biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Never spent anywhere near a grand and I have always enjoyed riding my bikes.
Easy to get confused by expert cyclists.
- Thread starter gavroche
- Start date
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Kingfisher101
Über Member
What bike is it please? out of interest.
- Location
- London
Got to ask what this is, a pic maybe. Honest request.
- Location
- London
Steel raleigh royal?
- Location
- London
Will keep a look out for them.
Have heard good things in the past about them.
Can i ask what the tubing is?
Were they usually flat bar? Had idea they usually had drops.
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
My current favourite bike was sixty quid (it was the cyclechat bargain of the year mind you).
My bikes range for £30 to over £4k. Each have their own style and ride differently, I don't regret a single penny spent on them. Even the full suspension MTB that hung in my garage pretty much unused for a few years that I lost a fortune on. The smiles per mile on each bike is well worth what I paid. Then again - I just spent £400 on a kayak paddle and realised that I picked the wrong colour 
davidphilips
Veteran
- Location
- Onabike
The cycle industry same as car/beauty/holiday and so on spend vast sums of money paying for advertising and so called experts to help us part with our money, there will always be debate on what bike is best value, lasts longer , what groupset or frame material or wheels are best etc.
My view is that for most you only need one bike that is the correct size, after that its what you want and money spent on cycling is money well spent if you use your new bike/wheels etc.
There are a few i cycle with that have spent vast sums on bikes and just last week was looking at the new bike a custom made Donard costing over 9k nice looking bike made from Reynolds 953.
I was on one of my older bikes perhaps worth about £150 only after the coffee stop when we started cycling again did i think the donard was great looking perhaps as good looking as any bike i have seen but my own test for a really great bike is cycle on it, do a few long cycles and you should not notice any thing or even think about the gears/brakes etc the really good bike is totally unnoticeable when cycling it just does every thing right.
How much to spent on a good bike? only know 2 true answers, law of diminishing returns applies along with how longs a bit of string?
Buy a cheap supermarket bike and it should be ok for short cycles etc but start doing long cycles or hard training on it and it just wont last, buy a top of the range bike with Campagnolo super record etc and end up paying over £300 every time you replace a chain and cassette?
My view is that for most you only need one bike that is the correct size, after that its what you want and money spent on cycling is money well spent if you use your new bike/wheels etc.
There are a few i cycle with that have spent vast sums on bikes and just last week was looking at the new bike a custom made Donard costing over 9k nice looking bike made from Reynolds 953.
I was on one of my older bikes perhaps worth about £150 only after the coffee stop when we started cycling again did i think the donard was great looking perhaps as good looking as any bike i have seen but my own test for a really great bike is cycle on it, do a few long cycles and you should not notice any thing or even think about the gears/brakes etc the really good bike is totally unnoticeable when cycling it just does every thing right.
How much to spent on a good bike? only know 2 true answers, law of diminishing returns applies along with how longs a bit of string?
Buy a cheap supermarket bike and it should be ok for short cycles etc but start doing long cycles or hard training on it and it just wont last, buy a top of the range bike with Campagnolo super record etc and end up paying over £300 every time you replace a chain and cassette?
Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
I can't remember where I originally heard/read this, but there are only two things you need to remember about an expert: an 'ex' is a has-been and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure. 
- Location
- London
>>but my own test for a really great bike is cycle on it
I take it you weren't allowed to test ride this "donard" ?(must admit they mean nothing to me in my ignorance)
Probably further up the threadI can't remember where I originally heard/read this, but there are only two things you need to remember about an expert: an 'ex' is a has-been and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Cervelo C3 which cost me £3000 and I've since invested £6-700 on wheels.
This one in these colours.
https://images.app.goo.gl/UHL4SyYHsjkdRXJ77
People criticise Cervelo but I don't care. This bike fits like a glove, it's an extension of my body to the extent I don't even know it's there! 😂
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