Should I feel guilty

[TWBNK]

About a year ago I bought a bike, solely on the basis that it did what I wanted for the budget that I had. In the last year we have moulded to one another and covered quite a few miles in the process.

My employer has signed up to the cyclescheme from April this year and to be honest I have been out looking at other bikes. Not just one bike - I have been seeing a few bikes.

I was in work the other day brazenly talking about looking for a new ride with a few of the lads whilst my trusty steed was waiting patiently for me in the bays. It only hit me on the way home from work how attached I had grown to my bike. How we have taken the rough with the smooth together, how we both have had to adjust to each others needs. I felt quite bad about this.

When I have been looking for good points in a new ride I have found that the old one ticks most of the right boxes.

If I may be as bold as to ask two questions.

Will I feel guilty if I buy a new bike on the cyclescheme that isn't all that much different to the one I have other than costing twice as much and perhaps being classier?

and

Should I stop drinking now?

 

[Keith Oates]

Question 1 - Yes

Question 2 - Yes

Advice is go to bed and have a good sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rich p]

Buy one that's different - even if only a bit!

 

[Steve Austin]

I've got bikes i can't even bear to look in the eye for the shame of not riding them. I really am a bad bike owner.

oh well.

 

[summerdays]

Having a second bike is good for when you get a puncture or something goes mechanically wrong. Just don't do what I did and put a new saddle on it that you discover you hate, so the second bike rarely got used. But this week I've bought myself a nice new saddle and hopefully I will ride it more frequently.

But they probably will be different or any changes you do afterwards could take them different directions.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

n+1, nuff said.

 

[Gromit]

You don't need to get rid of your old bike, like summerdays says, a second bike is always good. You could keep the new bike for best and use the old one for winter.

 

[buggi]

You don't need to get rid of your old bike, like summerdays says, a second bike is always good. You could keep the new bike for best and use the old one for winter.

what Gromit says + 1.
new bike = summer bike
old bike = winter bike

That way you don't feel guilt

 

[MajorMantra]

what Gromit says + 1.
new bike = summer bike
old bike = winter bike

Doesn't work if the new one is way more fun to ride.

Matthew

 

[Arch]

Doesn't work if the new one is way more fun to ride.

Matthew

As the OP said - the new one isn't going to be much different.

Anyway, the old bike can always be the back up for the inevitable times you have a major problem with the new one and don't have the time to fix it there and then (you come down to find a flat that's gone down overnight, and you have to get to work).

That way, the old one becomes even more faithful, in a way... It just sits and waits to be useful.

I have a winter bike and a summer bike, in fact my winter bike is newer than the summer one (and was built up specifically to be a winter hack). Soonish, I'll have my old Galaxy back too, and then I will have the which bike dilemma, as it would pretty much do for either and all seasons.