RMF (rate my find)
VWsurfbum
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One of the buildings that i have to go to used to be a car body repair centre, i'm not one to take much notice of whats in skips, i have walked past this particular one for approx 3 months without looking inside, and as luck would have it last week i saw this, today i got it out 
4 bike holders and the bases to fit on my roof rails! get in!
the only thing is i dont have the tool to undo the base clamp things, its like a bolt but multi edged (not torx, outside edges) are they the same on other peoples? can you get these seperatly?
Shame i only have the one bike at the moment :roll:
4 bike holders and the bases to fit on my roof rails! get in!
the only thing is i dont have the tool to undo the base clamp things, its like a bolt but multi edged (not torx, outside edges) are they the same on other peoples? can you get these seperatly?
Shame i only have the one bike at the moment :roll:
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Did you not think they may be in a skip for a reason?
Let's hope you don't find out why at 70mph on a motorway...0 -
Hmmm nope LOL i'll check it out thoughly first.njee20 wrote:Did you not think they may be in a skip for a reason?
Let's hope you don't find out why at 70mph on a motorway...0 -
maybe something on it caused the car to crash - hence being in a body repair garage skip 0
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projectsome wrote:matthew h wrote:maybe something on it caused the car to crash - hence being in a body repair garage skip
+1
make sure you're not on the bike when it's on the roof rack
feck - bet that hurt!0 -
does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?0
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yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?0 -
VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
but a happy one
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VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
As my Irish mother said "one man's trash is another man's treasure"0 -
Raymondavalon wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
As my Irish mother said "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
Then can someone throw one of these away near me
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Giant Trance X4 (2010)
Giant SCR 02 (2006)0 -
IcarusGreen wrote:
Then can someone throw one of these away near me
Well it's all they're good for anyway What We Achieve In Life, Echoes In Eternity0 -
If you look in enough skips maybe you'll find enough scrap to make on lol
Its a JOKE btw before i get burned !!! :?0 -
I can feel the Orange love here 0
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i'm sure i saw that rear trailing arm somewhere before?IcarusGreen wrote:Raymondavalon wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
As my Irish mother said "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
Then can someone throw one of these away near me![skip[1].gif](http://www.mr-shifter.co.uk/skip[1].gif)
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Torres wrote:IcarusGreen wrote:
Then can someone throw one of these away near me
Well it's all they're good for anyway
+ Potato! Overpriced, outdated single pivot mediocrity0 -
Nowt wrong with single pivots.
However, I'm glad to see the Orange obsessive has died down. I seem to remember last year if you so much as hinted at liking anything other than an Orange 5, all you got was an army of Orange zombies.0 -
I like Fives, they're great bikes. But I'll never again be able to look at the swingarm without thinking about skips.Uncompromising extremist0
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the 5 is actually made of old skips... its why all the skip company's in the Halifax area have been going out of buisness.
they weigh about the same anyway... I like bikes and stuff0 -
Paging Grantaway to the Crudcatcher.0
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Chaps, does anyone want a set of BMW cross bars? (free of charge)
Also i have a few bike holders spare for roof bars.
i want 2 so i have 2 spare,
any one, any one, Beauler Beauler? :roll:0 -
Why would you buy an Orange 5 when you can own one of these for £200 less than the pro??!!
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Technically, that's a single pivot too.0
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Apart from the fact it's got four pivots?0
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IcarusGreen wrote:Raymondavalon wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
As my Irish mother said "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
Then can someone throw one of these away near me
Funny you should say that, look what I found in the green bin!
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sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
No.
Gippo's make far too much cash from tarmacking, painting barns, collecting scrap and stealing to bother scavenging through skips.0 -
The wheel is basically on a single pivot swingarm, isn't it?RupertCommunicator wrote:Apart from the fact it's got four pivots?
Same basic setup as a Kona (or in a slightly more contrived similarity, Commencal meta).
Single pivot swingarm with a linkage driven shock.0 -
A linkage driven shock that floats on the end of the chainstay.
Also the ABP causes the linkage to be driven slightly differently to linkage driven single pivot.0 -
IcarusGreen wrote:Raymondavalon wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
yep :oops:sheepsteeth wrote:does getting stuff out of a skip mean you are a gypo?
As my Irish mother said "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
Then can someone throw one of these away near me
you have a trance, what more do you need? wake up! hehe 0 -
But it IS a linkage driven shock on a single pivot swingarm. There are no pivots betwixt wheel axle and main pivot.RupertCommunicator wrote:A linkage driven shock that floats on the end of the chainstay.
Also the ABP causes the linkage to be driven slightly differently to linkage driven single pivot.0
