More money than sense?

[Spoked Wheels]

Wheels are where its at ! My race wheels are worth more than the bike i put them on . In fact my training wheels are hand built and worth more than the bike i race on .
I need a new race bike !

For you, light wheels, make sense, you weight next to nothing. When you see a heavy weight spending small fortunes on light wheels then "more money than sense" is applicable in my view.

 

[outlash]

An alloy spoke on your front wheel could snap without warning. That could be nasty.

Or a tyre blowout, brake cable snapping, a pheasant running out from behind a hedgerow...

 

[Shed_head]

I hit a pot hole in the centre of the road a few weeks back doing 40MPH my carbon spoke wheels were fine, my carbon forks were fine however the bottom headset bearing feel to bits and nearly sent me in to the trees! I was also running lights and wearing a helmet.. No reflectors mind!!

 

[screenman]

More money than sense would be to buy the wheels and use them to ride to work every day .

But if that job paid you £10,000 a day, it would likely be less a % of days wages to wheels than what you are paying out.

 

[screenman]

I am not buying carbon until they start making stunt planes and Formula 1 cars out of the stuff.

 

[ColinJ]

I don't really follow. Did you have to retire as a result ?

Er, no ... You suggested that I must be more sensible than the average man so I demonstrated that I actually have less sense than the average man. The only reason that I have a good sense-to-money ratio is that I have even less money!

 

[ColinJ]

I think @ColinJ is recounting that anecdote to indicate how much sense he has (a sensible person would seek assistance immediately). And that he has less money than this.

HTH

Er, yes, that's it!

I replied to vickster just now before I saw that you had explained it for me ...:

 

[Cuchilo]

But if that job paid you £10,000 a day, it would likely be less a % of days wages to wheels than what you are paying out.

It wouldn't make and odds as its just not practical . The link i looked at where tubs and personally i would only buy them as racing wheels . Even if they where clinchers i would want the tyres to be in top condition for race days . It doesn't matter what price point they are , my race wheels are just that and i know they are in good order because i only race on them .

 

[screenman]

It wouldn't make and odds as its just not practical . The link i looked at where tubs and personally i would only buy them as racing wheels . Even if they where clinchers i would want the tyres to be in top condition for race days . It doesn't matter what price point they are , my race wheels are just that and i know they are in good order because i only race on them .

Why are they not practical? I know many people who commuted on tubs for years, I did myself once.

 

[Colin S]

Most people on her will probably do 30 to 40 mph downhill in lycra.!!
Don't think we need to overthink the carbon forks / wheels issues when the road are in the state they are.

Forks are stronger than you think and does anyone know of an actual wheel failure?


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[Andrew_P]

For you, light wheels, make sense, you weight next to nothing. When you see a heavy weight spending small fortunes on light wheels then "more money than sense" is applicable in my view.

You can apply the same view to most things in life I don't because what a person does with their money is their own business. Not in my psyche to think someone lacks sense or is stupid because they want to buy something expensive because they like it even if they think it will improve their cycling in someway who is to say it won't as long as they are happy with it good luck to them.

I will put my hands up I have commuted on £800 wheels. In fact my new winter hack wasn't a hack at all. And I am, wait for it 1.5 stone overweight. OK so I am burke but you get the picture :-)

 

[jonny jeez]

They're for people who can afford them. It's not only wealthy people who spend £4k on wheels, a lot of people on average salaries spend huge amounts of money on their hobbies. I've never got the term more money than sense, people with lots of money usually have lots of sense as that is how they accumulated their wealth. It's more likely poor people who lack sense.

Never judge a person by their bank balance

 

[Cuchilo]

Why are they not practical? I know many people who commuted on tubs for years, I did myself once.

I would and do , but i wouldn't use my race wheels and tyres to ride to work . They are for racing and i know what condition they are in . Having to worry about the state of your wheels and tyres before a race is not something i want to worry about so its not practical .

 

[steveindenmark]

They must have something going for them if they can afford thst much.

Just because somebody spends money on something I could not justify does not in my mind make them fools.

Ive just bought a Koga Carbon road bike which I can afford but could not justify to someone if I needed to. Fortunately, I dont have to justify my purchases, not even to Jannie.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

You can apply the same view to most things in life I don't because what a person does with their money is their own business. Not in my psyche to think someone lacks sense or is stupid because they want to buy something expensive because they like it even if they think it will improve their cycling in someway who is to say it won't as long as they are happy with it good luck to them.

I will put my hands up I have commuted on £800 wheels. In fact my new winter hack wasn't a hack at all. And I am, wait for it 1.5 stone overweight. OK so I am burke but you get the picture :-)

1.5 stone overweight would not shock me at all but those people that are 3 or 4 stone overweight not accepting the weight of an extra 4 spokes because they don't want the extra weight. They are happy to pay more for something that is light and in full knowledge that the wheels they are getting would never last the mileage they were built for, rather that loosing 25g of their own body weight.