If you could have one bike to commute on

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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    Roastie 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. :o
    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
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    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
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    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

    2006-Yamaha-MT-01d.jpg

    Scalp that losers!

    Now compare it to my current commuter

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    I have a way to go yet :?
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    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
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    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
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    prawny wrote:
    My perfect bike for commuting would be this

    2006-Yamaha-MT-01d.jpg

    I'd go for one of these:

    speedmaster.jpg

    (at the moment, I've this)
    MTB commuter / 531c commuter / CR1 Team 2009 / RockHopper Pro Disc / 10 mile PB: 25:52 (Jun 2014)
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    cb750cafe2.jpg

    Cafe racer it up - uncomfortable, but mad fun to ride!
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    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.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    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.
  • Im 14 and i had milk in school, i think they still do it in the primary i went too.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    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
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    @ 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

    yamaha_YBR125.jpg

    But still been shot down.

    Mmm that cafe racer is nice. Not overly keen on the elbows out position though. I likes a cruise.
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    Voodoo Bizango - 2014 - Dead - Hit by a car
    Vitus Sentier VRS - 2017
  • your bikes are slow to the power of slow. try this:
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  • 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! :D 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.
    Never be tempted to race against a Barclays Cycle Hire bike. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a Boris Bike.
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    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! :D 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... :lol: :shock:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    your bikes are slow to the power of slow. try this:
    2008%252Bzx-6r%252B1.jpg

    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,

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    phwooaaarr!
    Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
    Voodoo Bizango - 2014 - Dead - Hit by a car
    Vitus Sentier VRS - 2017
  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    Since we're going all motorbikey...

    this IS my commuter bike:
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    Not just good for commuting, good for Alpine holidays too :D

    (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)
    Misguided Idealist
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Yeah I wouldn't fancy pedaling to the alps.
    Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
    Voodoo Bizango - 2014 - Dead - Hit by a car
    Vitus Sentier VRS - 2017
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,389
    This thread seems to have gone astray :?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • 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
    moonio Posts: 802
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