what bike if you won ...

mountainroadie
mountainroadie Posts: 244
edited May 2009 in Commuting chat
the euromillions .
its a dream but what bike and spec would you purchase .
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Already got my dream bike! I'd stick Super Record 11 on it though and some of the new Lightweight clinchers, and some Speedplay nano pedals.
  • mountainroadie
    mountainroadie Posts: 244
    you can get those lightweight clinchers with PRINCE decals
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    I wouldn't change the bikes I have, but I'd get three sets of Campy Bora Ultras. One set for each bike, and one set for the support vehicle I'd pay to drive around behind me, mending my punctured tubs. :wink:
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Would be buying more than one bike I reckon, maybe a Maxima with Super Record, something handbuilt and titanium, a nice retro steel number...
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    the euromillions .
    its a dream but what bike and spec would you purchase

    I'll let you know on Monday when I've told work to stick it and been to the shops to spend my cash.
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  • TheDrunkMonk
    TheDrunkMonk Posts: 181
    I want to make something based around a Colnago Master X-lite frame. Ol' skool looking, springy steel loveliness, with something expensive and Italian for a groupset, just to see what all the fuss is about. We can't all have the latest carbon space age stuff. It would be boring.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Already got it.

    However, I would probably get a fancy SS and a TT bike... :D
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I quite fancy a Van Nichols style titanium frame myself, but in a 'cross style frame, some really nice wheels (probably custom around ultegra hubs or something). Ultegra gearset, brakes.. mind you the DTSwiss hubs look nice too

    Infact I'm tempted to build it all up myself, lotto or no lotto. :P
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Moots VaMoots. Ti post, Ti stem, Chris King headset, clavicula cranks, a few sets of wheels to suit the occasion, Record, Red, or DA - whatever was best that year.

    I'd only need about £10k. That's achievable, I just need to bill more and pass more exams.

    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Maxima, Super Record 11, Zipp 808s or some other exotic wheels for the road bike.
    A full on TT bike just for fun.
    A nice custom Van Nic ti for when the weather is bad.

    I'd also get that mad coach they showed on Top Gear a while back, this will allow me to get myself, the family (if I don't run off without them!) and the bikes out and about and also has a nice little sports car stowed underneath :-)

    Something like this would be perfect:

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  • mountainroadie
    mountainroadie Posts: 244
    i would have a few

    pinarello prince +super R ,bora ultras

    pinarello prince {in devil colour scheme} for when im moody :(

    viner maxima{red/black}super R,most lightweight

    oh and custom oakley radars and bettini w/c sidis
    matching team kit
    coz im vain :oops:
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Where the heck do you start?

    A Storck, just to see what the fuss is about. Ditto the Muuseeoeoeoeoew flax jobbies.

    An Independent Fabrication, perhaps a couple.

    A Litespeed Ti bike.

    The alu frame I think Longo won her Olympic title on as a collector's item. Not sure, but there was won she road and it just looks lovely.

    A nuclear bomb of a TT bike.

    A seriously high end cross bike to race on.

    And wheels. Mt God, lots of wheels. Lews. Edges. Lightweights. Zipps. Heds.

    But I'd still keep my existing bikes. :)
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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    If I won? Hell, which company would I buy? :D
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,396
    marchant wrote:
    If I won? Hell, which company would I buy? :D


    Shimano or Campagnolo? :lol:
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  • Lysander
    Lysander Posts: 349
    It would have to be a Passoni Ti bike with super record and lightweight wheels.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Hmmm could buy your own velodrome and "help" train Pendleton. :twisted: :lol: :twisted:
  • kyoukoku
    kyoukoku Posts: 105
    downfader wrote:
    Hmmm could buy your own velodrome and "help" train Pendleton. :twisted: :lol: :twisted:

    +1 :lol:
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    Moulton Double Pylon, stainless, full DuraAce groupset. But that's an 18 month wait, so in the meantime I would have to nip to Velocity and get a Maxima. Full carbon-effect finish, Di2, flash-but-sensible rims- I'd want 'British road-proof' spec. And a Dahon Jetstream EX (latest version of mine) with the DualDrive hub drivetrain replaced with double chainrings, DuraAce or Red, paired-spoke rear wheel.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    who knows, I would have to go out shopping...before I declared the winnings to the IVA people of course ;)
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  • georgio15
    georgio15 Posts: 77
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    i want one: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Cinel ... orus~Eurus)_2009/5360040482/
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.

    I'm starting to learn on Sunday... any tips?
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.

    I'm starting to learn on Sunday... any tips?
    Erm... how long have you got?

    It your arms are hurting more than your legs, you are doing something wrong.
    It never feels right.
    It looks better than it feels.
    You have to row for years for it not to look bad from the outside, so don't delude yourself that the boat looks anything more than a drowning arachnid until at least 2014.
    In 2014 your will have 10 strokes when the boat will dance, bubbles form on the hull and you'll leave everything in the water and nothing in the boat. Then its all down hill.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Ta very much like! :)
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    We should start an SCR rowing team, we'd knock 7 shades of sh!t out of those cambridge and oxford guys :-)
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  • georgio15
    georgio15 Posts: 77
    who do you row for AW? and what are your ergos like?
    i want one: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Cinel ... orus~Eurus)_2009/5360040482/
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    georgio15 wrote:
    who do you row for AW? and what are your ergos like?
    Me?

    Not rowed competitively for nearly a decade.

    The thing you have to bear in mind about ergos is that they are stationary, and on land. The best 2k score I ever saw was a bloke from the Yukon who had a technique so bad he could have single handedly sunk an VIII, which was okay because he'd never sat in a boat.

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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Always Tyred wrote:
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.

    Our family garden is full of bl**dy boats. Its like The Vikings out there right now, haha!! :lol:

    My old man has been using sea kayaks for years, open boats and canoes too. We even have a sit-on-top. :)
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    downfader wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.

    Our family garden is full of bl**dy boats. Its like The Vikings out there right now, haha!! :lol:

    My old man has been using sea kayaks for years, open boats and canoes too. We even have a sit-on-top. :)
    I'll be round later to help you declutter the garden!!
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Always Tyred wrote:
    downfader wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    georgio15 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Although its further down the list than an Empacher, and some sea kayaks.

    do you row?
    Badly. Progressively worse.

    Our family garden is full of bl**dy boats. Its like The Vikings out there right now, haha!! :lol:

    My old man has been using sea kayaks for years, open boats and canoes too. We even have a sit-on-top. :)
    I'll be round later to help you declutter the garden!!

    :lol:

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