[Closed] Whose bike is worth more than their car?

My car was 400 quid so its easy to spend more on a bike

My roof rack and box is worth more than my car

My heated wing mirrors are worth more than your bikes and car 😀

I think my wheels are worth more than my car!

I have four bikes. A tourer, a rodie, a hardtail and a full suss and they're all worth more than my 14 year old datsun ( which is as reliable as **** )

My wheels & forks alone are worth more than my car.....

I've at least 2 bikes worth more than my car, I've another one probably worth nearly as much as the car, my bike tools are probably worth more than the car too

a car get's me around but to me it's not about status or keeping up with the Joneses

(car worth £900, the most I've ever spent on a car is £1800, do be fair though I've done alright with a few old audi's, a 330i and a few 106/306 gti/rallyes)

Not any more, but I recently traded in a car and realised that the bike I had been carrying in the car the previous weekend was worth twice as much as the car itself.

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I knew if I owned my car long enough it would be worth less than my bike. I now have two bikes individually worth more than it.

If I built a new copy of my bike now, with all new components including a new replacement frame, it'd probably cost more than the 2nd-hand sale value of my car.

Yes... as I don't own a car.

But if I did need a car there is no way I would waste the amount of money I have spent on my bike on a car 😀

Rule 25 all the way!

Don't have a car, but if I did, it would cost less than all but 1 of my bikes.

My phone is worth more than my car! Always had an old/cheap/crappy car and a circa £1500 mtb. My insurance excess is usually more than the car is worth. An MOT is the biggest value-adder. But this is how bangeromics works, money not spent on a car is better spent on a bike!

Yep, all but one of my bikes is worth more than my car. I still like it though, it'd be a shame to fill a newer car with mud, bikes and tools, drive it into ditches and fields etc.

£50 according to WBAC.com (a year go, so unlikely to have shot up in price). So, probably any of the bikes would on paper be worth more than that..

Yup. But its not difficult, I would be lucky to get £500 for my car! 😆

My bikes have always cost more than my cars.
It's the way it should be. 😀
Unless you can afford a Ferrari.

Every time I fill my car up with diesel I double its value.

A 12 year-old Citroen Synergy I drove it to Alpe d'Huez last week with two bikes in the back each worth more than the car. Did nearly 1700 miles and it never missed a beat.

Mine. Bike is worth £200. 😕

I was at fort bill the other week and outside a newspaper shop was a car with 2 Santa Cruse and a Nukeproof on top. The car was an Audi and I still thing all three bikes were worth more than it 🙂

I bought my most expensive bike 2nd hand so car had the bigger price at the time of buying.

Went to CyB last weekend with my Shan and a mates Hummer strapped to the boot, probably worth 3 times what the car is worth!

Depends on which bike. One car and six bikes.

Oooh, car's [u]worth[/u] about £1k max, but was actually free, bikes new were about £7k. So that's somewhere between 7x and infinity 🙂

It's the way it should be. +1

My shiny "new" car cost me less to buy than my bike (though arguably it's actually worth more at the moment, though not if I load a couple of bikes in).

I've got a couple of my unicycles which are each worth more than my old car was.

four out of five are.

I sold my car and bought new wheels for my new hardtail build last month... I had to put an extra £70 in to afford the wheels!

Monetarily? Definitely
Practically? ABsolutely 🙂

Car gets used once a week cos I actually quite like going round Aldi for the family shop.

Ride the bike to work every day, take the nipper to nursery on a bike.

I'm amazed that WBAC has offered me £250 for my car though, that's before they see the state of it after 5 years of bikes squeezing past on the driveway!

Depends how you define 'worth' of a bike. Replacement cost, or what you could sell it for?

I could replace my four bikes (Cotic X, Inbred SS, cargo bike, fixie monstercross) for about £4k, but they'd be worth hardly anything if I sold them.

We bought a 'new' car a month or two ago. It's a Corolla Verso with 104000 miles on the clock. I suspect it would be cheaper to replace than the bikes 🙂

New cost of bike < new cost of car
Second hand value of bike > second hand value of car

As I suspect is the case for virtually everyone. More relevant question I guess is did you pay more for bike or car, when actually it's still car for me, unless bikes are a collective.

Same as njee.
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I have 7 bikes and one van.
If I were to sell I'm sure 6 of the bikes would each fetch more than the van.
The frame of my posh bike is worth more than the whole van. Actually, when I bought it I had my old car and the rear hub of the bike was worth more than that.

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03 Passat Estate, 170k on the clock. My old style Five is probably worth more but my Inbred is probably about on par.

Car goes like a dream though, took it down to the Pyrenees this summer nearly 1000 miles each way, not a problem. I'd like a new car but I really want to get it to 200k!!

Yeap. Car probably worth about £1500 - 2k.

Realistically bike probably worth about the same.

Isn't depreciation a b!tch?

Hah! - I had forgotten about that image. (It's on my site as it didn't appear anywhere on the web when I wanted to post it; that's a photo of it on my wall in the USA)

I paid a little more for the car, second hand, than my bike cost new but now, a couple of years later, I reckon I could sell the bike for more. If the car hadn't picked up a couple of dents in that time they'd be about equal in value.

Hell yes.
SIR.9 carried by a 170k 2002 Mondeo.

If you added up the total cost of all the cars I've ever owned....it still would'nt be as much as my most expensive bike.

Definitely- Pivot Mach 5.7 Carbon as opposed to an 02-plate, Civic Type-R with 120k on the clock. Probably wheels and fork worth more than the car :).

I've had the car since new and no plans to replace as I can't think of anything I want more (for sensible money) - bike is a revelation and can't see replacing it in a hurry.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, each of my bikes was worth more than my car.
Have just spent more on my new car than every other motorised vehicle I've owned (5 cars and a motorbike) combined 😳

No.

I'll have to have a word with myself to readdress my bike spending limits 😀

urm, sorry car is still worth a lot more

i'm an IT manager don't you know

urm, sorry car is still worth a lot more
i'm an IT manager don't you know

Yep, even my cheapish hardtail is worth more than my car. The Passat with towbar was purchased purely to drive my downhill bike to lots of nice places!

Oh yes. Most of my bikes are worth more than my car.

I find it a little odd that we can be sitting in a café mid-ride talking about bikes.
Mate is after a new one, seen a Cannondale frame for £2.5k (roadie thing) Everyone saying 'it's a bargain' and 'that's a lot of bike for the money'. Same group of mates going round a car dealers saying "fifteen hundred pounds? For a car?! I'm not spending that"
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Car parts are cheaper too (Transit tyre cost less than a Nobby Nic, Ford brake disc is less than a Hope floating rotor, Ford gear selector unit is cheaper than an XTR front mech etc etc)

i have 6 bikes and the girlfriend has 3, i'd reckon the only one worth less than our car is her commuter

Of course. I would be embarrassed and not feel a proper cyclist if it wasn't.

Borderline for me. Bikes are worth £1k ish each (cost more but that is their current worth), car is a Renault with nearly 150k on the clock. But then I do tend to keep cars until they die, bikes don't last quite as long.

Yup only by about £50 though. Cannondale SL5 was £550 and ford focus 1.6 zetec was £500.

the bikes each are easily worth double what the car is worth. and together probably more than the car, the van and the motorbikes. i drive (and own outright of course) old knackers and am proud of it!

Is it just people that drive a shed that are replying to this thread?

Both our cars and my motorbike are worth way more than bikes. But they're not expensive bikes

Yeah I think it's some sort of pride thing (see rule 25 etc) - only the "No"s are replying.

When I was poor, I had a banger of a car and three decent-ish bikes, all were worth more than the car. But now I'm not so poor, I have a nicer car. In total, my 4 bikes are probably worth more than the car. Does that count?

Sorry, but whats rule 25???

http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#25

Sorry, but whats rule 25???

Pfft, if you don't know. you're clearly not [s]a real cyclist[/s] [i]someone who frequents internet forums more than they ride their bikes[/i]

10 year old Fiesta :-), value of about two new fatbike tyres 😆

benp1 - Member

Is it just people that drive a shed that are replying to this thread?

Nah, I have a perfectly nice car- 180 brake, leather everything, hot and cold running seats, wine cellar... It's just more than 5 minutes and 10 miles old so therefore apparently not worth much.

Car is edging it on current values.

I do spend more on cars than bikes but work and family 180 miles away dictate an average of 10-15 hours a week begins the wheel. Having said that my current drive is a near ten year old mondeo that I have had nearly six years.

I don't fixate on expensive bikes or cars. Just the right tool for the job.

I had 3 grand saved to buy a Mondraker and ended up buying a van with it to transport my other bikes and flask of tea to far-away places.

Van's worth less than the bikes stored in it in total.. does that count?

Cheers superficial. I am riding my bike a lot more than usual this year and have also spent a lot less time on here AND spent a lot less on kit.

These things are not unconnected.

The message I choose to take from this is that I'll only be considered a proper mountain biker if I spunk £7k on a brand new Santa Cruz carbon somethingorother. It'll be worth more than my car then.

Is it just people that drive a shed that are replying to this thread?

Mine's an '08 reg. I have expensive bikes (and the car has a lot of miles, but is far from a shed).

Of course!

However my current favourite bike is the one that isn't (er?), and whilst a 215K 52 plate diseasel Focus might not be everyone's cup of tea I love it, and the way it just keeps doing the job.

Count me in.
23 year old Land Rover Defender v Custom Build Titanium Frame, Belt Drive, Rohloff & Lefty.

Interesting comment on the price of parts above.

I can buy this hub bearing kit for my Land Rover for £19

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Or this hub bearing kit for a Hope hub for £20.

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Considering my Land Rover has done 320000km on it's original wheel bearings so far, I'd say the top one of those two is the better deal. 😛

My BMX is worth more than my car, nevermind any mountain bikes

Not a chance - don't think ever in my lifetime has the price of a bike outweighed the value of a car.

Maybe if I went back over 15 years, the value of the vehicle I had then would outweigh the price of my current bike.

Value of current motor is more than the sum total of every bike I've ever owned - which admittedly isn't that many, but current one is a carbon S-Works Enduro (2008)

Giant anthem x1 in an almost new (1 week old) golf gt tdi with 500 miles on the clock.

Only it's a company car, so worth nothing to me, so yes.