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How do you Pay for your bikes?

f0ggy

Monkey
Aug 6, 2006
242
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Ca
How do you guys afford your bikes, me I work 9 hour shifts as a busboy...at minimum wage. FUN FUN FUN....not. But moneys money.

What kinda jobs do you guys have?
 

dhkid

Turbo Monkey
Mar 10, 2005
3,358
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Malaysia
alot was off allowance, then worked at a bike shop for about 6months. nowadays its back to allowance/savings. i build up my bikes slowly.. most of them have been frame changes and bits and pieces here and there. need to get a job again so i can pay for bike trips/racing here...
 

SnowboardinWA

Monkey
Feb 23, 2007
880
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Tacoma, WA
<-----Works in a Casino, Poker Dealer. I usually buy my parts of Ebay. Sometimes it ends up costing alittle more to build a used bike then if you would have bought a used bike whole. Atleast buying parts now and then doesn't kick you in the nuts all at once.
 

muddy beast

Turbo Monkey
Nov 26, 2005
1,815
0
christmas and birth days. Then I sell the stuff I get for christmas and for my birth day to buy bike stuff. And later I sell that stuff for more bike stuff.

its a vicious cycle when your not old enough to work.
 

Bicyclist

Turbo Monkey
Apr 4, 2004
10,152
2
SB
christmas and birth days. Then I sell the stuff I get for christmas and for my birth day to buy bike stuff. And later I sell that stuff for more bike stuff.

its a vicious cycle when your not old enough to work.
You need an under the table job. I've been working since I was 12.
 

demo 9

Turbo Monkey
Jan 31, 2007
5,910
46
north jersey
christmas and birth days. Then I sell the stuff I get for christmas and for my birth day to buy bike stuff. And later I sell that stuff for more bike stuff.

its a vicious cycle when your not old enough to work.
i hear ya. i sell all the stuff i am done with. i wish i could get a job.
 

muddy beast

Turbo Monkey
Nov 26, 2005
1,815
0
You need an under the table job. I've been working since I was 12.
I know it...but I dont have hook ups to get one :-/. Not to mention I'm at crew 3 hours a day 6 days a week, and periodic races all weekend, which is a turn off for most people who want work done. Luckily I'm turning 16 in 2 days and I have my LBS resume sitting next to me as I type this, just going to wait till I get that 3.0 next month to turn it in :-D.
 

stinky6

Monkey
Dec 24, 2004
517
0
Monroe
I sell blood and semen, not mixed together.



I wait tables a couple nights a weeks and do residential electrical work. Waiting tables the last 6 months has basically paid for my new bike.
 
Jan 27, 2007
68
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L-Town
I work on at a bike shop, so I have to do tune ups on wal-mart bikes all day long to pay for my bike parts. It really makes you appreciate your bike when all the bike I tune in a week arent even worth as much as my bike. :monkeydance:
 

Loozinskin

Monkey
Jul 9, 2005
172
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Bellingham,WA
on the real... since there's maybe only one or two other serious posts here to this totally legit question...

I've sold almost everthing I've invested in my other hobbies as my obsession with MTB has grown over the last few years. I've liquidated probly well over $2,500 worth of music equiptment that has just sat around more and more since I dont play in a band anymore and sunk it all into my bike, gear, and ride trips. I've ebayed amps and effect pedals I've had since I was a teenager, sold collectors item vinyl records, and craig'slisted rare bootleg nirvana albums... all in the name of what the bike beast inside me demands!!! SACRIFICE!! MORE!!!

If you truly are passionate about riding, you'll find that all your other hobbies and other interests will eventually fall to being liquidated into funds that can and will support the MTB habit.

It's a sickness, and we all got it bad son, so ebay that xbox, pawn your baseball card collection, and hock the spiderman comics... The bike beast wants MORE!!!