my big purple preston

bobs bikes
bobs bikes Posts: 589
edited May 2011 in Your mountain bikes
thought i would go a bit mad with this one! :lol:

27 speed rear hub anyone? :shock:

its still in mock up guise at the minute, so ignore the tourney and im waiting on the brake discs.


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  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    brakes have arrived! :shock:

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  • yoohoo999
    yoohoo999 Posts: 940
    My eyes!!!!!!!!!! My eyes!!!!!!!!!! :x

    How does it ride??

    (also, i reckon that's more lilac than purple ;))
  • pastey_boy
    pastey_boy Posts: 2,083
    you have the potential of an 81 gear bike !!!!!!
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  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    lol, i do indeed have an 81 speeder in mind! :lol:
    :wink:
    it rides great, the gearing is a bit long at the moment, but it absolutly flies!

    its an awsome bit of kit...... i think im having too many painkillers this week!
    :?
  • WTF is it?

    Was it originally a Whyte?
    I assume this is French petrol - be careful in reverse - the car will retreat rapidly at the least provocation.
  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    well spotted, it is indeed a bastardised version of the whyte prst-1

    this is what happens when boredom kicks in!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'm afraid what you've done there is take what was always an aesthetically (ahem) "challenging" bike, and turned it into something so fugging hideous that even satan would hide under a rock when he saw it coming.
    Not even Charlie Sheen's brain could handle that.
  • eurospek
    eurospek Posts: 28
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    ^^See? That's not a muppet. That's what happened to Charlie Sheen. Even 30 gram rocks of Charlie Sheen doesn't do that to Charlie Sheen.
  • yoohoo999
    yoohoo999 Posts: 940
    ha ha! how did you manage to find a muppet the same colour as the bike?!! :wink:
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    it's awesome in a kind of stunningly ugly and hateful way!


    those prst-4's are phenomenally ugly, but supposedly really good...
    I like bikes and stuff
  • bobs bikes wrote:
    well spotted, it is indeed a bastardised version of the whyte prst-1

    this is what happens when boredom kicks in!

    Wait, you destroyed that thing?
  • ben110
    ben110 Posts: 54
    nice one very funky chicken
  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    turns more heads than an ipswich cabbie that one! ;)
  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    now i have fitted the triple front end on, its now running 81 gears!!!!! :shock:

    it has a great mid range, in fact you cant really tell till you go to either the 1st few and the last few gears, then its just wrong! :lol:


    bring on the next project........ anyone got an old lefty lying around?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    bobs bikes wrote:
    turns more heads than an ipswich cabbie that one! ;)
    So would the elephant man raping a rabbit in the middle of a high street.
  • fattrucker
    fattrucker Posts: 39
    bobs bikes wrote:
    turns more heads than an ipswich cabbie that one! ;)

    Ya don't say ? :lol:

    FYI just so ya know you've painted your bike in a rather unusual shade of PURPLE ! ! :shock:

    I'm not sure you're quite aware of this as you must have had your eyeballs removed with teaspoons sometime ago :lol:

    * Hurries off to phone the men in green coats and the white van .

    Proving care in the community doesn't work after all :wink::lol::lol::lol: