Guitars vis a vis Bikes

[fidelio]

I know loads about guitars. I've played the cheap and horrible, the cheap and brilliant and also the expensive and horrible. I know nothing about bikes, so I want someone to translate bikes to guitars....
(er...this is the cafe bit, right, the bit where I can talk bollocks?)
I'm something of a returner to cycling. I cycled a lot in my teens on a 5 speed steel bike. Commuted for a bit on a cheap Dawes hybrid. Just got a Triban 3.
If my Triban 3 was a guitar, what guitar would it be? I rather suspect it would be a Korean Ibanez. I went out with a couple of friends at the weekend. One was riding a Les Paul and the other a hand made guitar....er... I mean bike, with a maple neck and a mahogany body. Sorry. I mean carbon fibre body. I mean frame. And bikes don't have necks anyway, do they?
I really don't want to go down the spending loads of money route. With guitars, the spend curve is like this with points out of 10:
Cheap: £100: 5/10
Quite Cheap: £200 7-8/10
Pricey: £900 9/10
Expensive: £1200-£25,000 10/10

What is the vfm curve like on bikes? I think there would have to be another bike/guitar nerd on here to get an interesting response. Somebody might, for example. tell me that there is a bike equivalent of the matsumoku factory. But I doubt it.
My verdict: Triban 3 = Korean Telecaster = stupidly good value, but leaves you wanting a tiny bit more.

 

[defy-one]

I know nothing about guiters or bikes. Your verdict is the only thing that makes sense. Verdict = spot on

 

[vernon]

I know loads about guitars. I've played the cheap and horrible, the cheap and brilliant and also the expensive and horrible. I know nothing about bikes, so I want someone to translate bikes to guitars....

You've clearly got too much time on your hands if you are pondering on the imponderable.

However if someone want's to map bikes onto pies I am all ears and snout

 

[biggs682]

never played guitar or ridden the much hyped Triban 3

 

[ComedyPilot]

Bikes like guitars are (to people who like them) desireable objects, and people will pay a lot for them, or as little as possible.

Like the music scene, cycling is full of people that are 'all the gear, no idea', and just as you'll have an idiot with a vintage Les Paul murdering 'Stairway to Heaven' down the Dog & Duck, you'll have some idiot riding farm tracks on a Pinarello Dogma

The best advice I can give is get the bike to suit the riding you're doing, not how much it costs. You will look a complete berk riding a Cervelo P3 to the shops to buy a loaf of bread, and you will look equally naff on the start line of a local TT on a sturmey archer-geared step thru.

 

[Fnaar]

I ride to work on a broken ukelele, and my road bike is a Fender copy, but they are both played by Django Reinhardt, if that helps.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I know loads about guitars. I've played the cheap and horrible, the cheap and brilliant and also the expensive and horrible. I know nothing about bikes, so I want someone to translate bikes to guitars....

So what bike does my 'dream' Gretsch G6120 (Setzer signature model) relate to??


A Ridley Noah?
Pinarello Dogma 2.0?
Trek Madone '7'?

http://www.gretschguitars.com/products/index.php?partno=2400110822

 

[HovR]

I have no clue about guitars, but £400 to £500 will get you a lot of bike for your money on the second hand market - Especially in the coming months with winter closing in, and manufacturers starting to release their 2013 ranges of bikes.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

So what bike does my 'dream' Gretsch G6120 (Setzer signature model) relate to??

Schwinn Black Phantom

 

[palinurus]

I don't know, I seem to prefer my cheaper basses. My late 70s US Fender P is the worst (admittedly it's probably a bad 'un, it's right heavy)- I'll hang on to it for another 20 years then sell it. Best ones are the Tokai Jazz bass (actually that isn't even mine- it's the drummer's* but it's been my main bass for a year or so) and the cheapo Fretless "Vintage" Jazz bass- £200 and it records beautifully.

*a drummer who's also a bassist- is that actually worse than being a drummer or a bassist? And how do you tell if a bass playing drummer is knocking at your door?

 

[Fnaar]

Is a fixie a bit like a tea-chest bass? Elegant in its simplicity, but needs someone who knows what to do with it?

 

[ComedyPilot]

I don't know, I seem to prefer my cheaper basses. My late 70s US Fender P is the worst (admittedly it's probably a bad 'un, it's right heavy)- I'll hang on to it for another 20 years then sell it. Best ones are the Tokai Jazz bass (actually that isn't even mine- it's the drummer's* but it's been my main bass for a year or so) and the cheapo Fretless "Vintage" Jazz bass- £200 and it records beautifully.

*a drummer who's also a bassist- is that actually worse than being a drummer or a bassist? And how do you tell if a bass playing drummer is knocking at your door?

The knock always slows down?

 

[Get In The Van]

I would say the Triban is more in the Epiphone range
our guitarist has got a Gordon Smith guitar, not expensive as studio Les Paul or a Angus Young SG but its probably the nicest guitar i have ever heard! he sold his US tele after getting this guitar
in bike terms for him it would be a Specialized allez or Giant Defy 3 riding like a Specialized SL4

 

[Black Sheep]

my road bike was owned by the who,

well, if it was a guitar, then it would have been and suffered as a result!

 

[jazzkat]

The parallels are so similar.
A good rider would make a old heavy steel framed clunker go like a rocket in the same way that a good player would make a cheap egg slicer action guitar sing like an angel.
There are lots of slow people on expensive bikes and a lot of crappy players with £££££ prs.
It doesn't matter either way as long as people are out riding/playing doing their thang!
I think my Trek 1.7 is a usa 60's strat, will do almost anything reasonably well. While my Dawes Galaxy would be a Telecaster, unbreakably reliable!