Help Needed!

Hi,

My name's mike and I'm a newbie to this place - but I was directed here by a good friend who may or may not be a member (I don't know).. Basically I the first fixie I bought (a surly steamroller) was nicked after a few months from outside the national gallery on picadilly! I'm back to riding around on a battered touring bike who is really on his last wheels.

I really can't afford to spend in excess of £600 on another bike just yet - but I'd like to find a good fixie to start again and maybe in time I can build up in my own image. Problem being most of the bikes I see on gumtree or ebay are either

A) well out of my price range
B) rustbuckets
or C) the standard bricklane style fixie road bikes that cost a tenner to make and are sold for £180...

I'd appreciate your generous help in possibly pointing me in the right direction..

Cheers,
Mike

Could you samuraise your situation?

search "OPT" and look for the thread in your price range - its all there ;)
(OTP = off the peg)

search "OPT" and look for the thread in your price range - its all there ;)
(OTP = off the peg)

But what does OPT mean?

Hi,

My name's mike and I'm a newbie to this place - but I was directed here by a good friend who may or may not be a member (I don't know).. Basically I the first fixie I bought (a surly steamroller) was nicked after a few months from outside the national gallery on picadilly! I'm back to riding around on a battered touring bike who is really on his last wheels.

I really can't afford to spend in excess of £600 on another bike just yet - but I'd like to find a good fixie to start again and maybe in time I can build up in my own image. Problem being most of the bikes I see on gumtree or ebay are either

A) well out of my price range
B) rustbuckets
or C) the standard bricklane style fixie road bikes that cost a tenner to make and are sold for £180...

I'd appreciate your generous help in possibly pointing me in the right direction..

Cheers,
Mike

You can start by no longer referencing bikes anthropomorphically

Use the Search, it's all been written before!! Jeez, this is getting silly now.

come on, 2nd thread like this today ffs

But what does OPT mean?

it means I am a numpty who needs spell check.

Could you samuraise your situation?

your bike is a boy? Mine's a girl.

... was nicked after a few months from outside the national gallery on picadilly! ...

You sure you're looking in the right place? Try looking for it outside the National on Trafalgar Square, or outside the RA on Piccadilly.

Wow, some of you are so funny it hurts... cheers people - I'll look through your classifieds.
M

If you can get a bank loan for £2000 you can get a mink coat, and they're better than any fixxie.

Wow, some of you are so funny it hurts...

Some people on here aren't quite soba.

I'm very keirin to find out.

Converting your old tourer could be a cheap way to another fixed?

This thread will just jeep going round in circles.

There's no hari, kiri on looking for a while.

Opening a thread like this is clearly a kimono-go area

Wow, some of you are so funny it hurts
M

I think you're being rather velodramatic.

*okay, so I've used that pun before, but I'm very proud of it.

Seriously dude... just nippon down to Evans.

Ha! I'm like a katana hot tin roof right now

Godz, illa give my self a hernia reading this...

Wag, you. What's his beef anyway?

what took miso long to see this thread?