[Closed] Irrational bike want .... Whats yours?

I [b]really[/b] want a time trial / Tri bike. I've never ridden a TT and only do 2 or 3 tri/duathlons a year.

Completely unnecessary.

Yes I'd like a Trek Speed Concept 9.9, totally wasted! Would also like an Ibis Mojo SL-R, which wouldn't really be wasted, as I do plenty of riding, but it's not justified, and actually I expect I'd end up prefering my Top Fuel anyway!

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that whole '30's motorbike look just makes me want one.

Ibis SL-R please santa..

An old 40/50s racing bike to bimble to tea rooms on.

Actually started building one, but it's not a priority.

Wouldn't mind a 1970/80s cyclocross bike either

The Nicolai BMXTB is also on my list, as is a Sunday Aaron Ross signature bmx. I spend all my time riding on the road and have no use for either.

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I havea slight urge for a really fast road bike. And possibly a really fast XC bike. I have no use for either, but I just love the lightness of it all.

An uber carbon equiped super-light XC race bike... probably with 29" wheels.

I'd almost certainly break it taking it places it shouldn't go but I'd still like one 😳

for some reason yesterday I suddenly decided a pompino with a Sturmey archer S2 rear hub would make the perfect commuter.... It wouldn't I need all the gears I can get at the minute...

I honestly can't think of anything.

Must be something wrong with me.

Been after a hardtail recently for some gentle trail riding but after laying eyes on the NS Core 2 i've convinced myself that it is exactly what I need.

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Kingdom vendetta ti 4x bike. Totally unnecessary. No 4x track nearby, too small to ride xc, expensive, I already have a jump bike.

I still want!! salivate!! must resist!!!!!

I'd love one of these, but certainly haven't got the legs for it 🙁

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[i]but certainly haven't got the legs for it[/i]

Niether does the owner - it's got a compact chainset on it 😉

Been thinking about what bikes I want a lot lately!

As well as my DH race bike I want a specific set-up Enduro race bike - something 160mm travel, slack and mid-weight with a CCDB. Intense Tracer 2 or Yeti SB-66. Something like that!

But then I'd need a lighter trail bike for general riding at trail centres and any XC duties. So something around 120mm. Maybe a carbon Rocky Mountain!!

And to top it off I want a hardtail for muddy winter days and riding on the road up to the local woods for general flat-land rooty, wooded riding days close to home.

I reckon all I need is about £6k.

That's why it's my irrational bike want and not likely to happen any time soon...

I'd like an uber-gnarly full-suss toy, but I live in Suffolk and rarely ride anywhere else so won't be getting one any time soon...

Did I really just say/type "uber-gnarly"???

The rational want is a short-mid FS travel trail bike - to sit between my Soda and my Uzzi.

The irrational one is for a full on DH bike - fully blinged Turner DW DHR please!

If most people apparently seem to want one, is it really irrational (rationalising-mode on 🙂 )?

Like many I want a DH bike. I know I'd be lucky to get a week's worth of riding out of one per year. Something like a Transition TR450. Maybe a TR250 would be more rational?

I rather fancy a trials bike and I can't even wheelie properly!

I reckon all I need is about £6k.

Really? For 3 bikes including a Yeti and a carbon RM? I'd up that estimate significantly!

If I was gonna get a Mojo it would have to be top spec! Reckon I could easily blow £6000 at retail!

Irrational;
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Less irrational, more want;
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[i]I'd love one of these, but certainly haven't got the legs for it[/i]

If you can handle the moment when the paper boy cruises past on his bmx, huge bag of papers knees up by his elbows. [s]I [/s]Just tell [s]my[/s]your self it's a recovery ride or it was that hard 20 miler yesterday 😳 😉

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Not irrational, just expensive and unlikely.

Irrational:

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Love the stand for that Nicolai.

Verses - I too live in Suffolk - Not much round here requiring suspension!

Here is another......

13.5lb Niner

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ir_bandito, was going to post a tandem too, not quite as mad as that one though..

I want one for me and mrs, but would probably never use it.

Nicolais seem popular - would love a Lambda ST myself and that MXTB is ace

More generally I keep lusting after silly freeride bikes I could never use effectively due to my inate lack of gnar.

Titanium custom fat bike and a jones spaceframe and a carbon 29er full boinger

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19 years ago it would have been this... irrational because it was unaffordium!

and this was the cheaper (I think) version without the looptail rear end..

Now, a freeride'ish bike I can get away with, as it rides uphills. But, I don't ride just downhill, I don't have anywhere near me to ride fully downhill, I don't drive to be able to take me somewhere to ride fully downhill, and yet:

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I've wanted one forever...

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I'm still making enquiries about an ordinary as well. It may yet happen.

Flevo back-to-back tandem
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I already have two tandems 🙄 That Goodies bike has been updated by Thorn and others. S&S couplers will make quads, quints...

For me it's an Ibis Tranny.

I just love the look of it.

I got tracking details for mine today.

Not too special or expensive it is likely to get used a lot when once I have built it. Still completely irrational and quite one speeded too. Probably just keen because I like niche stuff.

I'd like to get one of these frames and build it up as light as possible. Don't know why:

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and after the 'what is the best 120mm full sus' thread earlier, I would like one of these too:

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Don't need 'em. Would just like them. Also some kind of fancy road bike would be nice.

I keep seeing very nice carbon road bikes around the area and in some of the "forbidden" shops (i.e. LBS) and I _want_ one. I can never bring myself to get one though, simply because my Raleigh Pursuit still works, and I have a morbid dislike of having two of something for the same task (apart from with sporks... you can never have too many sporks).

Also, given that I live in Cambridgeshire, a full sus would be pointless. I would still like a carbon Stumpy though.

Fat(bike) chopper pub bike 😀

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Cube Hanzz. No need for a bigger bike than the Norco I already have, but it just looks the dogs bollocks.

S-Works McLaren Venge:

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This isn't irrational but I'd love a Yeti Carbon SB-66 with some Bos Deville forks, XTR trail brakes, SRAM X0 drivetrain, Reverb, blingin wheels, Easton Carbon finishing kit. You get the idea

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For some reason I'd love one of these, but I don't and have never ridden a DH bike in my life, just have a hankering for one.

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