A yeti 303 will do that to you.
How do you Pay for your bikes?
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I have 2 M-1s from 2001 and 2. I have made and installed aluminum down tube guards and chain stay protectors. I replace the bearings once a year and keep my bikes in top condition. (That said I damaged my nomad two weeks ago and cracked the head tube bit thats another story). The basic rule is buy smart and treat your equipment so it lasts. I have a friend of mine buys a new dh frame every year. In the five years he has done this he has spent roughly 10,000 just on his frames. He sells his frames at around a 50% loss thats 5g's or one fully loaded dh bike. In that time I have spent around 400 on a paint jobs and new bearings around 4x's.
my problem is I always want more then I have. I'll buy something and then I want the next new thing a year later...all my plans of building a hardtail this summer seem to have fallen threw as I spent all my funds on a camera, and my plans of getting a new bike frame (FS) are gone for the next 2 years atleast.
I have an adiction...
I have an adiction...
yep sold almost everyhting I really had that was worth money, ps2 games, pb gun, guitar, amp. All for bikes. This pashion is expensive. Thanks for everyones chime in even if it was for a few laughs. Im thinking about doing construction apparently its really great money and I love wood working. Working sucks but to pay for bikes I can deal with it. I know what you mean about a buying addiction, I got a giant stp march last year, rode over summer got hooked, sold for a blur 4x (that I still have) after a while I wanted a hardtail so I shilled out the dough for a bike that im going to keep for as long as I ride which is my nemesis Project. Got into street then fractured my face. Now im trying to get a dh bike for this summers festivities. Like said above if you find youself really into biking everything else that you could get just seams to be put on hold. Atleast thats the way I see it.
<----Has fractured my face. When I was a COP i got hit with a Beer mug. It broke my Orbitcle bone around my eye. Now its wired together.
I've been racing for 4 yrs and I have 4 bikes. My 1st year I bought a XC bike (Specialized Stump Jumper Pro)....ooops. Then I bought a 2002 Spec. Big Hit Comp Large, I liked it so much, the next year I bought a 2001 Spec. Big Hit Medium. This year I wanted a 26" rear so I have an Intense M1. I tried to PRODEAL a Yeti 303 but they stopped taking orders.....UGH!!! Next year its the 303 or the M5. I also have a CRAP LOAD of spare parts.
I quit my job, but I sold cable for time warner. I have no job. I am gonna take the summer off. I got some projects I would like to finish, and bike allot, and then maybe like in Sept. I will get a job. Then of course my frame, and rear wheel bent last week when my X0 spontaneously combusted. So I am spending about 650 on a used fork, Super T, New frame, 'Goose Black Diamond, and derailer X9. Good thing I got money in the bank....
R E I !!!
Have you hit Puberty yet?.....LOL!!!!!
otb on pavement, side of face roadrashed 2 bones broken.
I kinda wana work their since they do have bike stuff, and alot of other outdoor stuff....which is pretty much all the gear I buy, but ehh...lol.
im a street walker
I work at a bike shop, and still don't have enough money to pay for all the bikes I own, and want. The problem with working at a shop can be the search that never stops. Since you are immersed in it all day, you find cool things to build a bike around, or find cool bikes in general. Thus, my paychecks rarely leave the shop doors. Thanks QBP. Assholes.
my sponsors pay my bills, put that food on the table, gonna send my kids to college someday
I'm a middleweight MMA fighter.
washin dishes is where the money is.
i design toy packaging for Hasbro (#2 toy company worldwide). and still got a hook-up through my old shop. frame wise i'm racing for some friends who own a framebuilding company and i'm doing 'r&d' slash on the frame slash racing for them (layman's terms: free frame). not a bad deal.
landscaper
process server
got that rite, wash them dishes, then ride mai cycle
I play piano in a whore house.
by highjacking local a.t.v riders and selling their machines on the black market.
(no wait, that's how i fund my trails.)
i respectfully plead the fifth amendment.
on the grounds that anything i say may cause me to be tossed in the slammer.
(unless ohio can show me how george has taken that away from us too.)
(no wait, that's how i fund my trails.)
i respectfully plead the fifth amendment.
on the grounds that anything i say may cause me to be tossed in the slammer.
(unless ohio can show me how george has taken that away from us too.)
I mooch off of my roomate minichase because he gets everything for free.
...soo that "extra" bike he is building upp, yeahhh
...soo that "extra" bike he is building upp, yeahhh
I have a decent day job, but my wife doesn't like me to spend money on bikes anymore (have to feed the kids, you know... )
So, I got a part-time job at a LBS doing assemblies for 4 hours per week. I get a little money for small parts plus the LBS hook-up, which helps.
My bike came through the Morewood Sponsorhouse Program, so I got a good start there.
In the meantime, I shove a little money aside each month for a new frame for next year. $100 a month (or so) adds up quick if you don't touch it.
)So, I got a part-time job at a LBS doing assemblies for 4 hours per week. I get a little money for small parts plus the LBS hook-up, which helps.
My bike came through the Morewood Sponsorhouse Program, so I got a good start there.
In the meantime, I shove a little money aside each month for a new frame for next year. $100 a month (or so) adds up quick if you don't touch it.
Spend my evenings making chips, but I don't work that much lately.
Fortunately, this isn't that expensive of a sport compared to stuff that I used to do. Bikes and parts are relatively cheap, but by the time that gas hits 4$/gal U.S. the travel costs will start gobbling up more of the budget than I like.
If we get a bigger rig to cram more people in, than I need to get a bigger trailer to load more bikes and junk on-so maybe the best option is less road trips and more local riding, but travel has always been abig part of the fun- I would sure hate to have to work more to pay for it.
Fortunately, this isn't that expensive of a sport compared to stuff that I used to do. Bikes and parts are relatively cheap, but by the time that gas hits 4$/gal U.S. the travel costs will start gobbling up more of the budget than I like.
If we get a bigger rig to cram more people in, than I need to get a bigger trailer to load more bikes and junk on-so maybe the best option is less road trips and more local riding, but travel has always been abig part of the fun- I would sure hate to have to work more to pay for it.
I ride my bike all day and they pay me for it...
blue read your sig right now and that is how we all feel about you. jk
most of us including me work very hard to ride are beloved bikes. i just started a new job and i buy my bike with money not white powdery stuff like some other people on here.
most of us including me work very hard to ride are beloved bikes. i just started a new job and i buy my bike with money not white powdery stuff like some other people on here.
right on.
i wonder if his cult leader lets him on the internet, or does he have to sneak away to spew his hate.
Work. If anyone knows a better way, please let me know.
luckily, my high school grades got me enough scholarship money to have $2500 left over each semester, so basically that money goes towards my bikes, and food. but thats it
I buy used parts, sell them before they break, and borrow parts from friends. Working at shops has helped a lot as well, mostly in recycling customers' old, not-really-broken-but-has-a-lot-of-scratches, still functional parts.
People throw soooo much good stuff away. Re-use, re-duce, re-cycle!
People throw soooo much good stuff away. Re-use, re-duce, re-cycle!
You're just jealous, jingoistic xenephobe...
a badge of honor (show your pal ohio how that word is properly spelled,)
jealous of a little punk@$$ pip squeek like you ?
you're one of those guys who ten seconds after you've met someone you've popped off to on-line, you'd be on the ground cowering and shaking, all the while begging forgiveness.
you've got nothing.
jealous of a little punk@$$ pip squeek like you ?
you're one of those guys who ten seconds after you've met someone you've popped off to on-line, you'd be on the ground cowering and shaking, all the while begging forgiveness.
you've got nothing.
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