Omg just found next years new toy..

[swiftylee]

Was chatting to my local bike shop about how much I enjoy my cannondale caad 8 and parting with her soon for the winter...

He said have you seen the 2014 cannondale super six evo at £1699 carbon...

Omg fell in love

Gonna have to order one for sure

 

[vickster]

Why are you selling a bike for the winter?!

 

[Saluki]

Why are you selling a bike for the winter?!

I was just about to ask the same thing.

 

[Sully]

Perhaps he's putting it to bed for winter ?

 

[vickster]

No, he's selling it in the classifieds

 

[Kookas]

Why are you selling a bike for the winter?!

It's a sound plan. Sell your bike, because you wouldn't be riding it over winter anyway, throw the money from that in the bank, and over the winter, save up some cash so you can have a better bike next year.

 

[vickster]

Why not ride over the winter, keep some fitness, enjoy the new bike more

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It's a sound plan. Sell your bike, because you wouldn't be riding it over winter anyway, throw the money from that in the bank, and over the winter, save up some cash so you can have a better bike next year.

The drawback is you loose half a years cycling.

 

[classic33]

The drawback is you loose half a years cycling.

Winters only a quarter of the year though.

 

[Kookas]

The drawback is you loose half a years cycling.

If the bike in question is the 'good bike', you might not ride it over the winter anyway. A lot of people switch to their winter bikes instead. So to sell the summer bike and save up while riding the winter bike for an even better summer bike makes a lot of sense.

 

[ColinJ]

Winters only a quarter of the year though.

The most recent one wasn't!

 

[classic33]

The most recent one wasn't!

It wasn't that bad! Granted we'd snow in early May, but thats not half a year.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

If the bike in question is the 'good bike', you might not ride it over the winter anyway. A lot of people switch to their winter bikes instead. So to sell the summer bike and save up while riding the winter bike for an even better summer bike makes a lot of sense.

My geared best bike goes away when the clocks change, I ride my fixed all through the winter, the geared bike comes out again in the spring, your plan is a good one, but my geared bike is only three years old and hasn't done much more than 5000 miles so it will be a while before I buy a replacement, the way I read the original post was that the op stopped riding for the winter.

 

[Moodyman]

So you buy a new bike, ride it over the summer, sell it in autumn for a fraction of the purchase price, stop riding in winter and lose your fitness, and buy a new, usually worse spec, bike the next Spring.

That's a well thought out plan.

 

[YahudaMoon]

I cant imagine being without a bike for any amount of time, never been without some kind of bicycle since 1983