As simple as that:
How often do you purchase, receive, or otherwise obtain a new bike?
I’m gathering information for ammo when the next installment of
“YOU NEED A NEW WHAT?” plays in our house.
I’ll compile and post the average after a week.
Thanks
-mb
Ummm…the honest answer is “As often as I can afford one.” I love bikes. I’d have a garage full if I could. The reality is that currently, I’m able to afford one every 2-3 years.
Not since 2001 and I don’t know when I will be able to get a new one since I am most likely headed to grad school.
Uhm, because I have been in the bike business for 13 years, I get at least 1 bike a year. There have been times where I would get a new bike every couple of months. I kept finding something new that I wanted. It’s an addiction I tell ya. Maybe I should think about going to cyclesanonamous.
Clearly a case of wants vs need.
I’d get a new bike every year if I could, just for the fun of it, not because I need one. But with a daughter in her last year of university and son starting after she graduates, I’ll try to get as much mileage out of what I’ve got for now.
For the past few years, i’ve been averaging a new bike about once a year. (man, i sound like a spoiled brat! )
of course, i’m not like most people, in that i work in a bike shop, so i always end up getting it thru a pro deal. Basically, that means i replace a specific bike (road or mtn) every two years, where i sell the old one for just about what i pay for it. i generally upgrade and throw a few hundred in, but not much more to get the new one.
it’s a little different situation than most, but that’s how i’ve been lately.
I average 4-5 years on mine, which means I have had three. The current one is titanium, which is supposed to be for life, I have had it 4 years now, I am getting itchy, so I just upgrade a few components here and there to satisfy the urge, the P3 carbon is making it hard.
upgraded from an entry road bike after 2 1/2 years, have had my new road for a little over a year, and just got an '06 mtb this week. plan on keeping my new road for a long time and mtb the same (even though it’s more “entry” level, i think it’s enough for me for a long time). i would only get a new road bike if something bad happened to her…and i can’t bare the thought!
meow.
I’ve got the same ride since I started this sport, 2002…no need to change…except when I read this forum…
tom
Very Often !!!
In fact…I will be trying to sell a few framesets starting today.
Cervelo P3, Colnago C-50, Lemond Tete de Corse, CYFAC Etoile, and a Look 486.
I’m 5’9". If anyone is around my size and looking for something nice just PM me for more info.
No… these are not stolen bikes.
There are people on this fourm who know of my bike habits.
Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly? 
I get new bikes daily.
In terms of personal rides, 3 or 4 per year. Gotta have a cross, multisport, road & mtn. It helps when your wife & kids ride.
Yearly…sometimes more often…but I still mostly ride my couple year old Litespeed (that gets a new Record groupset yearly)
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While the wife and I tend to ride new equipment most of the time, we have not actually gotten new bikes in quite some time. We kind of work on the principal of planned obsolesence such that we alternate so that every 2-2 1/2 years we upgrade either frames or components. Of course this year has sort of been the exception in that we upgraded to Shimano 10-speed last year and this year we got new TCR Advanced and TCR TT Composite framsets. Typically we try to wait for significant enhancements before buying the next best thing but, as has happened this year, sometimes we get carried away by the bling factor. Besides, our friends think it is cool that we have matching bikes but I simply look at it as the best way to avoid “but yours is better/lighter/newer than mine” type excuses since, excepting for peddles and saddles, we both ride the exact same stuff.
I bought a MTB 4 years ago. Still have it. Still ride it.
I bought my tri bike when I started tris, also 4 years ago. It’s a Hilo 1000. I will probably not buy a new one in the forseeable future. It still works just fine.
I finally broke down and bought a road bike this winter.
They were all my “first bikes” (not counting Wal Mart college bikes), and I guess I don’t see the value in dropping $2k on a new bike when the ones I have work just fine. I mean, it’s FUN to have new stuff…but it’s not practical, and I don’t NEED a new bike. I do just fine on the one I have.
approx 3 new bikesframes each year and sell of the old ones.
7 new frames this year.
1-2 a year. I work in a shop also.
Since joining this brotherhood-I have gotten a new bike every year-with a couple of ebay specials mixed in- on everage brandy spanking new 1/year- ebay specials every 6 months.
Kevin
currently waiting on guru chrono-delivery date 12-26-05
2 a year but all for different cycling disciplines. If I get a cross bike that will number 6 and cover all bases !!!
got my MTB in 1988 and still riding and still very heavy
got my TRI bike in 2003 and hopefully won’t have to wait as long.
Most likely will get a new MTB or new TRI bike in a few years, maybe a el-cheapo road bike for winter/rain riding.
How often do you purchase, receive, or otherwise obtain a new bike?
If you include trashpicking parts and building up your own frankenbikes, I do two or three a year.