[Closed] If you had £1k to spend on any bike, what would it be.....? (bit of fun!)

I’d spend £1k on one of the bikes I’ve already got 🙂

A super light road wheelset for my gravel bike

A second hand carbon 29er hardtail for XC rides or a gravel bike / monster cross type thing for XC type riding....might need more than a grand for that as not many second hand ones for sale.

Could spend a grand on a new fork for my current bike, does that count?

An Ordinary or a Baines flying gate. You may have to google them 😉

XO1 AXS for my HB160

Probably something like the On-One Scandal with the rigid carbon fork: https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBOOSCSEGX/on-one-scandal-sram-gx-eagle-mountain-bike---katies-edition

I've currently got a 150mm travel 29er (Jeffsy CF Pro Race) and a carbon gravel bike (Space Chicken 650b) so that covers both ends of the cycling I do, something to cover all the middle ground would be nice.

29er 2.8" tyres, rigid carbon forks, sliding dropouts for the option to go SS.

I don't what bike it would be but I'm increasingly coming to the realisation that none of the (too) many bikes I own actually suits the kind of fitness and fun utility riding I should be doing given I am in that "mad busy" phase of my career, have a young family and other hobbies.

What I "need" is a gravel/adventure bike with some 35-40mm or so tyres, loads of mudguard clearance, a really wide set of drops and disks and braze-ons for front and rear racks. I just described the Genesis Vagabond didn't I?

Something I can ride from the door and up into the Downs for a late night cruise, commute on occasionally (min of 17miles each way and any nice ride would be a lot more), use for the shops, gym, possibly a bike packing trip or two and even a light tour.

Yes I could ride my hardtail but it's 30+lbs of pig iron (On One 456 and it's pink) and it's just balls achingly dull on anything that's not proper off-road.

Oh, bloody hell, where do I start ... 🤷‍♂️

Now, you need to realise that £1000 is actually a lot of money for me to spend on a bike. The most I've spent until now was £1300 on my 50th birthday present to myself, the Pickenflick (which was partly paid for by selling the bike that cost me the next most amount of money, a 45650b @ £1150).

I don't really get on with my Cannondale Prophet, so £1000 (plus whatever I could sell the Prophet for) would go to a short/mid travel FS bike, maybe a suitably used Bird Aeries, Sounder Evil, Whyte something or other ...

Or, I wouldn't get a FS at all, but a nice, modern, used capable HT. Bird Zero, Cotic Solaris, Sonder Transmitter etc, as my only (main) MTB.

Or, sell both the Prophet, and the Inbred 26er SS, add to the £1000, and look for a (used, again) modern Ti HT, again as my only MTB.

Or, buy a NEW HT. Like the new On One Scandal ... But is it enough bike to be my only MTB?

Or the new On One Whippet, run it in a light SS rigid format. But doesn't fulfill the Prophet's role.

I'm just too indecisive. And broke ...

Road bike with discs & room for bigger tyres - adventure road/gravel whatever. One of those.

Tempted to do the old bike to work scheme to be honest & get one in the New Yr.

Would love to build an e touring/cargo style bike and completely do away with one of our cars...something with enough space for dropping a couple of kids at school on but also be able to swap the seats for luggage space for shopping duties and long distance easy touring for the Mrs with maybe 1500wh batteries for decent range as well.

Built a brand new orange crush from the ground up for less than a grand. The only thing that came out of my spares box were some deore brakes. It’s stunning. As fun on my local trails as my alpine, without the heft.

I'd cheat slightly and use my staff discount to buy a Saracen Levarg SL. I borrowed one for a few weeks this summer and really enjoyed it. I used it to turn my usual road commute into a mix of road, bridleways, canal towpath and gravel tracks. It made riding to and from work fun again.

TiRed

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An Ordinary or a Baines flying gate. You may have to google them

Ha! That just lead to some great reading on some vintage bikes.👍

This....and I'd have 1p change too. 😊

I'd buy a Stanton Sherpa frame and transfer all my bits over to it.

My only bike cost just under £1000 to put together and I love it as it has all the components I like/picked and a great frame

I'd grab a secondhand carbon 29er trail HT with halfway modern geometry off eBay, then use it for some XC racing next year.

Saracen Levarg

I see what they did there.

I'd buy 10 crappy Carreras, one for each day of the week, what?

Or perhaps a nice used DH bike...

One of those £500 rigid Marins on chainreaction and a load of bikepacking gear with the change.

Or perhaps a nice used DH bike…

I'd be very tempted too.

It would depend on how hard I had to work for that grand, windfall I'd happily buy a DH bike knowing I'd hardly ever use it, but if I had to save it would be a long travel HT which I'd probably use quite a lot.

Sadly, moving house this week means I've got zero savings and if I had a grand, I'd buy a new sofa (probably)

Probably a gravel bike with some big fat tyres.

Or a full suss 29er frame if I could find a bargain.

Two Calibre Dunes. Two sets of wheels, one for 5" and one for 4" tyres, plus a spare frame for when the first one breaks...

“Nice” used DH bike? Does such a thing actually exist?

“Nice” used DH bike? Does such a thing actually exist?

Of course, plenty of people buy them with the intention of riding loads and going big - but don't really get into it.

And when you think of how much time they actually get being ridden, it's way less than a trail bike.

There are plenty of not-so-nice ones too of course.

Hard to look past a Caliber Bossnut (just wait for a sale).

Leftfield choice, a custom gravel frame, I've got an idea of what I want but not seen anyone make it yet. sort of somewhere between a Cannondale Slate and a Salsa Cutthroat. A Slate with MTB 650b tyre clearance.

“Nice” used DH bike? Does such a thing actually exist?

Maybe less so now, but 'back in the day' there were loads of scared mincers like me who bought very fancy DH bikes, rode them 2/3 times a year in the UK, but mostly kept them for their annual trip to the Alps and sold them with less than 100 hours a year wear on them.

Calibre dune and some upgrades or can I get a canyon dude for that money? (I'm not going to look because I don't want to start tempting myself)
That way I don't have to take my FS out in the slop over the 9 months that the trails aren't dry.

It'd be a Stooge for me, the bike I regret not buying. Frame and fork and bars then try to pickup some bargains to complete.

I’d buy 2 bikes probably - a Carrera subway hybrid to put a seat on for my little girl (probably will be buying one of these or something similar in the next month anyway) - and perhaps a big wheeled bmx for the occasional pump track play (won’t be adding one of these in reality as wouldn’t get enough use).

The alternative would be something like a Planet X space chicken (with 700c wheels / 1x) so my caad12 doesn’t have to be ruined with full mudguards / lights etc for commuting on.

My choice would be kinda vanilla really in so far as a lightweight short travel fs 27.5, namely Giant Anthem of 2017/18 vintage. For where I live and ride now, it would be pretty much spot on to compliment my steel ht

If I had the space, a steel jump/pump track bike. But I don’t, so trickstuff brakes for one of the existing ones.

Stooge Mk4 or a used steel 29er HT. maybe a Stif Morf as I regret selling it. That bike was just brilliant

I came back to see what others had suggested and to point out that I’d blown the budget by several thousands, but my post has gone. I suspect to save me from the blushes

Do Eewings count as a bike 😜

Dirt jump bike.

JP

I came back to see what others had suggested and to point out that I’d blown the budget by several thousands, but my post has gone. I suspect to save me from the blushes

My post was on another thread! It seems the blushes haven’t been spared...

Obviously, I would buy half of a peloton.

List price £1900, or £2100 if you want the shoes.