2010 new years resolution was to keep a track of spend on biking....
So including new components clothing servicing and taking into account parts I,ve sold on, I,ve spent £1519 this year. Actually quite surprised at the amount.
I did neglect to include the trip to morzine but that's a different budget 🙂
How about you?
Couple of "bigger ticket" things than the usual spares etc:
a bike-science fitting session for Mrs S and me was £260. But I reckon money well worth spending - esp for Mrs S.
The noodly jeff jones Ti truss forks were a £400ish birthday present to myself.
Probably another £600-700 on parts and spares over the year including:
New SLX brakes £120
sub-deore brakes £50
Monstercross experiment c£150
Eriksen Ti post £90
New shoes £50
Brake pads, inners, outers, grips etc something like £100
and probably around £30 on some new allen keys and a 24mm cone spanner for the XT 20mm front hub.
So all in all, one of my less expensive years 😯
(EDIT and since I gave up smoking 30 a day 6 years ago, I reckon Im still in the money - 350 x £6.50 a pack x 1.5 = £3,400 a year 😯 )
About £500.
Probably about £500.
Not much this time. Two tyres, a chain, a chain device, 2 sets of brake pads, a seatpost.
Not much this year, but due to significant recent failure I can see next year being expensive.
'bout £500 this year too - Maxle Rebas, a spare frame, 1 complete drivetrain (8spd FTW!), mech hanger, SLX disc brakes, a flow/proII wheel & 3 maxxis tyres. (oh and £7 on a muckynutz fender this week)
haven't bought anything for DH, BMX, commuter or roadbikes or any bike clothing/pointless accessories all year
Including three weeks in the Alps and numerous trips in UK, quite a lot I reckon. Probably £2-3k net.
Next year will be considerably cheaper.
I have kept all the receipts, but I dare not add them up, probably around £1k and I haven't even had a new bike this year.
About £600.
New rings, headset, 2 bb's, cassette & chain for the MTB.
Full drivetrain and wheels for the road bike.
Pair of shoes & a rucksack.
Probably about 1k. Having a shop and getting stuff at trade doesn't save any money, it just means I spend more getting stuff I probably wouldn't consider if I was paying retail prices.
Hope wheelset and brakes, Exposure Toro and single battery, SDG Formula I-Beam saddle, a few tyres/brakepads/chains, XTR cassette, Candy pedals cw Ti axles and then clothes - Fox helmet, gloves * 2, Windchill jacket, waterproof shell, Sealskinz socks * 2
Plus fork service.
And many, many cakes and snacks, beers, car-parks and a far number of (car) miles.
A couple of grand at least, but divided across the (at least) twice a week rides - feels good value.
And I've only one mtb.
More than my wife thinks, less than I wanted..... 😉
b r - MemberXTR cassette
You mean people actually [i]buy[/i] them? 8 years in the trade and that's news to me.
Please come down to Totton and see me b r. I'll be your best friend.
For ever.
More than my wife thinks, less than I wanted.....
At least that much!
I'd guess £2K - includes new wheels, forks, bars, stem, cranks, chains, cassettes, bearings, tools, lights, tyres, brakes, rear mech, shiters, pads, knee pads, gloves, softshell, cyclocroos bike, bike for the wife, kids bikes, tubes, patches, oil, pedals etc!
About £40 - new cleats, a couple of inner tubes and some energy gels.
I'd have to ride the bloody thing more than half a dozen times a year to justify spending any money on it.
few hundred at a guess, new XT cassette, chainrings and chain for the MTB, a couple of brake pads for the road bike, two sets of tyres for the road bike, a new set of Castelli shorts, some chain lube, over shoes,
I really do need to get a new chain and cassette for the road bike at some point, but i can probably get it through the winter, then put some nice shiny bits on for the summer.
9 quid on some new grips.
Wow, I rather embarrassed about this, I never realised it was so much.
Total purchased this year. *I must add a couple have been presents.
*Giant TCX 1 - £1500
*Mavic Wheels - £600
Helmet - £180(2)
Mtb shoes - £180
Road Shoes - £180
Podium Shoes - £100
Bib Tights - £90
Cycling Shirts - £49.99(5)
Various other - £300 approx
About £3500.
Sorry, sounds like I'm willy waving, but I'm not. Because of this I now have a very unhealthy bank balance. 😳
I made money this year.
Sold MTB = £1300ish
Bought 2nd hand road bike plus pedals/shoes/bits and bobs = £800ish
[i]You mean people actually buy them? 8 years in the trade and that's news to me.
Please come down to Totton and see me b r. I'll be your best friend.
For ever. [/i]
No pockets in a shrould.
Oh and a carbon hardtail frameset - £500 😳
Like to think it was under 2k but it's probably over 4k. New road bike for mrs blobby. A frame, new set of wheels and some Rev RLT Ti forks for me, and probably enough bits to build up a new bike (bars, stem, XT chainset, new brakes, a pair of chain devices, mech and chain, dropper post.). Also two sets of tyres and assorted spares and some roadie clothing. Hmm then there was the trip to Morzine...
Baby on the way next year so expect spending to vastly reduced!
Edit: like to add that none of it was really top end kit and pretty much everything was in some way discounted, still seems a lot though 😕
Few hundred k.
About £250 probably, not that much mainly because I haven't really done much mountain biking this year. When I was going out pretty much every weekend a couple of years back I was on CRC 2 or 3 times a month, without much MTB it's more like 2 or 3 times a year!
Anyway, this year I think I've bought:
1 new tyre for road bike
Gear cable set for road bike
Brake cable set for road bike
1 set brake pads for road bike
2 sets brake pads for MTB
1 rear light for road bike
Bar tape for road bike
Chain for commuter
Gloves
So not really much 'new' stuff, mostly repair/replace.
EDIT: Forgot new rear wheel for road bike (Hope RS Mono) so more like £400+.
Hmmm don't want to add it up
S-Works FSR frame
Rev World Cups
Hope Evo's on stans
Hope Tech Mono M4's
Spesh command post
Middleburn X-Type duo
Chain cassette etc
some tyres for Alps trip
661 pads
Oh and a new full face after the Alps trip!!!
But
I did sell
A Stumpy FSR Pro frame
A pair of Float RL's
Hope XC/mavic 717's
Hope Mono M4's
Thomson post
And I get stuff trade, so not nearly as bad as it looks at first
Are we including biking trips.
If we are not then around £10000
Of we are, I'd probably say closer to £25000
If the girlfriend is reading this then nothing at all.
New (secondhand) carbon road bike,brake pads,chain,jockey wheels for the mtb.About 900 all in.
Ianpinder 😯
about 30 quid.. 😀
I know I really should of bought a house
£0
Enough to afford but more than I'd like to total up.
About 1450€
Ransom 10 frame (2nd hand but unused)
Lyric Coil (sold a reba, so this cost v. little extra)
xt wheels (basically for free since I sold my old dt swiss for the same price)
reverb seatpost
raceface drivetrain..then a hammerschmidt
Maxxis hr tubless x2
2x rear mechs
chains x2
xtr brakes (on here,2nd hand)
4 x rotors
Tools,brake pads,hoses,cables,olives, oil, biketape, clothes etc
...next years list is already growing:
diff brakes since I cant fit a 203 rotor on these ones
10 speed cassette,chain & shifter
riding in Tenerife in March
skills week in July here/ or in the UK if its full
trying to ignore the 2012 bos deville in the meantime
£7 on some dangerboy brake levers on e-bay
About £1400 I reckon but that includes a new frame. More worryingly that translates to £75 per ride that I've managed this year as I thing I've only done about 18-20 mountain bike rides this year through injury and general lack of fitness.
I am definitely going to have to redress that balance over the next 12 months.
titus el guapo frame - 900
rs lyriks - 400
new stem - 40
headset - 40
another new stem - 40
second hand saddle - 10
brake pads, tubes, tyres, odds and sods...probably about 100
So at over 1500...too much for the aomunt of use the are getting....I'm at a similar cost per ride to Bregante...probably higher 🙁
Still 6 months with a fubared ankle really didn't help...I'm crossing my fingers for a better 2012
Way to much, probably in the region of £7k+
The most expensive being...
Trek 4300 to try and get 'her' into it
Cube Acid for when riding with 'her'
Heavily upgraded 2012 five pro
Garmin edge 800
RRP on that lot comes to £5.5kish 🙁
I don't want to think of the rest... Which doesn't include travel and camping etc!
around £1350, 😯
well, at least i know what my New Years Resolution is going to be!
I'm at least £800 up this year having sold a road bike and other bits. Can't ride though, so I'd be an idiot to have spent money on cycling. Just adding to the Physio budget really, might have some ti bolts fitted 🙂
I'd guess it's approaching 2k. But then I have bought two bikes and replaced the front end on another.
2 new bikes and a week in the Alps,some new winter kit and bits here and there....probably £4k+ However there isnt very much that i need now as i have a spare of almost everything, so next year will be a damn sight cheaper.Famous last words........
Gross over £2.2k. A 2011 Scott Scale 35 for £1200, a Trek FX7.5 for £450, New Brakes £150, New Light £180, New Garmin 200 £100, Some winter road wheels £100, plus all the other bits and bobs.
I have sold perhaps £1600 worth of bike kit so net spend isn't too bad. 2010 was very cheap indeed.
I would like a new road bike in 2012, but we will have to see.
Hmm, trips away comes to about £2000; a new to me Intense Slopestyle £1500; a new to me Van 36 £400 (bought abroad for another bike); bits and pieces I guess around £400, including any labour. It's been a bloody year riding though, and that figure includes looking after the commuting bike.
Well over 2 grand at least, I reckon. Bought a fs (cheapish 2nd hand) and took that to Whistler for 2 months. The whis trip cost about £1.5k all in I think, most of it was spent on overpriced grocery store shopping!
About 2 grand I reckon. As I was pretty much starting from scratch, it was an expensive year. Next year will be less than £500 (barring any frame snapping/fork exploding)
About the same has Kudos £ 2,000 and probably a bit more
was even looking at a new frame so god knows !
Hmm. £1160 at CRC and Wiggle.
Powertap wheel and new front wheel to match, £1400.
More road wheels, £385.
Kaffenback, £1000.
Evans, about £100.
Road bike holiday, probably about £1500 in total.
Merlin, £300.
Local shop, £200.
About £6K. But I did get £500 for the track bike.
(£3K already spent/allocated on 2012 - Dolomites trip and the Haute Route cyclosportive)
In the region of £4k 😳
Sold some stuff, prob £2k worth.
I was planning a low spend next year but booked a hol to Italy and can see a hardtail in my future (if brant ever replies to my post). No kids.
If I forget about the track bike, the TT bike and the small fortune I've just spent on next years races, probably still quite a bit. Thinking about it I'll probably cut back a bit in 2012!
Iain
Came back to Mountain Biking after several years off in April
I'd hate to add it up but bought a Zesty, upgraded it a lot, spare wheels, bought a 2nd hand winter bike, lots of quality riding clothes, helmet, 2 pairs of shoes, camelback, lights, tools, a Landy to cart everything around (v cheap) and half a dozen epic weekend away rides.
Probably the wrong side of £5K
However, I rediscovered the best sport in the world, got very fit, made loads of great new friends, seen the sunset from the top of Snowdon, got rid of a very expensive & mental girlfriend and stopped smoking.
Money well spent and i'm set for the winter and next years adventures!!
Winner 😀
couple of hundred quid IIRC
Just checked this year's CRC history and that comes to 900 quid, so overall I guess I must have spent around 1200-1300 quid on bike stuff since January. Then a bit more for petrol if we're including travel costs.
Hmmmnnn, thought it would have been WAY less than that as I've made no big ticket purchases this year.
2012 is likely to be more expensive though - if I don't get seduced by the new Cotic FS then I'm itching to go back to a steel HT with some bigger forks.
slainte ➡ rob
Road bike (2nd Hand) £1400
Clothing - 500
Wheels £350
Biking holiday £1000ish
Brakes £200
Fork £250
Tyres £150ish
Misc £250
£4k OOF and that's being conservative.
another £500 on road wheels. bah
Averaging out sporadic bike purchases every couple of years etc and excluding bike holidays it is probably about £1500 a year.
I ride nearly every day, at least 5 out of 7, even if sometimes not very far or sometimes twice a day, proper ride and then with the dog for example. Mix of XC and Downhill. Say 275 -300 rides a year. Means about £5 to £5.50 a ride.
I can't decide if that is a lot or a little.
Whatever you've spent it's worth it...isn't it? 😕
There must be more than ianpinder that's into 5 figures? There's too much carbon and titanium on here for there not to be! 😉
only about £2k this year. bought my electric bike.
Hmm a lot more than I realised....
Wiggle £627
CRC £572
Merlin £2406
Frame off Classifieds £500
Another £500 for random bits off classifieds / Ebay..
So around £4,600 excluding holidays....
Bu99er all. Not even on magazines.
Although I did actually go into a bike shop today and look at possibly getting a replacement for my ''03 Xen.
Quick count:
Two race frames (at cost price) £1300ish
Extra components to build above due to compatability issues with old bits £900
Second hand TT frame + fork £450
New brakes for spare bike £400
Lots of little bits, helmets, brake pads, tyres, tubes etc Estimate £600
Road handlebars £140
Clothing £200
Entry fees, must be at least £400.
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Petrol, 9000 miles at 28mpg £1910 at £1.30litre. Car servicing £550, insurance £406, tax £260. MOT + repairs £70, other repairs £200ish. I only have a car so that I can get to races. This is therefore a biking expense.
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Well over £6.5k.
Actually, I'm surprised it's not more. I earn a little bit more than that and have bugger all else to show for it.
But, if you divide your spend by approx miles covered, the cost is pretty small considering the fun we have 😀
£1190 Canyon Nerve
£100 On One frame
£90 2nd hand Revs
£40 2nd hand Juicys
£90 2 x BB's, chainring , chain , cassette
£15 Madison flux seat
£50 Paramo fueva jacket
£40 Enduree humvees
£50 Hope Bling
£20 Easton Bars 2 nd hand
£20 Break pads.
£80 Mavic 117 and Alex back wheel
£75 Various Tyres
^^ Off the top of my heed.
A shit load...
A roadbike and all the trappings plus a LEJOG trip.
An ti456 frame plus a few componenets and a weeks trip around Scotland.
Some bivi gear for the WRT.
A Covert, a reverb and a place on the Trans Provence.
Add to that some weekends away, some days out, a load of inner tubes, spares and random bits I'll never remember, the Oakleys I got cheap in Millets today and it's no wonder my house is a mess and my car is ancient.
£250 on replacement forks...
£75 on a new Pro II Evo (thanks for the deal Hope)
£60 on a headset
£75 on an emergency brake replacement
£40 on reconditioning my old brake
£60 on shorts
Just over £550. It's been the cheapest year since I started biking!
Edit. 2012 is going to see the shock services on both my Floats which I've put off for a while, followed by a possible hardtail frame purchase. And a new set of wheels for said hardtail. The hardtail will of course need cranks. And a cassette. A chain and a rear mech. Oh, and shifters too. And a seatpost and saddle...
And pedals...
If I count the last twelve months we're talking circa £15k, in 2011 takes it down to £12k.. Sold most of it, after going through a Cube Stereo Race (£2700), Trek Rumblefish 2 (£3300), Niner Air 9 (£2200) Cube Peleton road bike (£900) I settled on a Lappierre 514 (£2700) and a £1000 On One Inbred single speed.
On top of that I fell for all the marketing shit and bought every buzz product going, go-pro, Garmin, reverb, AM45 shoes, mobi washer, £200 jacket, £500 lights blah blah blah. Hired the Beard for the day at £215 and spent numerous £90's on sets of maxis tyres...
The result is I now hardly ride a bike, I was using cycling to tackle depression, I got out of a bad relationship that biking was distracting me from, I'm now in a happy relationship and the bike(s) don't turn a wheel.
Interestingly this post has made me reflect on the last twelve months and here's a link to my garmin report, i've done most of my mileage up until about June, it all goes wrong after that...
http://connect.garmin.com/api/report/page/printableReports.faces?cid=4734864
must get out more and stop wasting money!
£15k to tackle a bout of depression is actually extremely good value for money.
You got off very likely indeed!
[i]PJM1974 - Member
£15k to tackle a bout of depression is actually extremely good value for money.
You got off very likely indeed![/i]
I had one of those years in 2007, although mine may have been dealing with a manic phase. Unfortunately it didn't do a lot for either my health or my bank account.
Glad to hear it proved cathartic for you.
I left a toxic ex in 2002. The resulting expenditure was eye-watering but worth every penny. I estimate that I've spent £10k on bikes alone since then, but I regret nothing.
I did it again in 2006...
It must be more like £2000/3000 for me but I only started mtbing last december so it isn't that bad really. I'll probably spend a bit less but still easily over a grand next year; I need an enduro full sus for racing.
Some titanic stupid amount. And I don't grudge one penny.
A lot less than previous years, and was looking a t a net profit but.....
two weeks in the Alps and a (new to me) Zesty kicked the arse out of that. Ah well, long time dead.
To the rrp of around 7k. First brand new complete bike in around 12 years. Also a few frames both new and 2nd hand. Some of the stuff was heavily discounted so it helped a lot.
Hmm not a huge amount, I think around £600, only £100 in one order at CRC in 14 months, a £150 second hand frame, £200 wheels, couple of tyres and some brake pads and cables. Bit of petrolly driving to a few places and lots of tea and cake at the Hub when it was there!
Another way of looking at of all of this, for those hovering around the £4000 mark, is that this roughly equates to three and pints of beer per day. I'll take my weekends, new-to-me Slopestyle and numerous Alpine trips thanks!
Ok, I bought:
Nicolai DH bike: £5000
Bos vipr: £480
Bos divilles: £750
Nicolai cc 29er: £4000
Garmin: £350
Lights: £200
Wheels: £700
Pub bike: £300
Sixc cranks: £500
Xtr pedals: £120
Alps holiday: £1000
Uk trips: £1000
Other bits and bobs: lots more
Sold almost all of that to pay for:
Tour D'Afrique about £12000 and counting
I would think in the. End it will work out at around £2 a mile.
No debts, no over draft... So happy days.
So far projected costs in 2012 are a nicolai helius am to replace the one I sold, and a nicolai helius ac29er pinion. Just because I can. And another alps trip and maybe another tour.
new bars £50
new stem £35
new frame £650
holiday £1200
Tyres £60
Wheels £145
brake hoses £40
pads £35
Sold old frame for £450 so spend = £1765
oh, paying off cycle to work scheme bike £350
Lets call it £2k eh.
I thought I'd bought some gear cables but I just checked wiggle and that was actually 2010 so I don't think I've spent anything on the bike this year. Hope Esmerelda doesn't feel too neglected.
It's always a bit funny when non bikey friends ask for advice on a bike and say they have around 300 eur to spend. This thread is why I no longer have a clue as the cash seems to disappear at an alarming rate.
Sending them to decathlon works well though
€200 for a pr of wheels (Mavic hub/axle well and truly fubar)
£200 ish for accommodation in Scotland
£300 ish for part of ferry cost (holiday was MTBing and non-MTBing so split 50:50)
£30 or so for a tyre (the other tyre came c/o CRC compensation voucher 😉 )
€150 ish for petrol (pure guess)
£quite a bit for FC parking fees (which I assume all go to a good cause)
£10 for a pr of gloves that only lasted for 3 days in Cairngorms and 4 of the Stanes 🙁
that's about it. more than I'd have guessed.