Readers' Rides

[alfajobrob]

nice.....

I like your bike/s Mr Fraud...my new baby

 

[oooomegrapes]

I like your bike/s Mr Fraud...my new baby

sir......you have a girls bike

 

[alfajobrob]

sir......you have a girls bike

(((post reported)))

oooomegrapes is now on your ignore list

 

[oooomegrapes]

bovvad? do i look like im bovvad? face, bovvad, face, bovvad

 

[alfajobrob]

bovvad? do i look like im bovvad? face, bovvad, face, bovvad

you will be when I dig out the twister out

 

[oooomegrapes]

you will be when I dig out the twister out

yeah.....promises promises

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I like your bike/s Mr Fraud...my new baby

very nice Surlys are cool - and its a fixie to boot. What are those rims? CXP22's? They suit the bike very well.

 

[maes]

My feet & a travelcard, but I really want one of these:

or

 

[felixthecat]

I've got one of these:

So have I - great for getting me along the towpath to work!

I also have a very battered Mitsubishi lancer for big shopping and transporting kids when necessary (not much in the way of buses around here )

 

[D]

goodness!

I just realized that I don't have any pictures of my beautiful beast.

Well, here's a clean and unadorned version:

Swap around some componentry - rear wheel w/ultegra hub, random cassette, shimano combo platform/SPDs, new headset, new and currently untaped Salsa handlebars, ancient Suntour friction bar-end shifters and Mafac brake levers with relatively new Shimano calipers, some white housing and some black (I want to get some red or orange housing ) - and throw on a rack with a broken bit of a rear flashy light and a bunch of stickers...there you have my bike.

I'd like to do some further decorating soon...and I'm still deciding whether to add cross levers. And I want some orange bar tape.

can you tell that I just had a bunch of shit nicked off my bike?

 

[pinkychukkles]

my trusty two-wheeled steed!

with most of the accessories...including the mud guards

 

[D]

You know, I put fenders on my bike for the first time ever about 2 months ago and I found them to be nothing but hassle. They were slightly unsturdy and they didn't really do much in the way of minimizing mud. Perhaps mine were just too flimsy and, frankly, they just looked lame. I ditched 'em in the end.

pinkychukkles - I know many people who ride that bike!

 

[pinkychukkles]

Yeah it's been good to me considering that I've done about just over 4,000 miles on it since I bought just over two years ago. So I wasn't too suprised when I took in a for what turned out to be a major service and they replaced just about every moving part! Cost £180! which was half the value of the bike when I bought it but considering that I only had the cassette replaced before that, it perhaps not too suprising; if I was able to do all those repairs myself it would've only saved £40. Still that's only two months worth of travelcard zones 1 & 2...

My reasons for getting mudguards/fenders were two-fold: one, I had no desire to end up at work with a filthy muddy mark stretching from my arse to the nape of my neck just to look 'cool' by not having mudguards; two, by having mudguards I labour under the probably false impression that my 'uncool' bike is less attractive to thieves. Well point two is a load of crap really, I just don't want to get wetter and dirtier on my journey than necessary and mudguards prevent that

Having the side mirror is an enormous help in London, I highly recommend it so you are more aware of your surroundings i.e other traffic and that is A Very Good Thing. Still, there are certain macho gung-ho cyclists who view such accessories as superfluous but that's up to them I guess.

 

[geminisnake]

So, yeah, ton up over hump backed bridge does seem a bit

You big girls blouse!! Ton up and hump back bridge =

My transport is a boring mk3 N reg Golf, which will do me til I get enough money to buy probably an Audi.

I loved my old Mk2 Golf(saved my life), and I loved my Manta even more. Was like that but with square headlights and he was black and had alloys

http://www.vulpine.co.uk/images/manta1.jpg

 

[Wess]

 

[Onket]

......and I loved my Manta even more. Was like that but with square headlights and he was black and had alloys

http://www.vulpine.co.uk/images/manta1.jpg

My Granddad used to have one of those, fucking cool as!

 

[EatMoreChips]

Right, my first effort at linking to one of my own pictures, so it'll never work:

Usually the one at the front. I'm not good with cameras.