So what is your £$ upgrade to bike ratio this year?

pbassred

On the back of what I have /am spending on a used Garmin (another thread) I thought about what I spent overall in 2016. Cycling is not my main passion and I am never going to be a competition cyclist - I just want to get there. We all have different spend limits. So this is me this year.
Used Boardman CX team - £350
Shimano SPD pedals £25
Shimano Shoes £25
BB7 brake upgrade £80
Marathon Plus tyres £50
Nasty Ebay saddle £25
Ergon sadle £40
Shimano ultegra compact crank 165mm & newBB conversion £215
=£460 (I didn't add tools, clothes, locks or computers, but I would have added a power meter if I had got that far.)
£460/350 = 1.314 times the initial value of the bike. ( which oddly, looks like: bike + π )

How about you guys? Pst! Dont tell the wife/husband

roger_merriman

Depends on which bike!

The cheap CX which when new was £400 has had a bike box plus some X-Ones which is more than the value of the bike.

Other bikes have had replacements but any upgrades where done before.

964cup

Ok. Things I can remember:

Climbing bike
Extralite Ultra24T wheels £2.5k
Veloflex Record tubs £160
eeBrakes £450
UCB carbon cage w/ Ti jockeys £200
Extralite Octaramp chainrings £120
(hybrid) Ceramic BB bearings £50
SRAM XG1190 11-32 cassette £180
SRAM Red 22 chain £25

Turbo bike
Stages Rival crankarm £350
Rival chainset & BB £100

Cross bike
Used Ultegra 6870 di2 shifters for conversion to Di2 (using kit from old commuter bike) £149
SRAM Red 22 chain £25
(must sell old commuter bike frame and old Ultegra/DA groupset)

Upgrades: £4,310

New commuter/audax bike
Enigma Etape frameset £999 (ex-demo)
Ritchey finishing kit £420
Saddle & bar tape £150
Mixed Chorus/Potenza groupset £660 (excl chainset)
Chorus chainset (used) £120
Small parts £50
(already had wheels, rack, dynamo lights & wiring, guards etc)

Eroica bike
ALAN Record Carbonio (good frame, built badly with Nuovo Record) £640
C-Record hubs £110
Mavic Open rims & Sapim spokes £100
C-Record 130mm axle £30
C-Record brake levers £125
C-Record hoods £35
C-Record shifters £55
C-Record syncro index ring £75 (had to order twice!)
C-Record F&R mechs £150
KMC chain £12
Regina freewheel £65
Period Chorus chainset £130
BB £25
C-Record Delta brakes £360
Challenge Strada tubs £100
C-Record seatpost £45
C-Record rear mech tension adjuster £48 (yes, really)
Cinelli stem & bars £100
(still chasing proper pedals, using the Nuovo Record ones. Must sell the NR gruppo)

"New" bikes: £4,600

Obviously excludes clothes, maintenance parts like chains, lube, replacement (as opposed to additional) cassettes and so forth.

chris_bass

pbassred wrote:

On the back of what I have /am spending on a used Garmin (another thread) I thought about what I spent overall in 2016. Cycling is not my main passion and I am never going to be a competition cyclist - I just want to get there. We all have different spend limits. So this is me this year.
Used Boardman CX team - £350
Shimano SPD pedals £25
Shimano Shoes £25
BB7 brake upgrade £80
Marathon Plus tyres £50
Nasty Ebay saddle £25
Ergon sadle £40
Shimano ultegra compact crank 165mm & newBB conversion £215
=£460 (I didn't add tools, clothes, locks or computers, but I would have added a power meter if I had got that far.)
£460/350 = 1.314 times the initial value of the bike. ( which oddly, looks like: bike + π )

How about you guys? Pst! Dont tell the wife/husband

Bike + pi/10 actually

FatTed

Sram eTap, conti 4000s.mk2, KMC Chain

redvision

Etap or DI2 and a new set of Fulcrum Zeros

oldbazza

Nope not going there :shock:

meanredspider

I thought about this and then I thought about it again because I couldn't believe the first answer but I've spent zero on either... (depending on whether I bought the S-Ones this year or last). Blimey.

Wheelspinner

Big negative number which is good. Started the year with 8 bikes in the shed, now down to 5, picked up a few odds and ends to keep things going but sold loads of parts as well.

Not exactly sure but I'm a couple of thousand bucks ahead for a change...

Sportiveman

Trek 1000
Bought for £80
New tyres with tubes £24
Ultegra 6600 rear mech £15
105 9speed STI 5500 £20
Ultegra 6700 for mech £15
Bb4600 £11
Sora compact chain set £15
Fizik saddle £15
Bontrager tape £18
Tiagra calipers £17
New cartridge pads £15
Shimano 530 spd pedals white £15
Diadora spd shoes £20
Shimano r500 wheels £26
9 speed sora chain £15
Bontrager paradigm race saddle £25
Tiagra 11-27 cassette 9 speed £15
Total £361 not bad for first road bike which is now used as trainer/winter bike plus has had some other upgrades from my good bike .
Will be fitting new bars and stem before first sportive in April as still uses standard bars.