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My bike < £150 (excluding consumable such as tyres)
20,000 miles
cost <0.75 pence per mile
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ace thread!
Makes me want to ride my bicycle.
wtf!!!
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Brilliant video. I think everyone on this forum has had that "Why can't I let go of the front brake?" moment at some point in their life. Good to see people having a laugh and not taking themselves too seriously. Minh for the winh........
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Hipster from birth evidently.
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Wow lots of replies. All very helpful. Thank you ladies and gents if I made you happy or you enjoyed this thread :D
I'm scrolling up to reply to each one so it may come out quite confusing. Sorry for that!.
@ clefty Thanks clefty for introducing CM to me, I would love to go on a ride at a pace I can keep up. I'm useless with directions and atleast I won't have to worry about getting elft behind and lost. I'll check on google maps how far it is :)
@ tommy Yeah I found that site Tommy, I planned to go last time but my bike didn't get much use so I passed. Now my chain or sounds funny, my front whell has a sort of squeeking noise and changing gear is quite a loud clunk (sp)
I have my 6 week halfords check up on wednesday. I bought the bike on the 22nd of november and was told the 1st of Feb is the earliest date. I called again today because my suspension lock broke from that fall and the manager said no warranty because I missed my 6 week free check up. I made a fuss that one of your staff members told me the 1st of february and that is the date in my diary. He then said wednesday so I'm happy, but I will likely have to pay for the part.
I'm looking forward to learning how to do all the maintenence indeed. I love being able to do practical things and helping people :)
I shall get advice from them about these bikes. Nothing quite like talking face to face :)
@ matty. I'm looking into getting secondhand really. I do have 500 quid, but it is also a lot of money for me and It would be wise for me to not spend that much because my moutain bike total is about the same and I just wouldn't be able to justify spending a grand in total. Perhaps in the summer I hope!
My boss recently bought a felt z100 from my sisters boyfriends uncles pawn shop sucks in air lol. It's a road bike with gears but It was so lovely to ride and light. This has sort of made me jealous and I do want a faster road bike indeed.
Oh and not patronising at all mate. I did pump my tyres in the morning and bought a pump from halford with a gauge. I had to use it 2 week ago on sunday in the dark and luckily i bought a puncture kit the day before lol.
@edmundro, what sort of frame etc did you use please. I'd like to have an idea on what I could maybe start off with. Thanks buddy. Why did they last 8 and 9 months aswell please.@chayser, Glad you got to have your new bike after 6 mnoths of ahrd work buddy. Thumbs up for that :D New is out of reach for me ATM, but I understand that buying new has lots of benefits in terms of lasting. I wouldn't really trust a second hand bike without asking anyone on here now. You guys have a lot of knowledge and this forum is a great source for info and there are quite a few funny people too! lol
One thing that made me think was the expense of tyres etc. How many miles do they last? I did a wikipedia search and was amazed at the skidding. Pretty cool but costly.
@scraggie borsha I would love to have a bike that would last 50 years hehe. I bet the lighter materials in bikes increase the price up quite abit so it will have to be solid steel!
@edric64, yes the guy on the BMX found it very hard indeed. He slwoed us down quiter abit, but on the way back I swapped with him because he was walking and clearly fidning it hard. He also didn;t ride his bike for 3 years where as I have been riding since the 22nd of November. It was very hard work for me and we were going down hill toward Stoke Newignton, so he must have had a hard time and been exhausted by night lol.
Apologies for spelling and especially if I typed your names wrong.
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Started with a free 60's road bike. From this i used the saddle, post, handlebars, stem, , chainset and front wheel. Then bought a decentish old frame for £40. Used fixed back wheel for £40 and then misc parts top it up to the total figure.
Lasted 8months on the first one as i left it at my parents place in france when a cotterpin broke. Took the wheels and saddle off it as they're still fine. If i could be bothered i'd repair it to have as my bike in france. Second one had a dent and a crack in the frame when i got it and i'm retiring it cos it's on its last legs. -
Hilarious video. Glad you had a fun ride
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I thought I would come back and start from the beginning. PS. sorry I keep forgetting it's 2010!
I use to have a bicycle years ago, but the ebarings went and I stopped. Then I bought a Aprilia RS 125 and rode that.
In Jan 2009, I bought a Konda Kikapu 9 2007 for 450 from Wiggle, new but an older model. I saved about 300 quid because it was 2 years old.
I had it for 3 days and I locked it up with my D lock near work, and after 2 hours I came back to see nothing left of it. I didn't have insurance and I didn't have the frame number and neither did wiggle.
I was extremely gutted and was put off with cycling completely. The bike had only been ridden 3 times :(
To make things worse, my lights came in 2 days later because it was 5 days delivery lol. I did however say, hmm I'll need a bike one day or it would be a waste.
I came home with a WTB seat atleast! I called it my 450 quid seat :p
For about 1 year I had a hole in my wisdom tooth. The pain was unbearable by this point even with co codamol and clove oil (nasty taste btw urgh). This was in November and everyone told me to get it sorted.
I work in well street hackney and got a lift to stoke newington to have an emergency appointment in stoke newington at my managers dentist.
Here's a pic after I went to the dentist to get it out. 3 injections later and it was out. I havent uploaded a photo of my tooth but queen elizabth 1 would be proud lol.
It wasn't cheap at 140 quid either!
I had no means of transport so went into the other branch (blue opticians in the photos in the first post)
I borrowed the white raleigh chinook dd from zak:
It gave me a burst of love for cycling again and the 3 mile ride to where I work was lovely apart from I had to keep spitting blood out. zak had a cheaper bicycle that was stolen from his house in dalston about 3 weeks before aswell.
shahan:
Shahan lives closer to zak and I asked him to ride it and drop it off. Me and shahan only work together on friday and tuesday. On tuesday we both came to work on brand new bicycles! I guess that ride gave us both ideas lol. He bought a gitane from daycocks. I bought a gt aggressor xc3 from halfords.
For about a month I was nagging manzur to get a bicycle
Manzur saved up and bought this gitane 1.4
Those 3 are my collegues.
Manzur then told his friend zaid to get a bicycle and he got a cheap secondhand bike for 50 quid last monday. It's quite heavy and he struggled quite abit. He hasn't ridden a bicycle for a long time also.
looks like a harlem.I met said once or twice on car cruises in totenham.
Said got rob to come with us on this ride and I havent met him before. He now plans to get MT or Road bike for the next ride which is great. It was very tough for him and the seat was so low.
photo's of our journey.
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It gave me a burst of love for cycling again and the 3 mile ride to where I work was lovely apart from I had to keep spitting blood out. zak had a cheaper bicycle that was stolen from his house in dalston about 3 weeks before aswell.
shahan:
Shahan lives closer to zak and I asked him to ride it and drop it off. Me and shahan only work together on friday and tuesday. On tuesday we both came to work on brand new bicycles! I guess that ride gave us both ideas lol. He bought a gitane from daycocks. I bought a gt aggressor xc3 from halfords.
For about a month I was nagging manzur to get a bicycle
Manzur saved up and bought this gitane 1.4
Those 3 are my collegues.
Manzur then told his friend zaid to get a bicycle and he got a cheap secondhand bike for 50 quid last monday. It's quite heavy and he struggled quite abit. He hasn't ridden a bicycle for a long time also.
looks like a harlem.I met said once or twice on car cruises in totenham.
Said got rob to come with us on this ride and I havent met him before. He now plans to get MT or Road bike for the next ride which is great.It was very tough for him and the seat was so low.
photo's of our journey. Eveeyone arrives in stoke newington. The guy on the left lives in dalston. I live in hackney wick. guy on the far right and middle guy further back are from edmonton. the guy on the left of the bunch is from finchly and the guy on the right is from clapton. the boys from edmonton and finchly got the train to seven sisters lol.
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MMMMM ICECREAM"! gurkin building behind us. London is lovely. Not too tall here but so much character.
yep time to stand up after ice cream! lol
The mayors building thing. It looks lovely :)
Manzur trying to feed pigeons with ice cream cone on his arms. I told him they are flying rats!
Me :D
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I second Tommy's suggestion to go to the Hackney Bike Workshop, MinhDinh. You'll get lots of excellent advice there, including if you want to build up a bike (but then, you'll find lots of info on here, as well).
Loved the video!
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Went to bed happy after watching the video, got to work happy after reading the tooth story, thanks Minh.*
PS - that Harry Hill idea is a good one
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My bike ride 17th Jan 2009 :D Stoke Newington to Tower Bridge
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The video made me do an actual little lol