Are we sick??
02-25-07 | 09:35 AM
#26
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Bikes: 2008 Kink Transition with upgrades, 2007 Haro Thread 1 with upgrades.
Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
$25,000 is just a number. Whether it's a lot or not depends entirely on what you are compareing.
Park a $25,000 bass boat and trailer in your driveway and you're neighbors won't even notice. In the end, all that it's good for is having fun. If you choose to buy $25,000 worth of bike stuff for having fun, what's the difference?
In the long run it probably won't matter because the health care people are going to get whatever money you have left before you die anyway. I say "Screw 'em!"
Park a $25,000 bass boat and trailer in your driveway and you're neighbors won't even notice. In the end, all that it's good for is having fun. If you choose to buy $25,000 worth of bike stuff for having fun, what's the difference?
In the long run it probably won't matter because the health care people are going to get whatever money you have left before you die anyway. I say "Screw 'em!"
02-25-07 | 09:45 AM
#27
well hello there
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From: Point Loma, CA
Bikes: Bill Holland (Road-Ti), Fuji Roubaix Pro (back-up), Bike Friday (folder), Co-Motion (tandem) & Trek 750 (hybrid)
Don't make me think about total bike expenditures. I might start crying. The wife and I have two titaniums, two hybrids, a tandem, a fixed gear, a folder, and a couple kids' bikes. I like to think of them as my "investments in the future", instead of a drain on the bank account.
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02-25-07 | 09:58 AM
#28
Originally Posted by baj32161
Oh you're cruel!
he wishes we were talking purse here
02-25-07 | 10:11 AM
#29
Royal Grand Exalted Pooba
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From: Eight Miles High
Bikes: Time VXR ProTeam, Look 695, Pinarello Paris Carbon, Ridley Dean, Time ZXRS
i'm buying a new bike. yesterday, my girl friend said "you've got more money invested in bikes than you do in the rest of your house". i laughed until i started thinking about it. she's right. do i feel bad about it? nah. it's about the only thing i spend my money on. a fisherman co-worker laughed at me a few months ago about the prices i've paid for three bikes; he couldn't believe i would be so stupid as to pay what i do for what he considers a toy, a kid's plaything. i told him he spent more than me for his bass boat and outboard, simply so he can sit around all day eating potato chips and drinking beer while trying to catch an animal with an i.q. of 2, and he fails 90% of the time. that pretty much shut him up. everyone has something they enjoy so much they spend most of their money on it. ours happens to be bikes. could be a lot worse. at least i don't smell like fish
smoke
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'In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us." '
-Fyodor Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor
02-25-07 | 10:14 AM
#30
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From: philadelphia
Bikes: black bike, white bike, blue bike, yellow bike, silver bike
we have 8 bikes—6 built from ground up. you can just imagine how much we've spent. we're also in qeue for two cross bikes from a local builder.
it's sickening when I think about it. but then I also think we met racing, and training is how we eventually became inseperable. it's just what we've always done you know?
it's sickening when I think about it. but then I also think we met racing, and training is how we eventually became inseperable. it's just what we've always done you know?
02-25-07 | 10:17 AM
#31
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From: philadelphia
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Originally Posted by Punx
Yea, i guess your right. It also matters your paycheck. I make $125 a month. So $1500 a year. Im 13, i could have $25000 in about 16.5 years if i still did my paper route when i was 29.5. Yay.
02-25-07 | 12:12 PM
#33
Magnesium Dogmatic
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From: Long Beach, CA
Bikes: Look 585 Ultra, Pinarello Dogma, Pegoretti Duende, Orbea, Cannondale Capo
I bought a new Lemond, didn't like it, sold it and bought a Litespeed Vortex, followed by a Cannondale Capo SS bike and a used Orbea, all in less than one year. I am as sick as you are.
02-25-07 | 03:10 PM
#34
55 degrees is too cold!
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From: Los Angeles
Bikes: 2005 mercier corvus, 2007 cannondale caad 9
Lately, I've noticed that I've been pricing things in terms of bikes. like in the fast food $1 burger commercial. $800 for a colonoscopy=a decent entry road bike, $10,000 car=dream bike, and the last one I'd ever buy before my family kills me.
02-25-07 | 03:14 PM
#35
Peloton Shelter Dog
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From: Chester, NY
Bikes: 2017 Scott Foil, 2016 Scott Addict SL, 2018 Santa Cruz Blur CC MTB
Originally Posted by smittyben
notice the price difference between his bike and his wife's bike, price wise. 
I rode over 21K miles the past two years. Does it make more sense now? I'm OCP. She's WMSC (Watch the Men Suck Channel aka Lifetime Network).
02-25-07 | 04:01 PM
#36
Roman Killer
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Originally Posted by rbart4506
Right after christmas my wife and I visited our LBS to drop off some wheels and ended up buying matching 07 Roubaix Experts. They had my size in stock and as soon as we saw it we knew we needed to have one. She decided that she would buy me the bike for my 40th birthday and that she'd also get one for herself. Only problem was they didn't have her size in stock so it would need to be ordered. That was ok since my bday wasn't until early March and we didn't want to take the one bike home without the other. So today we returned to the shop to check on the status of her bike and got looking at cyclocross bikes...Any idea where this is going?? We use to mountain bike a lot and basically stopped once we bought our first road bikes (04 Roubaix's) After we got the new bikes my wife decided it was time to sell the MTB's. Her two went quick, but mine are still around. At any rate we thought the cross bikes would be good for the gravel roads, rail trails and doubletrack trail we have around here. Well we looked at a Kona Jake the Snake and of course they had one that fit her and one that should fit me. The Kona was put in the back and we're returning on Tuesday to talk to the owner to work out a price. So in the span of 6 weeks we will have bought 4 bikes. All I can say is thank god for the bonus she got and I'm one lucky guy. If I don't sell my MTB's that will bring me up to 5 bikes and she will have 3.
Cycling a game the whole family can play *lol*
Cycling a game the whole family can play *lol*
02-25-07 | 05:01 PM
#37
Magnesium Dogmatic
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From: Long Beach, CA
Bikes: Look 585 Ultra, Pinarello Dogma, Pegoretti Duende, Orbea, Cannondale Capo
Originally Posted by smoke
i'm buying a new bike. yesterday, my girl friend said "you've got more money invested in bikes than you do in the rest of your house". i laughed until i started thinking about it. she's right. do i feel bad about it? nah. it's about the only thing i spend my money on. a fisherman co-worker laughed at me a few months ago about the prices i've paid for three bikes; he couldn't believe i would be so stupid as to pay what i do for what he considers a toy, a kid's plaything. i told him he spent more than me for his bass boat and outboard, simply so he can sit around all day eating potato chips and drinking beer while trying to catch an animal with an i.q. of 2, and he fails 90% of the time. that pretty much shut him up. everyone has something they enjoy so much they spend most of their money on it. ours happens to be bikes. could be a lot worse. at least i don't smell like fish
smoke
smoke
02-25-07 | 05:24 PM
#38
Originally Posted by iNewton
Aw. touchy-bitsy feelings.
02-25-07 | 06:35 PM
#39
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If sickness is a $300 Windsor track bike, then I'm sick. The track is fun!
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Il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace
1980 3Rensho-- 1975 Raleigh Sprite 3spd
1990s Raleigh M20 MTB--2007 Windsor Hour (track)
1988 Ducati 750 F1
