I struggle to see a value of over £2000 personally.

In fact, i’ve never paid more than £1400 … but have bought a few used.

Oooh that green colour is nice though. Those close-ups make me want to stroke it.

Still, even corrected I see the era of the £10k bike has returned. (or £11k in this case).

Does anyone ever buy the halo model, or do they just make a couple for sponsored riders and the press fleet?

Does anyone ever buy the halo model

I’ve always assumed they put them on the website just in case someone decides to do some drunk internet shopping. Or there could be some middle-eastern millionaire teenager who just buys expensive shit because he has no idea what anything is worth. Sell a dozen of the top-end models and that’s covered the rent for the year.

Lolz. I think I’m relieved it was an error. I felt remiss not going WTAFOMGTHAT’SAHOUSEINBURNLEY when I wrote the story. 🙂

Does anyone ever buy the halo model

I’ve always assumed they put them on the website just in case someone decides to do some drunk internet shopping. Or there could be some middle-eastern millionaire teenager who just buys expensive shit because he has no idea what anything is worth. Sell a dozen of the top-end models and that’s covered the rent for the year.

Same here, when Intense released the Tracer SL I really wanted one, until I saw they wanted £10k for the one with the Gold Fox stuff and slightly lighter linkages (this was just before they went direct to consumer and slashed the prices).

I’ve only ever seen one in the wild, it was at BPW and being ridden by one of the Intense UK riders, I think she’s got one of the real world ones now.

So Fox Live still exists then?? First I’ve heard of it since the press release!

do you go on car forums and ask why £2 million cars exist?

Their facebook feed shows top-end bikes ready for collection most weeks too. They must be doing well out of them as they’ve just moved into a new premises that’s double the size of the old one and they’re building a small trail network out the back!

Pivot have always been pricey, I was told a couple of years ago (by someone whos bike shop sells them) that importer had lots sitting unsold in a warehouse because they were overpriced for the UK & didnt want them reduced

A mate owned a bike shop for a while that sold various high end bikes (in amongst the usual stuff) and every month he’d sell an absolute top-end DH bike to someone who had no clue what it was for, how to use it, they just had shitloads of cash. Middle Eastern folk usually, a couple of Russians here and there.

I sold a GT STS Ltd Edition once to a similar guy. He didn’t care about the adjustable suspension, geometry etc all he wanted was the most expensive bike in the shop.

Well you lot can speak for yourselves but I’ve been waiting for a bike that “redefines performance across every type of trail”.

I haven’t had one of those since the last one.

Plenty of top end bikes knocking about in the world outside of STW.

OK, they’re not really, but if you’re a city boy who’s just had your million-pound bonus, has placed an order for a new 911, enjoyed a nice five-star week in the Maldives and now fancies a new mountain bike, are you really going to worry about whether it costs £2k, £5k or £10k? Honestly, you’re probably just going to buy what’s available there and then and in a colour you like.

I’m not sure I agree, for 1 a City Boy has just been fired by CIti Bank for stealing food from the Staff Room, reports suggest he was earning between £250k and £1m year – some people are greedy, bankers mostly.

Also, I think very few people completely lose the value of money, for example when you see pics of big Hollywood stars (often a rich source of excess) on their bikes, they tend to be middle of the road type stuff.

I don’t begrudge anyone spending whatever they want on a bike, but I assumed that enthusiasts who have £10k bike money would be few and far between, plus if I was going to spend £10k I wouldn’t be buying an off-the-shelf build.

I must be wrong, because they seem to be more popular than I thought.

Of course, if we wanted to play the old ‘justified’ game, any rider who could extract the extra performance of the £10k over the £6k one, would probably be good enough they wouldn’t need to pay for the thing in the first place 😉

If I was going to spend £10k I wouldn’t be buying an off-the-shelf build.

They’re terrible value for one. Essentially the frame only price, plus all the stuff hung off it at aftermarket RRP. For all the halo bikes that get sold, I’d be surprised if many were sold at full RRP. Maybe the first few off the production line to early bird preorders, or ‘limited edition’ ones, but not mid lifecycle.

I wonder how many buyers will pay list price.

The only person I know who bought £9k bike didn’t pay anything like that.

I just see £9-10k bikes as a way for manufacturers to make £4-5k look reasonable.