N+1 with a joint account.

[Citius]

but I want lighter and faster...

Buy all means buy lighter - but if you buy 'faster' you will be wanting your money back...

 

[crazyjoe101]

Buy all means buy lighter - but if you buy 'faster' you will be wanting your money back...

I'm pretty sure that a decent road bike is going to be faster than a MTB... I understand what you're saying but the change from an MTB to a road bike for road use usually yields a noticeable pace increase, and they certainly feel more rewarding to ride on road in my opinion.

 

[Citius]

Is he not buying another MTB? If he's buying a road bike then yeah, he'll be a bit quicker...

 

[vickster]

Is he not buying another MTB? If he's buying a road bike then yeah, he'll be a bit quicker...

He says Roadbike in the OP

 

[snorri]

You can't justify it.
You've been cycling for four months on a new bike and want another new one already, sounds like reckless extravagance.
Spend what you have on a family Christmas and be thankful for what you have. If there is any surplus in the new year start scouring the second hand market for a bike for your wife and a tagalong or child seats for the youngsters and get into family cycling.
You're no longer single, you're life is in another phase, enjoy it.

 

[RichardB]

What is it they say? "My greatest fear is that I die and my wife sells all my stuff for what I told her it had cost."

 

[Gravity Aided]

For years, I fixed up my used N+1's and sold them to fund the bills, so Mrs. GA knows what bicycles are worth. They paid a few mortgages and a dog operation or two, but I'm an old horse trader , as were my ancestors. I usually trade a cheap bicycle, fix it up, and seek a more expensive one in poorer condition for less, and trade to that, working my way up to something nicer, which then stays, after a few iterations. It takes a long time to get there. Family comes first, no matter what. Bicycles are right after family needs, though.

 

[biggs682]

For years, I fixed up my used N+1's and sold them to fund the bills, so Mrs. GA knows what bicycles are worth. They paid a few mortgages and a dog operation or two, but I'm an old horse trader , as were my ancestors. I usually trade a cheap bicycle, fix it up, and seek a more expensive one in poorer condition for less, and trade to that, working my way up to something nicer, which then stays, after a few iterations. It takes a long time to get there. Family comes first, no matter what. Bicycles are right after family needs, though.

bravo well said

 

[Shadow]

I would love a titanium bike & keep looking at Enigma, but even doing 10k miles this year I can not justify (to myself) spending £2.5k+ on a bike Is it going to be twice as good as my carbon bike???

No ... it will be better than twice as good!!!
(I admit I am biased though. Did you pay half as much for the carbon?)

 

[Sbudge]

This is how I justified my first road bike, although I started off looking at £500 bikes & said if I commute once a week it'll pay for itself, ended up with a £950 bike & hardly commuted to start with

I would love a titanium bike & keep looking at Enigma, but even doing 10k miles this year I can not justify (to myself) spending £2.5k+ on a bike Is it going to be twice as good as my carbon bike???

OK, I'm biased I know, but I do *really* like my Enigma. Titanium has a very different feel to Carbon. There's only one snag though in my mind, investing in a really nice set of wheels for your existing bike will probably have a bigger immediate 'wow' factor. Having said that, the beauty of getting a new titanium frameset is you'll probably be fettling/upgrading it for the next decade.

 

[ufkacbln]

Unfortunately my wife is a keen cyclist .... So she knows the real costs!

 

[leedsmick]

You can't justify it.
You've been cycling for four months on a new bike and want another new one already, sounds like reckless extravagance.
Spend what you have on a family Christmas and be thankful for what you have. If there is any surplus in the new year start scouring the second hand market for a bike for your wife and a tagalong or child seats for the youngsters and get into family cycling.
You're no longer single, you're life is in another phase, enjoy it.

You are 100% right. Still

 

[Andrew_P]

Get some interest free credit.... oops given away my secret

 

[ayceejay]

Buy it, what is the worst that can happen. You have an argument which will blow over, and you will have your bike. Or you could sell your current one to fund it.

It will "blow one - are you mad? If I did something like that, or let's say she found out I did something like that she would be going on about as soon as she gets over the affair I had in 1984.
Having said that I have had some amazing finds in skips

 

[sidevalve]

If you can hold off 'till new year wait for the stack of 'unwanted gift' and 'hardly used' on E Bay after Christmas.