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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Will the shop selling such a bike even take cyclescheme?
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,810
    focuszing723 said:

    House > car > bike. I've seen some incredible houses with $h1t cars in the drive

    I've seen a lot of $hit houses with fancy cars in the drive.
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,814
    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    House > car > bike. I've seen some incredible houses with $h1t cars in the drive

    I've seen a lot of $hit houses with fancy cars in the drive.
    Probably drug dealers.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,318
    Popcorn
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,137
    Trumpets
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    shirley_basso said:

    Will the shop selling such a bike even take cyclescheme?

    I know of one, so I guess there will be others.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    shirley_basso said:

    Will the shop selling such a bike even take cyclescheme?

    Probably, they still get the sale.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    rick_chasey said:

    Does that work £14k bikes?

    I don’t think there’s a limit now other than anything set by your employer.
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,603
    Ours has set 10k
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    shirley_basso said:

    Car £ < Bike £, I always thought?

    You'll probably end up with some shyte cars if you follow that rule.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    On the note of never relying on authorities because they never come through, see the hospital - the consultant insisted I see him 3 weeks after the initial 3 week check up.

    I'll be f*cked if I can get that in the diary. I can only call so many times and the staff can say only so many times "yes you are supposed to be seen and I don't know why it is not in the diary."

    At this rate I'm tempted just to doorstep the doctor myself.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,318
    rick_chasey said:

    On the note of never relying on authorities because they never come through, see the hospital - the consultant insisted I see him 3 weeks after the initial 3 week check up.

    I'll be f*cked if I can get that in the diary. I can only call so many times and the staff can say only so many times "yes you are supposed to be seen and I don't know why it is not in the diary."

    At this rate I'm tempted just to doorstep the doctor myself.


    At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you tried emailing the consultant directly? Normally (I thought) there should be a direct contact available (even if answered by her/his secretary).
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    There was no risk there BT.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Ebay sent an email asking for feedback on an item I haven't even got yet.
    Bought from Eire. It's less than 100 miles away as the Crow flies but has to go through that hard border.
    Ordered on the 2nd of March, expected arrival 5th of April.

    It's a ride on mower part and I guess i'll be strimming lots at this rate. Doubly annoying.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Does that work £14k bikes?

    I think you can put £3k towards a more expensive bike so a saving of £1,200-1,800
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    shirley_basso said:

    Will the shop selling such a bike even take cyclescheme?

    Sigma do so I imagine the answer is yes
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2023
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    On the note of never relying on authorities because they never come through, see the hospital - the consultant insisted I see him 3 weeks after the initial 3 week check up.

    I'll be f*cked if I can get that in the diary. I can only call so many times and the staff can say only so many times "yes you are supposed to be seen and I don't know why it is not in the diary."

    At this rate I'm tempted just to doorstep the doctor myself.


    At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you tried emailing the consultant directly? Normally (I thought) there should be a direct contact available (even if answered by her/his secretary).
    I had thought the same, but the system is pooled, with pooled nurses, consultants and support staff. So I'm unlikely to even see the same consultant next time around anyway.

    I've had the sum total of about 7 minutes with doctors between arriving at A&E so I guess I can assume no-one is worried about it. Other than me, obviously.
    _
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    What are you getting for £14k these days?

    I'd imagine Rick would want something like an Emonda (lightweight / aeroish) which only with Project One paint comes up that high. S-Works Aethos is £11k.

    Presume at his weight, rim brakes, which seriously limits choices!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2023
    shirley_basso said:

    What are you getting for £14k these days?

    I'd imagine Rick would want something like an Emonda (lightweight / aeroish) which only with Project One paint comes up that high. S-Works Aethos is £11k.

    Presume at his weight, rim brakes, which seriously limits choices!

    So my insurer offers 30% off spesh, so I thought I'd see what the top end stuff was.

    https://www.specialized.com/gb/en/s-works-tarmac-sl7---shimano-dura-ace-di2/p/199463?color=321621-199463

    I was eyeing these up too, but I can't find a good review on the budget version:

    https://aurumbikes.com/product-category/essentia/

    It's irrelevant anyway as it's the family's money, not mine and I can't really justify £7k on something that only I can use and I'll probably only fall of it and break another bone anyway.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    I don't really understand the point of bikes that expensive, but it's probably the wrong forum to make that statement. I still miss my old CAAD5.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    By comparison I looked at the entry level alu allez on specialised.

    Shows how out of touch I am, I picked mine in in 2005 (so yeah, a long time ago) for £350. It's now going for £1250. It's basically the same spec, alu frame, carbon forks.

    I doubt the frame has improved that much. I think I'll just stick to my current bike for now and try not to fall off.
    _
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,137
    The Aurum seems the be priced at 2019 levels. It's expensive but for a lot of bike. I actually think that's a really good price in this market.

    What I don't understand is that the mass market brands are now vastly more expensive than the boutique brands, whereas it used to be the opposite way around.

    I can only conclude that it is essentially just price gouging.

    Thanks, but no thanks.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    I'd just go used. I picked up my Colnago with di2 and zipp 303s for £3k.

    The trick was to buy it while my wife was still pregnant and the money belonged to me, not the family ;)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    edited March 2023
    shirley_basso said:

    I'd just go used. I picked up my Colnago with di2 and zipp 303s for £3k.

    The trick was to buy it while my wife was still pregnant and the money belonged to me, not the family ;)

    Similarly, I bought a C60 (with rim brakes) Super Record gruppo, Hunt aero wide (minus bars, stem and saddle) for £1860.
    I had to get rid of one though. That was the deal I had to strike with Mrs P.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,533
    Tricky to arrange with an insurer but is something bespoke out of the question?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    rick_chasey said:

    shirley_basso said:

    What are you getting for £14k these days?

    I'd imagine Rick would want something like an Emonda (lightweight / aeroish) which only with Project One paint comes up that high. S-Works Aethos is £11k.

    Presume at his weight, rim brakes, which seriously limits choices!

    So my insurer offers 30% off spesh, so I thought I'd see what the top end stuff was.

    https://www.specialized.com/gb/en/s-works-tarmac-sl7---shimano-dura-ace-di2/p/199463?color=321621-199463

    I was eyeing these up too, but I can't find a good review on the budget version:

    https://aurumbikes.com/product-category/essentia/

    It's irrelevant anyway as it's the family's money, not mine and I can't really justify £7k on something that only I can use and I'll probably only fall of it and break another bone anyway.
    If I was spending in that price range I'd be doing it on a custom build from Tom at Sturdy Cycles. I was actually trying to do just that as a treat to myself for my 50th but as always there were other things that kept eating into the money I saved. I'm now thinking I hardly ever cycle these days so I can't justify it but then I think if I did buy a bike like that I would want to ride more often (I was going to go down the gravel route).
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Reading about the demise of Moore Large (major bike distributor and incidentally a customer of my employer). They said in early 2022 there was a full years supply of bikes landed at once in n the UK as supply chains recovered from Covid etc. and it forced deep discounting on bikes.

    I’d love to know when this happened. Outside of Planet X, bike prices were stratospheric that I looked at and even PX has made an order of magnitude change in their pricing structure since inflation has rocketed.

    Even the cycling press were starting to question the prices of new bikes last year (pre insane inflation) but people keep paying what they’re asking.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yeah I think it’s different if you’ve been doing it for a while. I have a perfectly good bike so I need a pretty big improvement on what I have to justify however many grand.

    I had it in my head when I passed x income in a year I’d treat myself but it’s just still too much.
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  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    This weekend will be the first MotoGP race I haven't watched since 1999.

    Another sport ruined as they try to appeal to an audience with an ever shorter attention span and fleece every fan for as much money as possible.
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,603
    mully79 said:

    This weekend will be the first MotoGP race I haven't watched since 1999.

    Another sport ruined as they try to appeal to an audience with an ever shorter attention span and fleece every fan for as much money as possible.

    What's gone wrong? Never really followed it seriously, but used to watch it whenever it was on Eurosport, back about oh 10+ years ago...

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