Frame for Life! (Dolan, maybe)

Dunno, gonna move south? maybe. Been in East London for four years now, fancy a change. Wapping is great though. Cracking pubs, think the Kidd is my favourite.

I've been in wapping a year! I've bought, so will be there for a while!

Be careful over the river, heard it's dangerous over there! ;-)

Yeah, aidan lives there....

I'm gonna miss being staggering distance home from Brick Lane!

:(

Ahhhh... only joshing matey. I'm kinda looking forward to it now!

Anyway, back to a frame!

What does everyone suggest if I'm going down the custom route, from what I've mention above?

Platini Speaking of Terry Dolan.....
http://www.tony-bell.co.uk/diary.php

Is that story about Dolan then? Is he some kinda nutter?

He's as bent outta shape as his poxy frames.

that's hilarious!

what a case

incidentally- if anyone cares, on 'keirin culture' they're selling a bridgestone keirin frame only for $250.
Thats like 125 squids- and i know its just the frame, but 125 squids for an NJS.
http://keirinculture.com/store//catalog/product_info.php?products_id=262&osCsid=e366ada52f59861b262e41e411352d3d

i wonder if they would charge that for a damaged frame if somebody hadn't got a hammer and punch and bashed 3 letters on the bb shell? {cynical mode}

aahhh yes- reading descriptions- not my forte.
Shit, nevermind.

WTF are those pedals?

fisher price.

and why so many headset spacers?

all that steerer for nowt, use the right bar/stem combo.

i reckon, check out ebay for a nice vintage reynolds 531 frame and build it up with nice gear ;)

RPM fisher price.
and why so many headset spacers?
all that steerer for nowt, use the right bar/stem combo.

Isn't it a shop bike? ie. hasn't yet been sold, so they shouldn't cut the steerer cut down because they don't know where to cut it.
Also no point putting good pedals on it coz you don't know what pedal/shoe combo the customer is using.

also take a look at kiwi cycles paul has some nice bikes for sale most of the time old classic frames and unusual ones too

Well looks like my boss will sign up for the CycleScheme, so I can get a custom bike made at BrickLane Bikes. TAX Free!!

Got a budget of about £750ish, which will only cost my (I say only) £490! £40 a month for 12 months!

So I need to decide on a good frame. Saw a nice white Condor frame, but it's a 56cm and I need a 53cm for my short-arse legs.

Also need some advice on wheels!

wappingwarrior £490! £40 a month for 12 months!

F minus for Maths.

And it will be less than that anyway. I got £1000 on the scheme and I'm paying back a grand total of £470 over 12 months

wappingwarrior Well looks like my boss will sign up for the CycleScheme

I don't understand CycleScheme. Seems to me that you give up some of your income over a perioud of time (the price of the bike) to effectively 'hire' it from your employer. Then at the end of the loan period, when you have paid off your bike, if you want to keep it you have to pay your employer the 'fair market value' of the bike - seems like you're paying for the bike twice???

For the math professors amoung you, it's actually £40.96!

£1,000 works out on the calculator as £655 and £54 a month (rounded up or down!). I'd go for £1,000 if it was only £470! Must be due to the different tax we pay!

As for the scheme, you have to pay a market value for your bike, which they estimate to be 5% of the original value! Depends what you're employeers like!

At the end of the 12/18-month hire period you might be given the opportunity to buy the bike for a fair market value. Cyclescheme have established a fair market value of approximately 5% of the original package price. This payment is subject to 17.5% VAT.
This arrangement cannot be firm otherwise it would constitute a benefit in kind and therefore not be eligible for any tax savings.

So! how about some help with what I should be ordering!

I don't know about buying it at the end of the term but the cool part comes from your income going bye bye for the duration of the lease or scheme or whatever.
Drop your income and you can drop your tax. You are basically being paid in bike rather than cash money. Or something. I failed (ac)counting.

wappingwarrior So! how about some help with what I should be ordering!

1. What bikes can you get?
   
2. Which of those bikes have you test ridden?
   
3. Which one did you like best?
   
4. You have your answer. That'll be £50, please.
   

they normally let you have it, either for £5 or for nothing, that sort of thing.

if they don't it's a good excuse to burn down the office and everyone inside it; alternatively kick the CEO in the face repeatedly until his/her skin feels like a bag of broken kindling to the touch; or simply go postal: ride your new potenza up and down the corridors, picking off the drones and serfs as they struggle to continue to enter data through the hail of bullets, cowering behind workstations as you rain down fire and brimstone in the name of every cyclist who has ever been wronged, cut-up, betrayed or injured.

just an idea.