[Closed] If you had all the money in the world ...

I don't lust after bikes anymore. I daydream about having the time and money to visit all the places I would like to ride them.

I'd take a month in Canada or NZ on my current bike over any new bicycle.

wot sharkattack said

I mean, I'd prob have several new bikes but they'd be pretty much mainstream stuff. I'd be riding in some amazing places though - when I wasn't heli-skiing, that is

Fair point. I guess I've been lucky to ride a lot of "dream" places. Idle wondering about new bikes.

This thread needs some spice.

I would get all my current bikes re-made, maybe with the odd tweak, in titanium. Except the one I already did that with. Ti is light and by far the most comfortable to ride. It has much more soul compared to plastic, alu and even steel.

I would become an evil super villain and force everyone onSTW to shop at Dave Hinde 😆

Pivot switchblade would be high up my list....
And a ti Sherpa

I'd definitely end up with a Salsa Bucksaw, as I can see no way of justifying one without me having all the money in the world.

Okay, I'll play.

I want one of these anyway so it's an east first choice,
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I need something for bikepark days, of which there will be many, so...
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And as you say, money is no object so I'll have an Outside Van
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And I'll take the lot here...
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I'd buy the full evil range, the look so good and ride brilliant and I would be too rich to give a shit about their appalling warranty

Titanium full suss? I remember drooling over a tomac ti full suss before the advent of plastic bikes.

Kind of prosaic but it'd be the new trek slash 29, vajazzled with all the best parts I can find and stuff I like (it'd still have ancient formula the ones on it frinstance).

And a custom 29er hardcore hardtail, long and slack and light with a bit of softness in it, something I can race the glentress seven or an sda round on

Also I'd create a bursary to pay all the costs for a couple of kids a year to do the BASE Downhill HND course at Scottish Borders, pay their expenses and race fees and sort them a bike- the only requirement is that they race under Team Glentress Mincer for the rest of their career. Or maybe Glentress Mincer Syndicate 😆 With it written on their bikes and jerseys in massive letters.

Liteville 601 Mk3 and a 301 Mk13, plus a Mercdes 461 series G-Wagen (LWB), and then take them to all the places in Europe that I've ever wanted to ride (or for that matter, drive) but haven't had the time or money to do so.

Last Fast Forward, one of those Transition CXs with the stars-and-stripes paint and an Evil The Following would be my sensible choices (relatively speaking). Then I'd have a Commie DH V4 for the one day a year I'd get some use out of it.

And a house with land enough for a pump-track in the garden.

A fleet of S-works turbo Levo's. Just to annoy people...

If you had all the money in the world, choosing a bike would be least of your problems. I think you'd probably just opt for a quick choice - I dunno, a standard issue Spesh or something - before sorting out the cataclysmic impact of your global monopolisation of currency. I'm guessing you'd have all the gold gold reserves as well?

I'm not an economist, but surely you must realise that this is likely to cause big problems, I mean global ones. My advice is: don't do it. I don't think you've thought this through properly. Just saying.

My thoughts also, if you had all the money, you would be dead in a few hours as when all the have nots decided they wanted some of your mullah and also there wouldnt be anything to buy because making stuff costs money.

So if I had all the money in the world I would give most of it way pretty damn quickly.

Ti is light and by far the most comfortable to ride. It has much more soul compared to plastic, alu and even steel.

My Pact hardtail.

I [i]might [/i] consider decking it out with Di2, just so I could have additional gear change buttons on my bar ends. Other than that there's really nothing I'd swap it for, regardless of cost.

And as you say, money is no object so I'll have an Outside Van

Money is no object & you drive round in a van?

A VAN?

You don't deserve to be in that situation! I don't care what van it is. 😉

Money is no object n you drive round in a van?

A VAN?

Yes! I'd definitely have a rugged, kitted out, motorhome if I had the cash.

It's not relevant for this bike related thread, but I'd also have this in the garage.

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I'd probably just pay someone clean the ones I've got.

I'd have an Antidote Carbon Jack, I think:
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No idea what they're like, but I like the look of them.

I'd have a new Scott Genius LT700 Plus tuned please, and an RS6 with a roof rack.

I'd be taking my Geometron to that Unno chap in Spain and seeing what he could do for me with the same numbers

Think bigger...

'which bike would you buy?' is a sort of a boring question. Even cheap bikes are bloody amazing these days.

'which national park would you buy?' - now we're thinking...

Ti is light and by far the most comfortable to ride. It has much more soul compared to plastic, alu and even steel.

You haven't had a good steel bike then!

I would have a titanium fat tandem and a davinci xc full sus tandem in titanium. Thats around 20 grand.

Happy with the rest of my bikes. They are what I need. Might try a full sus solo.

I have a TI frame that is harsh as anything. Its all about the design not the materials

One that feels the nicest, fits perfectly and does what I want it to. Which is (very happily) the one I bought:

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If was uber-rich would probably spec with a Brooks C17 cutout, decent pedals and some nice bikepacking/lightweight bivvy kit.

Hightower, Bronson, Nomad and V10 - just like the ride styles they have.
That and a nice race wagon/van
and a trail building company
and a brewary bike shop
and 4 Evoc bags
and top tier Frequent Flier on all the major airlines

for starters

Flying Gate in Ti. After that a carbon trike running 3 x 11 gears with electric shifting and braking with no black except tyre tread. Mr Campagnolo would deliver the one off group set to my hands. Oh yeah the group set would all look like 1970's Record

[b]sharkattack - Member [/b]

I don't lust after bikes anymore. I daydream about having the time and money to visit all the places I would like to ride them.

I'd take a month in Canada or NZ on my current bike over any new bicycle.

This to an extent, I've given up chasing bikes really, try not to think about them, would just like the time to ride more.

But, if I do think about it, I'd have a Cotic Flare with carbon everything for lightness, 1x11 SRAM, dropper, tubeless, X fusion fork & shock.

I'd also have a Bird Zero TR, Orange P7 or Stf Morf in similar spec. for when I don't want rear squish.

A pimped out niner for XC duties.

A stanton Sherpa (Mk1) in gunmetal just because.

A B+ bike for bikepacking.

Then a disx CX/gravel bike - Diverge alu smartweld probably.

And a proper fast carbon summer road bike.

I'd buy Marin and get them to start making zolatone paint jobs again.

I would have to spend a lot of time evaluating the potentials on the list in their natural environment, there's absolutely no point being hasty about dropping cash (even if you had all the money in the world) on something without making sure it's right.

That would mean, unfortunately, spending a lot of time in BC and the Pacific North-West trialling bikes before choosing the one that I liked best, which would probably be the first one I tried, 'cos that's how it normally works.

The shortlist would likely involve a Bronson and a Fuel and maybe an Insurgent.

I'd buy a lifetime worth of straight steerer forks and 26 wheels and some decent 27.2 dropper posts to keep my Ti456 going. Then I'd get my son the decent bike he deserves but which I can't justify at the moment. And a new van. Then I'd go explore.

Probably a Yeti SB5.5 - don't like the thought of maintaining the Switch link thing, but if I had all the money, I'd live somewhere dry and if I got it dirty I'd just replace it, so no issue there.

I'd also like one of these http://www.whycycles.com/our-bikes/rcycle/ . So I'd get one.

I wouldn't commit to any one bike at all. It would allow you to try out any new bicycle fad in the way that people might try out a new brand of biscuit in their weekly shop. You could dispense with the hassle of flying with a bike by just having whatever you currently like built up and delivered to where you're going. You could just have a kind of bike concierge to ensure everything is perfect and ready to go at all times, and arrange trips to wherever you fancy going. You can support the artisan bike porn industry by having all sorts of oddball stuff made. Even the off-the-peg stuff you don't need to think too much about paint schemes, etc as you could just have it sent off to be done in your preferred colours.

You could just have a kind of bike concierge to ensure everything is perfect and ready to go at all times, and arrange trips to wherever you fancy going.

Property in the Alps, various bikes, large garden for a bowl to skateboard in. 'Oceanside' houses in California, Cornwall, SW and SE France. Aside from life's essentials, food, drink etc. much more than that I wouldn't need.

All the money in the world you say? Well distribute it in a better fashion. Or would I?

Honestly the only recent new bike that's had me thinking 'ooooh I'd like one of those' is the latest Karate Monkey from Surly.
I'd build it B+ with 50mm Sun Ringle Mulefut rims on Chris King hubs and a wide ratio 1x10 drive train, finished off with carbon bars and seatpost. That would take me just about everywhere I'm likely to ride in the foreseeable future.

Id work my way through this, I'm currently on 8.

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I'd go for both the 27.5" Evils, an S-works FSR Turbo Levo and a Shan.

Fuel EX 9.9, Slash 9.9, Top Fuel 9.9 (All in race shop red) and a Curtis 4x.

Weird cover shot on that 1001 Bikes to Dream of... book. Does anyone dream of a Boardman bike??

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I'll be riding down that road soon 🙂

I'd have a matching Project One Madone and Domane, Enve wheels for my Stache, Yeti 4.5, V10, Marino trials bike, and the rest of the bikes would have engines...

Does anyone dream of a Boardman bike??

My Pro 29er is lovely but must admit probably not high on anyone's list of "dream" bikes.

Too many bikes to pick one though, so if I had all the money I'd just have one of each, or maybe persuade Dave Turner to make me a 5 Spot that's a wee bit slacker and a good chunk lighter

Does anyone dream of a Boardman bike??

I imagine the chap who wrote the foreword did/does...