UC/ Doubtful. With how expensive quality shoes are these days you'd probably spend well over $255 a year on shoes.
You can't even afford ad-free Netflix for $255 a year.
/uc nerds always underestimate the casual crowd that just buys low-tier equipment and rolls with it for years.
I'm also active in the Magic the Gathering community, and the vocal minority has collections worth 4-6 figures, while the average casual player buys one preconstruced deck and a couple booster packs per year, and plays every other months with their friends. Or, board games in general. I know a few people who own more table top games than they could ever play, but most people who name "board games" as their hobby probably only play Catan and Monopoly.
Yes. Why are you pour Freds taking this to mean cycling in general is the “hobby”? You need to get more specific. Titanium bidon carrier screws are my hobby. That said, I dropped 2x the average on them last year.
Well Most people don't engage in their Hobbies a lot if at all. Cycling sets me back 100€ a month alone for eating on the bike and overeating when I get home.
Technically true: €255 a year is what I spend on the purest air money can buy to keep my tyres inflated.
The rest is sponsored by my patients and their dental appointments
Each, right?
Bike commuting. Light off road cycling. Gravel trail cycling. Then got a hybrid bike that can do all 3 and has quite a bit of storage space on the back with pannier bags.
uj/ i feel like people have different definition of hobby. some people's hobbies are stuff they do on their free time for fun, for the majority of people here it's more like stuff that is consuming their life or stuff that is their midlife crisis. ymmv
So you can buy a decent ALU / carbon fork gravel bike for $1300 on sale. Assuming it last 10 years it will cost you $130/ year.
Assuming you need 1 set of tires every year and 5 sets of tubes there is an additional $150/year.
And I guess $100/year for bike shop stuff assuming you never learn how to change chains.
So I guess $380/year assuming you’re riding 3k miles a year (so like $250 mi / month). But if you are biking for commuting you are saving $135 in car costs or so.
> $100/year for bike shop stuff assuming you never learn how to change chains
Cassettes, chainrings, cables/housing/hydro fluid, bottom brackets, hub bearings, headset bearings, brake pads, rotors, and bar tape are all free and cost nothing to install in either tools or shop labor.
$255? What the fuck are their hobbies? Breathing??
Walking peasants. 🚶♂️
UC/ Doubtful. With how expensive quality shoes are these days you'd probably spend well over $255 a year on shoes. You can't even afford ad-free Netflix for $255 a year.
No shit, that’s like one Rapha jersey and a case of Gu. Basically one rides worth.
/uc nerds always underestimate the casual crowd that just buys low-tier equipment and rolls with it for years. I'm also active in the Magic the Gathering community, and the vocal minority has collections worth 4-6 figures, while the average casual player buys one preconstruced deck and a couple booster packs per year, and plays every other months with their friends. Or, board games in general. I know a few people who own more table top games than they could ever play, but most people who name "board games" as their hobby probably only play Catan and Monopoly.
think you’re in the wrong sub mate. This sub is for manly men with big tights and not those who play games.
Shaved legs to look more manly
BCJ: Men in Tights
this dude doesn’t get magic pussy
there's a reason I switched to Cock Magic.
Is that like cocks and ladders?
cocks and train like formation gno wat m sain
To gno what you gno and to gno what you don't gno is to GNO bro
tf is this a gnocensum ?
I don't gkno
Does it come with a Kick Me sign or do you make one yourself?
how about you gather your equipment and go for a ride?
I spend that on new rene herse tubulars each day for my sir Velo. Is that what they mean?
Yes. Why are you pour Freds taking this to mean cycling in general is the “hobby”? You need to get more specific. Titanium bidon carrier screws are my hobby. That said, I dropped 2x the average on them last year.
Well Most people don't engage in their Hobbies a lot if at all. Cycling sets me back 100€ a month alone for eating on the bike and overeating when I get home.
how did you find a private chef willing to follow you on your rides for that cheap?
I have my domestiques carry a full kitchen for every ride.
What are eating? raw sugar? I spend 100 bucks on gels per day for my endurance rides. Mortons aren't cheap.
/uj this
No, I am now treating this as a regular cycling community.
$255 is just what I tell my wife.
Jerking is my job. What’s a hobby?
Yeah nah yeah x10 minimum mate.
Her boyfriend pays for everything, I just watch
If you have time for a hobby...you clearly aren't taking your bicing serious, gtfo.
Imagine being so pour, you had to count money.
Spelled “day” kinda weird there..
It's a cassette Michael, what could it cost, $400?
Technically true: €255 a year is what I spend on the purest air money can buy to keep my tyres inflated. The rest is sponsored by my patients and their dental appointments
I spend that on gels alone each ride.
That’s per tyre right?
Apparently my hobby is a pair of new Maxxis tires
It's not a hobby if it's my main form of transport.
This is for the poors.
Hobby? WTF is a hobby? Bicè is life- my sponsors spend the money; not me.
255?😲 Maybe you mean a month
I literally spent that yesterday getting laser hair removal.
I spent more than that on my last saddle 😂
That barely covers the price of a single PNS…
I was talked into slipperier cable innards and it shifts worse.
$255 leaves no room for the blow. Or, was that the hookers? 🤔
Did weed get cheaper?
I spend more than that on ketones
Yeah, and the average FTP is something like 250.
3 PS5 games and a PS live subscription
nah, when I see 255 most likely there's a programming error somewhere.
I'm a Cyclist - I don't have *time* for a hobby
This year I spent easily 7k . New bike , new power meter , new gear etc .
I've spent double that on bike stuff and on anime figures.
There’s 3 years a month now?
Uuuuuhhhhh I bought new SPD shoes this week. Guess that’s me done for the year
>1k$ a year avg for every year i live and I’m soon 40 and do this 4 years 😅😂
about a thousand euro.
I just spent over $500 in the past two weeks 🤐
Guess I’m above average
Y’all, I thought backpacking was an expensive hobby, then I got into biking lmao
how do they define year? 👀
Ah, but how much are they spending on their addictions?
Each, right? Bike commuting. Light off road cycling. Gravel trail cycling. Then got a hybrid bike that can do all 3 and has quite a bit of storage space on the back with pannier bags.
This is why i say normies are NPCs. They don't really have hobbies.
We can’t all be fucking dentists… Some of us plebs just develop software and COLA only allows us to ski.
I quadrupled that each month for the last 5 months
I’m about $15k in this year. I love MTB & E-MTB racing.
Lol I just had a sip of Cognac while reading this and it cost more than that..the sip not the bottle
uj/ i feel like people have different definition of hobby. some people's hobbies are stuff they do on their free time for fun, for the majority of people here it's more like stuff that is consuming their life or stuff that is their midlife crisis. ymmv
Definitely not true
/uc conveniently excluding sports tickets and subscriptions
I spent that on a bugdet repair yesterday
You mean per day?
The average adult does not road cycle
Damn, some of you guys don't have hobbies!
I probably spend $10k
I don’t have a cheap hobby. Ain’t a part of the game: cycling, books, warhammer. I’m just poor for fun.
Rookie numbers
That cringey TikTok guy from a couple days ago spends that on pre-ride skin care products before every ride.
How?, a computer is thousands, bycicles are crazy expensive, motorcycles and cars are so common hobbies, who only spends less than 300 on a hobby?
What if your hobby is also your main means of transportation?
So you can buy a decent ALU / carbon fork gravel bike for $1300 on sale. Assuming it last 10 years it will cost you $130/ year. Assuming you need 1 set of tires every year and 5 sets of tubes there is an additional $150/year. And I guess $100/year for bike shop stuff assuming you never learn how to change chains. So I guess $380/year assuming you’re riding 3k miles a year (so like $250 mi / month). But if you are biking for commuting you are saving $135 in car costs or so.
We don’t count money after dental school
> $100/year for bike shop stuff assuming you never learn how to change chains Cassettes, chainrings, cables/housing/hydro fluid, bottom brackets, hub bearings, headset bearings, brake pads, rotors, and bar tape are all free and cost nothing to install in either tools or shop labor.