mine is. yous guys?
I spent so much on my bike that I cannot even afford a car…and I am still REALLY slow…damn!
damn, I would have definetely done pretty well in this category up until a year ago. I used to load my race bike with disc onto the back of my trusty 92 sentra and watch the cars value go up 5X! Now maybe if I load all my bikes in my Element and borrow my gf’s bikes too…
I guess there’s only one solution, buy more expensive bikes!
Bikes:
2003 Cannondale R1000 ($2000)
2005 Elite Razor w/Ultegra TT kit ($3500)
Total $5500
Car:
1994 Honda Civic CX with 160K. No A/C, manual trans and steering, power nothing.
Blue Book: $1275 private party value
But they’re all mine. No payments on any of them.
Count me in. I was just thinking the other day about starting a thread like this. My '98 Civic has only about 65000 miles on it, runs like a dream, the mechanics are always impressed when they change the oil. When my P3C gets in, and I put the race wheels and rotors on it, it’s going to put my car to shame. Fortunately, I put WAY more miles per year on my bikes then I do the car.
-Colin
Yep, but unfortunately neither the bike or the car are high dollar… My mtb is actually my most expensive personal property (outside of business equipment).
Only when I have my race wheels on.
This is the opposite end of the spectrum from Gary Tinley’s “mid-ish” life crisis threads of the past week. I am glad to see this thread so I know there are some poeple with vehicles like mine. BTW 99 Corrola with 130,000 miles on it, never had a garage for it so sun damaged paint which makes it look even worse than it sounds.
My family has 3 cars but the one I drive to work is a 1988 Mazda 626 with 170,000 miles. Worth about $150. I have a bunch of bikes. The most valuable is a 2003 Specialized S-Works mtn bike that retailed new for over $4500 (but I am too cheap to buy new - I bought it when it was one year old). It is definitely worth more than $150.
Finally a category I might be able to dominate on Slowtwitch… crappiest car.
92 Ford Tempo with 125,000 miles. Missing some paint and has a couple of serious dents froma deer that ran into me on the way home from a climbing trip to Devils Tower. Runs well though… knock on wood.
Lehmkuhler
Both my bikes (Zipp 2001 with Rotor Cranks and HED3’s and another Zipp 2001 with 05 titanium RC’s and HED3C and HED3D wheels) are worth more then my 1972 Nova, until I sold it and bought a 2002 Caddy SLS. God I loved that car!!! I had a hotrod…now I have an old mans car!! Shit…I’m “getting-old”!!!
close. Depends on how much gas I have in my car.
Ha ha…and I thought I was the lone pathetic person with this distinction.
Car: 1985 BMW with 195,000 miles on it. Been totalled once by a rear end collision and totalled again last year in the parking lot at work by a truck backing up. If anything has a negative value, it must be my car.
Bikes: Serrota CSI roadbike with Campy Chorus, Cervelo P3 TT bike with Dura Ace, (plus race wheels, it’s own bedroom upstairs right next to mommy and daddy’s) Mtn. Bike, 1970’s Mondia 10 Speed with Campy Nuovo Record throughout. I never planned it this way…
Oh yeah - you win(?). I remember going to my first official TT a couple of yrs ago and it seemed like there were only two people besides myself whose bikes did not “out-value” their cars. One guy was driving a brand new Audi TT and the other flew there in his helicopter and landed in the school playground across the street (not even Record10Carbon could compete with that!).
Have faith. At least the bikes don’t depreciate as fast as the cars do.
robert
mine is. yous guys?
you are kidding…right?
They were about even until the header came off the car last week. Now the bike wins by about $250.
When I got started in the sport, that was me.
Car: 1995 black Neon with 130K miles on it. It was known as La Cucaracha because it hung on long after it should have logically ground to a screeching halt. I mean we drove it all the way back from Orlando only to discover it basically had no oil in the engine. Street value: maybe $500 tops.
Bike: 2002 Cervelo One I paid about $1400 for. (Huge amount of money to spend on a bike for me)
Eventually, La Cucaracha got to the point in 2003 where it blew a head gasket, the A/C died, and it needed new brakes, and rather than putting more money into a lost cause, we gave it away and got me a shiny new Corolla, which I fully intend to still be driving in 2015.
LOL. Unfortunatley with todays gas prices that has more truth to it than I like. Today’s gas prices have motivated me to commute to work by bicycle more ofter. Pretty soon the only gas I will be able to afford will be from when I eat beans.
I can challenge you on that. Have a 2003 Klein. Car,82 Toyota corrolla.320,000.Both tail lights taped(cannot find)one rear side window taped with cardboard(cannot find)and start with a screwdriver.(My wife has a 2000 escort).Bought the toyota 5 years ago for $400,it just will not die.
well seeing as how I don’t own a car then yes my bike is worth more.