Overspenditis (infectious disease contagious to bikers)

psymon

Whats the cruddite record for overspending?

Just wet to order some tubes and a punture repair kit - ended up getting a fox tee and some new riding baggies as well...totaling £70.

My personal record was at uni. sold a saracen to a friend at went to buy a £300 hard tail.
Ended up buying a trek VRX full sus (twas amazing til i broke it) for around £900!

i think i have a problem.

addivllangirb

Went in to buy a SIS GO bar(~£1) , came out having brought a £1000 hardtail......

Anonymous

addivllangirb wrote:

Went in to buy a SIS GO bar(~£1) , came out having brought a £1000 hardtail......

blimey, that is quite an over spend!!!!


id say you over spent by atleast 700 quid

cat_with_no_tail

I tend not to put a price limit on things. I find that results in me never overspending. It also results in me being poor though.

Which is obviously why I don't ride a FS.

jay12

i don't usually overspend but i guess overtime my bike is nearly £300 more (and will be £400 when i get a wheel) the original build. when i overspend it's usually not that much

Anonymous

Cat With No Tail wrote:

being poor.

this is the only reason to not have a fs bike.

floosy

not cycling related but went to buy a cricket bat (in 1995) and bought a pentim 60 costing £2500

phz

also not bike related - went in to pay for a 50 quid MOT test and walked out with a 10 grand renault megane 225 cup

slainte :shock: rob

stubs

Went into a shop to buy a book fancied the girl behind the counter asked her out on a date. It ended up costing me half my house when we divorced. Possibly the worlds most expensive paper back book and it was a bloody gift for someone who I dont particulary like.

Jimbob_no5

was going to buy the stock v10 at about 4.5k or whatever it is ended up spending 8k instead

angry_bird

sheepsteeth wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

being poor.

this is the only reason to not have a fs bike.

I have to agree, seeing as I have currently have around £0, and will have to wait until october for my student loan before I can afford a fs. It will mean forgoing either food or alcohol for a few months, and it will probably be food that goes...

jay12

ouchthathurts wrote:

sheepsteeth wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

being poor.

this is the only reason to not have a fs bike.

I have to agree, seeing as I have currently have around £0, and will have to wait until october for my student loan before I can afford a fs. It will mean forgoing either food or alcohol for a few months, and it will probably be food that goes...

i'm on about £200 but it will be quickly spent

i'm hoping to get a full suss dh bike before 2012 summer. depending on how much i have i might build it, which i would rather do

lugsey2k5

went to purely size up a bike and ended up buying a model i hadn't even considered before. ie my zesty 514 £2500

MacAndCheese

I do this alarmingly regularly- not only bikes, the four best (or worse):

Most recently - needed to repalce my SLX cranset (£90) - brought a raceface atlas AM - £240

Was looking at upgrading my forks, wanted £300 rebas, came out with £650 Fox F-100s!

Wanted to get a cheapish video camera for moutain biking, brought a £800 Canon EOS DSLR!

was looking to upgrade the speakers on my Hi Fi for ~£250, spent around £800 on new amp and speakers!