You bikes cost, as a percentage of your salary?

My best bike s about 20%. I spend at least that every year on bike stuff. I own nothing else of value. Our current car is about <1% and the one before that lasted 8 years was 0.5%

8%

[Quote]Think we need to start grouping the scores into the following categories…

0-2% “It’s just a passing hobby, I’ll be playing golf this time next year”[/Quote]

or
0-2% “I’ve been obsessed with riding bikes for 40 years and by this time know exactly what I want/need which happens to be a small % of my salary”

Not everyone needs multiple bikes and I am actually more content just having one and then concentrating on riding it. You can’t gauge level of interest in money some one wants to spend.
It may also matter how much someone earns too…..

7.5% for a part new, part 2nd hand build.
As above, it’s the overall cost per year that we should consider as a percentage – so travel, race/event entries, consumables etc. Not worked mine out yet, but suspect it will double the above, if not more.

2-5% “Sometimes, when I’ve been a good boy, the missus lets me out on my bike as long as I’m home for dinner”

c.3% – Although I have plenty of money, I’m acutely conscious that my limitations as a rider cannot be solved by hurling money at the problem.

😀

Bike 8.8%

Car…..0.68%

6% second hand full suspension

3.1%

I drive a 15 year old car with 150000 miles on the clock though (that was a gift)

2%

4.2% for FS,
3% for Road bike

That would have been 15% if I was still on my UK salary… eeek, glad I moved to Switzerland

Too much 🙁

6.9%. Bike only.

@yak Hmm, I wonder just how much I spend on snap decision purchases? The “Oh, I’ll just get one of these” type spends. I think I’ve spent less than 7% of the bike’s cost on consumables over the year.

No idea how much I’ll spend on travel but since much of my mountain biking is in the Dales which is on the doorstep it probably isn’t a huge amount overall.

N+1 CX was about 2.5%
Looking at the rest of the fleet, probably about 4% each.
Annual spares / upgrades / toys budget around 4%

Gross

Between 1.5 and 3% depending on what bike and at when I bought it.

I’ve only bought 1 bike since 2001 at full RRP and only 1 had any 2nd hand parts. End of year sales are your friend, that and/or knowing people in the trade 😆

Current MTB is 5%.

But it was funded by an insurance payout for a bike that was part prize, part corporate health account funded and part warranty replacement.

I suspect it probably cost me approx £300 in real terms…which is A LOT less than 5% of my salary (thankfully).

just over 2% for main mtb – bargain – I’m not even lying either

Not everyone needs multiple bikes and I am actually more content just having one and then concentrating on riding it.

Agreed.

You can’t gauge level of interest in money some one wants to spend.

Agreed.

Time spent on the bike is what counts, not how much it cost you.

4% when I bought it. Just bought another @ a cost of 1.5%.
My problem is I also ahve a tool adiction., I excusses that as I argue that I sometimes make money with them, sometimes save money with them. just last week I save 15 pounds making a component with tooling that I bought for 450. See it makes perfect sense!

The latest one (cx + race wheels) was 1.22% of gross. All the others were bought when I was a student and I don’t know how much they cost anyway!

I think more interestingly is what the £/km comes out as.

I think more interestingly is what the £/km comes out as.

Christ No!

None of us needs to be told that a V8 Mustang is cheaper to run than our bikes! We have enough problems justifying them to the rest of the world that don’t get cycling as it is, before anyone realises that done right, it’s a bloody expensive hobby!

Hmmm… Knowing what Tenacious Doug rides, wouldn’t mind being a couple of quid behind him! 😉

So my path down the slippery slope over the last 18 months is-

The ‘Return to biking after a very long time away from it’ entry level mountain bike 0.75%
The ‘I’m really quite enjoying this; I’ll get a much nicer mountain bike’ 3%
The ‘Maybe I should try road riding too’ bike 2.3%

Now I have reached the points of

The ‘I need to upgrade the first mountain bike to make a decent all weather one for winter’ 1.5%

and

The ‘I’m enjoying road riding as well but I remember that lovely titanium roadie I had all those years ago so maybe I should get another one’- somewhere around 5.5%

Plus about 5% more on gear, and bits and pieces

Don’t tell my wife!

165mm FS – 29.4% of gross
125mm FS – 27.8%
LTHT – 8.9%
Fat bike -10%
Nice road bike – 17.8%
Winter road bike – 2.9%

I’m single, believe it or not.

my best road bike including upgrades stands me at 13.4pence per km since purchas in 2013. I’m going to reduce that a bit more this evening 🙂

4.2% of gross salary but well worth it

Big bike 10% at rrp…. road 1.6% i think that is reflective. However if totting up all bikes its 18 % mtb…

Thats scary!

I used to say value of car new = salary so interesting to see bike wise

Main bike – 5% of gross at time of purchase. Last bike – 0.8% gross maybe but built on used frame.

I started to think about it but as my income fluctuates a lot I really don’t care they are paid for and I ride them

3.3% of gross for frame and forks. Other bits were from old frames

0.4% second hand.

Last bike bought new, a massive 1%