As Freeagent for the big Euro win. Just enough to the children that they need to carry on and make something of themselves in the region of 250k each.
I reckon I can manage on £20 million and the local hospices get the rest. (Family has a loyalty card with Ipswich hospice or so it seems).
Huge tracts of land. Then I'd carve trails and berms and jumps and rocks and climbs and bombholes all over the bits of land on every scale from BMX to Humvee. Then I'd surround the land with signs saying 'no trespassing', rip down the fences, and walk away.
A house in a nice part of Bristol
A country pile with some land in Wales (and employ some people to make trails)
A couple of fast cars
An assistant to deal with (i.e. reject) all the begging letters I will invariably get
Alpine retreat (Meribel)
Singer 911 or Eagle E type Speedster
Ariel Atom
Unlimited access to the Nurburgring
Audi RS 6 daily driver
Weekday residence in Primrose Hill
Weekend/Family pad /country residence in rural Dorset
Pay off brothers and girlfriends mortgages
Buy myself a workshop with a wood turning lathe
Increase bikes to N + 11.
That`d do for starters.
I'd buy STW, maybe even a subscription....
I'd buy STW, maybe even a subscription....
I don't think he meant the Euromillions.
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One of these for some trail building...
Nice house, decent car and a laser-guarded building for my bikes.
A nice singlespeed
A nice full-susser
A decent road
A Cotic soul
A place somewhere nice to ride them.
Oh, and I would [b]own[/b] Matt Hunter for personal tuition (though he can get rid of that stoopid beard) 😛
Ermm
Dartmoor
Bentley
Jeep SRTv8
bikes, lots of bikes
House like Tony Stark's in the first Iron Man
Maybe a summer at Whistler and a house there as well.
I always thought rather than buy a great big shiny car it'd be nice to have someone drive me about when I want to go somewhere so I could sit in the back and play video games or read the paper or read a good book, that'd be mint.
I'd buy Odell brewery, lots of highland bulls, some land in Moab and host the biggest, baddest, Bikes. Beer and BBQ festival EVER.
apparently a pension would be a good idea.
nice house
nice car (several)
umpteen nice bikes
2nd house in canada
sort family/friends out with cash
probably give a load (read 10s of millions) to cancer research/macmillans
this is assuming a massive euromillions win.
nice bit of land somewhere close to where I live now to build a big bungalow on.
Jaguar XF Sportbrake
Villa on a small Greek island
Then put a sizeable amount into a high interest account to keep me going and give the remainder away to charity
I'd buy Greece. All of it.
A gun, a sharp suit, and a licence to fart in politicians faces.
[url= http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201216464732278/sort/default/usedcars/model/sz/make/alfa_romeo/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/radius/1500/postcode/gu148sw/page/1?logcode=p ]THIS (This actual one)[/url]
It's only done 300km because that when it started to rain and it broke down 🙂
Another one who'd be bidding for STW too,purely to ensure that Smut was removed from the adverts but was compulsory in the threads
If won the lottery I would build a silly stupid engine, gearbox inside something akin to a touring car. (but still with the ratty exterior)
This is my brother-in-law’s car - it looks a heap but it has a Chevy V8 in it and sounds like it wants to eat you when it is started up 🙂
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Ohh, and this is his too...
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I don't think I'd change my bikes. I would however buy a track bike and possibly a folder, not sure if I'd really need one mind 🙂 Also possibly a DH bike and BMX, those would be in doubt though.
Already picked my des res when I win Eurosquillions...
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+1 AB no reservations!
I'd have a massive blimp though & tour the world eating in various back-street eateries after a day on the trails, jumps or sea etc
Oh the ford from Mad Max II
Oh and a lot of scrumpy jack
and Goering's celler!
If I won BIG I'd like to follow Will.I.Ams example.
Time - everything else is just stuff
Have none of you read the "who buys chelsea tractors" thread. Everyone will hate you.
My ex-boss landed $30M (after tax) on a company sale and bought..... a Golf 😀
Nice house in SoCal
Nice chalet in the Alps = http://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-40170893.html
An RS6
Sort retirement for the parents
Lots of rs6s there!
I'd have to buy a farm in the Yorkshire dales and keep pigs, ride bikes mess round with land rovers and drink beer in the warmer months, I'm lucky enough to have all the bikes and cars I want, So I'd spend the rest taking or sending my friends and family on fab hols with a first port of call being a month in the Rockies snowboarding.
How much is an Apache helicopter these days?
Nice house in Whistler or Vancouver.
Andyrm, £40million. Euromillions for that...
Some place in Mallorca
A bike shop which was next to my cake shop with my personal whore house above them both.
Training coaches who just happened to be fit, firm and female.
Another business franchise 80-100 miles away and then another equi distant so I would have a 3 day loop with accommodation and recreational needs taken care of.
A first class flight to New Zealand for me and the OH.
A house overlooking Lake Wakatipu.
A chalet in the alps, Meribel or Courchaval I think.
A selection of cars.
A Patek Philippe 5970.
A brewery.
And then give a whole lot to charity and to friends and family.
Education for the kids,
Clear mortgage
New car
Van!
Moots road bike super record EPS,
House some where sunny!
And three MTBs, one with dry tyres, one intermediate., one wet!! 😆
You win the lottery, what do you buy?
Depends on the amount surely?
Over £6 million is properly life changing, and a lot of things I'd buy then (e.g. Mk.Vb Spitfire) wouldn't be realistic with less money.
But yeah, nicely fitted out workshop/machine shop/garage would be up at the top of the list. Indoor shooting range too (for those windy days).
buy land around the edge of Munich with the view to it increasing in value.
buy a mountain in the Bavarian Alps and start carving some trails.
build a house on my mountain. house must have a small woodwork shop.
buy a roof terrace flat in Munich.
a small cottage (akin to what you see on Midsommer Murders) somewhere in England.
a large house in Vinschgau that i would run as a business. make into a bike hotel and employ locals.
a large hydroponic set up in the Bavarian house.
a "big" bike. i'd keep the DB Alpine as it is... it's pretty much perfect.
a Caterham 7.
a VW transporter with bike rack.
Ah, the stuff of dreams...
If I got a normal UK lottery win, I'd pay off the house, sink a load into my pension, then start thinking about spending some quality time with my wife somewhere warmer and drier for a couple of months. After that, who knows.
If it was a stonking big Euromillions rollover, we're talking about all the above, plus a 911 GT3RS and a serious chance of a normal looking tramp freighter armed to the gunwales and carrying a couple of dozen bad asses armed to the teeth wandering around Somalia looking vulnerable. Privateer I think they call it.
Oh, all that after I'd sobered up.
There is a nice forest on the Cork/Kerry border that could be developed as a new Swinley by the sea. House also there.
Then a house in Ibiza.
Perhaps I'm unique in this, but I have no desire to have flash cars or to acquire stuff.
The experiences I have enjoyed most in life were from a time when what little I had led to opportunities money could never buy.
Contentment for me comes from engaging with the seasons in projects and rides that embrace them.
Simple pleasures for a simple soul.
Never work again, except on my own house (when I choose).
Live where we do already (Scottish Borders with buildings and land).
LR Disco and a Jag XJ
Get back in a Cleaner and Gardener
And,
Winter in Barbados 🙂
And I might even buy a road bike 😯
A vast swathe of Wiltshire
A little pied a terre in SW3
A nice place in Serre Che
An Aston V600 Le Mans
A Range Rover
A Disco 4
A nicely tweaked XK120DHC
A nicely tweaked Bentley Type R Continental (Mulliner, natch)
A nice new (old!) pair of William Evans guns
Erm. That'll do for now.
slowmart, I salute you.
Flashy, this for when you win the lottery, not just a 'stuff I own' thread.
First thing I'd do, is call my bank managers (and ask them to bring their managers with them for a special announcement, hinting at bad news so they'd better be prepared,) I'd probably invite my local Tory MP to the meeting as well.
Then I'd set to with one of those automatic paintball guns, after I'd made them sweat thinking it was real and i was about to lose the plot with them.
And as I left the room I'd chuck in one of those monster paintball grenade things, video the whole thing and put it on you tube..
Then I'd buy a **** off big yacht and er **** off, probably stooge around the Caribbean in the winter and the Med in summer, oh and I'd make sure it had sat internet, from which I'd come on here to torment y'all from time to time..
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I'd keep the change.
Over £6 million is properly life changing,
😯
100k would be life changing for me!
