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Yeah, very much this. A huge part of the appeal for me is building and tinkering with my bikes, the never ending upgrade loop.
I was a mountain biker in my teens long before I ever started doing serious road miles.
I'm not going to be winning any world Cup rounds (yet) but having a bike that potentially could makes me smile. A massive part is also the fact I couldn't afford a really nice bike when I was younger and now I can so why not?I don't actually read much hifi media to be honest as a lot of it really is just bollox. Reading some hifi reviews is agonising.
But that didn't stop me buying a groove tracer sub platter for my rp6 deck. I got it second hand so didn't feel like too much of a numpty paying full whack.
To my ears it made no difference that I couldn't be sure that I had imagined.
But the appeal was more the build quality, replacing the plastic rega sub platter with something well made machined from a block of aluminium was very satisfying. Again, wife says I'm an idiot.
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For me it's like bikes. I'm unlikely to win the TfF, but it's fun riding a bike that could. Tinkering with that bike and making it exactly how I want it is a large part of the appeal of the thing, after riding of course.