Today I did do - get a new bike!! :)

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165534

I've been deliberating for a while ... the rear wheel gave up on my old bike properly yesterday ... so new bike time

Oh and I got a £20 voucher/offer thing too, so I got a cycle computer http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...uter&width=800 ... and some mudguards for essentially only a fiver more

Nice looking bike *. Have you ridden it or have they yet to do a pre-inspection which means picking it up next week?









*I am surprised you haven't started a thread let's see your bikes ha ha ha

Originally Posted by foxyinleather

Nice looking bike *. Have you ridden it or have they yet to do a pre-inspection which means picking it up next week?









*I am surprised you haven't started a thread let's see your bikes ha ha ha

Feck that ... I got it in a box and built it myself

It is wet out, but I did a quick nip out on it ... its really fast!!

the bike I was going to get didn't come up to scratch when I saw it in the flesh ... I liked the gun-metal colour of this one and as it is mostly going to do road work, a 'town bike' made more sense

As for 'lets see ya bikes' ... feel free to put pics up of your pushibke if you feel fit!! ... don't worry, won't be put out if yours is a £800 job!!

I just finished fitting the new speedo ... so took it out for a spin ... and I dropped it*!!! .. un-scrubbed road tyre in the wet .... the front went!!




*well I am being a bit of a drama queen as managed not to fully fall off but the front went, peddle hit the ground and I very nearly went down ... more by luck than judgement I stayed on ... perhaps I should buy a cycle helmet!!

Oh dear another trip to Halfords then to buy a helmet. Is the bike damaged *






* Was the Drama queen trying to get his knee down?

Originally Posted by foxyinleather

Oh dear another trip to Halfords then to buy a helmet. Is the bike damaged *






* Was the Drama queen trying to get his knee down?

Just a scuff on the peddle ... but falling off (nearly) with <0.5mile on the clock is not a good look!!

There is nuffin to protect in my 'ed, so won't bother with a cycle helmet!! But it would have given me a nasty graze on my arm and hand as I was only in a t-shirt ...

So what does your bike look like the?

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Just a scuff on the peddle ... but falling off (nearly) with <0.5mile on the clock is not a good look!!

There is nuffin to protect in my 'ed, so won't bother with a cycle helmet!! But it would have given me a nasty graze on my arm and hand as I was only in a t-shirt ...

So what does your bike look like the?

At least you were unscathed and fortunate that you have 'nuffin to protect in your 'ed' . unfortunately I don't have any pics of my bike. I have a NORCO mountain bike in red which I brought back from Canada . A great bike which I rode across the prairies and all over but haven't used it as much over here

Originally Posted by foxyinleather

At least you were unscathed and fortunate that you have 'nuffin to protect in your 'ed' . unfortunately I don't have any pics of my bike. I have a NORCO mountain bike in red which I brought back from Canada . A great bike which I rode across the prairies and all over but haven't used it as much over here

I just googled "NORCO mountain bike" and it came back with loads of bikes ... find me a google image of you one...

p.s. the ones that came up looked

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

I just googled "NORCO mountain bike" and it came back with loads of bikes ... find me a google image of you one...

p.s. the ones that came up looked

This is a link to one similar to mine which is a 28" version in red

http://www.norco.com/bikes/mountain/...ntry-ht/storm/