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Thanks again MV - absolutely chuffed to bits with it. Now I know I can get a nine pack of toilet rolls and still have room for the rest!

Mv! I would absolutely use this - I'm moving to a village where the big shop is a few miles away. This would be ideal for bringing the shopping back. I can collect from either place, maybe this weekend?

Brian at Bothwell St Bike Bunker - https://m.facebook.com/11BothwellSt/

I've not seen him on here but he was always active when Glasgow had its own forum. Supported alley cats and lots more.

Good service, honest prices and the very definition of LBS. Right in the city centre, so very local if your daughters at Strathy or Caledonian, and within easy reach if she's at Glasgow. Would definitely recommend.

Absolute beauty, MV.

Fantastic!

Hey Muddyfox, I think I left a packet of tattie scones at your local Asda, you wouldn't mind picking them up for me? Feel free to drop in a haggis and square sausage to that one too :)

Welcome to Glasgow (once you get here!)

If you're cycling from Crosshill to Glasgow Uni you'll probably be passing near the Bike Bunker on Bothwell St - run by Brian who I think is still on here? It's in the basement of 11 Bothwell St, G2 6LY.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/11BothwellSt/

Willie Bain is still around too I assume (not been down that way for a while) which would be close to you and again, probably on your route. He was on Polllokshaws Road, which is on the route into the city centre. Plug in G41 1QT.

http://www.bicyclerepair.co.uk/workshop.htm

Also, if you're Crosshill then in terms of routes there's also the South City Way which I completely missed for the best part of a year. Good little contraflow route.

Would be super useful for me too MV! Though less for bike stuff, more to help sanding small bits of wood as I do some scroll saw work and I am tiring of using sandpaper wrapped round a chopstick!

I'll send you a PM.

Wasn't from me... that's a much nicer frame than I've ever had, haha!

I thought I knew it, but the paving threw me off... then I realised that I actually did cycle by last week. Now I'm not going to be there for a couple of weeks.

Never paid much attention to it, I'll have to take a better look!

Not quite old somerfield street - it's apparently part of the Clyde Gateway... Gateway being what Somerfield used to be called.

New tag clue "the younger among you would know it better as Somerfield by the River":

Took way to long to work out what the clue was for this one.

Old tag - Hunterian Museum, "Diagram of an Object" by Dhruva Mistry. Or "Hing ae a thing" as my workmate called it.

Forgot to come back onto write - aside from cutting 10 minutes off my commute (seriously - 1hr down to 50m, managed it in 46m recently!) it has been amazing. Changed the stem for a slightly better fit, new bar tape (shiny blue Benotto that certainly goes with the colours on the bike), new tyres (didn't notice a patch of wear in the rear sidewall until it went pop at 30mph, still good fun!), pedals swapped out, new pads and everything all cleaned and lubed. Not much else needed work, at least not yet. Away for work at the moment so haven't got any pics to post.

I definitely understand why people have called it a stiff ride though. Going from a very forgiving steel frame to the CAAD has been interesting for my backside and hands.

Hope your new place is working out!

Or rather, just down the hill from where Rig used to be. I'll change that to "along the road from the Bike Bunker"

I am! Well, mostly. 2 and a half years in sunny Somerset, but now mainly back in Glasgow (albeit staying a bit further out than I was before). I've been thoroughly enjoying cycling through the city centre again, office is just down the hill from Rig.

A lot has changed in the time I've been away, though moreso outside of the centre. The routes from town out to Cambuslang and Castlemilk are packed with cycle lanes and the sort. Took me by surprise.

Was it postponed?

Aye, it's a forum extravaganza - I think all of the bits to go on it have come from the old days of the Glasgow Fixed Gear forum. Though it actually doesn't look like it needs much work - brakes and gears felt alright, though the two flats meant I couldn't ride it until I find a couple of correct sized tubes.

I'll return and post pics.

As I turned the corner onto Ardery, I thought it was gone,
But then lo, what did I see at the end of the street?
The bike! It was there!
I gave a wave to the nearest close, in the hope that you might be there
and see that it has indeed gone to a good home...
and then I was away.

User75207, you can be sure that it'll be well looked after. I've got a new commute that's about 15 miles each way, and neither my old Frankenstein's monster of a Raleigh Record nor the fixed gear were cutting it. This will do beautifully.

I'd never heard of the Worker's Theatre, but I see that they just recently started up. I'll find out what's on and go support it (in person as well as a donation on your behalf).

Wherever it is you're off to, I hope it's a good move. If you've ever back and need a bike...

There's been a bike locked up to a signpost at the end of my folks' street for a while now.

All black - frame, seatpost, bars. Track style handlebars. Single brake, so assuming it's fixed. Flip-flop hub on the rear. Got a bundle of stickers on it, including a large Flatspot one.

It's got a u-lock on it, and I was wondering if someone has just lost the key for it.

Won't give any more details on where it is, but does anyone recognise the description of their own bike?

I think everything in the old thread was technically within city limits, although not what someone from Glasgow would consider to still be Glasgow (see: Wallace's Well!)

Gerry!

Hurrah!

Not that I've posted on the old forum in months.

But still - good to see a new lease of life.