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^ Noted, cheers Mate
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Praise indeed from a writer of fine sale threads too....
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OK, quick update.
Indra & Co first in with dibs and payment for handover tomorrow night.
Nice quick sells - cheers all. -
^ Karma-spreading exercise
F&F was a gift, seemed wrong for me to profit from others generosity! -
£3k to move your gas meter ?
My Plumber did it as part of the job.
PM me if you need his number
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^^ Cheers Phil - Having a meeting with the builders this morning to resolve this, may drop you PM later.
^ Cheers mate, enjoyed buildin/riding it though. -
Just to confirm - Indra & friends picked it up this evening. Good to meet you, hope you got it to kennington safely!
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For Sale: Rad Gitane Tarck-Beater 56cm of Super-cheapness
Posted by
@Rik_Van_Looy
**Gitane Rat/Beater for sale for cheaps, for life **
Yes fam! so much steel, so very yeah, skinny tube etc.
Perfect fakenger prop... you have sensible job steady income/mortgage/life assurance etc? When you stand astride this fixiebiek drinking redstripecan on street corner everyone think you dangerous/sexee messengerman - no tattoos required
(If nobody shows her your gopro vids of epic RLJ, your mummy need never know).
Back-story: F&F kindly donated free-of-charge by Dry as part of his bike rationalisation back in January.
I was making mess of pretty biek with everyday beaterthrashing so I gratefully accepted & built radfixeh-type beater.
Since then I've covered 100+miles per week on this. all good, much fun, big skidz.
I'm in the middle of a big building project and thought budget under control till the gasboard requested £3k to move meter - WTF?
Needing to raise funds, plundered parts-bin for shiny vintage-bits, sold some cameras, flogged-off all original victorian doors - still insufficient dosh, so rad-fixiebiek goes
Obvious question.. how do you sell something you got free of charge you scabby cheapskate?
Answer, only sell the bits I added - Yes Fam - super cheaps - buy my bits at cost price, get frame free...
Spec as follows...
Frame & Forks: Gitane Super-skinny Lugless Steel - a well executed conversion with decent quality track-ends, braze-on's neatly removed & rear brake-mount filled with braze so it look like real-life-proper-tarkbiek
All original decals, paintwork comensurate with age, big tyre clearance to front, but things nice and tight at the rear-end.
Seattube C-C: 56cm
Toptube C-C: 57cm
BB Height: 28cm
(A common problem with conversions is the BB height, this ain't bad - I've never grounded pedal riding proper-rad with 170mm cranks - you'll be safer than me with 165mm cranks currently fitted).
Bits:
No doubt you're all champing at the bit and wanting to know how much this costs so you can buy it, strip it down and send it to armourtex for sweet babyblue coatings or rattlecan fadez....
Bill is as follows.
Frame/Forks/BB/Headset/Euroman sticker - £Nuffink
Wheels + Tyres + Cog - £65 (£20 for front wheel. £15 for rear wheel £20 for spacers + replacement rear axle + 20T cog. £15 for front A/K bolt + tyres + innertubes + rim-tape)
Chainset + Pedals + Chain - £15
Bars + Stem + Ahead convertor** - £35 (£5 for bars and grips, £10 for stem, £10 for Deda adaptor, £10 for machining)
Seatpost** & Saddle £15
*Total £135 **
*If you think it's too much state your reasons below and I'll tell you to sod off if you're wrong and make appropriate reductions if you're right (I'm a reasonable, peace-loving man).
If you think it's too cheap, make up the difference with a donation to this marvelous forum or one to your favourite charity...
Alternatively, make up the difference with a random act of kindness, e.g. buy a pack of Amber Leaf and next time you see a homeless person trying to light a pavement dog-end, hand over the baccy....
**Costs for stem & seatpose include costs for machining obscure diameters (apologies fam, price to pay for precision machining, funding UK Plc, and keeping these crafts alive...)
Dibs & PM's to register interest.
Post below if you've any queries/comments, or indeed if you have better (& hopefully more healthy) ideas for random acts of kindness
I'm in town on Thursdady evenings (mostly South/West/Central) - can do handover then.
If Thursday evenings no good, collection can be made from agreeable locations between Swinley forest and Hampton (Ascot, Staines, Windsor etc).
Don't think I can really be arsed to post this or make extra-special trip to your house in Chingford/Penge etc unless you have persuasive arguments to convince me otherwise.