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@hanchurch - you deserve another bike! just use the rest of us spendthrifts as justification
someone off here has been used as a reference point by his mates who wished to portray themselves as restrained, i.e. "[s]nosedive[/s]X has bought a Merc van, I only got a second set of wheels and I put the spares on eBay"
4 bikes 10 percent. Two more months before n plus one kick in and another 5 percent. Love my bikes. No car. Commute so justified.
2% but the one I want is about 8% but I will never get it passed the wife. As the old saying goes, one of my biggest fears is that when I die my wife will sell my bikes for what I told her they were worth......
Not sure how much my bikes cost as I build them up myself, not even sure what my exact salary is, its been so long since I've actually needed to check!
A rough guess would be 4% each bike, that's not every year though, I probably build a new bike up every 18-24months keeping 2 at any one time each for 3-4 years.
8%ish but I'll probably not replace it for a couple of years.
43% give or take a 1%
@Mr nice I probably do but I'm a petrol head too and if we play this game with cars when I bought mine you would see why my bike is only 0.75%! And it was passed by the wife (infact she got the bankers draft from the bank for it!)
Currently 0% as my pub bike was free
But my last and next proper bikes will be around 20%...
what's a salary?
The most expensive bike I have bought to date. About 3.5%.
It cost more than the car though. I'm cheap 🙂
FS MTB 6% second hand to buy it new it would be 17% 😯
A touch over 50% of my share of profits from the business
@hanchurch - fair enough. We all have to make choices. I have deliberately avoided getting into fast cars since they make fast bikes look cheap 😉 If we play the game with stereo and record collection it will look worse for me than my bikes...
Mtb 2.6%
CX 0.6%
Next mtb 5.5% (waiting for 2016 to kick off).
6.9 %
As a percentage of the cost of my car: 333%
FS - 7.9%
HT - 3.8%
That's at RRP, both been added to since.
16% bike. 1.6% car
Anyone want to "do the math" and come up with the current running STW average??
Its a triggers broom, but last time I swapped frame (second hand), the second hand cost would have been 1.5-2%
Complicated. In true trigger's broom fashion I tend to just buy frames, then upgrade a selection of parts to suit, selling and buying as I go along. In real terms my "best bike" was about 9% of my gross salary if bought new, but built up and upgraded to a broadly similar spec using spares and used bargains it cost about 5%.
Just ordered a road bike at 6%. Mtb would have been about 4% the year before as would the CX the year before that. Commuter was 1.5% but it has been going for 3 years now.
Winter bike- 1%
Summer Bike 2.9%
MTB 2.5%
Purchased over 10 years so 0.6% over that time. You can probably add about another 0.3% in running costs, maintanace and upgrades.
Not bad for a hobby thats kept me healthy, sane, got me to work, the shops, the pub, made me some friends and been a great experience.
About 2.5%, but then i do have about 8 of them all about the same.
Of disposable income might be more interesting, I suspect those saying 40% still live with their parents. Having said that untill last month mine was probably 5% of disposable, now its probably 40% !
Anyone want to "do the math" and come up with the current running STW average??
Krytons 0.00157% might be a Mclaren Sworks and Greys 8% might be a Raleigh. To be accurate you'd have to sum the bike values and the salaries and then work out the forum average from that.
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I justified my most recent bike purchase as two days wages.
As a percentage it depends how much I work in a year.
when I was a student I spent 100% of my months money on a middleburn XC Duo, and ate plain pasta for three weeks.
my last two bikes have been presents from my dad, which is great apart from when he's staying here I don't get to ride very much 🙁 would have been 3.75% & 1.25%
About 4.4% I reckon, bit hard to put a value on something that bares little resemblance to the original bike I bought!
Around 4.6%. Is that good or bad I don't really know.
2.2% for the most expensive one.
About 35 percent if I had to replace them new. Low wage and love my bikes. I worked out that I needed about 13 bikes to quell my curiosity.
3%, second hand fs
5%
thanks aracer it works great
Think we need to start grouping the scores into the following categories...
0-2% "It's just a passing hobby, I'll be playing golf this time next year"
2-5% "Sometimes, when I've been a good boy, the missus lets me out on my bike as long as I'm home for dinner"
5-10% "Hey, if you can't buy skill, at least you can buy a skills compensator"
10-20% "I've got a problem. The amount I spend on bikes someone should pay me to work with them"
20-50% "I've got a problem. I'm paid to work with bikes"
50% + "I've got a problem. I'm paid to work with bikes and I still live at home with my parents"
For both bikes (FS Carbon XTR/XX1 & HT Steel XT), and if I purchased the same models every year, probably around 10% NET salary. Its the upgrades and other stuff like bike trips that probably adds another 5% to that.
My best bike s about 20%. I spend at least that every year on bike stuff. I own nothing else of value. Our current car is about <1% and the one before that lasted 8 years was 0.5%
8%
Think we need to start grouping the scores into the following categories...0-2% "It's just a passing hobby, I'll be playing golf this time next year"
or
0-2% "I've been obsessed with riding bikes for 40 years and by this time know exactly what I want/need which happens to be a small % of my salary"
Not everyone needs multiple bikes and I am actually more content just having one and then concentrating on riding it. You can't gauge level of interest in money some one wants to spend.
It [i]may[/i] also matter how much someone earns too.....
7.5% for a part new, part 2nd hand build.
As above, it's the overall cost per year that we should consider as a percentage - so travel, race/event entries, consumables etc. Not worked mine out yet, but suspect it will double the above, if not more.
2-5% "Sometimes, when I've been a good boy, the missus lets me out on my bike as long as I'm home for dinner"
c.3% - Although I have plenty of money, I'm acutely conscious that my limitations as a rider cannot be solved by hurling money at the problem.
😀
Bike 8.8%
Car.....0.68%
6% second hand full suspension
3.1%
I drive a 15 year old car with 150000 miles on the clock though (that was a gift)
2%
4.2% for FS,
3% for Road bike
That would have been 15% if I was still on my UK salary... eeek, glad I moved to Switzerland