Bikes and Cars: Is your car as high-end as your bike?
03-14-10, 10:03 PM
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If I compare price per kilogram, then my bike is worth way more than my car.
As far as specs go, then they are both pretty even - mid range car and mid range bike.
As far as specs go, then they are both pretty even - mid range car and mid range bike.
03-14-10, 10:05 PM
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I don't have a car
I'm just too into my bike to bother with one
I'm just too into my bike to bother with one
03-14-10, 10:07 PM
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My current Volvo:
My daily driver:
The baby carriage:
The cars cost a hell of a lot more than the bikes but are "lower end".
03-14-10, 10:13 PM
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Cars are a puny expenditure compared to homes. I thought cars were expensive, until I started looking at real estate prices in California for "starter homes".
You could buy a new $100,000 top-end Audi EVERY YEAR for 15 years and still be only halfway to the total mortgage payment on a "starter home" in the Bay Area Peninsula. Yikes!
You could buy a new $100,000 top-end Audi EVERY YEAR for 15 years and still be only halfway to the total mortgage payment on a "starter home" in the Bay Area Peninsula. Yikes!
03-14-10, 10:20 PM
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Oh, you mean getting groceries in the suburbs? The H3 is a joke of an SUV...
I technically don't own a car (heck ya for being a trust-fund college student) but I do drive an '03 Honda CRV (which is rather bad off-road, too). My bike is an '09 Felt Z80. Both are low-grade although the Felt is more fun to ride!
I technically don't own a car (heck ya for being a trust-fund college student) but I do drive an '03 Honda CRV (which is rather bad off-road, too). My bike is an '09 Felt Z80. Both are low-grade although the Felt is more fun to ride!
03-14-10, 10:26 PM
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03-14-10, 10:31 PM
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In my household, the cars are really more of an afterthought. We'll be moving downtown in a few months anyway and plan on selling off both cars due to the unreal parking costs. Unfortunately, the Moots will also be going. 5 bikes between two people is a little much.
The bikes:
The cars (someone else's photos/cars via Google images, but identical):
The bikes:
The cars (someone else's photos/cars via Google images, but identical):
03-14-10, 10:32 PM
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Both are old...The Car is more modified though...
95 Honda Prelude
In its prime...
'87 SR500
95 Honda Prelude
In its prime...
'87 SR500
03-14-10, 10:45 PM
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Oh, you mean getting groceries in the suburbs? The H3 is a joke of an SUV...
I technically don't own a car (heck ya for being a trust-fund college student) but I do drive an '03 Honda CRV (which is rather bad off-road, too). My bike is an '09 Felt Z80. Both are low-grade although the Felt is more fun to ride!
I technically don't own a car (heck ya for being a trust-fund college student) but I do drive an '03 Honda CRV (which is rather bad off-road, too). My bike is an '09 Felt Z80. Both are low-grade although the Felt is more fun to ride!
Easy there Tiger!!
Calling it SUV is like calling a pick up Truck, a car.
03-14-10, 11:24 PM
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03-15-10, 12:15 AM
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hmmmm...
Specialized Roubaix
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1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 210k miles on its original engine, but second to third everything else..
I would say bike is worth more than the car, yep.
Specialized Roubaix
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1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 210k miles on its original engine, but second to third everything else..
I would say bike is worth more than the car, yep.
03-15-10, 04:10 AM
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Bought a Bianchi Peregrine MTB when I sold the car - which I rebuilt in Jan. I also got a Bianchi 928 C2C Veloce group last summer.
03-15-10, 04:37 AM
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03-15-10, 07:52 AM
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my truck is worth lots more than my bikes but the truck is prolly as
equally beat up as the bikes lol.
2007 GMC Sierra 1500 w/ 48,000miles
2002? Atherton road bike
2005 Specialized transition comp tri bike
so i guess my vehicle is "as high-end" as my bikes, since none of them can be considered high-end lol. but none of are really "low end" either, they all serve their purpose very well, even though they're not nearly the best looking machines on the road.
equally beat up as the bikes lol.
2007 GMC Sierra 1500 w/ 48,000miles
2002? Atherton road bike
2005 Specialized transition comp tri bike
so i guess my vehicle is "as high-end" as my bikes, since none of them can be considered high-end lol. but none of are really "low end" either, they all serve their purpose very well, even though they're not nearly the best looking machines on the road.
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03-15-10, 08:04 AM
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Not a random internet pic, It's my expedition rig. And, oh, it's on "stock" height NO lift!!
You're blinding me with those shiny rims, need to cover them.
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03-15-10, 08:21 AM
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I'll play.
Bike (for now).
Car.
But really it's the Yukon behind my bike. This is a friends car.
Bike (for now).
Car.
But really it's the Yukon behind my bike. This is a friends car.
03-15-10, 09:42 AM
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Sorry, no pics, but I have a Felt F3SL that is only 6 months old, and a 2000 Acura TL that is now 10 years old, so it is probably only worth a few hundred dollars more than the bike. However, I will be in the market for a new car in about 3 months, so then my car will be about as high end as the bike. I am going back and forth between a new TL with 6 speed manual and AWD and a couple years old 545 or maybe even M5 for about the same price, but now umd has scared me into thinking I should stay Japanese.