Royal Mail planning to phase out bicycles, petition to stop them

I would really like one of the postie bikes with the bent top tube pictured earlier on this thread, if anyone finds a source do please let me know.

This basically means I now have a RM bike to do up.

Good luck, I heard all the parts are non-standard so no one would nick them..

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I understand why they are doing this. You don't need bicycles to deliver parcels if you steal all the fucking parcels instead of delivering them.

What will be the impact on Pashley?

Could be wrong but possibly not too bad for Pashley - I believe that they suffered quite badly when the Post Office was privatised in the first place (I think at the time they were running a decent trials team that got caned). Hopefully they will be ok.

Shame to see them go, but (and I offer this speculatively) given that fewer and fewer people write letters since the bikes were first specified in the 50's, 60's and 70's, is there not a chance that bikes are not actually that good for delivering the mail?

two words

trailer.

I think that most of them, if scrapped by Royal Mail, will go to Africa on a recycling scheme. But, if they go up for sale, I want one.

two words

trailer.

Darwin Deli delivery did a good job of transporting bulk of food for the waddling fattie on their bike (incidentally are generally old Post Office Pashley).

Good luck, I heard all the parts are non-standard so no one would nick them..

But Pashley would probably be able to supply parts.
There is probably scope for replacing things like wheels with more standard parts.

It's been getting gradually worse since you left, though. ;)

Have you noticed as well!? Amazing!

I've got the original of that song on a 6inch vinyl by a band called the King Bishops. Just saying.
EDIT it''s a Bo Diddly song. Oops.

God that woman is teh sex. I always dug her so much it made me feel a bit funny. I was only a boy at the time. Thanks Murts!

This thread is pure gold, especially the merge.

She was 15 years old at the time; they had to pull artwork cos MM had her posing nude when only 14 and Scotland Yard weren't happy.

Fucking great thread...

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Why I oughta!

i think he meant the posties

How I loved Annabella when I was a teen... le sigh

I wish my post arrived before midday!

Then you should get up before midday. Student?

A proper sit-up-and-beg bicycles.

:D haaaaaaahahahaha

Brunel University product design graduation project? Fucking GASH!

If its good enough for VB, then why not the post office?

:D haaaaaaahahahaha

Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed that.

A mate of mine's brother in law is a postie and I asked him some time ago if he could get hold of the bikes, he said they keep them running for something like 20 years before they are automatically retired and sent to Africa, I thought that was quiet cool.

Then I thought of the old big train sketch and imagined postmen riding in unison across the plains being chased by lions and I thought that was even better.

quiet cool?

ahem. isn't it because you can carry more by walking those big fucking wheelbarrow arrangements around? and hence carry more on your round?

Brunel University product design graduation project? Fucking GASH!

I think we should start using 'MASH' instead of 'GASH'.

Brunel University product design graduation project? Fucking GASH!

Paging Moog.

I swear I've spotted Balki in this van on the nursery thread

look like it's happening now, 'health and safety' bollocks;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262239/Royal-Mail-phases-postmens-bikes-health-safety-fears.html