Jeremy Corbyn reveals his dream bike – but is it too expensive for a socialist?

If Jeremy Corbyn cancelled his Telegraph subscription (!)  (£468 per year) he could easily afford the bike.

I'm no Corbyn-ite, but I also don't buy the Telegraph.

I'm using the money I save on not buying the Telegraph, to put towards a Channel Island and maybe a place in Monaco, if the rich Twins (who own the Telegraph) want to sell them.  (www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31517392).

I think I'll be saving for a long while.....

I'm a Socialist and own a Venge S-Works and Roubaix. Good thing I barely have any say over what I have for tea much less national policy or I'd be drawn and quartered by Conservatives.

I noticed on Twitter this morning tha someone had started a crowdfunding campaign to buy him his ideal bike and annoy the right-wing media. They have raised over £2200 as it stands!

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/lets-get-jez-his-dream-bike/

As a socialist i imagine he expects someone else to pay for it.

Pathetic. £475 is roughly what it would cost per month to lease a top end "executive" car.
What a dismal piece of smearing (and I am no defender of Corbyn). It would be better if our politicians spoke out in favour of the last British built and designed bicycle, the Brompton.

They're taking the mickey not because he covets an expensive bike but because he covets a cheap one. To tories, covetting something cheap will be an appalling lack of class and ambition. They're using this to undermine him to the public who (they believe) will all desire Ferrari's, gold watches and mansions. 'How can you support this man when all he wants in life is a £500 bike?'.

Obviously they're right about a large portion of the British public who will have at least one telly in their house that costs more than that.

Can you imagine the bankers trying to buy him off like they do with the Tories? They'd be sticking gold bars in their eyes in frustration.

Perhaps, at his age, if he can keep up with Mr Wiggins on an old Raleigh, perhaps he is in the wrong job, fingers crossed.

Is this news?

Just as well he didn't have press snappers interested in him a few years ago, when on longer rides he was sometimes seen sporting a rather fetching red rapha jersey

A friend recently commented on the amount you can spend on bikes these days when a couple of us were looking at expensive kit. He pointed out that were be lucky to get change out of £5k for a set of wheels and a pump.

It took some googling to find a £1000 pump...

Well I am a socialist and it doesn't seem to stop me lusting after a Pinnarello Dogma F8 !

Given the setup of the oganisation that makes them, the ultimate socialist bike would have to be an Orbea.

Raleigh Criterium?  I tried it when I was a student but the bloody thing kept veering left or, more annoyingly, doing unexpected U-turns.  However, as a bonus, I found I could ride away from my friends and take up a completely isolated position at the front.

Did I just see Jeremy Hunt riding a bike across a footway/pavement ? ? On a bike that probably cost a lot more than £475 ?  ( BBC News )

Glaring omission: est. market value of his current bike?

Whilst material possessions are but mere baubles, I have to say that I find his lack of ambition even in a daydream somewhat uninspiring.

At first I couldn't work out if the sneer was supposed to be that the bike was too expensive or that it was too cheap. I mean, I seriously doubt any Telegraph journo spent less than that on their own primary form of transport (even rail season tickets cost more than that and I can't see them driving an old jalopy).

But I guess the comparison with the £130 wellington boots means they really do think that counts as 'expensive'. They really do live on another planet at the Telegraph (I guess that's why they don't much care what happens to this one).

I wonder how much the cars of the people costs who are complaining about this "expensive"

I wonder if Jez's £475 Raleigh is made in China ? If it is, then the Tory establishment twats will be well suited because that's where all our nuclear power stations and railways are going to come from ! 

It probably costs less than the amount Sajid Javid tried to claim on expenses for heating his fucking stables.

A £475 Raleigh! It's not exactly extravagant. It's like saying your dream car is a Ford Fiesta. 

Respect to Mr. Corbyn for prefering to cycle whenever he can, but I feel sorry for the bloke if he covets this bike.

Surely coveting should be reserved for something decent. My coveting is more in the direction of a C60.

And as for Helen Horton of the Telegraph, she merely makes a fool of herself by suggesting that this is an expensive (read "elitist") bike.

"too expensive for a socialist?"

Oh, FFS. Being a socialist is nothing to do with how much you have, how much you earn, or how much you spend.

I like how the Telegraph think £475 is a lot of money for someone's dream bike. That's funny.

I don't undestand why they think being a socialist means having no money or not spending the money you earn from your well paid job. That's bonkers.

Snarky comments from the Tory, I mean Telegraph?!

Well fuck me!!!

If only they knew how much a decent set of wheels can set you back..