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my dad wants a new bike for his short commute and has his heart set on a nexus set up. Has anyone seen anything of this ilk around the £300-400 mark? (edit: pref 7/8 speed)

I am googling right now, but thought i'd ask as well.

ta :)

presumably he was being followed on another bike, in which case they also broke the law every time he did...

this?

I have one of these i don't need. it's brand new if anyone wants to make me an offer :)

mister k [quote]t.o. want:
something similar to these (doesn't have to be fancy though, cheap is the word, super cheap)
have:
cash....
(i do have various bits which need new homes, but they're all in cupboards and i can't be bothered to see exactly what is there :S)

flop and chop some drops![/quote]

that is what i was planning, but i need them to be wider, and i don't have the wherewithal to bend them out - any suggestions?

want:
something similar to these (doesn't have to be fancy though, cheap is the word, super cheap)
have:
cash....
(i do have various bits which need new homes, but they're all in cupboards and i can't be bothered to see exactly what is there :S)

http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk will also help

i get beans/pre-ground coffee from cubana on lower marsh occasionally, it's pretty good cuban arabica.

ihatelaw - scooterworks (also on lower marsh) is within walking distance of waterloo and sells nice (in my opinion) espresso

i just got back from a spur of the moment l2b with a couple of friends, 1x roadie, 1xmtb and me SS. was a good ride, took a while though (due to getting lost, repeatedly) 5.something hrs can't remember when we arrived. i had to stop a couple of times on ditchling to get my breath back, but didn't walk, which was nice. quick swim, fish and chips on the pier, next train home.

tried to follow this route, it was good, apart from where we went sailing by turnings...

different -
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VERY-RARE-UNUSUAL-1950s-WALLER-KINGSBURY-FRAMESET_W0QQitemZ320226945909QQihZ011QQcategoryZ56197QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i did it singlespeed, not fixed. and i got the train back, which felt like it somewhat undermined all my efforts. i took a big pot of pasta and a fair bit of flapjack. because my frame is a touring frame it has 2 bottle bosses and rear rack braze ons, so I put my (minimal) baggage on that.

and i stopped for coffee twice on the way as well as for 2 x lunch breaks and some quick stretching breaks. coffee is important.

it was slower than i had wanted to go though.

after much delay, mostly for no good reason, i did this yesterday. Still didn't do any more practice for it (apart from riding 1.5miles to school and back every day). 134 miles, took 11ish hours. For at least the last 40 miles I wanted to give up, and very nearly did. I left too late in the morning (around 10) and so the last bit was in the dark.

thoroughly enjoyable though. and i'm not too sore today, which is good. anyway, thanks for your tips everyone. next time i'll train more before i think so i don't slow down so much at the end, and definitely definitely leave earlier!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150215574873

makes my frame look small...

do people look at free ads sites?
friday-ad, preloved etc...

any good?
also -
http://www.cyclingworldmag.com/freeads.htm#A

mercian, merlin, granby, claud butler, holdsworth....... might all be sol though

thanks— i do actually....

it's very good for £21, but on an absolute scale it's not amazing. my wife hasn't decided yet whether to keep it or to gumtree it and spend more money on a replacement!

ihatelaw - doesn't the taxi company only have a claim to it if they posted a sign or otherwise expressed their intention to own lost property? therefore if he can't trace the original owner (which in this case you can) it wouldn't be theft...

glad you decided to hand it in though.

oooops.......... i won it! £21. now have to figure out how to get to northampton to bring it back....

not likely to be hobbs really...

this

and this

are for sale from the same guy. he says the ladies bike is made by barbican - does anyone know anything about a brand called that? or is it maybe hobbs (of barbican).

i'm only interested in the ladies bike. the mens bike says "mistral" might that be a holdsworth mistral?

too late to ask questions now really....

why so cheap?

thanks for all the tips.

I was planning to do it this week, but I haven't got all the equipment, and it didn't really occur to me to do any training specifically for it. we'll see, next week or the week after maybe.

all very weather dependent too....

now then. I'm thinking of doing this this week, I have roughly plotted a route on gmap-pedometer (the middle bit is still dodge.]

it's 115 miles approximately, is that too far to do in a hard core day? The furthest I've cycled in a day is about 50 miles, but that was offroad. I'm now fitter than I've ever been and want to give it a go. would be doing this attack-style with minimal baggage - spare tyre/tubes/munch/agua and a spare tshirt.

any thoughts?

neither ebay nor craigslist (nor ss/fg), but cheap (right?)click

or this but vertical dropouts...

dunno, chabal's beard/hair combo is pretty special.

thanks! will pick some up today...