Most expensive bike ?

mr_eddy

Was just flicking through a WMB mag and noticed a Merid 96 for £8000!

This got me wondering, what is the most expensive production MTB around. I know there is a Scott that is about £7500.

I am not talking about team bikes or custom one offs, I mean a bike I could (If I had the cash!) go and buy in a shop or online??

At one point does the extra cost only amount to extra kudos. Surely if you spend £4000 on a MTB you can expect XTR, DT swiss etc

Thoughts?

Chaz.Harding

There's always gonna be Uber expensive Uber bikes.

Like you suggest, the performance stops at a certain point, the advantages are so marginal, you would have to be a pro-world cup / olympic level rider to feel the benefit.

No point.

You could get SEVERAL ace bikes for 8 grand!!

8)

fourcrossjohn

land rover have a production bike at 38k but they build in batchs of 10 so u have to wait for the list to fill up to 10 first

maybe cheaper to get a defender n put ure bike in it

amt27

a company was producing mtb frames made of Beryllium back in the early 90s for about $25k i think

Prowlus

howabout the ones made by supercar manufacturers?



25k when it came out

Cheshley

...and it looks a right pig!!!!!

Daz555

Blimey, they've got a whole fleet of mingers:

http://www.porsche-bikes.com/default.aspx?site=Galery

Looks like they were designed by the same blind man who did the Cayenne.

cat_with_no_tail

What was the DH rig built by Honda a while back, the RN01. Almost every single bit was custom built by Honda, rumour has it that it cost something stupid like $70k.
The bike was never commercially available (not that anyone would ever have been able to afford one anyway) and the team does not exist anymore.
Hate to think how much it weighed, looks heavier than some of the motorbikes I have owned.

jamesst

How did u peddle this thing? looks as though u can't?

cat_with_no_tail

jamesst wrote:

How did u peddle this thing? looks as though u can't?

Greg Minnaar managed it alright. Did quite well on that bike by all accounts.

2 silvers and a bronze at the World Championships I believe (Elite DH).

I know what you mean though, bet that Gearbox adds some weight.

tptvmbircn

...car designers should stick to car design...

FACT!

Stoo61

I dont know how the average Joe Bloggs or even decent British XC/Downhill racer can justify paying near enough £8000 for a bike, its mental.

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

the honda is one sexy beast, also the forks are made by showa who as far as i know dont make commercially available bicycle forks as they are a motorbike fork manufacturer. As for the porsche it is fugly and looks like one of them £70 'full suspension' 'lightweight aluminium' bikes you get from halfords :oops:

projectsome

Stoo61 wrote:

I dont know how the average Joe Bloggs or even decent British XC/Downhill racer can justify paying near enough £8000 for a bike, its mental.

I would if I had the money....

nicklouse

Terry Barker wrote:

...car designers should stick to car design...

FACT!

Err it was the Motor cycle designers that did the Honda.

Dirtydog11

Prowlus wrote:

howabout the ones made by supercar manufacturers?



25k when it came out

Not surprising coming from the same design studio that brought us the Porche Cockster.

tptvmbircn

nicklouse wrote:

Terry Barker wrote:

...car designers should stick to car design...

FACT!

Err it was the Motor cycle designers that did the Honda.

...motorcycle designers should stick to motorcycle design...

FACT! haha

Dobbs

mbuk resident armed forces

Can somebody tell me what this means please?

allthegearnoidea

there is the delta 7 isotruss frame that costs a few coins too!
http://delta7sports.com/isotruss.html

was in the money no object section of a bike mags bikes by price,
i think it was somehting like $12k which then wasnt so bad but now has gone up quite a bit!!

UncleMonty

^ "IsoTruss open lattice structures" looks like a cheese grater and is just plain dangerous

Daz555

Imagine how much mud that would collect on a typical UK trail in January!

Salsa

Yeah that Isotruss bike is a really stupid design, they had it available as a frame or complete bike. Funniest thing was the complete was so stupidly priced that if you bought the frame & the exact same components off the shelf it worked out cheaper than the complete!