Confess about your geared ride

Why must s/he be an Englishman? You some sort of racist sexist Australian immigrant?

I have a beat up £250er.
it rocks.

Nah, doesn't wash hippy, just like you ;p

I'm not too bothered. I'm no fan of old steel frames for anything other than commute/beater duties. I don't care how posh they are - I have no interest in them.
I don't believe something being old makes it less likely to fail just because it has been around for 25 years. What if it has sat in a garage for 25 years doing nothing? What if it was at the bottom of the Thames for 10 years? Bike design and manufacturing has improved - I choose to embrace this improvement.

Like this..
http://www.lfgss.com/post1570389-23.html

Why must s/he be an Englishman? You some sort of racist sexist Australian immigrant?

Because he IS an Englishman. Now bugger off, you diluted American.

These are my geared bikes;

someone's doing well in the recession...!!! crikey.

someone's doing well in the recession...!!! crikey.

Recession? I'm part of an operating crew in a large nuclear plant. Power's gotta be made, recession or no. I'm just fortunate to have chosen this occupation after university over 2 decades ago.

The Puma I have owned since new (2000ish). I changed the fork to go threadless and had the custom paint done. The paint is flawless. It now sports the Reynolds Stratus wheels that are pictured on the Wilier, and the FSA crank on the Wilier has been replaced with a Record compact, as on the Puma.

What if it has sat in a garage for 25 years doing nothing? Bike design and manufacturing has improved - I choose to embrace this improvement.

what if it's sat in your parents loft for 6 years? :-)

I was only kidding, the bikes are very nice indeed, I am probably more than a little jealous!

Look like they're well taken care of too.

Recession? I'm part of an operating crew in a large nuclear plant. Power's gotta be made, recession or no. I'm just fortunate to have chosen this occupation after university over 2 decades ago.

The Puma I have owned since new (2000ish). I changed the fork to go threadless and had the custom paint done. The paint is flawless. It now sports the Reynolds Stratus wheels that are pictured on the Wilier, and the FSA crank on the Wilier has been replaced with a Record compact, as on the Puma.

can I put my gf in touch with you?
She is obsessed with nuclear power, and would love to work in the 'industry', and probably has a million and 1 questions.
PM me with an email address if that's ok.
Cheers.
Henry

another angle - the seatpost is all of about 8 or 9mm thick.

what if it's sat in your parents loft for 6 years? :-)

Is that before or after it was stored in the Thames for 10 years?

you can stop it now

I have 3 geared bikes at the moment:

The occasional:

The daily:

The rest of the time:

I have 3 geared bikes at the moment:

The daily:

Well now, that's just about the coolest commuter I've seen.

No way.. this is..

There's too much porn around this thread.

Here's one that I found in the Thames.

One like it used to belong to my father, so I rebuilt this with better old shit than Campag.

It's tired; fatigued, and damaged, and steel.

I like it for the nostalgic reasons Mr Smyth doesn't 'do.'

I got overtaken while riding it around Richmond Park this evening. Wankers.

OK, here's my old geared girl... Planning the next one already, gonna sell my Mercian to make room for it...

Might as well get in on the action

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=786&pictureid=8554

currently on the lookout for something more modern though interested to see how much quicker it would be.

Is that before or after it was stored in the Thames for 10 years?

well it will be interesting to see if the nickel plating stopped it rusting

well it will be interesting to see if the nickel plating stopped it rusting

Doesn't that make it quite heavy?

I got overtaken while riding it around Richmond Park this evening. Wankers.

that was me. i'll slow down and say hello next time.

Where's the Rubble?!

Doesn't that make it quite heavy?

well that depends if it's a prodigy or a super prodigy? columbus sent them the wrong spec tubes so some some were lighter than others so they decided to make them all with the lighter tubes and call it a super-prodigy.

^^There were several of you. Were you jogging?