Seriously?! £9k on a fucking bike? That's ridiculous.
That's for either pretentious poseur bankers, or the sponsors pay for it.

£9k on a pushbike is nonsense.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:21, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

It's a high end bike, its hardly comparable to the average road bike. Its like saying its stupid to buy a Ferrari because a Fiesta is cheaper.
Most of the money is down to development costs spread over the few that are sold.
( Peej, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

Yeah but you're the engine.
Let's face it - if you've got £9k to spend on a bike, you're going to be an alcoholic rich tubster that's just doing it for the lols. Which makes you a cunt.

Or you're going to be SIR Chris Hoy, in which case you won't pay for it anyway.

Also there is no point in buying a Ferrari as the speed limit is 70mph.

So that's YOU sussed!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

Bet you SIR Chris Hoy's bike cost more than 9k

( Peej, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:33, Reply)

I sincerely bloody hope so. I'll bet it cost more than
A MILLION pounds. 'Cos he's a knight and everything. So it stands to reason.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:35, Reply)

Can't be designed for a knight.
I can't see anywhere for him to couch his lance.
( Kroney, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:40, Reply)

See?! See?! All that money and it doesn't even have a fucking lance holder.
I bet it doesn't even have a fucking stand, either.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:41, Reply)

It's got a saddle, mind.
Doesn't look like it'd cope with full armour, but it might take a sneaky suit of mail.
( Kroney, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:45, Reply)

Around £35,000 for the Olympic Track bikes
UCI rules mean they have to be commercially available.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:53, Reply)

The fun in having a Ferrari is the amount of time it doesn't take to get you to the legal speed limit, officer.
Not that I'd know, personally.
( Kroney, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:38, Reply)

You could say that spending x on x is nonsense, sure.
Fact of the matter is that something is worth what people will pay for it. If people will pay 9 grand on a pedal bike, then that's what it's worth.

It's easy for me, coming from the perspective that a bike is a mode of transport that's mildly more convenient and slightly less uncomfortable than running, to say that's a ridiculous price tag but then it's not aimed at me.
( Kroney, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:26, Reply)

This is true. And I have no qualms about parting fools from their money.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:29, Reply)

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TGGI
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:29, Reply)

It looks like a batarang, which is kind of cool.

( Kroney, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:36, Reply)

Your bicycle?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 30 Oct 2013, 14:45, Reply)