[Closed] So who has spent the most for a bike on here?

solarider

As little as possible for as much bike as possible see the trigger thread 🙂

Who cares?

As long as it's fun.

I have now had two skip rescue bikes and a donation singlespeed for a couple of beers from fellow forumite.

What do I win?

My recent purchase was a toss up between a £6k Yeti SB6C, or a £3k YT Capra, I went for the Capra as a cash purchase, rather than the Yeti on finance.

What do I win?

a kirk precision

Mmmmmm kirk mag loveliness

...not so humble brag...

This year's total spend on push bikes had topped 15k, but in my defence it was a perfect storm of two road bike and a mtb needing replacing. The road bikes were both over ten years old and on their last legs. The mtb was because the new one was shiny.

I'm not expecting to buy another bike for at least ten years.

A Kirk? Bonfire night will be a bright event....

Opps showing my age , and who cares about price

Every now & then I blow what I think is a lot of cash on a bike or a frame

Coming up to it again as my current mtb is old and pretty buggered so will cost quite a lot to get it running - (26er) wheel rebuilds, bearing changes, shock & fork service and new damper in fork AGAIN. Sure, I probably could DIY most of it but I really can't be arsed)

The older I get, the more money I have and the less time/sense I seem to have so I think I might properly overdo it this time round. I'm over 50, not a great rider and I may just buy a "superbike" one day soon (and I would only really justify suspension for 2-3 weeks a year). As the cap'n says, who cares?

When I'm day-dreaming about winning the lottery in work, probably me.

I had to really persuade myself that 2k on a bike wasn't absolutely bonkers when the most I had ever spent was £400 on eBay.

Flange's Di2 Niner from a couple of years back is probably close for an MTB. Stunning bike!

£2800 on a Scott Addict, £2000 on a BMC Teamelite, several other cheaper buys. One paid cash, one on 0‰ finance. Expect both to be with me around 5yrs before being relegated to winter duties.

In theory i've got the disposable income to fund something more exotic as i've no kids to spend it for me, but would be excessive with a mortgage still to pay off.

Anyone else wondering what it is that Ben ^ sells?

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£3,800 a few days ago on a full sus 29er race bike

Orange 4 on order for me and Camber for MrsG but frankly my roadie mates all spend much more on bikes. I was out with three others on Saturday. 1. Parlee with ENVE fitting kit and Di2. 2. Aero Cervelo of some sort with Di2 and nice carbon wheels. 3. S-works Venge. I'd guess no change from £7k for 2 and 3, then +£10k for the Parlee

Currently £1500 on my original Soul build.

Popped into the LBS this afternoon to discuss a Frog bike for LittleMissMC and ended up having a fairly serious conversation about a Focus Paralane Ultegra for me on 0? finance. Which is 50? more than the hypothetical budget I was considering for my next road bike.

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Anyone else wondering what it is that Ben ^ sells?

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Nothing more than my time. IT conslutant.

If I tallied up all the top end and custom bits on the sheep and the Jones, with a view to having to replace them in one go if they got nicked or similar i'd be murdering folks and selling body parts on the black market for a good few years to afford it.

Perhaps a better way of asking would be as a rough proportion of anual salary.
I did not earn much last year, so in those terms my most recent bike was significantly* more "expensive" than the previous one I bought when I was earning substantially more even though in monetary terms it was a fair bit less.

* read "embarrassingly significantly", so embarrassing I'm not going to say what it was

Upwards of $10k but being a tandem it's halved per person.

No new bike this year, just a fork for the old smashed road bike and a disk wheel for a tt bike.

Race and nice bike are both separately worth more than the car.

Should be a nice bike next year for another significant life milestone (ie a previous year without a new bike). 😉

Don't tend to buy complete bikes but I am partial to the odd frame, shock/fork, wheelset or drivetrain upgrade on occasion and have mentally blocked out my spend over the last few years.
With top of the range MTB's now easily getting into the 10k USD price range it is very easy to spend serious money, to me anyway, on a pushbike.

In the past I've spent up to £2,500 on a bike build (it's a long time since I bought a complete bike). With six bikes in the garage that could add up to quite a bit of money if I had to replace them all like-for-like. I'm currently considering a new full-sus to replace a carbon Blur but can't justify £2k or more so looking at any sale bargains, ex-demos etc. It helps that modern SLX is as good as older XTR as my days of speccing that have gone.

Fortunately... I work in "the trade"... Which means I buy bikes a bit (not much I can assure you!) cheaper than Joe Bloggs does, and as long as I don't keep them for too long, I can usually sell them on in good condition after 6 months or so for little or no loss over what I paid for them.

Which is my only saving grace!

Cos my Full sus is worth well over £6k (the one it replaced nearer £8k!), my main road bike is worth closer to £7k than £6k, I'm just building up a Cotic BFe out of "spares" (yeah right!) I had lying about, and have just ordered a Ritchey Logic Road frame to do the same with a load of road bike parts (that I actually do have) that I'll run as a 2nd road bike/winter bike (SRAM Red on a winter bike anyone?). I have a £2k CX bike that has done less than 150 miles (fun miles I'll add though) that really I should sell but can't face parting with, and a 29er HT that I'm in the process of swapping for the new updated 2017 version.

Would still give my right arm for one of Solarider's road bikes mind!

Anyway... For those thinking "oh my god really?!?!" Remember that it's a perk of the job. Fortunately I'm as mad keen on cycling now as when I started, if not more so, and that whilst most people are able to go out and get mortgages on nice houses and finance on cars etc. I'm stuck renting basically until my Dad pops his clogs, as I barely "pay" myself more than minimum wage... The perks, as listed above, are quite good mind! 😉

@ben single handedly drving retail sales upwards, Chapeau 😉

I think my Reign was £3,500 in 2006 plus a few upgrades over the years and then transfered bits onto a Covert frame - still on the original forks. The BFe was £2,300. I am pretty sure I am under £10k for 12 years of mountain biking so not too bad.

I've not bought a full (new) bike since 1998, I've just cobbled stuff together when parts turn up at a good price, stuff has been donated, or I've bought retro bikes in the <£150 range.

But I'm part way through a special build right now and I want it to come in under £2k. This will be the most I've ever spent on a bike. It's nearly double what my day-to-day car cost 🙂

It helps that modern SLX is as good as older XTR as my days of speccing that have gone.

I'm suggesting that the marginal gains for posh bikes is even slimmer than a few years back....

my bike purchases have been often and numerous. never commuted by car, so i reckon i am still quids in.

my current bike was 3.2k

2014 was my 'spendy' year. Don't think I got much change from £26,000.

5010 carbon
Newmad
Fatboy pro
Chameleon
5k worth of upgrades to make my fast road bike a little bit faster

Last bike (May this year) was £4K, inc 20% off.

tomhoward.........good lad. cash is for spending mate.... 😀

Most I ever spent in one go on a bike was £1950 for a Turner RFX frame back in 2001. A pretty extortionate amount for a aluminium frame that I'd never ridden. Worth every penny.

Last year over 6k on a spesh s-works enduro build, plus 1 to 2 k on other bike related stuff, plus a good biking holiday. This year over 6k on guided alpine holidays to get the maximum enjoyment out of it. I would say most years I probably spend 1-2k on bike parts and accessories, clothing ect (excluding holidays).

Currently trying to work out if I can afford to upgrade to the new enduro that spesh has released and get at least 3 alpine weeks again next year.

It looks like a lot of money to most, but it is mainly down to choices, ie I don't have a car, live in a smaller apartment than I could, go out less etc. I love mountain biking, and it is a priority in my life.

My B-i-L claims his best mate has three 20 grand road bikes. What a stoater he is...

Fair play £26k is nearly twice what I earned in that whole year...

But now work "in the industry" so people buying lots of expensive bikes pays my wages 😉

I've currently got about £2.5k of MTB and £1.5k of road bike when I earn minimum wage and have 2 kids, like mboy says perks of the job I don't have enough money for anything else

In my lbs there's a customer ,who this year,has spent£20k and not bought a full bike from them!
I've spent £5 k in the same shop ,over ten years!
Bloody customer software stuff- if the missus finds out ....ha.

Interesting thread- seems very few buy the blinged out [i]INSERT [/i] Carbon bike with Enve wheel upgrade- which is odd, because the STW demographic matches the trail center guys that do ride those bikes.

Personally, I could buy any bike I desired (up to about £12k), but A- I would never forgive myself because I hate spending money, and B- I can't see it providing anymore joy than the £2.5k budget I set for my new bike. I've poured the money into a few startups I'm playing with instead. No doubt they'll fail, but I find that equally as fun as riding.

I had a pretty generous (to me) HMRC tax refund, about £1800, a few years ago, so upgraded a lot of stuff onto a Chameleon. For the first time ever I could have the fork I wanted rather than the one a couple of models down, and went for brand new XTR which I'd never ever had before.

It was great fun, fitting and working with all these great parts, still made no difference to my riding 😆 and I think my bike was maybe 200g lighter that if I'd have built it with SLX or Deore 😆

Pics please

You want addresses too surely? 😉

I spent £2k on a cheap carbon2 Jekyll from Paul's last October.
Since then I've probably spent another £1.5K on 'upgrades'.

But I'm currently loving the £250 rigid Cannondale 29 I got from the classifieds. And my £90 Bad Boy. They're all fun.

*cough* My 60th birthday present to myself.... a Bianchi Specialissima, after I test-rode one at the Cyclist mag test day at the Olympic road circuit and found it waaay better than all the other fantasy bikes we tested there. I've always wanted an Italian hooligan bike and it's better than splashing the cash on a sports car, motorbike, jet ski, yacht or whatever because it will keep me fit up to and into retirement.

And yes, a lighter stiffer bike really does make you faster although rides over 50 miles on British roads do punish your arms and shoulders. It's fast up hills and in sprints but absolutely outstanding at descending.

The (used) road Bike I bought came with the original purchase receipt for usd$10990, crazy.

I spent £1250 on my road/commuter bike and £3000 on my (full-sus) mountain bike in 2014, replacing an 8 year old hardtail. I bought the road bike cash and the mtb on an interest free credit card, and since then have saved up enough to buy another pretty decent bike.

I'd love to go and replace the mtb again (jonesing for one of the new Rockets) but whilst I have the money, I can't quite square it with my conscience. Yet.

I think the most I ever spent was £4k (maybe a bit more) on a custom built Cove Shocker Loved that bike, but it was like an Elephant, cool to own, but then do you get to use it? Couple of uplift days a year at Cwmcarn, one trip to the Alps, one to Whistler and then tried to sell it when I realised I was never going to ride it properly - probably less than 300 miles on it and it was pretty much like-new, but I couldn't give it away, stripped it and the bits sold eventually, the frame finally ended up going to Cyprus. Now I shudder at the money I wasted on it.

My current bike (Intense Tracer 275A) I bought for £1900 reduced from £3k because it was last years and had been sat in the sun/rain for a few months and the X-Fusion suspension was never popular to buyers. It had some rust spots on some steel bits and the paint is a bit faded - but I've never been one for mollycoddling bikes with invisiframe stuff and all that mine always where their scars with pride. Shifted the XT groupset and Float X CTD over from my last bike, did some selling, some horse-trading with bits and now it's got a lovely spec IMHO, nothing too fancy, but where I believe the sweet-spot is between too-cheap and too-bling, I think the total amount of cash I had to use was £1500, which I can live with.

I might go a bit more mad with the next one, youngest starts school full time in 2 years and that's probably when I'll want to replace this one - she costs me £800 a month in childcare at the moment, I told I could finance a Porsche for that ha ha, but I'll probably make-do with a Carbon framed bike.

The bike I ride the most is my £300 commuter. Perfect.

Just bought a new sb5c frame for £1900, on sale as the new variant will be out soon, saved a grand so am chuffed. So, nowhere near as much as some people have spent!

Just bought a new full suss for £2,000 but it will be paid for by selling the old one and some retro.

One before also cost £2,000 about 3 years ago, also largely paid for by selling other things.

That's the good thing about Orange bikes. They may not be the best value for money originally but they hold their money well meaning it doesn't cost as much to change. 😉

Probably spent around £700 on retro in the last few years but ended up with stuff worth about £1200 so the extra gets spent on bikes, like my new one.

"This year's total spend on push bikes had topped 15k...
I'm not expecting to buy another bike for at least ten years.":

When you break it down, that's £1500 a year. Compare that to car ownership, public transport costs etc, and then it seems a lot more reasonable. And if you're using them to keep fit and healthy, then the cost is irrelevant.

I broke it to my wife that my proposed new bike may end up costing £3k or more. She didn't bat an eyelid, which I though a bit strange. I later discovered that she'd drawn up a long list of household etc 'jobs' that I need to do in order to 'pay' for it. 😳

Oh, and I'm expected to get rid of at least one other bike (this is a 'replacement' for a current one) as well. I don't think she understand the concept of N+1...

Personally, I could buy any bike I desired (up to about £12k), but A- I would never forgive myself because I hate spending money, and B- I can't see it providing anymore joy than the £2.5k budget I set for my new bike. I've poured the money into a few startups I'm playing with instead. No doubt they'll fail, but I find that equally as fun as riding.

Are you taking the mick? Seriously? And I let you get away with just a Whyte T-130... 😮

Anyway... I'm a "startup"... Invest your money with me! I'll give you something to show for it! 😉

Post about expensive bikes, get people to show off and create a thieving two-hat shopping list.

Not playing that one 🙂

Let the willy waving commence.

My Brompton is the most I've ever spent on a full bike. Had it 3 years and fully expect to have it for another 10.

Let the willy waving commence

Far too late for that. Bit of a vulgar thread really. can we start "who earns the most?" Now?!

My MTB probably would be quite expensive if I'd built it for someone - Tomac Revolver Ti with Rohloff, USE SUB, lots of carbon and titanium stuff. I did once add it up to about £5500. But I got the last frame CRC had very cheap (well, relatively) and the rest of the bits were trade or spare, so didn't cost me anywhere near as much.

Nothing more than my [s]time[/s] soul. IT conslutant.

FTFY 😉

MrBlobby
IT Consultant

Isn't there a thing/guide/old wives tale about how much you should spend on an engagement ring - something like 1.5 times a months salary?

Perhaps there needs to be a cycling equivalent 😆

Steve Worland always used to recommend 3 weeks wages to newcomers.

That was about 15 years ago though...

Round my way the done thing is a Nomad with Enves in this year's colours and a VW transporter to put it in.

I'm more bangernomics and self deception for bike purchases. Biggest new bike ticket price was my alu SB66 in 2011 (still got it). £5k and just a couple of months later I was justifying a Bos Deville upgrade.

All that kit has passed the test of time and delivered excellent value.

Do bikes you have to give back count?

My best is a "salary" of about 750 francs a week and some nice man gave me 2 top end colnago/record road bikes and a timetrial bike. It was so long ago that the TT bike had a small front wheel, so before they'd invented aerodynamics. Or corners.......

I had to give them back at the end of the season 😥

Bit of a vulgar thread really. can we start "who earns the most?" Now?!

I am luckily at the age where I have gone past caring and feel no need to display wealth in any way. A more content period of life I guess (or maybe just want for less?)

As for bikes, I only ever own one at a time and as it will always be a rigid single-speed of some kind I couldn't spend £1,000s if I tried.

Far too late for that. Bit of a vulgar thread really. can we start "who earns the most?" Now?!

So British.

I don't think it's vulgar at all. I like reading about what people spend and why. After all, you don't know where the money's come from- could be loans, debt, lottery, profit or something else. It's just people sharing bike stories.

As for bikes, I only ever own one at a time and as it will always be a rigid single-speed of some kind I couldn't spend £1,000s if I tried.

You reckon?

http://www.jonesbikes.com

£1,800 on mtb about 5 years ago.

£600 on 2nd hand CX bike 3 years ago.

Trying to justify spending £1,200 on a brand new road bike at the minute.

Bit of a vulgar thread really. can we start "who earns the most?" Now?!

Not related to that at all IMO. I know people who don't earn loads but choose to spend their money on bikes.

I could afford to spend more money on bikes, but really do not see the point.

I've never spent more than £2k on a bike in total, and never more than £1600 in one go. I honestly don't think I could ever bring myself to do so...

You reckon?

http://www.jonesbikes.com

Yep, I reckon. Wouldn't want one of those if you gave it to me.