Extravagent needless bike puchases?

Ayatollahofniche – Member
Most of the bikes I own!

I'm with the Ayatollah.

An Inbred with Marz MX forks and deore running gear is an acceptable, functional and perfectly usable mountain bike so anything else is technically needless but Mamadirt does make a valid point

mamadirt – Member
I reckon the only needless bike purchases I make are colour co-ordinated stickers – that said, if my bike wasn't aesthetically balanced, I'd probably crash

A £200 Kindshock i950 seatpost for my new Anthem, when I had a Heckler with a perfectly usable, same size i900 that could have been swapped accross when i needed it. That really is needless (mind you it is 50g lighter!).

New Ultegra cranks for the road bike, just because I was fed up with the creaking FSA's.

About 8 years ago – A Campag Chorus groupset for my Colnago, just becuase I felt bad having Ultegra (I was uneducated at the time 😉 )

Went in for a new XT cassette came out with a complete XTR drive train. However it proved its worth on the Brecon Beast. This year so far spent about £6K+ includes 4k on new Zesty – essential purchase.

I think stoney wins..

.. that thing is hideous and unused so that takes it IMO

ChunkyMTB – Member
good lord that Ridley is hideous! Hideously expensive I’m guessing too.

Bah, no idea. That Ridley is gorgeous, I was fingering one at a local bikeshow this weekend. Can’t afford it, and even my bike-illiterate wife would notice if I did manage to get my hands on one.

gotta be the Chris King titanium headset – why ???

Replacing a perfectly good Thomson Elite seatpost with a Masterpiece just because. Replacing silver Juicy carbons with white ones just to coordinate better. Replacing Pro2 hubs, king headset, hope skewers and seatclamp with the exact same models just to change colour scheme. Fancied a hardtail, so bought a Cannondale Taurine 1 without ever even seeing one before. Changing rear shock brand just to match the fork brand… It’s a sickness… What can I say?

Right, if it’s branded and to do with bikes, it’ll be hopelessely extravagant.

I avoid all that crap but a chap at work put it in perspective for me.

I went to the bike shed and he was stood looking at my bike. He asked about the fact that it was fixed and was properly interested and non-judgemental about the whole thing.I asked how he was getting on cycling to work and after some discussion he told me his bike had cost him hundred quid from halford two years back.

Which was nice. I avoided, at this point, mentioning that my cranks on my commuter, cost 130 quid.

Good work Njee (from last week) – just printed that off for the wife !

Easton XC One Wheelset for a commuter. Helped prove light wheels are great. Also helped prove once I took them off road they last about 2 minutes before a spoke goes.