Bike envy - breathe deep!

[subengine]

Any coping mechanisms for bike envy you can share with me?

I have a deeply irrational, totally unjustified case of bike envy. I recently bought a lovely subzero1 and went back to the lovely LBS to look at some new speccy shoes and pedals. They are ordering some in for me but while I was waiting a guy bought an Subzero3 XS - my size!

I joked about how I would like one and my jaw dropped when I found out the 08 model has been reduced to under half price. Eeeeeeeeeek! Only a little bit more than my bike. Don't get me wrong I love love my bike (little Sarah) but am lusting after her cousin the subzero3.

Anyway, it's completely irrational and I plan to spend a lot more quality time with the current one before I get another bike! It was a very special present from the boyfriend.

[crazycanuck]

SUbe...I understand..I too don't want to think my bikes aren't loved but i lust over nice bikes each time i ride. Also, when i visit my fave bike shop dudes i keep hoping a money tree will appear. *sigh*

When i finish uni, two new bikes are on order. Well, that all depends on if the current bikes last another 3 1/2yrs!

[Tuckervill]

Any coping mechanisms for bike envy you can share with me?

The only thing I know to do is buy it!

Karen

[Zen]

I can offer no useful advice either as I spent two hours last night looking for a steel frame

[Biciclista]

I too have been stricken with bike lust. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes you buy a new bike.

[Cataboo]

That's why I don't go into bike shops much!

I get bike lust - but I generally confine it to... I want such & such... and if I see a great deal on craigslist or ebay on a used one... Then I can have it. And generally if I get it, I have to sell a bike. It doesn't have to be immediately selling the bike, but within the next 6 months, a bike has to go...

I'm having problem with the accessories though... buying the shaped carbon ergo handlebars that are nice on my wrist, the colored tires, or the shorter cranks. which is not so bad if you have one bike, upgrade that stuff and stop. But if you have a couple bikes, then it turns into a - got one new handlebars, loved it, now the other 2 need those handlebars too.

I'm lusting after the SRAM red carbon crankset for one bike currently... I can almost justify it.

[Zen]

Accessorizing or upgrading components can be done slowly, though. which is why I am thinking 'frame' and not 'bike'.
But 'bike' would be nice

[Cataboo]

Accessorizing or upgrading components can be done slowly, though. which is why I am thinking 'frame' and not 'bike'.
But 'bike' would be nice

I have poor impulse control.

I'm bad at the slowly part.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have poor impulse control.

Me too. When object envy strikes me, I try to remember the old saying:

Happiness is loving what you have.

That often makes me feel better.

[Biciclista]

Once i got rid of it by doing a test drive. I actually liked the bike, but I guess
I realized it wasn't that different from what I already had. (This method might backfire!)

[Cataboo]

I did that by test riding a specialized ruby comp. I really couldn't tell that it was all that much better of a ride than my alumium/carbon fiber seatstay bike.

Now if I'd rode a higher end ruby or the men's version, that might not have worked... Btw, the mens version seems to have much nicer shaped tubing and such.

[MRS HORSEPOWER]

you only live once and there are worse habits you could be spending on that would trump the cost of that bike...LOL!
Thats just me

[Cataboo]

I was talking to one of the high school students we have in the lab yesterday. He was talking about a car that he'd bought from one of the college students in the lab - a $300 1986 something or other... and it's been working great for him for the last few months. I was telling him it a great use of $300 and... my bike cost more than that.

[Zen]

Me too. When object envy strikes me, I try to remember the old saying:

Happiness is loving what you have.

That often makes me feel better.

Do you come up with these pearls of wisdom while riding a custom built Luna, perhaps?

[Cataboo]

I can offer no useful advice either as I spent two hours last night looking for a steel frame

Isn't the mariposa steel?