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What's your worst?
It's not totally needless because I need a new hqrdtail to replace a stolen one, however I've just ordered an ibis tranny, an on one would have been good enough, but never mind. It's been ordered now.
I dare not say incase my girlfriend ever stubles across this lol
New complete SLX drive train when I had perfectly usable low-end SRAM lying around that I could have used
lots
similar to you went in going to buy a £1000 Orange HT and came out with a £2000 Lapierre Zesty - good times 😀
Misses was not impressed when she saw the bank balance 🙄
Kent Eriksen custom made titanium seatpost... [i]only[/i] £160 delivered inc VAT... 😯 😆 8)
Just building a retro roadie, with all Campagnolo Super Record circa 1985.
The prices for this stuff now off forums and ebay if unbelievable 😐
Nearly built and looks lovely.
New comfy saddle required for the burly hardtail, was thinking about a belair at most. Walked out with a fizik gobi carbon. It is rather comfy though.
Prob the white eno crank and boone ti ring I bought recently. Nice tho 🙂
I just bought a Mondraker Summum when I have a perfectly good Big Hit.
'tis nice though and looks great on the wall.
Just surfing car ads, i really need a Lotus Esprit with cream leather 🙄 ever since i saw The Spy Who Loves me..
Suprisingly affordable 8)
The carbon Pronghorn was probably a bit much, when I already have a speedy 100mm hardtail. I sometimes wish I'd spent the cash on a beefier bike, but then I get on the Prongy and I remember why.
Most of the bikes I own!
Extravagent needless bike purchase ... make world go round
I just bought another XTR crankset. Used I hasten to add but still, what's that all about?
I have a [b]few[/b] extravagant bikes but none of them are needless. 8)
Extravagent and only ridden twice this year..... 😳
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Only got it built in August and the season is now done!!!! 😛
Two nights ago on ebay I stumbled across a short sleeved Rapha top that no one had bid on and had two hours to go. I entered the minimum bid and promptly forgot about it.
Seems I am now the proud owner of a [i]brown[/i] Rapha top at a third of the RRP, though the postage was a little eye watering. 😳
Remember guys, don't drink and bid!
Christ, having worked in a bike shop for 10 years there are countless, in fact I looked at my account turnover the other day, and since June 2000 I've spent...
£53000
Admittedly a very significant proportion of that has been recouped via eBay etc, but still, most of those are very extravagant and needless!
i bank transfered the cash this morning for a new HT frame, the most i've ever spent on a frame by a huge margin and i have 3 HT frames already 😳
Moots stem. 270 quid to replace a thomson. And the ti spacer to go with it, 25 quid. Isn't any more comfortable to catch your ball sack on when you go over the bars.
went to the aldi bike jumble sale and managed to get £100 of stuff - theres about 3 bike commute trips home worth of stuff in my locker at work, including stuff I said I wouldn't bother with... ony went in for a pair of bibs and maybe shoes...
even tightarses overdo it
About 4 days ago....
I bought a 20mm Chris King front hub I didn't actually need as my 20mm Superstar hub is still perfectly OK.
But, Stiff were (and still are folks) letting the 20mm front hubs go for £100. RRP £180 or there abouts so i snapped a silver one up
The silver matched my 40th birthday present last year, a silver CK rear hub. 😀
That (them) and the Ti 456 bought in last years On One moving sale.
Still, I gave up smoking so I guess wasting my money on bling parts is still better than burning it and giving myself lung cancer at the same time.
good lord that Ridley is hideous! Hideously expensive I'm guessing too.
I bought a set of CK wheels a few weeks ago. Even though I have a set of Mavic Crossmax ST still rolling a sweet as a nut, well they are only 6 months old...
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I reckon the only [i]needless[/i] bike purchases I make are colour co-ordinated stickers - that said, if my bike wasn't aesthetically balanced, I'd probably crash .. . . even more.
I justified the Turner Sultan in Sasquatch size because it is the biggest off-the-peg mountain bike frame I could get. The X9 drivechain, CK hubs and Fox forks would be a bit OTT if they didn't go soooooooooo well with the frame!
£53000
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Can I hold you up as some sort of example to my wife? She reckons my £10k over 5 years is excessive!! 😯 😆
Yep, please use me as an example to SOs who don't get it 🙂
I'm struggling to think of my most extravagant purchases, I bought an SLR Carbon when they first came out, was about £300 retail, used it once and sold it, made a profit though!
Took me 4 visits to the website before I could convince myself I 'needed' on of [url= http://www.singlespeeder.de/os-commerce/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=31_35&products_id=79&osCsid=90f790ea3ac1bf0a82a28dc416b738bc ]these[/url] - mates thought it was crazy spending £100 on a cog.
My Orange 5. £3300.00. Didn't 'need' it but had a nice legacy from an Aunt who died, (who was Yorkshire born & bred) & reckoned she wouldn't mind.
Pleased I did though!!
I might get one of those snaps if boone don't hurry up and start knocking cogs out lol
FIfty three [b]thousand[/b]?
I initially read that as fity three [b]hundred[/b], and I thought 'that's actually quite reasonable.'
Fifty three thousand is not reasonable. In anyone's book. Not even over ten years.
But it is an extremely impressive sum...!
especially for someone who works in a bike shop and so only earns 3 quid an hour, apparently.
For me it was a cog that cost me 25 quid and then turned out to be too small to be useful. Oh, I use it, but no other man on earth could.
Turnoisier - Member
@njee20FIfty three thousand?
I initially read that as fity three hundred, and I thought 'that's actually quite reasonable.'
Fifty three thousand is not reasonable. In anyone's book. Not even over ten years.
But it is an extremely impressive sum...!
That'll be £53k at trade price, then completely recouped by selling on after little use. Bike shops pay peanuts, so that the only real staff "perk".
£18 for a socket removal tool to service my zochis. It's deep seated and no car shops had anything to do the job.
£10 on a decent mongoose bmx to do the local , bread,milk and wine shopping trip.Didn't need it mind, could have walked.Used old bits to do it up. Good investment really.
£15 for a pedal spanner that's just a flat piece of metal.
£80 on a saddle.
£30 on a bottle cage.
A pair of MTB slicks I have never used.
A pair of Conti MK Protections I hated and gave away.
£6 on a pair of alu valve caps.
Most of the expensive stuff has actually been fairly good VFM IMO.
If its not extravagant and needless, why buy it?
£300 on the Rail was fairly extravagant for me.
Snaps, if they did a titanium 13t Rohloff sprocket, I'd buy one.
[i]If[/i] they outlast £25 steel sprockets by 4:1 then they are not extravagant, they are good value for money.
I thought £80 was a lot for a Hope ceramic BB, but it's outlasted 4 £25 race Face BBs, so it's a better deal.
My most extravagant purchase is Rohloff chains at £45.
Although, having worn a £7 SRAM chain out in 70km, that's 10p per km, or about the same running costs as my Land Rover, I think it's justified.
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 [i]because[/i]. 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.