Hairy Posted August 29, 2019 Share If you owned a R30 bar house in Camps Bay. Why would you drive a Porsche Cayenne I don't think it's about performance gains. If you own a 30 bar house in Camps Bay and your daily driver is a Porsche Cayenne Turbo Why would you ride a 30k Giant TCR?Let's just be clear here guys ... a 30 bar house in Camps Bay does not really get you much for your money Spoke101, Chris_, Dexter-morgan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me rida my bicycle Posted August 29, 2019 Share I love expensive bikes. Love looking at all the latest need to have tech and improved frame geometry, love looking at them from the comfort of my mid range bike when passing them???????? OneLove, pista, Ferro and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted August 29, 2019 Share The average person sees a bike as the price of a car or a luxury itembut some people see it as one less bottle of Balvenie 50 year old for the month. Cacey, Hairy, VolkAdik and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Posted August 29, 2019 Share ... if you have an ftp of 200 then a bike that's worth 60k+ is certainly not going to give you any advantages.I feel personally attacked... Markellis, Underachiever and Duane_Bosch 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markellis Posted August 29, 2019 Share I tried FTP once, didn't care for it...made my eyes sore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underachiever Posted August 29, 2019 Share I feel personally attacked...Me too, but let's wait till tomorrow before we get the handbags out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh_the. Man Posted August 29, 2019 Share Now I feel personally attacked Dieter ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CdT85 Posted August 29, 2019 Share I ride a quite high end bike, well over 100k+, got the frame secondhand and built it up for about a third of what my insurance valuated its replacement value. Do i have the skill/fitness to warrent such an expensive kitted out rig? Short answer, No. But do I enjoy riding it? Hell yes. Worked my way up from bmx's, cheap mtb, and untill this time last year, still rode a 2008 26er mongoose teocali Is it a status symbol to own my rig? No. All i can say, its is lightyears ahead of any bike i owned before, it boosted my skill and fitness levels since I got it, because i want to spend every possible moment on it. Different strokes for different folks. Some people spend their money on cars, other on booze and woman. Some of us just like nice bikes Edited August 29, 2019 by Otero Markellis, Mopkop, Hairy and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popcorn_skollie Posted August 29, 2019 Share Sounds like a good decision to me. Spend money on investment and not toys. When you have a diverse portfolio of investments and shares. A few properties, vehicles and in some cases... wives. You may find yourself in a position where the most sensible thing to do really is to buy the most ridiculously priced sled out there. Even those of us who live seemingly comfortably, with more disposable income than your average joe. Still can't comprehend what its really like to be absurdly wealthy. To have so much stuff and so much money that its actually hard to find things you want to spend it on. Most knee jerk reactions to crazy purchases go a little something like:'That's crazy. Even if I could afford it I wouldn't.'Or so you think. To put things in perspective.This handbag sold for a whopping R3mil last yearNow if you were Jeff Bezos. At his last recorded forbes net worth (and some of skollie's quick math) He could buy over 500,000 bags like those. Imagine the pressure that man feels when his anniversary comes up. McKenzie must be like: 'Is this what you think of me? I'm not some smelly pirate hooker Jeff. Spend some money you cheap slut. Its our anniversary jeez.' No wonder they got divorced. Edited August 29, 2019 by popcorn_skollie pista and BikeisLife 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porqui Posted August 29, 2019 Share But should that R100k bike really cost that much or a R60k bike for that matter or are we being taken for a ride??? I suppose that is a matter for another day. Eddy Gordo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven Posted August 30, 2019 Share But should that R100k bike really cost that much or a R60k bike for that matter or are we being taken for a ride??? I suppose that is a matter for another day.Well... putting one of these next to an engine powered super-bike, I can’t see how the costs can be justified... BigDL, Duane_Bosch and Hairy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne pudding Mol Posted August 30, 2019 Share I can’t afford a supercar so I have a superbike. Over a period of time I turned my bike into a superbike. Now you can’t do that to a 17 year old Pajero pista and BigDL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORNE Posted August 30, 2019 Share I can’t afford a supercar so I have a superbike. Over a period of time I turned my bike into a superbike. Now you can’t do that to a 17 year old Pajeroargument invalid : Steven Knoetze (sk27), Wayne pudding Mol and Hairy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted August 30, 2019 Share But should that R100k bike really cost that much or a R60k bike for that matter or are we being taken for a ride??? I suppose that is a matter for another day.We as consumers have created that monster.the have's just buy and the have not's will finance and buy. Dexter-morgan, BigDL and Help.Me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Gordo Posted August 30, 2019 Share Why would you want to ride a 100k MTB when doing Le Tour? Last time I checked it was still a road race.To road gap the pelaton!! BigDL, Steven Knoetze (sk27), CJ Van and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underachiever Posted August 30, 2019 Share When you have a diverse portfolio of investments and shares. A few properties, vehicles and in some cases... wives. You may find yourself in a position where the most sensible thing to do really is to buy the most ridiculously priced sled out there. Even those of us who live seemingly comfortably, with more disposable income than your average joe. Still can't comprehend what its really like to be absurdly wealthy. To have so much stuff and so much money that its actually hard to find things you want to spend it on. Most knee jerk reactions to crazy purchases go a little something like:'That's crazy. Even if I could afford it I wouldn't.'Or so you think. To put things in perspective.This handbag sold for a whopping R3mil last yearNow if you were Jeff Bezos. At his last recorded forbes net worth (and some of skollie's quick math) He could buy over 500,000 bags like those. Imagine the pressure that man feels when his anniversary comes up. McKenzie must be like: 'Is this what you think of me? I'm not some smelly pirate hooker Jeff. Spend some money you cheap slut. Its our anniversary jeez.' No wonder they got divorced.We have some hard working friends. Their properties in SA that I know of is 45 Bar (2 houses). They talk about more property they have in the UK and Greece. AND, apart from the movie theatre and the wine-cellar and, and, and, they live fairly modest lives. He drives an 8 year old C class, she a 5 years old 320d, and their toy is an 8 year old Z4. Solid marriage... BigDL, mecheng89 and Spoke101 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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