New Bike

itboffin
itboffin Posts: 20,072
edited July 2012 in Commuting chat
Part 1.

When I can find a crane to lift this lump of Halfords pig iron that passes for a bike out of the box in my garage I'll post some pics.

Ha! in your face IP :lol:
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Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    This thread is useless with out photos.
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Initialised wrote:
    This thread is useless with out photos.
    Worse than useless with
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,720
    itboffin wrote:
    .....I'll post some pics.

    Must you? Haven't we suffered enough lately?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    He told me he's got a pair of Zipps on order for it :wink:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Rolf F wrote:
    He told me he's got a pair of Zipps on order for it :wink:

    only if they come in 26" and will take my nobbly wanda kings tyres :roll:

    custom made Zipps ...?

    for the record it weighs 32lbs :shock:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,720
    itboffin wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    He told me he's got a pair of Zipps on order for it :wink:

    only if they come in 26" and will take my nobbly wanda kings tyres :roll:

    custom made Zipps ...?

    for the record it weighs 32lbs :shock:

    That may well be a record
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    When's the Canyon arriving?
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Il Principe wrote:
    When's the Canyon arriving?

    Is that to chuck the lump of pig iron into?
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    itboffin wrote:
    Part 1.

    When I can find a crane to lift this lump of Halfords pig iron that passes for a bike out of the box in my garage I'll post some pics.

    Ha! in your face IP :lol:

    Why????
    why have you bought such a monstrosity
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Link to the new Bike, wanna see if its the one that keeps blocking the road on the way into work
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Pot holes in his area are savage enough to tear a wheel from his 7series, so I guess he needed a tougher and heavier vehicle that's up to the task.

    Hence he bought that bike.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    What is it? Something from the Halfords Reebok range? A 26" wheeled ride on lawnmower? One of those repulsive things in Halfords that the fragrant Ms Pendleton has prostituted her name (and lifesize cardboard cutout) to?

    What
    is
    it?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Feast your eyes at the majesty that is the Trax TR.1
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Not good enough. Any of us with no sense of shame could post a link to that heap and pretend that our recent frontal lobotomy had induced us to buy it. We need pictures of it in your hallway, garage, locked up (if you are extravagent enough to put a lock on it) at your place of work! That is proof.........

    Then we'll all come round to yours and beat you up! :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Rolf F wrote:
    Not good enough. Any of us with no sense of shame could post a link to that heap and pretend that our recent frontal lobotomy had induced us to buy it. We need pictures of it in your hallway, garage, locked up (if you are extravagent enough to put a lock on it) at your place of work! That is proof.........

    Then we'll all come round to yours and beat you up! :lol:

    You think "that" would be allowed inside the house :shock:

    Er we just had new carpets fitting in the whole house and i've noticed the evil looks my Ribble sportive that lives inside is getting :?

    God only knows what happens when the new bike arrives .......
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    He told me he's got a pair of Zipps on order for it :wink:

    only if they come in 26" and will take my nobbly wanda kings tyres :roll:

    custom made Zipps ...?

    for the record it weighs 32lbs :shock:

    That may well be a record

    na while on the heavy side for a rigid MTB most hardtails under a grand will be over 30lb, mind you flexie brakes and wet roads are probably likely to be fairly terrifying!
  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    You're going to ride around in Castelli and Rapha on that? Genius. :lol:
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
    Rolf F wrote:
    ... locked up (if you are extravagent enough to put a lock on it) at your place of work! That is proof.........

    The lock's going to be more attractive to tealeafs than the bike.
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    That's a bit like my Raliegh commuter that my dad paid £100 for 12 years ago.

    Solid. You forget how not that bad rubbish rigid bikes are. Rubbish bikes with suspension however...
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    prawny wrote:
    Solid. You forget how not that bad rubbish rigid bikes are. Rubbish bikes with suspension however...

    I recall someone on the MTB forum doing quite a neat project with an Apollo hardtail. Don't recall how much beyond the frame he used but the result looked decent enough and he reckoned it rode well.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    I'm tempted to franken bike mine and turn it into some kind of weird drop bar CX tourer affair. It's comfy enough and relatively quick, and with new cranks bars stem and seatpost it would be great. It's made it all through the winter (admittedly only doing 20 miles a week) locked to a fence for 11 hours a day. whereas the prolite como's on my Rhigos have given up the ghost completely.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    itboffin wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Not good enough. Any of us with no sense of shame could post a link to that heap and pretend that our recent frontal lobotomy had induced us to buy it. We need pictures of it in your hallway, garage, locked up (if you are extravagent enough to put a lock on it) at your place of work! That is proof.........

    Then we'll all come round to yours and beat you up! :lol:

    You think "that" would be allowed inside the house :shock:

    What else? You aren't seriously going to leave it outside are you? One light shower and it'll look like this -

    Schrottrad24a.jpg
    Faster than a tent.......
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Out of the box
    IMAG0190.jpg
    IMAG0191.jpg

    Pre build
    IMAG0192.jpg
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    I might get me one!

    Been looking for a donor bike for a SS.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Having just come of the phone to a friend who went all out last weekend for charity I was thinking perhaps given the right motivation I might ride this beast the 16 mile 1000ft+ each way commute ....tomorrow :roll:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    itboffin wrote:
    Having just come of the phone to a friend who went all out last weekend for charity I was thinking perhaps given the right motivation I might ride this beast the 16 mile 1000ft+ each way commute ....tomorrow :roll:
    I'd put a seat on first. Does it have the extra flexy pressed steel V type brakes?
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,720
    You know, apart from the frame, the wheels, the groupset and the colour, that thing is not too bad. For the money.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    I fitted it all up last night and you're right it's actually not that bad, it's clearly been put together well by someone, the parts however are not long lasting but for £63 who cares.
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I hope you turn your fork around. On that class of 'bike', I believe the fork is supposed to curve backwards.
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    You say the parts arent log lasting but they'll all be made of steel. Keep it lubed and it'll run for years. I severly doubt my dad's bike had had a new chain cassette or cables since it was new in 2000. But it's on its third set of tyres and must have done a few thousand miles.

    Is your like mine in that it has a rediculously short quill stem so the steering is horribly twitchy over 15mph ish?
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