Will someone talk some sense into me !

[Mark Walker]

As i have posted in prev threads I am relatively new to cycling and I am at a loss to understand what is happening to me.
After over 20 years of running and playing cricket, always making do with good gear but not going over the top ,now I have found cycling, I find myself pouring over mags (the Rose one in particular ) and bike reviews , credit card at by my finger tips and ready to push the button.
My first foray was a hybrid bike 6 mths ago then a cyclo cross 2 months ago , now i find myself hankering over a road bike ! Does this end ? I have a perfectly good Giant TXC 2 so why do I want a Defy or a Cannondale caadx or a Rose .or a ...............?
Please some one help me and talk some sense into me.
PS I am over 50 so surely I should now better ?

 

[derrick]

You will still have a fixie to go

 

[marshmella]

The bug has bitten; I'm afraid there is no known cure

 

[ianjmcd]

Your doomed like all the rest of us

 

[lulubel]

Does this end ?

No.

Sorry to be so blunt, but it really doesn't.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Nay, it's never ending

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

You can buy little gifts for the bikes and they'll do for a while but, sorry, you're only going to delay the inevitable.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

You'll be wearing skinny jeans and growing an ironic moustache
then walking your bike between coffee shops like a proper hipster in a couple of years
You're doomed

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Credit cards are the worst. Especially when there is 10% off everything over £99 at Wiggle just now. That set of tubular carbon rims at £1000 seem much more appealing when i get £100 off them. My bank even sent me a letter recently doubling my credit card limit. Erm trying to tell me something guys??

 

[Grayduff]

Hello everybody my names grayduff and i am an addict...

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Though my brother had a few with me the other night and ended up buying this:

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/...in/product/review-rose-xeon-crs-4400-12-46230

Got it for £1600, with pedals, as they are clearing stock. I mean who could say no??!!

He did text me later asking what the hell he had just done. Never drink and look at the Rose or Canyon websites. Or Wiggle.

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Hello everybody my names grayduff and i am an addict...

My name is Pedro. My missus may stage an intervention on my credit card.

 

[Grayduff]

My name is Pedro. My missus may stage an intervention on my credit card.

Mine has

 

[ianjmcd]

Though my brother had a few with me the other night and ended up buying this:

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/...in/product/review-rose-xeon-crs-4400-12-46230

Got it for £1600, with pedals, as they are clearing stock. I mean who could say no??!!

He did text me later asking what the hell he had just done. Never drink and look at the Rose or Canyon websites. Or Wiggle.

oh you sod you just had to post another drool worthy cycling kit site

 

[TheDoctor]

There is no known cure.
I have a road bike, flat-bar tourer, Brommie, 2 MTBs (one in bits), a fixie, a crap folder, a hub geared pub bike with a pringled back wheel, a Kirk frame waiting to be built up, another MTB I've only just remembered, the bits to make a FWD 'bent once I have a spare weekend and I can't remember the last time the car could fit in the garage. It may have actually been the car before the one before the one before last that fitted in. Possibly.
And I need a 'bent trike. And a penny-farthing.
We're all doomed. Doomed, I tell you.
*weeps*