[Closed] Money no object?

If you ever [i]do [/i]win the lottery...can I suggest you get your eyes fixed by a good optician before you buy any bikes? 😉

call for njee to the foruum floor.....

😕 what would you get then!

Dude you need to set your eyes higher than a trek ! 😯

Admittedly nice bike but there are so many boutique brands out there that have passion and soul are not mass produced

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Indy Fab Ti Deluxe, although the latest Carbon Epic would also have my wallet twitching.

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always had a soft spot for these. if money was no object i would super pimp it with hope m4s and dt rims saint cranks mechs and fox van 36

tootin - Member

what would you get then!

[url= http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/category/nahbs-2010/2010-exhibitors/ ]take your pick...[/url]

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😉

storch with matching road bike.

I'd have some time to go and ride the damn things.

+1 Pickers get my fitness back 🙁

If i had unlimited money.....a nice Titanium Hardtail with carbon rigids with XT gruppo and king/ thompson finishing kit, nothing flash just a good solid performer.
and a nice road bike in steel or Ti that will take a full set of mudguards and racks

wouldn't limit to one!

surley pugglsey - or a moots version

ti hardtail 29er
superlightweight 29er rigid SS

ti road bike
ti cross bike.

ah i'd just buy kent eriksen to be my personal builder 🙂

Now doupt about it if I win the lottery the next bike will have disc brakes.

I fancy an air fork

seriously

I think I'd have to have a bike made, probably by Dave Yates

My random thought in town today is that when I'm a Billionaire I'll set up a custom service with a geometry test centre. Loads of bikes you can demo with inserts for different head angles. We'd also offer different top tube lenthgs. By changing fork length we could also let people try different bottom brackey heights. Seat angle would be via post and saddle rail adjustment. We'd have a huge stem bin as well. £50 for half a day. Free if you order a frame

sorry for letting you into my world

A Choccy brown Pompy with one of those new fixed Alfine hubs (Sorry I love my Pompino)
Some kind of titanium singlespeed (prob a Moots) with carbon rigids and one with suspension forks
Some kind of 1x9 hardtail
Think that would do me nicely 🙂

Barry Bethel you may just have changed my mind!

One of these, just for the subdued colour scheme!

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I'd probably have what I've got. Maybe change the odd bit, but they'd be pretty much exactly the same.

off to mondraker site now..... what model is that? Stunning

Dune XR

don't want to sound like a k nob, but i can have whatever bike i want.
the problem is that i am so indecesive that i do not know what i want.

29rs suit my build, but i have a yearning to blast down stuff, so tough 26rs come into the mix.

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If you don't want to sound like a k nob it might be an idea not to say the sort of thing that a k nob might say. 🙂

avdave2 - Member
If you don't want to sound like a k nob it might be an idea not to say the sort of thing that a k nob might say.

and what have i said.....
i was stating the truth...

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One of these in Super Spec.

And a sooper fancy roadie with leccy shimano shifters and all that stuff

i'd certainly be having a fully custom geo nicolai.

Ghost HTX Lector and Scapin hardtail with SRAMM XX.

at least 10 bikes! and a super duper (heated) and fully tooled up bike "shed"

PLus my own mountain!

Nicolai Ion gboxx 2, with a proper nice spec on it.

£4.1k for the frame, money would have to be no object!

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Oh iwill have it in erm.....22 months and 12 days

Admittedly nice bike but there are so many boutique brands out there that have passion and soul are not mass produced

That's w**k really isn't it. 'Passion and soul' are just qualities you've projected onto a selection of metal tubes and various components. The passion and soul stuff's in you, not your bike.

'Passion and soul' are just qualities you've projected onto a selection of metal tubes and various components. The passion and soul stuff's in you, not your bike.

fine speech

well said that man.

i agree, they are just bikes, buy it, try it and if it does not feel right, sell it.
it can be a £100 work bike, and it can feel like the best bike in the world, if you passion for it is there..

What would i buy? Enough lessons to do my bike justice...

Something hand-built, where i work with builder one-on-one.

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Easily one of these, but i'd have to take the gears off it! I used to have a Taurine singlespeeded and i deeply regret selling it...

Oh, and i would buy out commencal and dump all of their stock in the middle of the atlantic.

a harley
without doubt, leave my indy in the shed!
and enough time to take it across the globe
pref with a hot bitch on the back
(think that is the term used for a nice lady who is fond of motorbikes and ok with the shaag thing)

One of anything I like the look/idea of - Ti, Carbon, road, CX, MTB, whatever. Keep what I enjoy riding, sell/give-away the rest.

A big chunk of land with rolling hills, woods, open space etc and a lake with s bit of sandy/beachy shore to it and get a few diff people to come a build a variety of trails for me; someone to build some techy north shore style stuff, someone for some fun DJs and pump track, someone for some sweet flowy singletrack, someone for some hero DH tracks.

A big enviro-focused shed/chalet to hang out and have all the bikes in, etc fully decked out with everything I'd ever need.

A whole heap of coaching to get me some rAd sKillZ on the bike and to fix the bikes all back up when those skills let me down or to fettle if I don't wanna actaully ride.

Then repeat but the Ski version.

Then repeat again but the ocean/beach version.

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the most competant fully i've ridden. €2000 for the frame alone. then i'd have the various rear-ends allowing me to adjust the travel.

you can run it as a lightweight XC bike and get the weight down to ~10.5kg or beef it up as an enduro/freeridey bike and get away with a realistic 14kg.

kitted out with Syntace bits.

loadsa money!!!

[url= http://www.liteville.de/t/25_46.html ]lots of garish colours, too....[/url]

several friends have one (some have two, but they work with/for the company).

Skidsareforkids I think I can take criticism of my lovely Commencal from someone who aspires to that ridiculous looking thing!

That's w**k really isn't it. 'Passion and soul' are just qualities you've projected onto a selection of metal tubes and various components. The passion and soul stuff's in you, not your bike.

Some people just dont get it...? 🙄

You telling me that an alfa is the same as a kia, you telling me that the alpha doest have a bit of soul, or take it to the extreme, what about a ferrari and a mondeo, i know which car has more passion. Sure the driver/rider brings his own personality to the ride.

But the bike/car definitely has differing degrees of passion,soul and dare i say it a personality. This trait then brings it out of the driver.

Drive a high end car down a high street or bike down a trail and see how your personality changes, how you feel like a million bucks, and then tell me that a car/bike doesn't engender different emotion in you.

Perhaps you have never ridden said bike, or perhaps you wouldn't know even if you did.

You telling me that an alfa is the same as a kia

Essentially yes. They're both just cars designed by engineers and stylists. At a the price point Alfa are working to (> than Kia!) they may have given the alfa comparably better performance and styling.

The difference of 'soul' you are talking about is really just branding, and you have bought it!

Same holds true for bikes. Given an identical set of 6068 aluminium tubes welded together with the same geometry in a Taiwanese factory, does, say an On-One have more soul than a Marin? Applying cold, hard logic they are really pretty much exactly the same and any difference is in your head.

Right I'm bored so here we go:

Cotic Hemlock (not that glamorous but I want one) - Cane Creek Double Barrel shock, Ti spring
Fox Vanilla 36 RC2 FIT forks 1 1/8" steerer- custom Titanium spring
DT Swiss EXC400 (yes 400g, carbon, wide rims) built with Chris King Hubs
XTR - Cassette, shifters, derailleurs, chain
XTR cranks but with outer ring replaced with Saint M800 bash ring
Brakes - Formula R1 200mm front, 160mm rear
Thompson Stem and seatpost
Specialized Alias saddle
Oury lock on Grips
Wide low rise bars - TBC
Cane Creek headset
Shimano Deore(yes really)rear QR skewer