What would £1000 have bought

ratsbeyfus

I've just forked out a grand on a CAAD9 with Tiagra... I never imagined when I was a kid that I would ever spend that kind of money on a bike, and even 5 years ago when I got back into biking I thought my £300 purchase was a bit of a stretch.

Anyhow, what I want to know is what would a grand have bought me in the past before the price inflation hit the bike market?

So if anyone spent £1000 on a road bike over, lets say, on any of the last 10 years what frame, groupset, wheels did you get? It would be interesting to see what my dosh would've got me a while ago, and whether it'd be worth fettling together a time machine to get a better bike for my buck.

Posters please include this info in this order so that comparisons between years can be made:

Price; Make & model; F/F material, groupset; wheels; finishing kit; anything else (e.g. photo)

For the sake of the comparison, lets say the list price of the bike should've been between £950-£1050. Please don't list bikes bought second hand or new bikes reduced in a sale.

Thanks.

cougie

I think a grand now buys you a lot more than it did a few years back. If you discount the silly priced frames - the value for money is fantastic. I've got cycling weeklys going back 20 years or more and some prices dont seem to have changed that much to be honest.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Didn't Planet-X do a limited number of Dura Ace carbon bikes for £999 a year or two ago?

hopper1

NitrousOxide wrote:

Didn't Planet-X do a limited number of Dura Ace carbon bikes for £999 a year or two ago?

Last year... Had to build it yourself....

blackhands

3 years ago I built up a BH carbon frame with full Dura Ace groupset and Mavic Cosmic wheels with Veloflex Pave tyres for £950.

ratsbeyfus

blackhands wrote:

3 years ago I built up a BH carbon frame with full Dura Ace groupset and Mavic Cosmic wheels with Veloflex Pave tyres for £950.

Mmmm sounds nice... time to get the tardis out.

cougie

Found my old comics from 1985 and earlier - Pro team tops were £25 and shorts £20. Custom built frames about £500 or so. Lots of kit pretty similar prices to today really.

STEFANOS4784

Coulda got you a Planet X Dura-ace build not that long ago....

warrior4life

i remeber the wheelbase and freewheel catalogues from 20 years ago, prob still got them somewhere, i remember top end bikes where £2500 and entry level was £300-£350

I used to scour cycling weekly classifieds when i was 14 in 1990 dreaming of one day owning a £300 bike..

The RRP seems to be higher today than 10 years ago but with the internet its far easier to get a bargain.

I think its bike quality in general, you can pay £5000 and get nothing special and you can pay £1000 and get a damn fine bike, you just have to know the market.

STEFANOS4784

Inflation anyone?

passout

If you'd invested that 1k in gold you could have a bike worth over 2k today!

STEFANOS4784

And if you invested 1 pound in the Euro millions and got the right numbers then you'd be laughing :roll: