DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Me likey that! that colour is stunning
Expensive bike shortage.
- Thread starter LesP
- Start date
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mattobrien
Guru
- Location
- Sunny Suffolk
There has always been a degree of inverse snobbery round here. As soon as someone wants to, or has spent what they are confortable with, but others aren’t, on a bike, they have more money than sense. This is despite them having the sense to get the money in the first place.
I’ve never noticed the same being applied to other areas of life, like houses or food. Clearly if you buy anything other then Tesco value baked beans, you have more money than sense.
I love cycling and will encourage anyone to do it. It doesn’t matter if they have a £50 bike or a £15,000 bike, as long as they enjoy themselves and more importantly, the cost of someone else’s bike doesn’t impinge upon my enjoyment of the sport I love.
I’ve never noticed the same being applied to other areas of life, like houses or food. Clearly if you buy anything other then Tesco value baked beans, you have more money than sense.
I love cycling and will encourage anyone to do it. It doesn’t matter if they have a £50 bike or a £15,000 bike, as long as they enjoy themselves and more importantly, the cost of someone else’s bike doesn’t impinge upon my enjoyment of the sport I love.
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Very very nice indeed. I have been looking at the Trek Domane myself (SL5 version)
Dont listen to the s**t about compensating for other things bullocks. If you can afford to buy a beautiful bike then buy it 👍
Jimidh
Veteran
- Location
- Midlothian
Thanks. I tend to ignore the snarky comments of a few individuals. The truth is none of us know the situation financial or otherwise of people on here but are quick to make judgements on other people’s choices.
I’ve spent the last 10 years paying back a fairly hefty business loan which helped me start up my company. Always promised myself that I would treat myself when I had paid the bank off. Did it last summer and it has taken me best part of the year to not feel guilty spending a good sum of cash on a mere bike. Only because my wife told me to go and buy it and the Covid situation showing me that life’s too short to worry about being frivolous now and again.
Then again it could be to cover for my tiny manhood
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Trek_Girl
Regular
- Location
- Birmingham
Trek_Girl
Regular
- Location
- Birmingham
Where did you order your bike? From Trek directly?
Jimidh
Veteran
- Location
- Midlothian
No from my LBS.
vickster
Legendary Member
Oh dear a trip to Spa might be in order for something pretty in Ti
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Trek_Girl said:
It's mainly the coronacyclists that are mopping up the supply at the lower end of the market, especially secondhand. At the same time, the virus has disrupted globalised supply chains reliant on far-east factories. You haven't the likes of Raleigh churning out nearly a million bikes a year in Nottingham any more. If we still manufactured mass market bikes here in the UK, the situation would not be anything like as bad as it is.
Millions of people either on furlough or working from home, looking for something to fill the time. Cycling is seen as a good way to get round the lockdown restrictions, for "exercise" reasons. Most coronacyclists are fickle though, and I reckon next year and possibly the year after that, will be a secondhand bargain bonanza for those who are frugal of wallet.
Come on, it is not a lot of money to many people out there.
Oh dear a trip to Spa might be in order for something pretty in Ti
🤣🤣 Stop it.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
It is a lot of money for a means of transport that isn't even fitted with an engine!
To some a bike is not just a means of transport.
