The Single Speed Shopper of Death™ and other shopping bike tales

If anyone wants a cheap 20" BMX wheelset, I've got a pair for sale - PM me.

Kingpin 'project' on Ebay

collect from Stafford but who knows...there may be other options
just thought I'd share
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Shopper for sale here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread102172.html

[/QUOTE]My finished (for now) Raleigh Twenty project
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weepee/8648837823/in/photostream/lightbox/

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Looks great, but I would remove two of those greens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bKHz7wOjb9w

saw this on twitter, thought of this thread.

^^That guy is all kinds of crazy.

intense.

Readers folding wives?

The Elswick Fuck/ Shopper of Doom

This belongs here
http://youtu.be/hTC1ehepoE8

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That guy is all kinds of crazy.

..indeed!

: D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MePIx82V1ks

new on here, found this thread by accident and made me want a ss bmx shopper, just waiting for white bmx grips to turn up in the post and my Puch Promenade 2 is ready to ride...

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nice ✌️

the grips arrived so it's finished, roll on spring proper and summer for riding this down the prom :D

Anyone modded a Bobbin shopper?

Currently am thinking of keeping all the guards and adding larger tyres, and then a front rack, drop/gravel bars and a bar end shifter.

So rack ideas please and anyone know what largest width tyres will fit under the guards and is the diameter of the original bar standard?

Thanks to some other threads on here I decided I wanted to venture into the shopper world. Picked this up a couple of weeks ago and very happy with it as a starting point. Going to build up the rear with a hub from a spare wheel I’ve got doing nothing and will match rim and tyre. Will work with the cottered bottom bracket that’s installed at the moment and the cranks that came with it but don’t know if I can be bothered with the faff so might just swap for a cheap square taper and ratty crankset I’ve got lying around. Other than adding a rear brake as well, everything else will stay as is whilst I work out where I’m at with it. Hopefully add a front rack and guard too at some point and then mess around with it over time.

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don’t know if I can be bothered with the faff

You can't. Change it.

Life if too short.

I miss my kingpin I still have a pair of sun rims stashed in the hope I'll get one again and finally do a light weight reno.

Cobblemonster tested and approved (the cobbles at least, ended up walking most of the hills).

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That looks fun!

Posting here first, letting this go with all the original bits I took off, just missing the original saddle I think, pm me for more info

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