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Circa £4k - should have spent circa £5k and got the one with hubs that don't need new bearings every few hundred miles............
£1900 on a Giant XTC Advance, which went walkabout 8 months later.
FLEXSTEM!!1!
There's a shop near me that had three of those brand new in a box on the shelf last time I went in.
Thinking about it the Proflex was £1500 in 1996 wohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This century
MTB £850 for a lightly used Trek FS and £720 for A gravel bike
I've bought 2 x £1k bikes on C2W - a Giant Defy 1 in 2014, and an Arkose just over a year ago.
The Giant is currently sitting on a set of £400ish Pacenti/Hope wheels, so I guess the answer is £1400.
I don't envisage spending more than £1k on a new bike anytime soon, and I'm not sure I'd do any better on a mega-money bike.
C2W is also a tax-efficient way of spending money for me.
There is a good chance I might build my next one, as I fancy a Bowman.
£99. What do I win?
4.5k 3 years ago for a bronson.
Just changed the frame and fork which probably cost another 2.3k.
I earn reasonable money, have no debt and Love my riding.
7.5k had it about 12 months before it got nicked 😥 Haven't been able to afford to replace it, and it was ****ing awesome.
About £2700 in total on a Liteville 301 - it'll have to last me the rest of my riding days, along with my trusty Hummingbird. The problem is though that I'd like to have one to ride in Greece as well.......
My Defy Advanced SL2 was £3500 with aero wheels in 2013. It's now full DA9000 with handbuilt wheels and £5000. Propel SL2 was a £4000 crash replacement and I race it stock weekly (and weakly).
Most of my bikes (see other thread) have been bought used, the above two are the only new ones. But then, there is another significant milestone this year 🙂
I've been a bit of a bike builder rather than buyer of complete bikes so not totalled them up before. Then I bought an Orange 4 last £3.1K with a spec that I really wanted.
Road bikes seem to be more expensive and lots of my friends have pretty damn expensive road bikes. I put a deposit on a custom spec Stork today - so next week I'll be joining that group too!
The £10k Tracer and the price of things like latest Yeti carbon frames amaze me too.
My MTBs have always been up to about 2 grand for the most expensive.
My most expensive was my Tripster, built up with expensive parts from money left to me by my Dad. Probably £3.5k or so. But it's used every day to get me to work so pays for itself by saving me on fuel.
My favourite bike cost £800 off the classifieds
About £4k when I had a generous insurance payout following a burglary.
I got a 2012 Trek Fuel EX 9.7 and upgraded the wheels and some other bits. It was a brilliant bike, really fast and great fun.
Unfortunately (for the Trek) I then moved up north and fell in love with big wheels.
I'm over my bike-swapping issues now that I've worked out what fits me in terms of MTBs, but still don't expect I'd spend that much again.
1200 in parts.
£600.
Both my proper mountain bikes (26 soul & 29 high latitude) were built by myself from parts purchased from Fb groups, shops, ebay and here. Not rubbish quality either: hope hubs & stans rims, XT drivetrains, Reba Forks on both etc. I love the build process and make sure I get time alone to do it and take my time. Proper satisfying.
£5870 last year on an S-Works Epic WC, was a bargain reduced from £8128 😯
Then fitted ENVE stem & bars; and since bought a 2nd set of Roval SLs for winter/mud..
Work hard play hard 8)
In one go? £1700 on a Specialized Enduro Comp in 2007.
Everything else has been triggers broom, slowly morphing into one bike after another.
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I love the build process and make sure I get time alone to do it and take my time. Proper satisfying.
Same here, I've never bought a new bike or even a new frame either.
£950 back in 2000 on Sub5, inheritance from my mum and £950 on mrs_oab's new Trek on C2W.
3.5k on a cove hustler frame and custom build back in 2006. Hated it. Don't know why.
Next was a canyon carbon hardtail for 1800 in 2015. The spec on this is bloody excellent and I'd not have been able to build something similar for new for the same price.
If I ever manage to get the remortgage over the line the. I'll be adding a road bike and transition scout or smuggler.
Then starting again in a few years time.
Bikes are disposable in my opinion.
I like to get a bargain so £2k on my 2015 trance sx saved a grand on that so was dead happy and built up a 2016 giant defy 0 to a similar spec to the £1k model for £650
Just spent £2400 on a road bike. Most I've ever spent by nearly a grand. But it will see me through 10 years, so £20 a month over 10 years?
I read about a lot of stupidly expensive bikes, road and mountain bikes, £7k and upwards, and I don't think I've ever seen one I thought would be worth that much money.
Most expensive bikes I lust after probably £4-5k. But only in my head.
I tend to build bikes up from frames and buy components from multiple places then never add it all up so I can fool myself about the final cost.
Surprised at the lack of pics.
£2400 on one of these.
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Courtesy of a personal injury payout from being hit by a car in June, so wanted to treat myself with the money.
£99 in 1979 for a Harry Quinn frame. A hell of a lot of paper round money saving. Loved it raced it 25m and 50m time trials, road raced and toured. Took me to John O'Groats and so many places.
£2600 on an Intense 5.5 circa 2006.
Like many of the posters above the £2500 ish mark is my limit. I would feel really uncomfortable spending £3 grand or more.
3.4K on a 5 in 2011 but that was only cos I'd had a recent windfall. Better bike than I'll ever be a rider & I'd never spend that much on a bike again unless money was little or no object.
Still got it & it's still beyond my capabilities.
My bargain Carbon Jekyll 2 from Paul's has had LB carbon wheels in Hope hubs. hope V4 fitted. 1x11. A 150mm Reverb. Ceramic BB. Easton bars. 3 differing sets of tyres. Absolute Black oval ring. But it was a bargain right? The bike I ride most is my secondhand rigid Cannondale Trail 29 about £250 from here.
5k MTB 3.5k road. Will never buy another bike again hopefully (full suspension e bike if I am still riding mtb at 70+!!!). Both bikes bought as I say hopefully for life.
£1,750 last month on a 2016 Cube Stereo reduced from £2,500.
Previous bike was frame & fork purchase using bits from my £1k Giant hardtail.
Saw a nice Haibike downhill electric one today, looked like a motorbike! £7k ish!!
£5400 on a Santa Cruz Tallboy LTc custom built back in 2012.
Nice bike, but then I bought a novelty fatbike and ruined everything.
The LTc gathered dust from then on in.
We spent close to £2k building up my gf's road bike second hand, don't remember the exact cost. Probably over £1k all in on my new hardtail, not far off on my touring bike But the exact numbers quickly fade away I find, and you end up with something far more special. I'd rather have my bikes than the money. Or a car.
Maybe it's different if you buy new; the TCR Adv SL with SRAM Red and Reynolds 46 wheels certainly wouldn't seem such a good deal at six grand...
£1250 on an upgraded Orange Evo2 in C.'99.
£1200 on a Kona Coiler Dee Lux in 06.
£1400 on a nearly new Commencal Meta in 09.
£999 (reduced) on current carbon Cube Agree road bike but now has pimpy wheels - last year.
£999 on current Cannonade Trigger.
I've been quite restrained really haven't I!
"The quality endures long after the price is forgotten."
I may be biased saying that because I run a business designing, manufacturing and selling fairly expensive pro audio equipment - but I see a lot of customers stepping off the expensive habit of constant buying and selling in the hunt for better sound once they finally commit to spending more than they'd planned on some of our gear.
For some the gear side of things, buying, tweaking, etc is as much a part of the hobby as doing the hobby itself, but if that's not your thing then buying something really bloody good (assuming you have the money) and then getting on with enjoying DOING your hobby can be a much better way to spend your money - and less expensive in the long-term.
My Spitfire wasn't super expensive but it wasn't cheap - but three years on I'm still so happy with it that you'd have to pay me to swap it for anything, including any of those £10k bikes! To me that makes it worth every penny.
£3.6k on a 2011 Orange 5 Pro. Was a late 30th present to myself, still ride it regularly now although I gave it a near-complete rebuild two years ago that cost over £1500 😯 It's in near-constant use and gets a proper beating despite me being nowhere as good as it can do. The only original parts are the frame, swingarm, the rear Maxle and the top half of the shock! Thinking of retiring it soon but everything I look at for a replacement would be the same price or more to get a similar spec. Don't regret a penny I've spent on it though 8)
I'm currently weighing up whether to change my car but every time I see that it'll cost me £8k to do so I think about what bike I could buy for half that amount and what holidays I could have with it too.
For some the gear side of things, buying, tweaking, etc is as much a part of the hobby as doing the hobby itself.
I enjoy the spannering as much as the riding, all part of the whole experience.
1994: £120 Raleigh Nitro
1995: £375 Kona Fire Mountain
1996: £475 Kona Koa (later added £250 RST Mozo Pro 3.5 forks)
1998: £1,100 Marin Rift Zone
1999: £1,800 Cannondale F900 SX (Lefty)
2004: £2,200 Orange 5 Pro
Since that time, I've not bought a factory MTB and instead upgraded as my fancy takes me - going from a Pace 305 (2008) to a Soul (2010) to a Stooge (2014) to my current Soul 275 (2015). All with DT / Fox Factory forks, XT, Hope and Thomson-level components...
Taking the sale of old parts into account, I've probably spent less since 2004 than I did before.
However, I'm not getting any younger and am considering an imminent and possibly big splurge on a factory-built skills compensator with all the latest standards. The thing that is stopping me at the moment is how expensive an equivalent to, say, my old 'Dale or Orange would be today.
(Commuter / touring / road bikes excluded, but similar approach to MTB rolling upgrades).
£2650 on a 2014 merida
On a 0% credit card. Paid it off quick but that was pre children!
7k+ on a custom Demo 8. Never again. Second hand from now on. It's up for sale here for [b]not[/b] 7k+:
http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2125279/
Last two have been £1200 one road one mtb.
I've then had a spend a few hundred on new wheels as they come supplied with rubbish no matter what you spend.
The limiting factor of both bikes is the rider so no need to spend more.
HK$50,000. About GBP4,800 at the time. Terrible waste.
4000 odd on a full rigid ti and carbon bike - with rohloff and singlespeed set ups + the light weight stuff & jones bars
15 years ago I spent £1249 on an Orange E6. Since then I've bought frames and built my own bikes. I've still got an XT shifter from that Orange. I may well buy a complete bike at some point in the future due to my current bikes having the old standards but generally I like swapping bits around, hopefully I can keep my current bike going for a few years yet.
Last year I bought a Colnago C60 road bike for my 40th. I went all in with Dura Ace Di2, Carbon everything and Reynolds 46 Aero wheels. add my power meter to that and I reckon it was circa £9000 rrp. I am lucky enough to have trade contacts but even so I reckon it was £5000. Worth every penny.
crazy money being discussed on this thread. I could never justify it to myself, never mind the wife!