Some of you people are mad!

[John the Monkey]

If I had the cash, I'd get a Mercian built up in Reynolds 953.

Don't think I'd see much change from £4000 when I'd done, and I wouldn't bloody apologise for it either.

If you've got the cash for the stuff you want, hell, go for it.

 

[darth vadar]

Errr........... the advert for the wheels is mine (still for sale by the way). They are my daughter's wheels, and she now has the Fulcrum 1. Reason for swapping? The old ones are silver and the new ones are black, and look so much better on her BMC Pro Machine, kitted out with Campagnolo Record and Centaur. Worth about £3000.00

I/we can afford it. House is paid for, we live relatively frugally, don't smoke/drink/gamble. Buy cheap cars. Don't have expensive holidays every year (usually every other year though - camping in Italy, chalet in Sweden, camper van in Australia were the last three). Two of my children have left home. Third one is at uni, and lfourthr is on a gap year. No debts of any kind, I've saved at least 10% of my income every year.

My money, I'll spend it how I like.

What do you waste yours on?

Excellent post.

Surely, a candidate for boast or brag of the year so far.

 

[Arch]

We're all different I guess. I'm pretty mean and frugal with myself - mostly by necessity, since if I'm frugal I can have the stuff I need and some I want, whereas if I splashed cash about on day to day stuff, I'd have nothing left to play with. I really can't see me ever paying hundreds of pounds for a pair of wheels, because I can't imagine they would ever bring me the benefit they might bring to someone very fit who competes in stuff. On the other hand, if I had the money, I'd pay out for a recumbent over an upright, because I know it gives me the comfort for long rides. In fact I have, although the recumbent cost me less than that £700 set of wheels - but still more than I'd comtemplate spending on another upright.

Also, it's down to disposable income. Spend the equivalent of two months rent on a pair of wheels, when I'm lucky to have a tenner spare at the end of the month at the moment? But if you're earning enough to save that sort of spare cash up easily, I guess that's up to you. I know that when I do have more money, it's easy to slip into spending it on all sorts of odds and ends.

(BTW, today I have been positively profligate, spending £4.50 on 6 pairs of socks, and £1.99 on Halloween decorations for my trike on the Whitby night ride.)

 

[rich p]

Excellent post.

Surely, a candidate for boast or brag of the year so far.

Not at all. The OP called him MAD, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek and jokey way, and Proto has merely explained how he justifies it.

 

[gavintc]

If I am honest, it is threads like this that really irritate me. Some people really do have an issue with how people spend their cash and seem to want to denigrate them. It is like the other thread that believes that cyclists on good bikes look down their noses at others or that clubs are full of stuck up people. People that post these messages, really do show themselves as rather insecure and unable to accept that others live their lives differently.

Some people cycle to get places, some cycle as a sport, some cycle as a hobby. Live and let live, and accept the broad range of cyclists out there. We are not all the same.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

........ The only original parts left are the frame and wheels, .................

Aren't you Trigger off Fools 'n Horses? How's the broom?

 

[Proto]

Excellent post.

Surely, a candidate for boast or brag of the year so far.

I'd scaled it down a bit so as not to upset you proles.

BTW in answer to the OP, no offence taken at all, and yes, I'd accept the 'mad' bit, but aren't we all in our own way. Live and let live.

PS the wheels in question were in action at Hillingdon circuit yesterday in the Women Only race. Didn't help much, but she got points and is now a 3rd Cat rider!

PPS I'm hoping to sell the Fulcrum 3 for £250 (probably on ebay), and I bought the mint condition Fulcrum1 version for £370.00. Not really so shocking, is it?

 

[darth vadar]

Read my original message which said


"If you've got big money to spend on a bike or whatever, then fantastic.

Just keep it to yourself"


Absolutely no need to share it with the rest of the world.

Why would anybody feel the need to justify themselves or their own personal circumstances on an open forum like this if they didn't want to brag about it?

What I do with my own money and what my own personal circumstances is of absolutely no interest to anyone else, nor would I bore any of you with the detail.

Seems straight forward enough to me.

 

[swee'pea99]

If I am honest, it is threads like this that really irritate me.  Some people really do have an issue with how people spend their cash and seem to want to denigrate them.  It is like the other thread that believes that cyclists on good bikes look down their noses at others or that clubs are full of stuck up people.  People that post these messages, really do show themselves as rather insecure and unable to accept that others live their lives differently.  

Some people cycle to get places, some cycle as a sport, some cycle as a hobby.  Live and let live, and accept the broad range of cyclists out there.  We are not all the same.

Lighten up dood...it's just a bit of fun. Say after me, ooooommmmmm......<chilled smiley>

 

[mark barker]

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Mad. Bonkers. Deeeeee-ranged!
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I'm with you on this one... For me its not the money thats an issue, its the weight saving (100grams!). I can't believe that anyone would really notice 100grams on a bike. Buying the new wheels because they're a better colour or the spokes look nicer or whatever I can get, but 100grams!? Nah!

 

[upsidedown]

If i was in a position to do it too right i would. I would love to be able to go to the Koga Miyata website, click on the World Traveller Signature link and hand-pick every component to suit my needs.
Since i stopped smoking i will treat myself to something nice every few months with not the slightest twinge of guilt.

paul

 

[CopperBrompton]

What I don't get is the concept of anyone needing to 'justify' how they spend their own cash. They want it, and can afford it: that's all the 'justification' needed.

 

[marzjennings]

Read my original message which said


"If you've got big money to spend on a bike or whatever, then fantastic.

Just keep it to yourself"


Absolutely no need to share it with the rest of the world.

Why would anybody feel the need to justify themselves or their own personal circumstances on an open forum like this if they didn't want to brag about it?

What I do with my own money and what my own personal circumstances is of absolutely no interest to anyone else, nor would I bore any of you with the detail.

Seems straight forward enough to me.

God that's so fecking English. It's seems to ok to discuss the success in patching up an old set of tyres to last another 1000 miles, but not the success in being able to afford to chuck 'em out and get a new set.

Folks brag about the miles they've travel in a year, how fast they've ridden, how high they've climbed and how many riders they've scalped. Is it so bad to brag about the bike or wheels one can now buy? I remember buying my first new bike ever after 25 years of cycling. It wasn't second hand or a cousin's hand-me-down, on sale in a store or damaged somehow, but new and cost more than my first car. Felt like a huge accomplishment at the time and something I wanted to brag about, but I'm English and we don't do that sort of thing, do we?

 

[Archie_tect]

It wasn't second hand or a cousin's hand-me-down, on sale in a store or damaged somehow, but new and cost more than my first car. Felt like a huge accomplishment at the time and something I wanted to brag about, but I'm English and we don't do that sort of thing, do we?

I think it's because of the humbling abilities of so many people on CC to be able to fix things that I feel in awe of them, so buying your way out seems a cop out much as I've done it - new Giant crs 1.0 last April- best thing I've ever bought. I even swapped it for the summer to a friend with a build-up road bike so he could do the C2C this summer- he loved it and I loved having a super lightweight road bike for a few weeks. Now he appreciates hybrids and I want a road bike!! [best of both worlds as we can swap now and again for a while!]