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mines still my favorite bike after 7 years .... its not like im chopping them out every few years- i see it as a good value for money bike.
Most I've spent in I've go was in 2008, Specialized Pitch at £1280.
Although my main bike has been a steady evolution of upgrades over the years, I'd not like to guess how much it's cost in the long run.
some of the amounts spent make me feel better about the cash I have spunked away over the years............ 😆
Spent a small fortune on my current mtb, circa £4-5k,in the three years I've had it it has had parts upgraded, forks, bars, sadddle etc.
Will say it's a lot of money but I tend to keep my bikes for a long time and they give me so much back in enjoyment, health and general well being.
Can't think of a better investment really...
Me too Ton^. I must have spent over 30k in the last 25 years, but loved every minute on every bike - except my Mongoose Teocali..it was a dog!!!
...they give me so much back in enjoyment, health and general well being.Can't think of a better investment really...
That's the thing, I've used my bike pretty much every day since I got it but I still struggle to justify the expense (to myself) even though the stuff that went to pay for it wasn't even being used! Gaaaaaagh! I'm currently at an average of £35 per ride (or £5.10/mile) and dropping... 😆
In relative terms it was about £800 on a 1995 GT Karakorum with additional Marzocchi Zokes when I was at uni. I got a student loan to pay for it 'cos nightshift stacking shelves in Sainsburys wasn't going to cover it!
And £1300 on a Cove HJ with Rebas and full 3x10 SLX in 2011 but I'm all grown up and have a job nowadays.
Not entirely sure why I'm fessing up to this; possibly to purge my soul... but in the spirit of openness...
– S-Works Epic WC 2015 (S Build) circa £7k
– Open O-1.0 circa £5k
– Moots RSL (Zipp 303s / Enve / Di2) circa £6k
Plus various other bikes (commuter etc)
About £1200 on my road bike about 10 years ago. In theory I'd probably be prepared to pay up to £2k but after that (in my mind at least) diminishing returns start to seriously kick.
I did about 10 grand, but to be fair it was a tandem so really split between 2. Hard to be sure of the total price, frame and parts all bought piecemeal over a period of time, but it was in that ballpark.
I think I bought most of a heckler* in 03 for around £2000, the frame is still in fairly regular use so worth it. Just bought my first new mtb** in ages for a similar sum, hopefully it will be worth it, still not bloody ridden it yet.
If it wasn't for the proliferation of new standards I'd probably still be scouting the classifieds for 2nd hand. I'm now bang upto date with the devil's own wheel size, boost, tapered, bolt thru, pf, 1x, blah blah, we'll see whether I can run it for a good few years or whether it's all deprecated in under 3.
*I supplied cranks and finishing kit
**I [i]had[/i] promised myself a posh bike, like around the £3k mark, but when it came to it I struggled to justify it, could have gone for same specced carbon frame for another £600 but just thought....why? At about £1 per gram weight saving it's actually not bad vfm in the "adding lightness" scale, but like I said couldn't justify it.
majority of my bikes have been self builds. the most i've spent on one was about £3.5k which was my Haro DHR downhill bike 12 years ago.
the most i've spent on a complete bike is £3.8k which was for the Giant Reign Advanced i bought at the weekend