eBay and Craigslist finds

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Still pining after one of these. One dayyyyyy.....

Wrong size every time? :)

56 would suit perfect. But with the charity bike ride (shameless plug - http://www.justgiving.com/swindonberlin ) I don't have any cash, gotta fund my stomach for the trip.

53.5cm track bike, Reynolds 531 tubing, Mavic, Miche Primato, Cinelli. Forks drilled.

Very tidy looking, £230 BIN, Seems a good deal.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/252363715766

Ehler Danloss is a PITA I know somebody who has it, her joints can go totally out of whack just like that.

Have some gold nuggets :)

Hang on fund your stomach...is this the hippy approach to fuelling? ;)

Ah thanks mate! Sorry to hear about your friend, it's a shitty one.

Yea mum's is pretty bad. She hasn't been on a bike in years, and any form of exercise is tough.

When I was really young, her shoulders were fused with metal brackets because they would dislocate without warning. Her elbows would do the same, so they tried a lot of different bone blocks but nothing worked. Eventually both elbows were replaced with titanium hinges, but the bearings inside wear out (and much quicker than estimated lifespan), so there are frequent operations to repair the replacement! There's nerve damage from all the ops because it's so tricky, and her wrists are also fused and pinned to stop them buckling under pressure. The list goes on!

So yea I'm not sure how bad to spam the forum, but places like the Nuffield really help with maintaining as much quality of life as possible for people like her.

All being said, that Koga.....

Nice find, very good value. Cool paint

would have*

Sell the TV you won't need it anyway with the cycling charity trip :P

Wicked! I've been pining after a track bike, would buy that in a flash if it wasn't 150~ miles away. Sometimes I find myself struggling to get to the other side of London

noted

If I had a TV to sell I would! I'm even playing Apple-Roulette, with a decade-old macbook with swollen battery ;)

Is your crotch insured? ;)

Macbook stays on one of those raised plastic platform things (fake cooling platform) atop a wooden perch ("desk"). I'm self-insuring.

Nice price, but postage is ridiculous. Maybe combine it with one of the nice bits of mid century furniture that seems to be their main trade:
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=262400313929&alt=web

£40 doesn't seem ridiculous for postage, is it?

£60-80 to Yorkshire. They're obvuisuly just using their own delivery service. £40 is ridiculous when you consider Parcelforce 48 is £11.99

Fair enough, I've not known Parcelfarce deliver a bike for 12 quid (and I'd still add up to £15 for materials if it were packed well, but thats neurotic level bubble wrap)

I've probably sent around 10-15 bikes through them, £12 if you use the PayPal 'ship now'. Always packed properly!

They're fairly liberal with size restrictions. You can use one of those full bike boxes from an LBS (and grab a bunch of bubble wrap/card while there) and their weight restriction is 30kg. Never, ever had an issue with them and you can drop at a post office... Perfect really.

Obviously, price goes up with insurance. But to send a £500 bike fully insured was £19 or so.

For the bike in the link it'd be £12. £60 is 'making money from postage' territory IMHO

@dglshrn learn something new every day. Thanks for that.

It is. Got bikes delivered from abroad for cheaper

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/252365106692
Cheap Roberts track, £125 with best offer

Damn! So local (in my ex's hometown down the road), glad it's too small.

Cheap Roberts Tandem…ending in 40 mins

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roberts-Tandem-/331833122609?hash=item4d42cb9f31:g:egkAAOSw7n9XEj-4