An expensive frame as a daily ride?

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  • This. It's very basic, and not flash enough for you Jimbo.

    edit I am serious about selling it and will do so through the forum edit

  • Y u no come to swinley?

  • That bike lives in Devon, with the family.

    It gets ridden when I'm down there, but never anywhere else.

    I'm getting more into road riding and perhaps some races this year. Off road riding (sadly) doesn't get much of a look-in.

  • For most people it's all a balance.

    My daily ride is a Condor pista. The RRP of building it new would be well over a grand, so I guess it would fall into the expensive bike category for a lot of people, but not for others.

    Every time I ride it, it puts a smile on my face. Altho I have plans to change bits and bobs, it's remained pretty much the same for two years... imo I think it's pretty much my perfect london fixed bike. Point being for me it's worth it and definitively not doing it an injustice.

    A kerin frame with risers?... not really my thing and definitely not something I'd use as a daily ride. But if you do then it is.




    So basically it's up to you.

    The only thing I would say is that some bikes/frames may not be as suitable as others. Lugging two d-locks riding on marathon's and stopping every five seconds for lights isn't going to give you as much enjoyment on you "nice" bike, as if you saved it as your nice bike.

    There's also something satisfying about a bike you like, but know you won't cry over.

  • For me it would only come down to how secure the bike would be, if it was being consistently locked up somewhere it might get nicked I'd leave an expensive bike at home, but if it was being kept somewhere safe I'd probably ride it every day, I'd rather that than it sit around doing nothing. Having said that he only bike I own is a £300 Fuji, so this is all speculative.

  • Get a titanium frame, it will be expensive, but will endure and give years of good service.

    Or get a nice but cheap second hand steel road frame, and cover liberally in hammerite/red oxide primer or some other suitably utilitarian coating and bask in glory.

  • Why would you go cheap on a bike you ride everyday? It's going to be the one that gets the most service, and the one you'll spend the most time, so why shouldn't it be (relatively) expensive. I'm not one for the good bike/beater dichotomy. Because usually you'll start upgrading the beater and as the costs rise its no longer a beater, so why start down that road in the first place.

    If you want one bike to rule them all, best to make sure it's a good one.

    No one wants to have a bike stolen, but to use the fear of theft as a reason for not riding a well made, comfortable, cool handling frame, with nice components on a daily basis, is weak. No matter how much time and money you have invested in a bike, and/or how attached you have become to it, it is still an inanimate object and can be replaced, if stolen. Obviously it's a ball ache, but then what in life isn't... It's no reason to go cheap on something that you'll use everyday, and will bring you joy, with the ease with which you move from A-B

    as you were...

  • To quote the wise sage Paris Hilton:

      “The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too  short to blend in.”
    
  • I'm with hippy.

    Nothing wrong with riding a flash bike to work. But it does grate a bit when you constantly scratch it..

    Sayin that, I commute on whatever take my fancy from my stable*. The custom Ti fatbike (i it either gets finished) will see as many rough commuting miles as anything else.

    (*never the BeeMC)

  • hence why i suggested a Ti bike

    can be battered around, no paint to scratch and has the longest fatigue life of common bike materials, and does not rust

  • The answer to your question op is yes.
    Here is mine

    That used to be a nice bike!

  • ^ Where do you put the pound coin?

  • In an ideal world I'd build a winter bike/commuter (or makes my dads giant suit me), have the GT for nice weather commuting/club rides, build a tt bike and keep the fixie :)

    Then I'd have 3 potential commuters to mix it up and only 1 that lives at home, to be fair though I've got inside parking at 2 out of 3 jobs and the other is secure, so the tt bike would only have chance to get scratched at 1 job.

    I need money for this though so at the minute it's the GT getting the miles, the fixie is getting painted then I'll have 2 that I can ride, maybe chuck guards on that and it's the wet weather bike

  • I have the Aende only, get ridden in any weather conditions, but once a month gets a rebuild-cleaning treatment! I had a rat bike and it was awesome(the twenty/and saxon) but never rode the "nice" bike. Sold all the rest of the bikes and now I actually ride even more

  • I'm in the as nice as you can afford (to run as well as buy) school of thought for each sort of riding you do but am generally insured if anything gets nicked.

    Hence, my general, Audax, going from a to b bike is a 70s Dawes Galaxy fixed with lots of nice but not too flashy bits. I love riding this bike.

    Touring (or in reality weekend rides of over about 40 miles with panniers given mu current lack of fitness) is an old non curly Hetchins with the more modern groupset off my old condor - 9 speed campag/triple - I love riding this bike and it doesn't hurt my knees.

    Club runs - Carbon Record Equipped DeRosa Prototype 1d - gorgeous and I love riding this but over about 60 miles everything hurts and I am terrified in general of theft, damage and the cost of replacing any of the running gear!

    Train - brompton

    Etc...

    I agree with Hippy though- I cant stand the idea of something getting damaged through being used in conditions it wasn't meant for...

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