[Closed] So has anyone on here ever spent 5k+ on a bike??

My main mtb is worth around that but built from parts over a long time (hubs are close to ten years old)

Nope. Can't see myself ever doing so either.

£1700 is the most I've spent on a complete bike (2008 Enduro SL comp). Most of the parts on my current bike came straight off that and all the other bits were from the classifieds(including the frame itself)

Never on an off the shelf bike but my DH Bike build is near enough 6k.

My tracer 275 was built up for 4k. The frame was 1.8k; hand built in America by Americans.

I will be as soon as its released 😳

Edit, well, rrp is north of 5k 😉

My tri bike probably isn't all that far off with the Di2, Quarq, disc wheels etc 😯

Has it made me any faster.... 😳

Cheers, Rich

I've built up a couple of bikes the *would* have been around that.

...from top quality second hand bits though

= top drawer bike for around half price.

+ it gives me something to think about for a few months

I spent 4 1/2 grand on a brand new bike but that was a Yamaha

I've built up a couple of bikes the *would* have been around that.

...from top quality second hand bits though

= top drawer bike for around half price.

+ it gives me something to think about for a few months

Similar to others, yes but not all at once. Built from parts, not off the peg.

stuff that 800 quid is most I've went, doubt I'll buy new again either tbh, will just shop 2nd hand next time, spend similar i think.

I once spent 1200 on a frame and 600 on some forks. Madness! Never again. I'll never spend more than 1500 on a whole bike ever again.

I think the recession has changed a lot of people's thinking on spending. It's not that I couldn't afford to, but I don't want to blow huge amounts on a bike. I'm with no-eyed-deer on this ~ buy used, buy carefully, build it yourself and have deluxe for just a few bucks. 🙂

Same as Edric - only with an engine...

most ive spent is £1800, but i would spend 5k+ if i had it to blow.
currently looking at a new car for less than 2k though, so not very likely.

Yes my Parlee Roadie...

Yep but I had a good excuse.

Had worked and saved bloody hard since starting work, promised myself an old Porsche as a 30th birthday present to myself.

Was about to buy a 968, discovered I was going to be a Dad.

Never got the Porsche. Kept most of the money but did treat myself to a Yeti 575 dripping with XTR. Bloody glad I did now - I'll never have a bike like that again and I can still enjoy a Porsche when I'm 60. Assuming the Yeti doesn't kill me beforehand.

I would have done if I'd paid full rrp on a couple of builds a few hers ago, now I wouldn't as parts get swapped/sold replaced between frames, and have hoarded good stuff too 😉 it's the little bits that add up not the mainframe as you know how much that costs, carbon downtube guard 30 odd quid today, 3 on bolts etc
The bikes have always been worth more than our cars

My road bike was that price with power meter and other nice bits. It has made me smoother and faster and is a joy to ride. It's worth more than the car, of course.

I have a £5000 bike but I didnt pay that for it, 1/2 price as it was "Last Years"

I'd spend lots on a roadbike.

Not on a mtb. Ever. Stone/rocks, grit paste etc etc

I've had a lot of cancer treatment earlier this year and I think I deserved a present, so the answer to the question is yes.

A lot of folk I'd think judging by some of the bikes that get posted!

Retail on mine was £6200 I think, but I didn't pay nearly that!

How do people afford bikes like this?

Shade under 5 grand all in an it was fully rigid.

Most is spent in one go was a my road bike £2500 used
And it's worth every penny

I've spent more building my 2013 sworks enduro but took so long for the frame to arrive gave me time to spread the cost of the parts Over 7 months.

I drive a £1500 car don't splash mad money on holidays / clothes / live in a modest 2 bed house

I've built myself a few that cost around that figure or slightly more, in the past 20 yrs at a guess i'd say i've had 3 bikes that touched or breached the £5k mark but so what?, i don't answer to anyone and if i decide to live with £20 a week for food for 6 months so i can save up enough to splurge on bike stuff (or whatever) i can, nae GF to nag me and i live in a council house with cheap rent etc so a meagre wage (a few pence more than minimum wage) from working two jobs can be stretched further than you think possible when needs must etc...etc.

I work in a small bike shop in Dumfries & Galloway and most of our builds are custom Ibis FS at the moment, some rather expensive builds at up to near enough £7k, depends on what you consider extravagant really?.

My neighbour has just bought a new ford fiesta as they buy a new car every year, the car is only driven back and forward to his work at tesco so a journey of maybe 2 miles a day (at most) and perhaps a jaunt up to Dumfries (30 miles) for a big shop (woohoo - spend cash on shite we don't need etc...etc...) at the weekend, i consider such a car and expense utterly pointless but i guess it makes them happy to have it in their driveway - i'm sure they consider the way i live and my expense on bike stuff utterly pointless as well.

Different folk - different priorities.

Nicolai AC 650b and a Trek superfly 100 sl,Both are about £5000 builds

How do people afford bikes like this?

Mine was bought using a very generous Bike to Work scheme. And guess what? I ride it to work (well I do in the summer).

Not in one hit, but if you add up all the bits on my current bike, including the bits that were bought for previous bikes then transferred to the new frame, I'm not far off.
Qoroz + Lefty + Rohloff + ~£3500 for a frame fork and hub.

But then, I still drive a Land Rover that cost £4000 14 years ago.

How do people afford bikes like this?

The most depreciation proof small family car loses about £7000 in its first three years of ownership...

yep for 5K+ they've been luuurvely boutique bikes build to a spec I want with lovely bits all put together by me. Would I spend it on an off the peg bike? no, as I'd want to change bits to make tazzy compatible so I may as well do that from the start.

Maybe not in one go, but by the time my 456Ti was fully Ti/carbon/Hope/xtr (along with it taking three forks until I found the 'right' ones I wouldn't have got much change out of £5k.

And then there are the running costs..., for a load of miles.

It saves me spending it on faster bikes/drugs/ women.
So yes i have spent that kind of money on bikes before.
The morgage gets paod all the bills get paid and i love bikes so why the **** not.
Never on an off the shelf bike though.
They've always got stuff on them i don't want.

No, Have spend c 3K in the past, and if I was riding every day now (instead of running) I would have got a 3.5K canyon. Over that level, it feels like diminishing returns.

Having said that I am about to pop well over 20k on a car 😳

Different strokes for different folks. Individuals have different priorities and make different choices. My oldest friend (a year younger than me) who's married with 2 kids has a brand new Audi in his drive, a year old Mercedes 4x4' a large immaculate 4 bed house and more designer suits and clothes than anyone could want. The picture of success.

I spend my life in shorts and t-shirts, have a shitty old 3 bed house, a shit car that me and the wife share but I do own 15k worth of mountain bike, 2 MX Bikes a cafe racer (project), and generally more big boys toys than I have room for. I'm happy, he's happy.

Probably spent 2k building my soul so could easily see that escalating to 3-3.5k for a blinged out carbon full sus. Couldnt really coutenance spending an extra 2k for logos/convenience. Doesnt stop me lusting after a Tallboy LTc though >.>

Nope and I don't think I would unless I was loaded or didn't have more important things to spend/save for. I buy everything second hand apart from "consumables" such as grips, tyres etc. Much better value for money, I've never needed a warranty either.

I once saw an advert for a carbon Pronghorn just like mine, with a price tag around the €8,000 mark o_O

I didn't even pay half that, thankfully.

Is your pronghorn stool in one piece?

I would spend 5k on a custom road bike but not on an MTB .The very nature of mtbing says it will get scratched bent damaged and generally wrecked!!

...oh, yes - and as others have intimated, despite (or maybe because of?) having a couple of £5k-ish bikes, I drive 17 yr old car that is officially worth... wait for it.... £130.

I live in a house with virtually no furniture and keep the heating off all winter. 😆

My priorities are probably a little skewed, but I love my bikes.

Apart from a BMX some years ago, & my Cargo Bike last year, I've never bought an off the peg mountain bike. Almost bought a road bike on BTW recently, but the fun part for me is sniffing out the parts S/H, then putting the bike together. Have bought new frames, the SIR.9 being the priciest but as complete bikes none of them near £5k. The road bike is a real bargain basement jobbie, around a TriBan frame, but its a first foray into road bikes so keeping it cheap. For around £280 it will rival the spec on some I was looking at for £500-£600.

A couple of mates & I demoed some bikes from Swinnertons on Cannock Chase yesterday.
My mates had Yeti's (SB66 & a 29erFS something). Both many thousands of pounds worth, but for me it had to be the Krampus. 😀
And I think I had the biggest grin.
And I suspect their biggest grins were aboard the Krampus too.

I couldn't believe the number of bikes with £6k+ price tags. 😯

Most I've ever managed to spend on assembling a bike was about £2k and TBH I much preferred some of the cheaper bikes I've had before and since. Cost does not always equate to enjoyment IMO...

Wow! That's a lot of dosh for a push iron.

I nearly feinted when I handed over my part of the £600 for the full susser on cycle to work scheme, I could never justify spending that on a bike, what can possibly be worth that?

Second hand frames, parts bin specials, been riding them since the late 80s and never thought I need to spend an additional £4400 to enjoy it more.

I could just about see the sense if it was a performance bike for a seriously competitive amateur racer (MTB or Road) but for evening and weekends round here, nope.

Is your pronghorn stool in one piece?

I guess if I bought my bike it its current guise straight out of the shop then maybe but like a lot of people above I've moved parts about etc.
Who cars what your bike costs anyway as long as you enjoy riding it.

My MTB cost just over £5k to build and my road bike cost just under, it would have cost way more if I'd have used DA rather than Ultegra. I really don't think about how much I spend on them, my other half does but she'd never stop me.

I just wish I had time to ride the MTB more, I used to be a MTBer with a road bike, now I'm a roadie with a MTB 😳

Almost. RRP once fully specified mine was around the £4,300 mark but LBS did a very good deal, paid around £3,600. If I had the cash, even at a slight stretch, I don't think I'd be bothered paying £5-£6k. I'll never afford a new Porsche of Ferrari so buying a high end bike is the most exciting purchase available to me. I'll probably ride my current bike (2011) for two three more years then start looking again, the whole wheel size shenanigans should have stabilised by then...