Most expensive bike you have seen or own
08-17-05, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by dog hair
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08-17-05, 06:30 AM
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My cycling team advisor has a Litespeed Classic with Ultegra, a Litespeed mountain bike with XT. My history teacher in high school has a Litespeed but i don't know which model. He said something like spending 7 grand on it. Those are probably the most expensive bikes I've seen in person.
The other bike I have in mind is the bike shop mechanic's bike. Cannondale Six-13, full Dura-Ace, Dura-Ace crank with Cannondale gold rings, nokon wires, Deda Alanera integrated bars, and his choice of Ksyrium SL's, Dura-Ace wheels, Zipps, or Hed-3's.
The other bike I have in mind is the bike shop mechanic's bike. Cannondale Six-13, full Dura-Ace, Dura-Ace crank with Cannondale gold rings, nokon wires, Deda Alanera integrated bars, and his choice of Ksyrium SL's, Dura-Ace wheels, Zipps, or Hed-3's.
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Originally Posted by 2Rodies
The most expensive bike I've ever seen was a Serrotta Ottrot (sp) with Campy Hyperion carbon wheelset. That bike must have gone around $14k.
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08-17-05, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by dog hair
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08-17-05, 06:56 AM
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DeRosa King (i think) full Record the guy payed around 7k. Only thing different I would have done was go with a different wheelset as he dis Ksyrium. why put the most common wheels on an uncommon bike for my area?
08-17-05, 07:08 AM
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Most expensive I have seen as a complete bike was a tricked out Look with Carbon Record everything for 8.5K. The same shop has a partially built Seven Elium with Lightweight wheels for 8K. And my own most expensive bike is an 06 C-Dale 6-13 for 4.5K purchase price and about 4.8K as ridden today.
08-17-05, 07:38 AM
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The last couple of weeks there has been a guy showing up on our Saturday ride with a Giant TCR composite w/full Campy Record and an Obermeyer Light Weight wheel set. With that build up, it's probably the most expensive I've seen. I see lots of Dogmas, though. Throw those Obermeyers on any Italian frame and I imagine that would be it.
08-17-05, 08:02 AM
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One of my friend's sunny day bikes is a Pinarello Prince. It's full record with Zipp 404's. I'd guess around 6K. That's the most expensive I've seen on the road and not in a shop.
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ok yeah... mv agusta tamburini? but this isnt about motorcycles 
some guy in my group has this nice carbon yellow bike that has curves and starts with a C. cant remeber the name though but i know its decently priced
some guy in my group has this nice carbon yellow bike that has curves and starts with a C. cant remeber the name though but i know its decently priced
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Be apparently is also quite toxic. Which, in addition to use in military weapons, would surely have an impact on its use in the cycling industry.
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Custom built Davidson, ti and carbon. 13.1 pounds for a rider about 5'9". He said it cost just south of ten grand, and that his kids were out of college. He smiled when he said that.
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08-17-05, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DocRay
Ferrari Colnago, for the finest of poseurs:
08-17-05, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by hiracer
Custom built Davidson, ti and carbon. 13.1 pounds for a rider about 5'9". He said it cost just south of ten grand, and that his kids were out of college. He smiled when he said that.
08-17-05, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Raiyn
It's called a typographical error and they're easy to make (and fix).
"Your's" is actually a quite common misspelling, and it's a far cry from AOL'ese or "txtspk" which is just plain LAZY. How ************* hard is it to type a three letter word correctly? I could understand "yuo", "ypu" etc as those are also typos and I'm fine with that.
However Ur isn't a typo it's a bastardization of a perfectly good word all for the sake of saving a couple keystrokes on a board where time is not an issue in making a response. I could understand it in a real time chat situation where the guy is typing one handed due to lotion or something but there's no reason to do it here.
In my defense I DID run it through the spell check
"Your's" is actually a quite common misspelling, and it's a far cry from AOL'ese or "txtspk" which is just plain LAZY. How ************* hard is it to type a three letter word correctly? I could understand "yuo", "ypu" etc as those are also typos and I'm fine with that.
However Ur isn't a typo it's a bastardization of a perfectly good word all for the sake of saving a couple keystrokes on a board where time is not an issue in making a response. I could understand it in a real time chat situation where the guy is typing one handed due to lotion or something but there's no reason to do it here.
In my defense I DID run it through the spell check
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I'm surprised no one mentioned the Dogma Ego, $16,500.
I also custom built a bike on competitive cyclist that cost about $21000 in parts.
I also custom built a bike on competitive cyclist that cost about $21000 in parts.
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Originally Posted by Matt Gaunt
My bike may not be the most expensive but in terms of love and time invested in it it ranks pretty highly!
It also looks better than most (completely unbiased, objective opinion). See what I mean My Ride
It also looks better than most (completely unbiased, objective opinion). See what I mean My Ride
i like your chainstay protector. it looks very warm. yours is the first bike i've seen on here with the same bar/stem combo as mine.
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Originally Posted by sestivers
I saw a Be bike in bicycling magazine about 10 years ago, and it was $17,000 for frame and fork. The frame only (mountain bike) was less than one pound. The material properties of this element are truly unreal - the density of aluminum (or less), the strength of martinized steel (or more) and the fatigue resistance of steel as well. I know of an application in which spheres of the stuff are rotated at 36,000 revolutions per second continuously for months at a time without lubrication. If it weren't so expensive and monopolized by Government use, I'm sure Be would be used a lot more. Maybe waaaaaay into the future, it will be like Ti is now.
and whats it called
