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[tomahawk]

Hey! This is near as good as it's going to get in irish weather, and anyone who doesn't have a bike to enjoy it on is missing out!

I've just finished overhauling the bottom bracket on my last rebuild project, and THIS BIKE NEEDS A HOME!

It's a red ladies frame with blue forks. it's a shopper.. well, it is probably a touring frame, but it's a shopping frame now! It's got upturned racer handle bars, sawed off and fitted with lovely aerolevers and blue&black grip tape. It's got ten speeds, caliper brakes, and 27" wheels. new back tyre; the front one's fine. It's also got a sweet basket attached to the back trap, and a rothar amu sticker for class and cred.

I've personally put this bike together - nearly every damn inch of the thing has been toyed with by my hands at some time or another. I wouldn't advise it for mountain biking or cross continent touring, but as I said : it's great for shopping! Decent road bike, though it's no racer; and the ladies' frame gives you a MUCH better chance of not getting it stolen!

give us post if you're interested....

 

[nofunchee]

i think marianne might be interested in this.

 

[yames]

She can affix the "I *heart* my bike" sticker from that kids bike to the basket.

 

[Willie Willions]

Never gonna live that one down

 

[Super Dexta]

the ladies' frame gives you a MUCH better chance of not getting it stolen!

Is that true??

 

[Cormcolash]

Well, I daresay that the majority of bike theives are spides rather than millies.

 

[tomahawk]

Yeah, I'd say if the thief can actually see straight, they'll realize that no self-respecting male asian trinity student is going to hop on to a bike that even his girlfriend mightn't ride.

However, you're taking a chance in hoping the thief even has an eye left to judge with.

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....isn't pc some kind of computer?

 

[Alan Remorse]

i had the biggest collection of tony the tiger reflectors you ever saw on the spokes of my BMX. There was also a sticker on the saddle that said "hot stuff" which, on reflection, was a little homoerotic for the image i was going for at the age of 7.

 

[Eddie Gorilla]

Hahahahaha! Tony the Tiger reflectors were da shit!

 

[La La]

were they the ones that came free in the cereal box or did ye have to collect heaps of tokens, send em off with an extra £5 for p&p and wait weeks for them, by which time tony was out and teenage mutant ninja turtles were in? (they were cool tho)

 

[fiona poke]

were they the ones that came free in the cereal box or did ye have to collect heaps of tokens, send em off with an extra £5 for p&p and wait weeks for them, by which time tony was out and teenage mutant ninja turtles were in? (they were cool tho)

Nah, they were free. There were Rice Crispies ones too but those rice crispie fellas weren't cool at all.

 

[Corm]

Fuck those, clothes pegs elastic-banded against your spokes so that you had a "motor" were where it was at back in the 80s, down Deansgrange way.

 

[the strange guy]

Back when I lived in Coolock back in 86, my crew and I used to beat the fuck out of kids that came near our estate with Kellogs reflectors on their BMXs. I was 5. We wore them on our leather jackets as trophies.

 

[CITY BABY]

dya remember spokey wokeys ,well i think thats what they were called the little coloured bally thing that stick onta yer spokes and make wee little noises

 

[Alan Remorse]

were they the ones that came free in the cereal box or did ye have to collect heaps of tokens, send em off with an extra £5 for p&p and wait weeks for them, by which time tony was out and teenage mutant ninja turtles were in? (they were cool tho)

ah they were indeed free, and gave me a purpose to live...

 

[jillface]

I would like it. I'll need a bike for the summer when I'll be living in town.

 

[brianMy Remorse]

i remember eating Frosties for a whole summer just so i could get the tokens together for a free Tony the Tiger Jeep.

it was the smallest dinky i ever had, , i thought it was going to be huge, but i still adored it, cos it was endorsed by "Tres Cool" Tony.

 

[Corm]

Youse should write a song about that -"Frosties, Dreams & Coupons".

 

[Lili Marlene]

Back when I lived in Coolock back in 86, my crew and I used to beat the fuck out of kids that came near our estate with Kellogs reflectors on their BMXs. I was 5. We wore them on our leather jackets as trophies.

you had a leather jacket when you were five !?

 

[the strange guy]

I was smoking at 7. Coolock is a cool area if you're as hard as me.