Bikes?
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Afternoon gents, so I've realised a car is a good way to piss away a lot of cash on petrol & insurance and is more hassle than it's worth with parking in a city etc. and I'm on the look out for a decent bike to get me about. Wondering if anyone had any experience with single speed bikes such as this lovely looking one or knew of anything similar, ideally a bit cheaper and without the hassle of importing it from Norway! |
| Posted 5 July, 2008 - 13:58 |
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If you don't want to piss away money, just buy a second hand bike and keep it well looked after.
...funny you should mention it, just came accoss an ad for this bloke near me today, who puts together second hand bikes to order. Might give him a call tomorrow morning.
yes indeed. it's all about the fixies. was going to pick up one of these in san francisco a while back, but then thought i better keep it more home grown.
Now that's a beautiful looking bike right there. Proper track fixies are a bit out of my price range though and the lack of brakes scares me a bit!
Probably going to go with a classic 80s racing frame & drop handle bars, get a second hand one sandblasted and re-sprayed a nice solid colour. Keeping it simple, no messy graphics or suspension and not a billion low range gears like a mountain bike...
So you got a fixie then Will or thinking of getting one?
well, i was going to get one 18 months ago, but then realised everyone in shoreditch/san fran had one. now looking at getting one of these:
http://www.suzukicycles.org/RV-series/index.html?RV125.shtml~isoraami
haha, fair play. i probably live in a city with far too many hills, although compared to san fran...
niice, at least you don't to have pedal that. i'd get one of these though, for that real lawrence of arabia look.
yes indeed. there's one parked outside my yard as we speak. very good looking bike.
I'm a dedicated Mountain Biker. Very uncool I know, but that's me. And I am surrounded by class single track...
BTW have blown the seals on my 3rd pair of marzocchi forks in 3 months. Might have to change to Rock Shox.
of course, if you did get a triumph you're pretty much obliged to dress like this man.
matt, nothing against mountain bikes, i just realised living in a city i'm never really hitting anything rougher than the odd discarded kebab remains...