biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
just thing of the street cred of turning up on a £2k+ bike .......that doesnt fit or ride nice
'Cheap' or finance?
- Thread starter JCroxton1
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
2k is far, far from top flight limited production dodo fur territory. We're talking mass produced machines, that will in frequent instances stick in stock rooms until they're no longer current, and there will be many reduced examples all over the place. 60 seconds with Google proves the point.
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
Firstly I suspect you can get a full carbon bike of decent quality with 105 or better for a lot less than £1900. Secondly my personal view is that if you cant afford it, don't borrow. http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/EBPXMAR1055800/planet-x-maratona-shimano-105-5800-road-bike for one idea at £1000 and you have £900 cash left. But Planet X have a wide range
Just stick a bit on a credit card if that worries you. I seem to think a £100 is enough.
Despite buying maybe 50 New bikes over many years for myself and the family I have never had one go back for warranty work, I must have been lucky.
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Well any plastic bike truth be told, especially not on finance 
adamangler
Veteran
- Location
- Wakefield
1900 quid for 105
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
di2 is not worth it one bit and if you take a tumble and smash the rear mech area I'm told that little box at the back is £600 to replace, could be less could be more. What problems do you have with cable gears, once dialed in which is pretty easy they generally stay that way. And I suspect you know this.
Personally I am paying for 2 bikes on 0% at the moment (1 finishes in 2 months) and I still have the £3600 they cost in the bank. If your confident you can keep the payments up then I'd go that way.
Having said that I have 2 others which I paid outright for the more expensive of which is on a )% credit card and the direct debit set to pay it of in the 39 month 0% offer period.
Your call, and personally wouldn't go over £200-£2500 max on a bike.
Personally I am paying for 2 bikes on 0% at the moment (1 finishes in 2 months) and I still have the £3600 they cost in the bank. If your confident you can keep the payments up then I'd go that way.
Having said that I have 2 others which I paid outright for the more expensive of which is on a )% credit card and the direct debit set to pay it of in the 39 month 0% offer period.
Your call, and personally wouldn't go over £200-£2500 max on a bike.
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User33236
Guest
The 'little box' costs around £160 so unless you are paying OTT labour costs £600 is a long way off.
vickster
Legendary Member
Presumably there are other parts too, not least a frame. It's very easy to pay that for just a frame in Ti or indeed custom steel, obviously plastic coated soot is cheaper
vickster
Legendary Member
Why? if 0% and no issues with paying back? I've used 0% finance for biggish purchases in the past (not bikes, kitchen for example) and have never had an issue as in all cases I've had the funds.
Why not take advantage of 0%, particularly in those long forgotten days when savings earned more than 0.5% in interest! Obviously, an interest bearing loan is different, I don't pay to borrow money (except a very small mortgage, but I have to live somewhere)
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You were told wrong.
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-ultegra-6870-di2-11-speed-rear-derailleur/
Di2, in my opinion, is worth every penny.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
But what if you don't have that many pennies?
