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Cost of things "back in the day"
Spen69:
All well and good quoting prices but why not work out what wages your parents were on to buy them back then?
I'd argue that my parents saved all year to buy my £180 complete Mongoose Cali and my brother's £180 Chromo Burner for Christmas 1983 and they both worked. That's only £30 a month but it was a hell of a lot of money to try and save.
Index link it and I bet o/s is cheaper now (unless it's a Rabbit House), even when it's NOS. We don't know how lucky we are guys.......
Jaypeg:
My 83 mongoose wire wheel cost £150 which as already stated was a lot of cash back then. I know it was this price as my old man tells me whenever I speak to him.
sam hudson:
I think my DB Silver Streak cost my parents £225 in 1983 and my Aero Pro Team Burner cost them £250 in 1985 which was a whopping amount of money.
I remember drooling over a harry leary turbo in the window of Alec Greens bike shop in Birkenhead in 1983 and it was £350.
I have seen a rough calculation that £1000 in 1983 is now worth about £4000 - so would I spend £900 on a BMX for my sons today? Oww. :shocked:
ED209:
--- Quote from: Spen69 on June 22, 2012, 02:03 PM ---All well and good quoting prices but why not work out what wages your parents were on to buy them back then?
I'd argue that my parents saved all year to buy my £180 complete Mongoose Cali and my brother's £180 Chromo Burner for Christmas 1983 and they both worked. That's only £30 a month but it was a hell of a lot of money to try and save.
Index link it and I bet o/s is cheaper now (unless it's a Rabbit House), even when it's NOS. We don't know how lucky we are guys.......
--- End quote ---
you don't half talk some boll*cks Frodo ;D
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html
£15 pound Ladder bars would cost £39 now... not fekkin £140 :P
Orange777:
Really good answer as usual and very interesting! I know Mum had to save for that Puch and that she saved a fortune for my Diamond Back (compared to what a single Mum earns).
Now starting to think is it worth buying any top line new gear and keeping NOS in mint condition in a loft. Then in 20 years selling it all!
As long term collectors, you guys seen anyone buying Mid School and selling it on?
Cost of that Hutch at $700 is a fortune!! How much are guys spending now to do a fully tricked out Hutch rebuild?
Annoying that I have spent enough on GT parts to have bought several full bikes back in the day!!
CHEERS!!!
:daumenhoch:
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