Best biking buy ever

[Abitrary]

A workstand, for bike repairs. Can't imagine how I did it before.

I've even started fine-tuning my mudguards.

Don't be without.

 

[fossyant]

I want one - blooming 20 years biking, and still don't have one, despite having all the tools.....

 

[domtyler]

Can I borrow it?

 

[Abitrary]

It's like some sort of unholy sculpture, crucifying my bike whilst I spear it with allen keys

 

[gbb]

A box of mostly new cycling bits at a car boot sale.

( Told this one before on C+ )

1 pair of unmarked Sora shifters
1 set of brand new Cateye Twin Halogen lamps, cable, had a damaged switch, no battery or charger tho.
1 near new Cateye rear LED light
1 new set V brake blocks
1 pair used dropbars
Various cheap LED lights
Various new innertubes
1 pair lightly used Shimano M520 pedals
About 5 screw on freewheels...all new
1 pair of moderate quality lights, lightly used.
Loads of other odd and sods.

All thrown in a box....

'How much do you want for the Sora Shifters please mate' i arxsed

'oh, i dunno, 50p each item' he said

'Errrrrrrrr........will you take a tenner for the lot'

'No problem' said the dimwit


I larffed all morning.....best buy i ever had at a car boot

 

[Abitrary]

Do you have a workstand though?

 

[gbb]

Do you have a workstand though?

You had to spoil it, didnt you

 

[Abitrary]

You had to spoil it, didnt you

Sorry dude, this is a workstand thread...

 

[Abitrary]

Sorry dude, this is a workstand thread...

Hey... but it's Aldi day tommorrow!!!

 

[Panter]

But they don't do workstands...........

 

[Abitrary]

...sorry, just been spinning my wheels, and feeling the friction underneath in the palm of my hand

With my workstand

(panter, that avatar is extremely distracting)

 

[John the Monkey]

I really wish I went to the car boot sale where these people have Leica rangefinders for 50p, and amazing bike components for tuppence.

And I wish that when I did, I arrived before gbb

 

[Abitrary]

Ode to a workstand
===============
With my hands so oiled and grubby
I toiled on through the night
On my steed held aloft and ready
On a metal tree ready for the fight

The brake pads teased my fingers
My forearms and my brain
The occasionaly slip would sting me
But cause no significant pain

The clock arms tick so swiftly
Already eleven twenty-nine
A metal angel of the night delivered from wiggle
For eighty nine pounds, ninety-nine

 

[Fnaar]

Ode to a workstand
===============
With my hands so oiled and grubby
I toiled on through the night
On my steed held aloft and ready
On a metal tree ready for the fight

The brake pads teased my fingers
My forearms and my brain
The occasionaly slip would sting me
But cause no significant pain

The clock arms tick so swiftly
Already eleven twenty-nine
A metal angel of the night delivered from wiggle
For eighty nine pounds, ninety-nine

 

[GrahamG]

I'm not all that fussed about a workstand but maintain that the best buy ever for me was a track pump.