I was having a cup of
Being a man of thrift £400 and sub-£1,000 to me are still my points of reference for new bikes as a) my 1994 Rockhopper cost £399 (new), and b) my S-Works M4 frame and forks cost just shy of a grand in 2001-ish. Anything more than £1,000 to me is diminishing returns, especially given I have to pay for it and it would be more sensible not to have that extra biscuit and/ or pint and/ or pie and/ or lump of lard and/ or pork scratchings.
Like many of you, I have though frittered away several pre-children bonuses and holiday funds on Zipp Wheels, bike frames which are ever so slightly lighter than the perfectly good one I already have, aerodynamic seat posts or curvy water bottle cages as used by NASA etc. But that's ok because I'm worth it (as Estee Coco Channel Ulay or someone says).
I digress.
What staggered me more than the fact that top-end mountain bikes are now anything up to £7,000 these days (a grand more than I paid for our MPV), was the list price for a set of ceramic jockey wheel which came in at over £140. Unless said ceramic jockey wheels could transform in to a post-ride teapot that magicked up a pot of coffee with accompanying Optimus Prime transformational "front derailleur which turns in to a mug with integral semi-skimmed and sugar", this is taking things a bit far. Either that or some people have more money than sense.
Shimano's latest seat-post clamp (above) which can also do the hoovering and ride the end-to-end on a Raleigh Chopper.
I began with coffee, ended with coffee and now I am going to go and make a post-blog coffee and sit in my shed wondering what I can buy (waste money on instead of training a bit harder) next.
Note to self - write next blog post in the style of Alan Bennett.
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