if you had 4.5k to spend on a bike, what would you buy, and why?? 8)
Another Jones cos some b'stard nicked mine 🙁
ti indy fab 29er ss
and if i had any change a steel indy fab cross bike 😀
easiest 4 and a half grand ive spent
KTM 450.
EX9 and a lot of bike holidays / trips 😀
Could never own a £4.5k bike as I'd worry too much about damaging it...I'm bad enough when I scratch/ding my Inbred 🙁
V-Max. The easiest of easy buys.
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A Merlin ti frame and loads of bling bits because I miss mine that I sold 🙁
on with wheels 😉 santacruz v10 for calderdale trails 😆
on one bike only?
Not sure I could spend that much, even if I had it!
I'd be inclined to be a couple, probably an Intense Slopestyle tricked out with Fox 36s and some lightweight kit, which would speak for about £3k, and the rest on a nice steel hardtail. Though I've got one of the latter already actually!
KTM 450.
+1 🙂
and i'd certainly not buy anything for that kind of money on something what i'd have to pedal!!!.
4.5k do people really spend that much on bikes for rec use??
if I were you then the one with the best resale value 😆
A Seven
4 second hand hecklers in different colours and a new pair of spectacles.
4.5k i would be looking at a Museeuw with Super Record.
A Raleigh Activator.
Scott Addict R1 (or LTD if discounted.)
29er moots with the little tiny 1 inch rear suspension bit
Either a Merlin Ti or Blur carbon ... but then I could change my mind 🙂
A Yeti 303. To be used 2 weeks a year, then polished and ogled the rest of the time. I would call it 'my preciousssss'.
Fisher Superfly for £3.5k and the rest spent on a half decent road bike to help get me in shape over the winter so i can do it justice 👿
been toying with the idea of a custom steel 29r from dave yates, might even fancy building it myself on one of his courses.
and maybe a new audax/tourer from a custom builder too.
anyone gone down the custom route??
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😛 8)
^^^^^That is gopping^^^^^
Carbon Blur XC with 120 Reba Team Maxle Lites, full XTR, Stans 355s on Pro2s, Easton stem, bars and seatpost and Candy Ti pedals.
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that superco in the latest Dirt looks lovely, and a 37lb build would probably come in around £4.5k...maybe?
and i should have said, no plastic bikes included....... 😉
if i had 4.5k to spend on a bike i'd buy...
..a car.
are you guys nuts?
how is a 4.5k bike any more enjoyable to ride than a 2.5k bike?
that questions wasn't rhetorical.
peace out!
Echo something with an engine in.
Fisher 29 superfly.
They look the business.
But then I have a Ti 29er, so maybe if I could find a decent 2nd hand Ducati 748R (or S) in yellow for that money that's what I'd buy - and go racing again!
if i had 4.5k to spend on a bike i'd buy.....a car.
are you guys nuts?
how is a 4.5k bike any more enjoyable to ride than a 2.5k bike?
and how is a 4.5k car more enjoyable to drive than a 2.5k car??
And in case you haven't cotton on yet, yes we are nuts !!
a ducati
it'd be either a very wealthy or a very silly man that would spend 4.5k on building himself a custom frame with little to no knowledge on frame design, geometry or even what he prefers in a frame (or why?).
You can get a 5-bar gate for a lot less than 4.5k Ton....
Oooh, I think I'd have a Cotic Soda, XTR & Hope throughout, an off road tandem and a really nice handmade tourer.
Have you had a look at Ellis Briggs in Shipley Ton?
Recently phoned round a few places enquiring about tourers (Hewitt, Mercian etc) but Briggs seemed the most accommodating and helpful, good bit cheaper than the others as well.
Like Nuke, a 1.8 - 2.5k bike would be plenty for me; the rest on a few kick arse weeks riding in places I otherwise wouldn't be able to would be the real fun bit.
Or even keep what I have, add a few upgrades (Fork, Wheelset, nothing else [i]really needs[/i] changing, and spend 4k on even more/longer trips away.
After all the riding is the fun bit, the bike is just a means to do it!
OMG! That IS the sexiest bike I have ever seen, ever!!!!! 😯
I WANT IT - NOW!!!!! 😛
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Moots, Se7en or Merlin.
i'd buy a dh bike for about 3.5k, and then spend some on upgrading my xc bike.
although in reality, i would use that 4.5k to pay of all of my debt
id buy an asda bike, then with the rest of the money I spend on drugs & hookers.
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Just bought this as an insurance replacement
a moots cinco or moots ybb
i'm keeping out of this thread................. 😯
The 2nd hand multistrada 1100S that is down the road.
In your boat Ton, I'd get a Turner Sultan and spec it with top draw everything. But I cant see the point when you already have a similar Ventanna, which is a stunning bike.
£4.5k on one bike. I'd probably go for the Trek Top Fuel 9.9 - the one Armstrong rides and was recently in the Dreambikes thing in MBUK.
I could never understand why anyone would spend so much on a mass production brand - but then I rode one at a demo day. Admittedly I was coming off a 29er but the thing was like a rocketship. 22lbs, full carbon.
Would probably smash it to bits on it's first descent of Jacobs Ladder...
