[Closed] How much £/$ do you think you have spent on cycling in your life?

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If I post on here any my wife sees it, I'm in trouble...... Infact I'd tell myself off for wasting so much money!!

A few years back I totted up my CRC / Wiggle / Merlin receipts - over £16k.....

But then I got into Photography, and that makes MTBs seem quite cheap....

*places fingers in ears and makes 'nahnahnahnahnah' noises*

My LBS where looking on their system a few months ago and told me it was around 17k I think, but that's just for bikes it's probably double that when you add up parts clothing etc.
Seeing as I've been shopping in there nearly 20 years I don't think that's too bad.

Come on, FESS UP!!!!

£17.32p.

*whispers* over 25k (but that includes holidays) Which works out at just under a grand a year. Every year. Since birth.

Infact I'd tell myself off for wasting so much money!!

Its not wasting it If you use it and enjoy the sport/hobby and it gets you off the couch is it?

Thats how I justified my last bike build to the wife, it was for my safety and general fitness.

At my LBS (where I worked for 10+ years) there's an "Account Turnover" tab, which tots up how much money has passed through a customers account.

AFAIK I hold the record, I've not checked for a year or so, but it's around £70,000 (I'm there on Sunday, I'll check if I remember).

That's just through the LBS, so add in mail order type purchases and that's probably another £5k at least, not to mention race entries and the like, which I reckon is another £5k and I'm getting well towards £100,000.

I'm 25. Mental.

My motorbike cost less to run than any of my mountain bikes.

At a rough guess, based on what i poaid for them + a few years of spares

first MTB - £300 + £400 in bits (bargain as that lasted 4 years!)
road bike £1k (now upto 10 years use)
DMR - about £900 to build, mew forks and drivetrain over 3 years another £500
456 - nowt, bought the frame and sold it and 90% of the bits came from the DMR £500 over 2 years?
tourer - £300
fixie - £200
Pitch - £2500 easily
Chumba - £1000 so far
Swift £1000

So thats £8600 in hardware
Probably £300 of tools, £300 of lubes and tubes

£1000 on clothes, shoes, helmets

£2k on holliday in the last couple of years

£5k for a bigger second car to move it all about in

£250/month in extra rent I'd not need to pay if I just lived in a 1 bed flat rather than wanting a garrage and easy access to trails.

£££ petrol

Ok so the car might not count, but I'd be suprised if I've not been underestimating and I've not spent £20k directly and indirectly on biking.

No idea what the missus would geuess it at, but probbaly considerably less!

I would say around £70k too, though being 26 I don't feel quite as bad as you do.

[i]I'm getting well towards £100,000.

I'm 25. Mental. [/i]

😯

*feels a lot better*

njee20 - Member
...........I'm getting well towards £100,000.

I'm 25. Mental.

F****** me!

There's a lot of us 25/26 spending 20-25k, i don't feel so bad now!

so if we take £70k at bike shop over 10 years that's £7k/year : £600 a month!

have you ever sold anything or do you till own it all?

I've not even bought a new bike in well over a year.

Although I've just totted up a new Project One Madone 7.9, even going for alu clinchers and Ultegra Di2 that's still c£5k at trade! Bugger.

have you ever sold anything or do you till own it all?

Yes, a huge amount, which is a good point. For about 6 consecutive years I bought an MTB, then sold it for break even or a slight profit, so that's at least £20k recouped.

I spent about 70k on opening a bike shop in March, does that count towards the total?

I spent about 70k on opening a bike shop in March, does that count towards the total?

If I stuck the contents of the shed on ebay I might make some of the money back, so yes. Although you'r stock is worth less than njees shed 😛

I'm waiting for brant/cy/sam to post ho wmuch they've spent on bikes 😉

I have managed to commute by bike for so much of my working life ,that it would be a big fat 0 😉

I am a super commuter,all hail the super commuters 😆

£100k??!!
I'm going to change the classic response of "you could buy a car for that" to...
"you could buy a house for that much..."!
(well, nearly!)

DrP

Hahahaha, excellent! You could in some of the less salubrious parts of the country!

I am a super commuter,all hail the super commuters

Yep, I save £36 a day riding in to work, which is 2-3 days a week, so that nets me back a couple of grand a year.

Guessing I've spent £10k but sold £6ks worth of goods. I don't think that's too bad so I'm not ever going to actually add it up.

I own three bikes BTW

njee ,yup I think it only works if you have done a lot of city commute stuff as the savings can be huge ,plus the more miles the better 😉

Not prepared to add it up. Less than njee20.
I gave up even thinking about adding it up when I realised that I have a wheel that costs more than I have ever spent on a car.

No, he could still have bought a car for that, it's just a new Aston Martin rather than a banger Fiesta.

It all adds up.

20 years of riding.
Really can't remember how many bikes
Holidays
Kit
Repairs
Clothes
Petrol to get places
Race entry fees

I can't imagine there'd be much left out of 100k too...... 😳

No, he could still have bought a car for that, it's just a new Aston Martin rather than a banger Fiesta.

God damn, could have had my R8 already!

Although as said, the actual net spend is far lower, about half I reckon.

Currently £-20 per day. Since my lease car was costing that to sit on the drive and now it has gone 😀 . Of course, some days, this number nudges into the positive (every time I walk near a bike shop, actually 😳 ). And when you have kids' bikes to buy, it just gets worse...

njee's shed:

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Far too much!

Interestingly though, when I was younger on v.low salaries I was spending a shocking % on bike stuff. Now I have have a proper jobs (still no commitments though!) I find I spend a lot less in ££ let alone %.

But I guess that maturing and really understanding what you want and not following fad.

When I got my first mountain bike as an adult (2006), I figured I'd get back into biking as the cycle to work payments were just under what a bus pass cost per month.

These days, I probably spend somewhere in the region of three times what a bus pass costs per month. I don't do totals as it would be horrible.

since Jan 1st:

holidays: 2k
bikes: 4.5k
race entries: 1k
health insurance excess payments to surgeon and physio: 1k

and I been riding for 20 years. ooof.

my assets are tied up in a fleet of quasi-functional bikes, memories, scars, and aches on cold mornings.

8k on bikes. no idea on kit. 15k on a van to carry bikes in.
3k on 3 foreign holidays. half that (?) on uk stuff.

kielder last year was my most expensive race yet; £300 on entry, fuel, food, camping (a lot on camping), broken helmet, ripped kit, trashed seatpost etc etc.

a f*cking sh!tload and i pretty much enjoyed every penny of it. 🙂

Not sure I'd buy purple anodized all-in-one bars and bar-ends again though 😉

Not as much as some people but I reckon someone could live off the figure for a year!

I dare dent go their. Past six months i've spent about £4k.

Best guess is some where between 15-20 grand. So a lot. But in my estimation I'd say well worth it.

Thankfully Chainreaction only shows my total number of orders (a modest 28) and not the total spend

Been at it since mid 90's but after a relatively low £ start i got divorced 9 years ago and my total must now be approaching £50k gross...obviously sold alot of gear on( most of my mates ride my old bikes). That doesn't include costs for fuel getting all over country....never regretted any of it or wished I'd spent it anything else....46 y.o and in the best shape of my life...priceless

I budget about 500 a month, after home and car, its by far my biggest outlay.

Easy dont want to think about it.1st race was when i was 12 now 49 god knows how many bikes and stuff i have went thru dont want to think how much i have spent or mum and dad did till i was 20

Well bikes is under £4000 in 46 years!! Although i ride less than many here

trips...

One Major major bargain

In 1994 My Girl friend and i did 9 months away for about £4000 each
. I think we went with about £1k round the world ticket,£1k for extras and $10 a day to live on. So for under £20 per day we

Started living out of a mates flat in Boulder Colorado for 3 months for 6 weeks we rented a Cheroke for about $500. We climbed in the desert, Colorado and yosemite. Road loads of classic Colorado and Moab day rides. Did a 18 day off road tour in Colorado and road the White Rim trail. I think we did 2 back packing trips as well.

The we went to NZ. We road the length of the South Island. We also squeezed in 3 multi day canoe trips (2 sea 1 river) and 3 brilliant and scary back packing trips (one needed a float plane for access)..

The 2 weeks after that we climbed OZ the a bit of site seeing in India about 40 days treking in Nepal

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8 weeks of Touring holidays in Europe say £3000

repairs and replacing bits £2000 (I've never ugraded anything)

cloths no idea, £1000 max for all cycle clothing and something towards fleeces and cags

round it all upto £15000 (under a £1 a day)

I note my round the world trip cost less per day then some spend on bikes at home

I currently own a Fuel ex. So I feel I'm doing well on the value...

Probably nearing £2000 or just over. Sounds alright, [i]but[/i] I'm only 16 😕

In the last 40 years, nothing like as much as I intend to over the next 40 that's for sure.

about 20 years of riding, 5 significant bikes, say 20k between those. Take clothes, upgrades, lights etc... 40k all in. Not too bad considering. Hmm, maybe about 2k in last 6 months just on bits!

Love bikes, me 😉

LALALALALAidontwanttoknowLALALALALALALA!!.....

Probably nearing £2000 or just over. Sounds alright, but I'm only 16

That's more than I'd spent, I think most people find ways of making it cheep during collage and uni, stuff like buying bikes off ebay when student loan comes in, then stripping them, selling the bits and keeping a few things for effectively free. I did that 3 or 4 times and that's how i afforded upgrades, any profit paid for drivetrains etc.

Then once uni was over I got lazy and may as well just have my paycheck sent straight to CRC. I still generaly only buy bargains but they're new. Like Funn XLrator rims for £16 each rather than stans flows which weigh exactly the same and come from the same factory (not the same rim though).

probably £10,000 since 1991 (10 year not really mtbing) which includes 6 bikes and some spares, never sold any parts AFAIR(1 bike sold years ago) so still have most of them. Not included is cash spent on holidays and travelling to trails.

Too much. Not enough.

hmm, probably a little over 3k, and im only 17, hell i had a crash a couple of weeks ago and needed to buy a :
new chain,
cassette and cranks (turned out to be the same price as chainrings somehow!) to go with said chain as they were so worn,
seatpost,
saddle,
jersey
and £20 for my lbs to make my wheels round again and bend the rear mech hanger back into place
nearly £300 gone just because my chain snapped coming out of a bombhole and i fell straight back in 😀

I'm glad im an apprentice so i can fund this (and so are my parents!)

£11,562.35

I'm intrigued as to why you would need a £500 monthly budget for cycling?

Less than six grand on gear, over 43 years, not including the Jelly Babies.

So about ten grand in total. 😐

I really don't want to think about it. 😳

I really don't want to think about it. 😳

We got rid of our second car, the old banger (drove it to the wreckers, it only just made it and died on the forecourt). Instead of investing in another car, decided to live with one and stop the kids doing anything we had to drive them to after school. I reckon I easily spend more on bikes than registering, insuring and repairing the old banger. It has committed me to cycling to work though come rain, hail or shine. Dont' want o think what I spend per year, my wife might try to sell me (and the bikes).

On a side note, when I bought my garmin from the bike shop, the bloke there asked me how much I wanted put on teh reciept, apparently alot of blokes (for some reason it is only the men) ask for a much lower amount on the reciept they will show the wife so she won't realise how much they spend on thier toys.

Hmm, in the last 5 years alone I've had a Soul, Motolite, VF2, Soda, Solaris and now a Rocket.

Only the Soul & Rocket atm, oh and 29er wheels/forks (waiting on a green Solaris frame....). Plus the usual spare handlebars, pedals, used mechs, etc.

BITD I used to spend approx a grand a year on *upgrades* be that new forks or frame... 15 years ago I worked out I'd spent at least £20k on bikes. If you add in all the incidentals (two trips to Colorado for instance, two Jedi sessions, etc.) then easy £50k+.

But then only climbing has come remotely close to being as much enjoyment, fun & passion.

I know people who have spent more than the above on going out on the lash of a weekend...

I like to think that because I don't stuff my money up my nose...piss it up the wall or run a silly expensive car.. it's all ok..
But I still don't like looking at the numbersLALALALALALALA!!!.....