So what did your bike cost you BITD then?

[clockworkgazz]

I thought it would be nice to see how much you all paid for your first pride and joys from the glory days. My first bike was a orange clockwork bought in the summer of 1990 after a full 2 months of working in the post office. I went to Bury leisure lakes I think, and paid the massive sum of £640 for my bike suntour comp spec iirc and a very fancy orange titanium saddle thrown in as I was a cash buyer I felt like a millionaire both before with the cash and afterwards with the bike- happy days.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Don't have any pix unfortunately but BITD my pearl-white cro-mega frame cost me £110 from my friendly LBS in Sprowston (Norwich...) and I swapped the kit over from my '88 Marin Palisades (8-speed LX STi) initially and added to it over time (XT thumbies and purple canti's/levers, etc...)

Later sold it to a mate at work for about £250 if I recall??

 

[azaro]

Bought my Blue/Silver fade Clockwork from Leisure Lakes near Southport for, I think, £570, in 1992. It was Suntour equipped as I couldn't stretch to a Shimano equipped one at the time.
Kept it for a few years without actually changing anything other than putting a flite on it. Traded it in at Bike Treks in Ambleside for my P7.
Back then, all the good bike shops seemed to have a particular,distinctive smell. Can't describe it, but I can remember it. Don't seem to come across it these days.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Back then, all the good bike shops seemed to have a particular,distinctive smell. Can't describe it, but I can remember it. Don't seem to come across it these days.

Enthusiasm... :?:

 

[JeRkY]

Don't have any pix unfortunately but BITD my pearl-white cro-mega frame cost me £110 from my friendly LBS in Sprowston (Norwich...) and I swapped the kit over from my '88 Marin Palisades (8-speed LX STi) initially and added to it over time (XT thumbies and purple canti's/levers, etc...)

Later sold it to a mate at work for about £250 if I recall??

Being really picky didn't really want to go pointing out historical inaccuracies in random tales of bikes gone passed but... 1988 LX 8 speed?

I thought 8speed shimano groupsets came in with XTR m900 in the 90's?

Back on topic my first MTV (of sorts) was a Raleigh mustang (black and red version) which cost my father a whopping £65 from a second hand rack outside of drakes cycles in Leeds.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

edited...

 

[RobMac]

It wasn't quite my first MTB but certainly the first (REAL) ard'core MTB my Pace RC100 T bought from Leisure Lakes in Preston in 1991 for £1799 no sooner had it arrived than I started throwing more dosh at it RC35's etc. I only have photos of it on paper not digital.

 

[clockworkgazz]

Do what i did rob and take a picture of the picture

 

[legrandefromage]

My Zaskar was £1400 in October 1993 from Mike's Bikes, Cambridge.

 

[brocklanders023]

Saved up Christmas, Birthday and paper round money for ages to get my 1989 Saracen Tufftrax for £370. Paid a deposit, then chunks off when I could. Used to go and look at it in the shop safe in the knowledge it'd be mine soon enough

Got a second hand Clockwork LX a couple of years later for around £350 I think :?