So what did your bike cost you BITD then?

mine was a fisher hoo koo e koo bought from bike uk acton where i worked in 88 it retailed for 510 and i got it trade for 400 paid for by some oddball company who were dishing out grants for people to get into sport. all i had to do was write a letter saying i wanted to buy a bike to go racing and the money was there in a week :D
 
My first was bought from my first three wage packets and every bit of money i had lying around the house

I got an Alpinestar Al-Mega DX. cost £699 i think
wish i had some pictures of it :cry: :cry:
 
My GT RTS-2 did not cost me the hefty price tag it should have done, let me explain.

I bought a Dx equipped rigid giant mtb for less than half price from my lbs as it was last years model. I think I paid around £250. (I forget the model, but it was a lovely pearlescent purple/blue/pink). Went on my first mtb outing to a local quarry with a group. Got home and religiously cleaned it back to new. Went to the pub on it later, had a few beers and went home a little tipsy. En-route I stopped off at the local Chinese to get some food and despite locking it up it was stolen while I placed my order (it was used as a getaway bike in a robbery that same night, but that is another story).

The following day I jumped on my road bike (a Peugeot Aravis, chrome stays, 531 tubing, MA40s, shimano 105, traded for raleigh i built up for about £150) and headed to the lbs to buy a new lock. In the time it took to lean my bike against the window, stick my head inside and ask if I could bring my bike in (it was a small shop), bike number two was gone, so both in around 14 hours.

So now I'm down two bikes and what was to me as a 16/17 year old, a lot of cash. Thankfully they were both somehow covered on my parents house insurance, and the new for old element of the policy meant I was given £1,129 credit at, and wait for it, halfords. After putting a case forward that I didn't need 10 bikes they transferred the credit to the lbs.

After a visit, they showed me lots of bikes and being very indecisive, I couldn't choose what to buy, but while I was here they suggested that I might be interested in a GT RTS-2 that they had 'spare' as they had ordered two for a customer (the bosses sons where I worked) and three had arrived. The price tag was something like £200 or more over my credit, but they waived this as they would rather make a few quid than send it back, so hey presto, a GT RTS-2 for around £350 way back in 1992 rather than the RRP OF £1,350.

Due to the value, and being a poor kid from a poor family, I looked after this, and was literally too scared to ride it and therefore damage it. It was mothballed while I was at uni and a few years ago I decide to dig it out, upgrade it and start using it again. Bizarrely despite the lack of use (it was ridden off road once, and not much other than road riding afterwards to school and back for a year), when I came to strip it the bb mount was cracked, so bein gutted and wanting a replacement, google brought me here and I've barely left since.
 
ishaw":130tbw9z said:
My GT RTS-2 did not cost me the hefty price tag it should have done, let me explain....

Cool story, sounds like a boy's dream! I remember drooling over RTS's back in the day...

I'll have to dig out some pics of my bike; I always wanted a Bear Valley SE, but I ended up building my own.
 
First was in 1988 or 89, a Muddy Fox Pathfinder from Evans in Kingston for circa 200(?). After that it was a DX equipped Dynatech from Evans nr. Waterloo for under 500, and then after that a Yo Eddy frame , forkes and bits from Cov Garden in round about 93. Bought it with EdEdwards , with 700 cash.
 
I so envy you guys I used to search through magazines dreaming of a decent bike and at 19 I managed to convince my dad to buy me a touring bike for about £300 a Revell. I did not get my first MTB till about 3 years later about '89 a Raleigh something.my sister and brother bought me nothing like the snazzy kit you lot were getting but I loved till it was stolen

Alison
 
£299 for a Saracen Tufftrax in 1987, mail order from somewhere in Swansea. You lot must have been very well paid paperboys cos I worked full-time on my school summer holiday and despite keeping my spending down to under £10 a week I still only just saved enough. Worth it though. Remember being properly amazed at SIS gearing which was unheard of round our way (deepest West Wales) at the time. Can't even remember seeing a MTB in the flesh until I unboxed mine.
 
Traded a Falcon Arctic Fox in to get £50 towards my GT Timberline FS from Charnock Richard Cycles in 1994... I say FS, but it had a rigid Tange fork and cost £300 instead of about £500 with the Rock Shox fork.

Still riding it now, although it's like Trigger's broom
 
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