Team 50p

[Dec66]

More expensive = better

Repeat it 1,000 times.

Your girlfriend tells me otherwise

 

[Markymark]

Your girlfriend tells me otherwise

Which one?

 

[Dec66]

Which one?

The cheap one

 

[Markymark]

The cheap one

Ah yes, the northerner. I have to have one for equality employment rules.

 

[Dec66]

Yeah, but she's better, thus disproving your theory.

So good, in fact, that I repeated 1,000 times

 

[Starchivore]

I got an old steel Ribble from the local bike shop (one of the last few proper ones) a few years ago. £70, and probably another 50 on replacement parts etc.

Since then I've used it for 2 years of commuting from town to campus when I was at uni, rides around Bowland when the weather was a bit wet for my other bike, commuting from Morecambe to Lancaster in my first job, and now commuting 5 days a week for my current job.

I've done a decent amount of miles on it- I think more than on my fair weather bike, although I am relaxing my criteria for "wet days". It's got a nice look with imperfectly applied red paint, half-broken crudracer mudguards, mismatching wheels and some other bits and bobs. It's been a great bike for me, I'm quite fond of it. And I'm definitely getting my money's worth- very important as I don't have much disposable ££. Surprisingly light too.

It's got the gears on the tubes and I know it well enough to be able to change the ring without the chain dropping off and getting jammed between the rings, which happened a few times early on and blimey it takes some doing to get it out.

 

[Bollo]

...., or the holier than thou hair shirt brigade ....

All my hair shirts are Rapha.

 

[Accy cyclist]

After 45 years in cycling I have never come across the sort of people you seem to.

I find that hard to believe. So you have never met someone who spends big and thinks it'll turn him/her into a top rider? Sit on the bench next to Whalley roundabout on a Sunday afternoon in the summer months and watch plenty go by.

 

[screenman]

I find that hard to believe. So you have never met someone who spends big and thinks it'll turn him/her into a top rider? Sit on the bench next to Whalley roundabout on a Sunday afternoon in the summer months and watch plenty go by.

No But I have seen plenty who buy nice kit because they want too and can afford too. I have come across people who suffer from envy of others, and to make themselves feel better will call the people they ate envious of names.

 

[ufkacbln]

As previously

We recumbent riders will not take such criticism lying down..... or perhaps we will

 

[MontyVeda]

Although a lot of it is down to society in general. Partly due to the cycling industry pushing every change, as an improvement you "have" to have, and partly people thinking by buying the blingiest bike they can get, they'll be just like Chris Froome Blazed.

FTFY

 

[Tin Pot]

Who honestly values their legs at 50p?

I'll buy them off you for a quid.

 

[Andrew_P]

6k of bikes and 25p legs, do I win?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

6k of bikes and 25p legs, do I win?

25 kg of bike, no legs to speak of: vertically challenged here