[Closed] Which bike would make you want to ride more?

Given how paranoid about breaking it I was when I first got my 1k Pitch, I don't think I could handle the stress of a 4-5k bike.

you're wife's formal duke 🙁

Juan, that's not one of the options though!
😉

What say a 575 or a Pitch? 😀

I don't think its about how much the frame costs or even what kit is hanging off it. The £4-5k bike could be poorly designed and the £1k bike could be well thought out.

FWIW my Pitch Comp is the most fun bike I've owned.

the first one- there's no downside to it that you've painted.

I don't care what other people think, and outside of the carpark few people comment on your bike , or care about whether you're walking with a £500 bike or a £5000 one.
TBH, I don't think most people really look or care what other people are riding.

Just got a 456 and that makes me WANT to ride

I don't think its about how much the frame costs or even what kit is hanging off it. The £4-5k bike could be poorly designed and the £1k bike could be well thought out.

Of course, but that wasn't in the op's spec- I think he said the more expensive rode 'superbly', the bargain bike rode 'well'. 🙂

The one that rides the best.

What say a 575 or a Pitch?

LOL! No, not really. I wasn't thinking like that. I was just thinking about it, I don't have an answer myself really.....

Well it falls into the 4-5k categorie 😉

Not enough biters on today

The correct answer of course is the best bike for you that you can afford.

Oops didnt read the op properly.

Lets simplify it and ignore the money. Assuming the two bikes are of the same sub genre then why wouldn't you always pick the one that rode best?

For me at least a lot of the money spent on a bike goes into the strength of it so in theory a £4-5k bike would be stronger and less likely to break than a £1k bike.

I have expensive bikes. I rag the shit out of them and treat them like bikes. They get scratched, they get beaten up, they break and I'm always happy on them.

If a) rides superbly, then that one. Gotta be lighter than b) and as I like to go up hills as well as down, definitely a) (in the dry! b) in the mud.)

I would like to ride a 875 or lighter steel mtb frame and put an all mountain setup on it and not worry about going down steps or breaking it.

Saves pennies...

Still has to be lightweight carbon jobbie for the road but again afraid I might crash and break it.

a). I've already got lots of b) but only a couple of a)s

Wouldn't make a difference, what makes me want to ride is not 'hardware' related !
Once I'm riding as long as it's a good fit and bits don't start falling off I don't really think of how much it cost or what niche it may fill......

Doesn't matter what it costs it's still going to get the spuds spanked off it 😆

I have both FWIW and they all get ridden the same way 😈

I kind of go through phases. My Epic is the equivalent of a) and I'm finding that I'm riding that more than anything else at the moment, however there are other times where the my b) options (Inbred or Soul) get ridden more.

im riding a pig of a bike, you expect me to ride like a muppet, and i do.

its like skill compensation in reverse

I only ever really have (b). The newest (b) bike I have often makes me want to ride more. 🙂

I have expensive bikes and cheap bikes.

They all get treated in the same way.

They're not for looking at they're for riding.

option b (i cannot wait to get my new anthem x 4 2010!!!) 😀

a) would be in the workstand more than it would be on the trails.

Naturally I'd rather own a) but I know b) would make me ride more. I hate nothing more than a constantly unreliable bike. And we all know a) would be built with kit that needs nursing all the time.

The bike that makes me want to ride most is usually the newest one no matter how much it cost.

my 456 makes me want to ride the most (but then thats newest one too 😉

The bike that makes me want to ride most is usually the newest one no matter how much it cost.

I'd never really thought of that TBH. Although I ride my oldest one more because it suits more of the riding I do, personally.

Does a) have fancy mudguards, a shiny bell and some panniers made from finest Harris tweed? Cos I'm going with that one if it does!

I already want to ride more

I also have a weird thing where the bike I've been riding the least, suddenly becomes the one I want to ride the most...

Its a strange one this. My Pitch was the most expensive thing I ever bought besides a car and house and, TBH, I can't really afford to replace things like wheels and forks, let alone a frame, easily. So I am really bothered if it gets damaged because that may mean I can't ride it for a while. BUT point it down a hill round here or the Lakes and that's soon forgotten.

It's transport damage that bothers me most, ie in the car etc, as there's always something you could have done to avoid the damage. The fact that is happens through carelessness rather than riding may make me see red!! Maybe that's why I didn't mind spending £250 on a roof rack.

And we all know a) would be built with kit that needs nursing all the time.

That all depends on what kit you choose to build it with doesn't it?

I have a feeling that my dream bike would be more reliable than my current bike because I would put all the strong and slightly lighter bits on it that I cant afford now.

Having just replaced a cassette for £42, it has to be the one I can afford to replace bits on!

a) would be nice but if I cant afford the bits when they wear out, it will probably gather more dust than b)

Also £1k seems quite an expensive "low to mid range" bike??

A thousand quid is not that much money in the scheme of bikes.

I have never spent £1000! You could get a car for that...

Second hand or HT

A lovely big gold one, with jewels, bare ladies and perhaps a pie on it.

My bet is that after a while the low to mid end one would start to have stuff break, or would need replacing, at that point the one with the very best kit on it would seem like great value.

If have been riding for a while and you know what you want then 'A' is the way to go, although do you really need to go over £4k??? However there is no point spending that much cash on a bike, then realising 12 months later that it isn't the bike for you and loosing shed loads of money selling it on. I see (and read about!)far too many novice riders buying something super bling and then selling it on, just to buy a different but similar bike.

I don't really like to think how much each bike I own costs, as to tell the truth its how it rides, and where I am riding determines which one I take.

Also you may have paid 1,2,3, 4->5K for a bike however it ain't *worth* that much.

Phew! I'm glad there are others who think £1k is a lot of money to spend on a bike. I'm not saying it's not worth it, it's just that's it's a lot of money in quite a few peoples lives.

£42 for a cassette? I'm going to stop pedalling!!!

Oh, I didn't start... That's ok then. 😀

Does a) have fancy mudguards, a shiny bell and some panniers made from finest Harris tweed? Cos I'm going with that one if it does!

If you want, yes. (pick your niche) 🙂

Also you may have paid 1,2,3, 4->5K for a bike however it ain't *worth* that much.

'Value' doesn't come into it here. Imagine you can afford it, but you're aware of it's cost, if you catch my drift?
🙂

In an ideal world............

A Crevelo road bike for sunday morning

a ti 5" custom hardtail for monday night

Free agent Ambush24 BMX for tuesday night

A cross bike for wednesday

Giant anthem x.0 for thursday

Mythic wildcard for friday

And a Trek 88 for Saturday.

ohhh, and a ridiculously pimped fixie (crevelo track bike?), and I'd get orange to cutom build me a '5', with less travel, slacker angles, and a maxel rear end.