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I usually take my pub bike when I'm in Bristol. Wave if you see me!

with respect the pub bike seemed too decent to be a pub bike!

I've had my bike on the road for a couple of months running 42 16, so 71". I'm finding the hills a lot less of a problem than I thought! I have to ride past Temple Meads up the Wells Road every day, and I reckon I do it literally twice as fast now as I ever did it on my road bike before!

@Whatfriends - sorry dude, I'll keep it strictly hill-free from now on!

I'm up for a names and faces thread or something, just as soon as I put a more socially acceptable saddle on my bike, and get this damn plastic surgery...

Who's for meeting up in Grenada, and riding up Market Hill?

I haven't got the lungs, or the legs; I'd stand and watch......sipping a rum and coke.

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Old Duke or Apple sounds good to me.

Sunday drinking then pitsumo in the fountain ;)

with respect the pub bike seemed too decent to be a pub bike!

Very kind of you to say, I really enjoy it still. It's my first fixed and I ride it 5 days a week. It's nice and ratty now with it's fair share of scars.

OK... I admit it... the Redland unipacker is me! Have been riding BMX and mountain bikes for years and thought I would try something new! Pretty much just saw it as a bargain bike I could build on! Didn't expect so much hate! Whatever! Pretty fun riding it so far tho! :-)

OK... I admit it... the Redland unipacker is me! Have been riding BMX and mountain bikes for years and thought I would try something new! Pretty much just saw it as a bargain bike I could build on! Didn't expect so much hate! Whatever! Pretty fun riding it so far tho! :-)

Yea here is alot of hate on this site against Unipacks, but i don't see why, imitation is a form of flattery. Its not as if the bike killed your mother or slapped your cat.

If it's getting new people to single speed and fixed gear riding as it is in my case I don't see the harm. You get the same in any aspect of bike riding... a budget introduction and something than can be upgraded and expanded. I knew what I was getting myself in to buying a bottom end bike. The frame itself seems pretty sound but I agree with other posts that some of the components leave a little to be desired. As for the comment that I am a nervous rider that certainly isn't true. I have been riding all sorts of bikes for most of my live and I'm very confident. Mind you knowing how most people drive in Bristol don't blame me for be a little wary! :-)

if your enjoying riding a unipack as your first fixed, then you'll get your mind blown when you ride a better bike*

*ANY ToolShedConversion / OTP / Pengy / HHSB / TrackHack™ / MrPista etc.

if your enjoying riding a unipack as your first fixed, then you'll get your mind blown when you ride a better bike*

*ANY ToolShedConversion / OTP / Pengy / HHSB / TrackHack™ / MrPista etc.

ha ha ha!

long live pengy!

vs.

You can contact the original pengy creator here: warmpotato@hotmail.com

I really hope Pengy gets ridden.

I'd love to catch it out the corner of my eye one day, hossing along, in the drops, gunning it through traffic.

Thanks for all the constructive criticism and advice. I have certainly learnt something trawling though some other threads and wish I had know all of this before hand. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If anyone sees me around Bristol please don't throw things. :-)

Ned are you pengy?

That reminds me, I saw a car in Brixton yesterday with a license plate of PENGI

nb:

cycle jumble at mud dock car park, 12pm on saturday; variety of bits, some MTB, some fixed.

come down anyway, i'll be there, i got bits to sell.

ow no

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2008/sept/1/FredBirdsall.htm

pretty much, or even if you try hard, you could find a gem for £60 like this -

To this;

Yes it have a new crank and BB which add up the cost, because the old one was already fucked by me not being inexperience with bike, but the point still stand, find a cheap bike, remove certain part, get new rear wheel, and bob your uncle.

What, like this?

Ned are you pengy?

Sadly I'm not... nowhere near cool enough!

Why are the bars higher than the saddle on that piss awful Pengy!?

i thought this was going to be about an alaska governors slut daughter riding a unipack, never mind.

@ned and rosmal.....

people hate on low quality stuff because ultimately it can be dangerous, gives people the wrong idea about what bikes should be like and mostly, its unneccesary. while i appreciate that not everyone can afford expensive stuff, there are a lot of people on here you can verify that that its possible to build a decent quality bike with good bits for the same price as the unipack for example. it annoys and offends me that companies can make good cheap bikes that arent scarey or badly made with half assed components, but they dont seem to do it. and as consumers (beginners, broke or less well informed etc) it can be hard to tell the good from the bad. really i dont care what people ride, i dont have to like it, and there are a hell of more expensive bikes out there that i also dont like.. but people riding is good, as long as they arent an idiot.

as for the comment about being a nervous rider; well the junction i saw you at, with your girlfriend maybe,was a dodgy one. drivers cut it all the time and then haul on the brakes in their cars, basically driving badly. so sorry about that, its easy to have your rhythm thrown on that corner and thats prolly what i saw.

otherwise, welcom to the forum and maybe next time i see you in a unipack shocker...i'll shout hello.

Why do i still get that warm tingly feeling each and every time I see pengy?

i dont know, why do you still get that warm tingly feeling each and every time you see pengy?

i await a kick ass punchline.

NO PUNCHLINE i swear. He's like and old friend thats given me numerous laughs but hasn't changed despite this. Its all very strange...

while i understand, i am dissapointed at the lack of joke..

do you remember the way speak and spells used to speak? they used to pronounce B like BVEE.