Do you get attached to your bikes?

[Matthew_T]

I have had a bike now for about 6/7 years and I feel like I am somehow attached to it. I wouldnt want to lose it or damage it unnecessarily and I seem to be spending a lot on keeping it in good condition.
I have been through a lot with this bike (first race, first fall, first collision) so it holds a certain sentimental value to me.

However, lately it has become more of a hybrid than a racer and weighs about 40/50kg. It is starting to get rusty and the components now need changing. Its pretty crap but I dont want to sell it and get a new one.

Why am I lusting for it to love me back?

 

[fossyant]

Don't know what you are talking about.

3 of my bikes are over 20 years old, one has been used very regularly through this winter (and looked after) and the other bike is nearly 4 years old.

The MTB has done a lot, so have the other bikes. MTB has had spectacular crashes on and off road, mangled a car, then been up Snowdon, in the Peaks, and even used as a skinny tyred slicked up commuter. Best bike has been raced, trained on, and ridden all round the Isle of Mann on the International Cycling Week 2-3 times.

Attached, oh yes.

 

[fossyant]

PS - show it some love and get the bits it needs and tart it up a bit - new bar tape, a polish, tidy up the cables etc. etc.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

I shouldnt realy call my wife a bike but, yes i do get attached to it.

 

[gaz]

You don't know just how attached to your bikes you are until they are gone.

 

[gaz]

I'm attached to my bikes when I'm clipped in.

I'll get my coat.

 

[MontyVeda]

by christ yes!

I only have the one bike and I love every inch of it... when i bought it it was 'the last bike i'll ever buy' and hopefully it will last me a lifetime. It's not great by today's standards, but that's not the point.

Years ago when i was a lad and BMX's were all the rage, they had the larger cruiser style BMX's and remember thinking "I've love one of those, in chrome, with loads of gears on it." (Yes... I invented the modern MTB and got NO credit!) .. that's pretty much what I've got now, my childhood dream bike.

I honestly would cry if it got stolen.

 

[ianrauk]

No.
Have no attachment to my bikes what so ever. Happy to sell one on if it means I am getting a new one.

 

[Biker Joe]

I am very attached to my bikes. Particularly the road bike.
They are part of who I am.

 

[Ningishzidda]

At the pedals, but not the handlebars or saddle.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I have had a bike now for about 6/7 years and I feel like I am somehow attached to it. I wouldnt want to lose it or damage it unnecessarily and I seem to be spending a lot on keeping it in good condition.
I have been through a lot with this bike (first race, first fall, first collision) so it holds a certain sentimental value to me.

However, lately it has become more of a hybrid than a racer and weighs about 40/50kg. It is starting to get rusty and the components now need changing. Its pretty crap but I dont want to sell it and get a new one.

Why am I lusting for it to love me back?

I had the impression you were 17 or 18. You have done well to keep riding a bike you had when you were 10, 11 or 12.

It is like a cat. It will not love you back.

It differs from a cat in not being permanently hungry and not crapping in shoes.

Do not waste your love on it. Sell it. It has no immortal soul and will not nourish your life with love.

It is a bicycle.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

My oldest bike became a year old 14th of January this year

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I was attached to my Kona; i just wish I wasn't literally atatched to it when that car puleld out in front of me

I haven't become attached to any of my current bikes yet but I'm sure I will in due course.

 

[lulubel]

It is like a cat. It will not love you back.

My cat loves me.

I don't think the Surly does, though. (But that's OK because I have enough love for both of us.)

Yes, I'm very attached to the Surly. I think this is because I built it from scratch with my own choice of components, so I know every little bit of it - even the bits you can't see because they're inside the frame - in a way I've never known any of my previous bikes. It's also my quirky, non-conforming bike, the bike that makes it clear that I'm a individual, I want what I want, and I will not settle for a one-size-fits-all, off-the-shelf product.

 

[PK99]

I have had a bike now for about 6/7 years and I feel like I am somehow attached to it. I wouldnt want to lose it or damage it unnecessarily and I seem to be spending a lot on keeping it in good condition.
I have been through a lot with this bike (first race, first fall, first collision) so it holds a certain sentimental value to me.

However, lately it has become more of a hybrid than a racer and weighs about 40/50kg. It is starting to get rusty and the components now need changing. Its pretty crap but I dont want to sell it and get a new one.

Why am I lusting for it to love me back?

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