When do you know its time for a new bike?
05-10-20, 07:11 PM
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To the OP, as a couple of others have mentioned, time is finite and we only live once if you have a bike you really like the look of and the resources to get it then why not. I don't really need my new cross bike but I want it so I'm getting it. I don't need to equip it the way I am but I can afford it so I am doing so. I also would have never put a 5'8" person on a 56cm bike so getting a better fitting bike can be a good excuse as well.
05-10-20, 08:30 PM
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When the frame cracks.
05-11-20, 05:37 AM
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The answer is - it depends who you are. My main ride right now is a 1989 Panasonic, which I got quite used. Not a lot is original, it really needs some paint, has been ridden in the rain enough that every scratch has rust which I can't seem to control. It is a little on the heavy side, but serves me well and seems to work pretty flawlessly. My wife thinks I have spent too much on it, at least until I remind her that an entry level road bike is $1000, and I will spend over $2000.
Short story - Things like disc brakes, lighter, better components and frame would be reasons for me to purchase. Honestly, owning 2x7 and having ridden 2x10, the 'extra' gears barely phased me. It came down to weight and braking. And the bling factor!
Short story - Things like disc brakes, lighter, better components and frame would be reasons for me to purchase. Honestly, owning 2x7 and having ridden 2x10, the 'extra' gears barely phased me. It came down to weight and braking. And the bling factor!
05-11-20, 10:44 AM
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Always a good time for a new bike. There are is so many custom builders out there if I had the money I would probably start buying a bunch of them. Figure out what their are known for and a get a bike built in that vein. Chris Bishop for a lugged beauty, Firefly for anodized titanium, Peter Weigle for the ultimate Randonuerring machine, Don Walker for a the Track, Waterford for the heritage and lug work (never have too many lugged bikes) Adam Sklar for a swoopy mountain bike (maybe also a Retrotec as well), Nagasawa for some Japanese flavor...I could go on.
