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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.