Your Polo Bike Budget

i must point out that the frame was a gift from vic so it should read

Matt = £150 (forgot the fork from hassan!)

Hahah, how have you possibly worked this out to be £150?

Frame - from me
Wheels - from another bike
Seatpost - came with frame
Bars, stem and grips - came from another bike (two whole bikes ago! - from the Quick, no?)
Brake and lever - from another bike
Pedals and straps - you haven't bought any yet?
Saddle - green Brooks or my Charge spoon, both free

Eh? Can you really count things as costing money if they've been cannibalised from another old bike? 'Money I once spent on this part...'?

ha! yeah, but the wheels were a polo intended buy/build at £60. the forks £20. the cranks £30. ...um ... oh, tyres/tubes £30 ... sprocket £20 and headset £15 = £175! shoot.

Frame - TEMPEST EVOLUTION IRO DEMON SLAYER MARK V - £180
Fork – off old surly
Chain – sram £8
Saddle - £50
Seat post – itm £15
Sprockets – 18T,19T,20T and a eventually a 22T bout £25
Drivetrain – originally 44T sugino messengers then switched to 42T then swapped with Hassan for a 39T so still costs the same as a brandnew pair of RD’s
Wheels – Pairs of ambrosios £120, then switched to my miche primato to cxp33s £180 for the pair
Bars – £2.50
Grips ourys from brick lane £12?
Stem from Gabes free/cider/beer/handjob
Pedals £12
nylon straps - 5
Doubled single leather straps & cable ties - £12 (ale italian straps)

Balls – nothing thanks mike ;)

Mallets – 9 ski poles... I now have 3. Many through loaner/keepers. - £25+

So ball park figure – £600-650 not bad.

i'm in between polo bikes at the moment

current one was around 350 notes.

The FBM Sword however, may be a little more.

Eh? Can you really count things as costing money if they've been cannibalised from another old bike? 'Money I once spent on this part...'?

i guess what i want to know is the sums for things that were purchased intentionally for polo, so the stuff you grabbed from the shed/an old bike etc doesn't count.

gabes, whats the estimated damage?

well, wheels, cranks, chain, cogs, pedals, saddle are off current bike

so new stuff

frame £XXX
forks £17
headset £15
stem £40
bars £30
grips £15
seatpost £55

£500+

i'm in between polo bikes at the moment

current one was around 350 notes.

The FBM Sword however, may be a little more.

I thought that was a joke in the current projects thread. Sword polo bike FTW! You must be the George Best of the polo world

smirk, fucking hardly.

yeah, hardly, well, the drinking bit, yes.

Frame - £0
Bars - £0
Rims - £0
Pedals - £0
Straps - £0
Sprocket - £beer
Grips - £10
Brake lever - £12
Chain ring - £13
Tyres - £35
Rear hub - £30
Front hub - £0
Chain - £8
Wheel build - £27.50

I make that £135.50

yeah, hardly, well, the drinking bit, yes.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I've spent £260 on mine which includes buying a whole bike and having loads of parts left over.
Apart from buying a full bike cheap, most expensive bits were tyres I reckon.

Does the trick...

I spent a lot of money on booze, boys and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

yes

frame £20
rear wheel £55
sprocket £10
cranks £5
bb £5
pedals/straps/cages £5
everything else free

total = £100
bike = shit

my 'polo' bike is what i used to refer to as my bling bike, before i met emilie and the spokes went all spakky.

too much, i have a carbon seatpost ffs.

dt must have the most exspensive polo bike in londinium surely

my 'polo' bike is what i used to refer to as my bling bike, before i met emilie and the spokes went all spakky.

too much, i have a carbon seatpost ffs.
Ha, my pleaseure.
My polo bike was also at one time in a previous incarnation (only the frame reamins) my only fixed wheel. Then John Ma3K and alcohol happened.

how much was dave's then? huh?

the spokes alone cost 100 dorra

chris king Ti headset, oh, that was on the bike he threw away!

Frame, was my old bike, so doesn't count
Forks, free from Hassan
Bespoke welds, courtesy Max

the rest:
Bars - £20
Stem - £5
Grips - £10
Lever - £10
Caliper - £10
Wheels - £121 (rims £23 x 2, spokes £15, SJSC hubs, £40, build £20)
Tyres - £30
Crankset - £50
Chain - £5
Sprocket - £10
pedals - £10

Total = £281

Ha, my pleaseure.
My polo bike was also at one time in a previous incarnation (only the frame reamins) my only fixed wheel. Then John Ma3K and alcohol happened.
don't think you can blame ma3k

anyway, you and raytard havve matching dents in your surly's

So, do I win or does Emilie? Even tho' I don't play polo... Yet...

ray's is an IRO dale, fail.

thats right, his iro has the surly forks