I Like Big Bikes and I Cannot Lie, Wanted: 60-62cm Frame

Ok, I'm moving to town for Australia and am going to need a bike. Bit sad about leaving my lovely Zullo behind, but its just to expensive to bring it over so into storage it goes. I'm chasing a 60-62cm frame with track or semi-horizontal dropouts for fixed gear fun, obviously has to be steel and well that's about it. Have been thinking about dropping some cash on a Surly Cross Check or Steamroller frame, but would prefer something old cheap and fun.

Anyway if anyone has anything sitting about let me know, if not I'm sure you'll be seeing me about the place, just another 6'6" aussie getting about the place with my helmet on should blend in really well.

how come every aussie in the place is allowed to go to england, but it takes the home office months to process me, and they tell me the documents that i submitted, which are correct, are not. GRRRRRRRRRR.

and i ride 62s fun they are.

I know a guy selling a HUGE and pretty much complete Caygill 753 track bike, 25.75” (c/t), 23.25” (c/c), curvy seat tube, for cheap cheap cheap... He still had it on Sunday...
Whisper if you want his email...

Let me get out my unit converter..... 23.25' = 59cm = not that huge but worth a look.

chris crash how come every aussie in the place is allowed to go to england, but it takes the home office months to process me, and they tell me the documents that i submitted, which are correct, are not. GRRRRRRRRRR.

and i ride 62s fun they are.

Because they didn't fight a war against us and then bang on about it for 200 years. Revenge is a dish best served cold

i didnt fight no war, my family did, for the same reasons but in a totally different country... actually some of them are still fighting that war.

chris crash actually some of them are still fighting that war.

chris crash i didnt fight no war, my family did, for the same reasons but in a totally different country... actually some of them are still fighting that war.

obesity or diabetes?

Well I'm being allowed in because they realised my great great great great grandfather didn't really steal that loaf of bread so being deported to the other side of the world was a bit much.

Or it might be because I'm just fantastic and they couldn't say no to me.

The fact that I have a background in a very high demand area of engineering background has nothing to do with it.

Which area?

Dirt Doctor, aka geotechnical design engineer trying to get some tunneling experience otherwise it deep foundations, retaining walls and dams.

JDB Dirt Doctor, aka geotechnical design engineer trying to get some tunneling experience otherwise it deep foundations, retaining walls and dams.

You should call yourself J*C*B then...

[quote]chris crash how come every aussie in the place is allowed to go to england, but it takes the home office months to process me, and they tell me the documents that i submitted, which are correct, are not. GRRRRRRRRRR.[cite][quote]

Beats me, anyone on here got any inklings as to how Chris might have got his documentation wrong?
scratches head

JDB Well I'm being allowed in because they realised my great great great great grandfather didn't really steal that loaf of bread so being deported to the other side of the world was a bit much.

ohhh so my problem is that my great great great great grandfather really did shoot the game warden, then went down to the pub and bragged about it to all his mates after a few drinks, then decided it would be a good idea to get the hell out of Ireland.

chris crash [quote]JDB Well I'm being allowed in because they realised my great great great great grandfather didn't really steal that loaf of bread so being deported to the other side of the world was a bit much.

ohhh so my problem is that my great great great great grandfather really did shoot the game warden, then went down to the pub and bragged about it to all his mates after a few drinks, then decided it would be a good idea to get the hell out of Ireland.[/quote]

Sounds like thats the problem bragging will get you nowhere.
I think all government agencies have two sets of forms, the normal ones and a set to give to "undesirables" people who look at them funny so you get so pissed off with the process you just give up.

i got my forms off the interweb.

i got 60-61 cm track frame...columbus max oversize, columbus track aero steel fork.....and oversized wishbone monostays.....

How about this on ebay?

andyp How about this on ebay?

collection only from derbyshire...
it's a long ride back ;-)

Try Roberto. I sold an enormous Jaguar?? frame some time ago and the last time I looked at his site he still had it for sale. You can get his contacts/last post of bikes he had by searching on the site. Am afraid I am too lazy to do that for someone else.

Welcome to the UK, by the way

chris crash [quote]JDB Well I'm being allowed in because they realised my great great great great grandfather didn't really steal that loaf of bread so being deported to the other side of the world was a bit much.

ohhh so my problem is that my great great great great grandfather really did shoot the game warden, then went down to the pub and bragged about it to all his mates after a few drinks, then decided it would be a good idea to get the hell out of Ireland.[/quote]

It's never a good idea to get the hell out of Ireland... it's the only place you can get a good Guinness.

mister k [quote]andyp How about this on ebay?

collection only from derbyshire...
it's a long ride back ;-)[/quote]

Dam thats so sexy, lucky I'm still kinda bendy and I have a very bad case of N+1 disorder, is 3 bikes to many to have before I land in the country?

Also how far away is derbyshire? I'd look like a right ponce galloping a wheeles frame down the motorway.

140 miles north on the M1

Platini 140 miles north on the M1

Bloody hell so 1 mile = 1.6km,that would be fine if my ute fitted into hand luggage and petrol didn't cost a child per liter. Sounds like a day on the trains then, or is it a bus mission? I hate buses,I'd rather take wheels and bits and ride back than sit on a bus.

It's a train journey - about 2.5 hours I think with a change in Nottingham.