If you could have one bike to commute on

Roastie

ChrisInBicester wrote:

Roastie wrote:

ChrisInBicester wrote:

Lotus Cortina

While I share your taste in cars (tho' admittedly mine would be a BDA-engined RS1600), I don't think that qualifies as a bike.

Good call. We used to compete in an RS1800, then a bonkers RS2 on road events till the RACMSA watered that sort of thing down a bit, just after we bent it in Wales. Awesome car; mad to drive and a complete rocketship.

Sounds awesome! Rallies and sprints?

CiB

Did some stage events, serviced on the RAC and 1000 Lakes a few times [chase car, lot of fun...] and competed on local & national road events - East Mids, Motoring News stuff, till the car became v-shaped at around the time road events were effectively banned, and we were 'growing up', a bit anyway. 20 years on, still buying pointlessly expensive toys that might turn out to be more dangerous than anticipated. 8)

prawny

DonDaddyD wrote:

You guys are OLD....

Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....

Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?

Steady on, I had milk at school, I'm only 26. I;m not old already am I?

My perfect bike for commuting would be this



Scalp that losers!

Now compare it to my current commuter



I have a way to go yet :?

biondino

DonDaddyD wrote:

You guys are OLD....

Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....

Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?

Crappy and disgusting, respectively.

rhext

DonDaddyD wrote:

You guys are OLD....

Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....

Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?

Am amazed. Your posts seem so....well......middle-aged! ;-)

Agent57

prawny wrote:

My perfect bike for commuting would be this

I'd go for one of these:



(at the moment, I've this)

gtvlusso

Cafe racer it up - uncomfortable, but mad fun to ride!

DonDaddyD

Well for clarity I'm actually 27, hereafter 'in my twenties'.

I can remember drinking Milk in Primary school, vaguely. I hated it, but thought the novelty was cool. I remember it suddenly stopping as well. Damn Thatcher. I remember my Mum being taken home in a police car when there were riots in Brixton, the second one. Damn Thatcher/Police.

Yes I have a relatively young Dad/Parents who are in their 40s.

roger_merriman

I'd though with motorbikes/mopeds etc smaller/thiner is better at least in big urban areas like london, my dad always said if he wanted a ride he's take the BSA etc but if wanted to get there pronto his sisters moped.

gregmorris234

Im 14 and i had milk in school, i think they still do it in the primary i went too.

CiB

DonDaddyD wrote:

I remember my Mum being taken home in a police car when there were riots in Brixton

Ha. I recall some graffiti going up near the rec in t'village proclaiming local riots, July 27th as I recall; Gordon the copper had to give up his weekend off in case anything kicked off. Nothing did - we were all quite happy. Not everyone suffered under 'Fatchurs Brittern'. Happy days...

prawny

@ Agent57 I'd be more than happy with what you've got. Any advice on how to convince a wife that I should get a bike would be gratefully received.

I've even suggested one of these



But still been shot down.

Mmm that cafe racer is nice. Not overly keen on the elbows out position though. I likes a cruise.

shoulder_of_orion

your bikes are slow to the power of slow. try this:

the_hundredth_idiot

I remember my gran getting a colour TV. Made watching the snooker much more interesting.

Mind you, at that age Saturday afternoon wrestling on TV was more my thing - Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. And scrumping apples from the churchyard, getting caught by the vicar who had a word with my gran (really - it was a small village).

And, vaguely back on topic, "commuting" to school on my Raleigh Chopper - the one with the gearstick! Mum wouldn't let me have a Grifter as she'd read some story about a kid breaking his ribs by hitting the handlebar crossbar thing.

NGale

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

I remember my gran getting a colour TV. Made watching the snooker much more interesting.

Mind you, at that age Saturday afternoon wrestling on TV was more my thing - Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. And scrumping apples from the churchyard, getting caught by the vicar who had a word with my gran (really - it was a small village).

And, vaguely back on topic, "commuting" to school on my Raleigh Chopper - the one with the gearstick! Mum wouldn't let me have a Grifter as she'd read some story about a kid breaking his ribs by hitting the handlebar crossbar thing.

and yet you were allowed a Raleigh Chopper, a bike that could take any lads balls off in one easy quick movement with that gear stick... :shock:

prawny

Shoulder of Lamb wrote:

your bikes are slow to the power of slow. try this:

I used to love kwackers but I've gone off them recently, I think there a bit too bulbous maybe.

Now if I was going to go mad, there's a guy who commutes regularly on one of these near my office,



phwooaaarr!

Fireblade96

Since we're going all motorbikey...

this IS my commuter bike:

Not just good for commuting, good for Alpine holidays too

(not strictly true - I rarely use the motorbike for commuting now, I tend to use pedal power. But the Blade is still there and gets used for longer journeys - like to the Alps)

prawny

Yeah I wouldn't fancy pedaling to the alps.

tailwindhome

This thread seems to have gone astray :?

gentrysama

would be this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gentrysama/582667878/

which just so happens to BE my commuter. (now with yellow bartape and red cable housing)

moonio