What is your total spend on cycling?

[PeteXXX]

What, as the topic says, is your total spend on cycling, give or take a hundred or so?
Assuming the other half isn't monitoring CC ()

Mine, since it progressed from a passtime to a sport, over the last 10 years, is in the region of....

£4,500 excluding transport, coffee, cake, ice creams etc. give or two a cleat or two.

Quite a good return on investment, IMHO, if you consider the cost of some hobbies like golf or fishing

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Did my wife put you up to this?

 

[DCLane]

£9340 over 5 1/2 years, but commuting's saved £8030 = an outlay of £1310

I've also got the bikes, loads of parts, clothes and tools so I think I'm well in the positive.

Oh, and I'm not dead. Which it's likely I would've been by now given the state of my health back then.

 

[slowmotion]

I did a rough calculation a few years ago, and the per mile rate came out at about 8 pence, excluding the cost of the bike. I usually ride about four or five thousand miles a year. I don't buy flash clothes or stuff like that, but things just wear out.

It's not cheap but who cares?

 

[classic33]

It'd be about £1,000 a year over the last ten years. Not counting money saved by cycling.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been cycling for well over 40 years, it's been about 37 years since I came back to cycling after a break, I have no idea how much I've spent, if I did know and wrote it down I suspect the figure would resemble a telephone number.

 

[swee'pea99]

Not a lot. The only actually expensive thing I've ever bought is my current Look carbon, for which I paid something like £800 on ebay. Apart from that, I'd be surprised if I've spent more than about a thousand quid over the last decade - and that's including sportive fees, which is probably my biggest single expense nowadays, even though I only do a couple a year. Other than that it's just tyres and brake blocks. And I don't get through very many of those. (I don't cover anything like the mileage of some hereabouts - probably shy of 2000 a year all told.) I've certainly saved a helluva lot more than I've spent.

 

[classic33]

I've been cycling for well over 40 years, it's been about 37 years since I came back to cycling after a break, I have no idea how much I've spent, if I did know and wrote it down I suspect the figure would resemble a telephone number.

International?

 

[mjr]

Total? No idea. I haven't kept my receipts from when I was five or whatever.

 

[Onthedrops]

Haven't a clue TBH but I'm sure Mrs OTD would be shocked if she knew!

 

[MichaelW2]

In the last 20 years I have spent £2000 on bikes and maybe £500-600 on other bike equipment. During that time I have used bikes for all local transport as well as fitness which costs quite a bit more than £130/year of my spend.
Assuming £500/year local transportation and £240/year on fitness (gym/pool etc), that would amount to £14,800.
Net saving = £12,200.

 

[PeteXXX]

My rough calculation so far, before bedtime, is that cycling is monetarily positive,

I will explain this to MrsPete in the morning.

 

[BrynCP]

Since I started in Nov 2013 I have spent

• £1125 on two bikes
• £450 on Garmins (although I am including the £350 one which was a generous gift)
• £200 on repairs and tools
• £260 on wheels and lights
• £50 on locks
• £500+ on shoes and clothing
• £10 on sun cream (cheapest factor 50 I can find)

I've cycled about 13 000 miles, so this is working out about 20p mile and constantly diminishing.

 

[BrynCP]

No cake?

Never eaten cake. My fuel of choice is Lidl muesli bars. They are about £1 a box of 8, and I have 1 per 40 miles during a ride.

 

[slowmotion]

Never eaten cake. My fuel of choice is Lidl muesli bars. They are about £1 a box of 8, and I have 1 per 40 miles during a ride.

Yep, cake is grossly overrated. Fig rolls here, but rarely.