ft high stuffed Wenlock mascot for £50 from the Olympic park. Impulse buy, but still quite like it.

@kiwijohn

My wife tie-dyed her wedding dress and wore it to Glastonbury.

My suit cost 10 (yes ten) times as much as her dress.

Her jewellery cost 4 times as much as my suit

10 years later and the suit and the jewellery get worn a couple of times a year. The dress went on ebay.

I was expecting far more extravagance from the STW massive.

£1150 for an One-one is mine.

RC-41 Fighter direct from Pace.

Spent a year working double shifts and wanted to get something nice for myself. Only thing I have ever bought for the bike that was over (well over) £250.

Spent my entire terms grant and loan check on a giant ATX1 downhill bike in 1998 which was about £3800, which as a result left me with a massive slate at the corner shop next door for my fags, fanta and crisps which formed the staple part of my diet then.

I was useless on it as well only managed to finish 2 races in 2 years on it.

Howies jeans.

And now I want to buy some Hiuts. 😕

It was either 1990 or 91 I brought my first PC, 386sx with 4mb ram and 105mb hard drive £1200

A GT IT-1 for £1500. Saw it. Wanted it. Sold a bike to get it. Had it for a yearish, used it once properly. Sold it in Feb (to fund a new frame, not bike, a frame!). To Flange. Not sure if he's even seen it in the flesh yet. 😆

I miss it.

Oh dear.

1992, £900 on a scabby MG Midget that did 18mpg, which I put into landfill within three months. Never did more than 200 miles in that car.

A Sony Minidisc player for £700 just as the format died.

£9k re-training to be a surveyor just as the housing market collapsed ;¬)

Extravagant purchases...

My Lynskey 456ti frame when On One had a sale before they moved. £700! it replaced my steel summer season

£400 spent on Audiolab amps (pre & power)s/h off Ebay to replace my Rega Brio amp

£100 on some Maui Jim sunglasses to supplement my 2 pairs of Ray Bans

£60 on a Weber BBQ in the sales (was £100) a few months ago to use instead of the BBQ I bought for £10 at the start of the summer

I think I appreciate quality stuff even though its not strictly necessary.

i bought a 3do also when they came out 😆 definitely paid £400+ for it i think.

also bought a lovely gibson les paul classic premium plus guitar* back in 1996 (cost over £2200).my grandfather put it in his name (whilst i paid off the repayments). a few months later i p/xed it for a technics wsa1 synth (facepalm),which i sold not long after 😳

* i couldn't play anything on it at all (i mean nothing).
at least i can just about manage something on my cheap lemon drop now 😉

Spending 1000 pound on a hard-tail on thur when I've already got a orange five am in June and have two road bikes..apparently I'm selfish? I dunno I just don't get it 😉

Possibly my Curta:

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It's a pocket mechanical calculator, completely pointless but beautiful. Can't remember what I spent but it was in the hundreds...

A custom Seven ti stem

SME 10 turntable with IV arm and £1k Lyra cartridge

Leica M9 with 50mm f1.4 Summilux lens

Would love some Lightweight Meilenstein SE clinchers too....

Lightweights aside (which are strictly not necessary) I've used the other kit lots for years so got much enjoyment from them

I'm looking at a £400 Marantz DVD player just now, probably worth peanuts.

Bought into minidisc big style, hifi unit, 2 players and a car one too. Also peanuts.

Trip to vegas for a wedding, must have been about £2k for 5 days, hated it. Expensive tick box.

ben - completely understandable. I think Im in love with the Curta

Bissel steam mop, OH thinks it was for the wooden floors. Secretly bought it to clean my bike chain, easier than a toothbrush

Cufflinks...

I've wasted a fortune over the years on haircuts. Quite a saving nowadays though, it's all fell out !

Gotta be a TI Dekerf Implant frame£2200 for me was around the time they where going to close down so just did it. took 11 months to get it and by the time it was built it was/is the most expensive bike I've ever built nearly £6000. quit simply the fastest hardtail I've ever ridden on singletrack was a sad day when I sold it but could not justifie having it as a second bike.
bats.

Ben wins it for me so far, i'd love one of those calculator's just to sit and fondle it and marvel at the engineering trickery.

Me? - sitting my PPl out in Zimbabwe in 94, Was out there for near enough a year visiting my cousin and everyone used their planes to hop about the country from farm to farm, Harare to Vic Falls, pop to Bulawayo for the evening? - why not?. Got offered the chance to do it dirt - dirt cheap (compared to anywhere else that is) as the instructor at Harare Flying club was a friend so thought long and hard for 30 seconds then decided "**** yeah! - that's for me!" , first flight on my own, or rather in full control on my own at 23 years of age was flying over Victoria Falls, strayed into Zambia a teeny bit...ok...by a rather significant amount and got told off.....big telling off!....One of the most, if not the defining moment of my life so far - now't else has come close to flying over game reserves and putting down on grass/scrub landing strips in the middle of nowhere and setting up camp for a few days and going native in the bush.

Needless to say i never flew when i got back to this country at all.

My mid life crisis purchase, cheaper than a sports car I suppose.
I had various scooters when I was younger before moving on to sportsbikes but always hankered after another one.

1969 Italian Lambretta GP, got it tuned to give about 30bhp, which makes it fun! 😀

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Lotus Elise 111s. Was my happy place.

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an audi s4 some years back and then spent the same amount as the car was worth on tuning and modifying it - a total extravagance and I should have saved the money!

That Curta is amazing.