How much £/$ do you think you have spent on cycling in your life?

Was just pondering this early when paying the credit card bill after a recent bike build.

How much do you think you have spent on cycling, and had spent on you in your life?

This should inlcude:

All bikes that you have bought, built and had bought for you (even your childhood ones)
All gadgets, lights GPS’s etc etc
All clothing, gear, camelbaks, tools, lubes etc etc
Alll magazines/books/dvds/subscriptions etc
Cycling holidays/trips/skills days
cost of injuries??
Bike racks for the car etc?

Mine must run into the 10’s of 1000’s maybe £10-15K, but I imagine a lot of you are a lot lot worse?

Never.
Add.
It.
Up.

Lets not go there.

Mods… please delete the thread!

If I post on here any my wife sees it, I’m in trouble…… Infact I’d tell myself off for wasting so much money!!

A few years back I totted up my CRC / Wiggle / Merlin receipts – over £16k…..

But then I got into Photography, and that makes MTBs seem quite cheap….

*places fingers in ears and makes ‘nahnahnahnahnah’ noises*

My LBS where looking on their system a few months ago and told me it was around 17k I think, but that’s just for bikes it’s probably double that when you add up parts clothing etc.
Seeing as I’ve been shopping in there nearly 20 years I don’t think that’s too bad.

Come on, FESS UP!!!!

£17.32p.

*whispers* over 25k (but that includes holidays) Which works out at just under a grand a year. Every year. Since birth.

Infact I’d tell myself off for wasting so much money!!

Its not wasting it If you use it and enjoy the sport/hobby and it gets you off the couch is it?

Thats how I justified my last bike build to the wife, it was for my safety and general fitness.

At my LBS (where I worked for 10+ years) there’s an “Account Turnover” tab, which tots up how much money has passed through a customers account.

AFAIK I hold the record, I’ve not checked for a year or so, but it’s around £70,000 (I’m there on Sunday, I’ll check if I remember).

That’s just through the LBS, so add in mail order type purchases and that’s probably another £5k at least, not to mention race entries and the like, which I reckon is another £5k and I’m getting well towards £100,000.

I’m 25. Mental.

My motorbike cost less to run than any of my mountain bikes.

At a rough guess, based on what i poaid for them + a few years of spares

first MTB – £300 + £400 in bits (bargain as that lasted 4 years!)
road bike £1k (now upto 10 years use)
DMR – about £900 to build, mew forks and drivetrain over 3 years another £500
456 – nowt, bought the frame and sold it and 90% of the bits came from the DMR £500 over 2 years?
tourer – £300
fixie – £200
Pitch – £2500 easily
Chumba – £1000 so far
Swift £1000

So thats £8600 in hardware
Probably £300 of tools, £300 of lubes and tubes

£1000 on clothes, shoes, helmets

£2k on holliday in the last couple of years

£5k for a bigger second car to move it all about in

£250/month in extra rent I’d not need to pay if I just lived in a 1 bed flat rather than wanting a garrage and easy access to trails.

£££ petrol

Ok so the car might not count, but I’d be suprised if I’ve not been underestimating and I’ve not spent £20k directly and indirectly on biking.

No idea what the missus would geuess it at, but probbaly considerably less!

I would say around £70k too, though being 26 I don’t feel quite as bad as you do.

I’m getting well towards £100,000.

I’m 25. Mental.

😯

*feels a lot better*

njee20 – Member
………..I’m getting well towards £100,000.

I’m 25. Mental.

F****** me!

There’s a lot of us 25/26 spending 20-25k, i don’t feel so bad now!

so if we take £70k at bike shop over 10 years that’s £7k/year : £600 a month!

have you ever sold anything or do you till own it all?

I’ve not even bought a new bike in well over a year.

Although I’ve just totted up a new Project One Madone 7.9, even going for alu clinchers and Ultegra Di2 that’s still c£5k at trade! Bugger.

have you ever sold anything or do you till own it all?

Yes, a huge amount, which is a good point. For about 6 consecutive years I bought an MTB, then sold it for break even or a slight profit, so that’s at least £20k recouped.

I spent about 70k on opening a bike shop in March, does that count towards the total?

I spent about 70k on opening a bike shop in March, does that count towards the total?

If I stuck the contents of the shed on ebay I might make some of the money back, so yes. Although you’r stock is worth less than njees shed 😛

I’m waiting for brant/cy/sam to post ho wmuch they’ve spent on bikes 😉

I have managed to commute by bike for so much of my working life ,that it would be a big fat 0 😉

I am a super commuter,all hail the super commuters 😆

£100k??!!
I’m going to change the classic response of “you could buy a car for that” to…
“you could buy a house for that much…”!
(well, nearly!)

DrP

Hahahaha, excellent! You could in some of the less salubrious parts of the country!

I am a super commuter,all hail the super commuters

Yep, I save £36 a day riding in to work, which is 2-3 days a week, so that nets me back a couple of grand a year.

Guessing I’ve spent £10k but sold £6ks worth of goods. I don’t think that’s too bad so I’m not ever going to actually add it up.

I own three bikes BTW

njee ,yup I think it only works if you have done a lot of city commute stuff as the savings can be huge ,plus the more miles the better 😉

Not prepared to add it up. Less than njee20.
I gave up even thinking about adding it up when I realised that I have a wheel that costs more than I have ever spent on a car.

No, he could still have bought a car for that, it’s just a new Aston Martin rather than a banger Fiesta.

It all adds up.

20 years of riding.
Really can’t remember how many bikes
Holidays
Kit
Repairs
Clothes
Petrol to get places
Race entry fees

I can’t imagine there’d be much left out of 100k too…… 😳

No, he could still have bought a car for that, it’s just a new Aston Martin rather than a banger Fiesta.

God damn, could have had my R8 already!

Although as said, the actual net spend is far lower, about half I reckon.

Currently £-20 per day. Since my lease car was costing that to sit on the drive and now it has gone 😀 . Of course, some days, this number nudges into the positive (every time I walk near a bike shop, actually 😳 ). And when you have kids’ bikes to buy, it just gets worse…

njee’s shed:

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Far too much!

Interestingly though, when I was younger on v.low salaries I was spending a shocking % on bike stuff. Now I have have a proper jobs (still no commitments though!) I find I spend a lot less in ££ let alone %.

But I guess that maturing and really understanding what you want and not following fad.

When I got my first mountain bike as an adult (2006), I figured I’d get back into biking as the cycle to work payments were just under what a bus pass cost per month.

These days, I probably spend somewhere in the region of three times what a bus pass costs per month. I don’t do totals as it would be horrible.

since Jan 1st:

holidays: 2k
bikes: 4.5k
race entries: 1k
health insurance excess payments to surgeon and physio: 1k

and I been riding for 20 years. ooof.

my assets are tied up in a fleet of quasi-functional bikes, memories, scars, and aches on cold mornings.

8k on bikes. no idea on kit. 15k on a van to carry bikes in.
3k on 3 foreign holidays. half that (?) on uk stuff.

kielder last year was my most expensive race yet; £300 on entry, fuel, food, camping (a lot on camping), broken helmet, ripped kit, trashed seatpost etc etc.

a f*cking sh!tload and i pretty much enjoyed every penny of it. 🙂

Not sure I’d buy purple anodized all-in-one bars and bar-ends again though 😉

Not as much as some people but I reckon someone could live off the figure for a year!

I dare dent go their. Past six months i’ve spent about £4k.