When off the peg new bikes start costing more than some new cars - !

[Lavender Rose]

wowwwwwwww

 

[screenman]

A close friend of mine spends between £18,000 and £20,000 a year on holidays, makes a £11,000 bike good value to me.

 

[raleighnut]

wowwwwwwww

I just don't like plastic bikes.

 

[vickster]

This is the bike I REALLY want.....£8,500 though When I win the lottery maybe...
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I wouldn't spend £8500 on a Specialized. Use your imagination. Design and get something unique. Imagine how you'd feel if you got passed at speed by someone on an identical bike...or several in a group....

 

[Smokin Joe]

If this was a symphony by Schubert -





This would be the B side of a rap record that didn't chart -

 

[Johnno260]

I like my Merida, it's fit for purpose, if I had spent more it would hardly help me, a Reacto would've been nice but aero would be wasted on me.

 

[Tin Pot]

<clears throat><looks sheepish>

 

[vickster]

Cost more or less than the Porsche though?

 

[Alan O]

<clears throat><looks sheepish>

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If a bike has to come with a Porsche to carry it round, well...

 

[smutchin]

Imagine how you'd feel if you got passed at speed by someone on an identical bike...or several in a group....

Why would you give a toss? (Unless you're racing against that group, obviously.)

 

[vickster]

Why would you give a toss? (Unless you're racing against that group, obviously.)

I don't really like seeing the same bike out on the road and even less so if I'd spent £8500. Prefer to have something individual, but that's me

Oh and it's black and carbon

 

[Lavender Rose]

I would buy the bike for how it made me feel - not anyone else

 

[vickster]

I would buy the bike for how it made me feel - not anyone else

But if you've spent £8500 on a racing bike which that is, you'd want to be quicker than everyone else, not just feel warm and fuzzy in yourself surely

 

[Lavender Rose]

I guess....I mean when I compete now....I am only competing against myself. I have never seen this bike at the competitions I enter. I am not overly competitive.......

 

[lazyfatgit]

But if you've spent £8500 on a racing bike which that is, you'd want to be quicker than everyone else, not just feel warm and fuzzy in yourself surely

Warm and fuzzy works for me.