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It's heading toward spring and new bikes are finally touching down so, game time; 10k limit, what do you go for, one custom made? Lots of cheap toys to satisfy n+1 or something in between...
Depends on if youre starting from zero bikes or not or adding to what you already have? I'd be going for two £5k bikes i reckon. A custom steel hardcore hardtail from Soulcraft or English and then a nice enduro full susser.
Then again i could buy 3 good quality bikes for that easily. A hardcore hardtail, an enduro full susser and a fat bike as theyre peaking my interest now. Less is definitely more though. I wouldnt buy more than 3 bikes.
If you gave me 10k now I'd get a custom Nagasawa or Cherubim road bike.
£10k won't get you top top end on the road, and you could do that on an MTB too. Sad times.
To answer the question... I genuinely don't know any more.
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Done!
Recumbent trike - Azub//ICE/HP Velo etc.
Cotic Soda.
Surly Disc Trucker.
Something roadie/audax-ish in posh steel.
Surly Wednesday, or maybe an ECR.
Brian Rourke custom steel frame with mechanical Dura-Ace and some nice carbon wheels.
And/or a proper dutch style cargo bike.
And a Brompton.
5k : Nicolai Argon FAT - pinion in sky blue & a selection of nice bits.
2.5k :Singular Kite.
2.5k : Air Drop (or similar) full sus - for days at BPW & Flyup417
Assuming I can keep my current bikes (xc hardtail and basic cx bike), I'd get a Scott spark 700RC (~5k), a Ridley X-night 50 disc (~£2k), and spend another 2k of the money on three pairs of cx tubular wheels and tyres(2 sets with mud tyres, one with intermediate). The last 1k would be on a 27.5 super light race only wheelset
Hmm can I get the nomad and hightower for that?
SC Hightower w/27.5+ wheels for 5k
Cannondale slate 2.5k
New alloy demo 8 ~2.5k
I'd go for;
FS Enduro- Airdrop Edit; £2500
Trail FS- Whyte T129 SCR; £2300
Trail HT- Cotic Solaris; £1600
XC HT- Trek Superfly 9.8; £2300
Rigid SS hack- Stooge V2; £1100
OR
FS- SC Hightower X01 with LB Carbon wheels; £5600
HT- Canfield EPO; £2500
Winter hack- Stooge v2 Ti; £1900
OR
FS Trail- SC Nomad; £5000
FS Enduro- Airdrop Edit; £2500
FS winter- Orange Four; £2500
As you can see, I'm very decisive.
It always changes but for me;
Brompton ~1k
Rohloff shand stoater ~3.5k
Orange 5 ~3k
Stooge ~2k
A carbon scale, a skinnymalinky, and then whatever I've got leftover to spend on a steel ss - something like a niner sir pending the build on the first 2.
Ibis Ripley with XTR, Chris King and Thompson in the right places, the balance on some really good kit and coaching.
You on half-term now Joe? 😉
Anyway, you know it has to be a custom 29+, pinion gearbox, maybe boost spacing, and something along the lines of the Black Sheep Truss fork. Preferably in Ti. Maybe with an integrated frame storage system (like the Spec Swat) for pump, tubeless kit, etc.
I would buy the Ultegra spec Cannondale Slate (for colour) and then swap to DA Di2 and have the wheels relaced to carbon rims. lets call that 4k total spend.
Leaving me a nice chunk of money for a carbon Stumpjumper 29r
A bling Solaris 27+ build.
A Shand Stoater.
An Enigma Etape Disc.
Any change for a Fat Bike?
trying to keep it local..
Shand Stoater Rohloff
Enigma Echo Ultegra
Kingdom Vendetta with bling components
Can I keep the bikes I have and spend 6 months in Queenstown followed by 6 months in Whistler?
A bring you 29er xc full suss with XTR and maybe carbon wheels.
Then a hydro disc Di2 carbon road bike, and for there's any change a hydro disc carbon CX bike.
£10k would buy me 2-3 nice bikes.
Road - Not sure what but discs/Di2 + Carbon wheels - £5k? - maybe Giant?
MTB - 120/140mm 'trail' full susser - SLX/XT level kit - £3k?
Winter Road/CX - nice '105 level' build based on a Bowman Pilgrims frame - £2k
Last coal trail 3k
Last fast forward xt 2.2k
Thorn raven adventure bike tourer 2.2k
Litespeed Road bike 2.5k
Plus all the goodies....
4K YT Tues
A Nicolai ION 16 27.5 frame and forks - maybe a Geometron.
Some bling wheels for it.
A Stoater frame, probably a Force CX1 groupset and brakes.
BMX with any change.
A new boiler.
Insulation.
A new kitchen.
Some woodworm treatment.
A new bathroom.
Decorating throughout.
I'm quite happy with the bikes i have but if there is any cash left i'd take some lessons.
Curtis 29er with Middleburn, Hope, Phil Wood bits. Maybe something from Royce too. That sort of thing.
Either a Solaris with 2 sets of wheels one 29 and one 650+ or a properly pimped up Stanton Switchback (preferably the as yet non existent steel one with the mods from the newest Ti frame).
Hydraulic discs for my Defy and maybe a set of properly nice carbon wheels for that as we..
Pretty unexcited about full suspension bikes at the moment but i would rather like a go on one of the top end Kona Process monsters.