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Voting remains open until Blu Diplomatico leads.
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La mia contropedale è arrivata!
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by Mick Allan
It would have been too easy for it just to have arrived without incident. The courier shuffled into the office this afternoon with a slightly sheepish look on his face. ‘I’ve a really big parcel for you’ He says, ‘But you’re not going to be very happy with me when you see the state of it’.
Oh gawd.
As the light from the opening door illuminated the van’s interior I could see a large box, ripped and dented. It had been roughly wrapped up with yellow packing tape in an effort to keep it all in one piece. There was a large footprint on it.
‘Sorry mate but it was like that when I received it. Give it a good check over before signing for it’.
This was not looking good. I’ve been looking forward to the arrival of my new bike, a 60cm Taurus Contropedale for many weeks. I was hoping that this moment would be straightforward. But no. I peer inside the box through the hand holes to see an upside down bike within. You never ship a bike upside down. Dragging the box off the wagon I can’t imagine that it’s not bent in two and I start to imagine the enormous PITA that will be communicating with Taurus in Milan (my Italian and their English is less that optimal) and suing the carrier. And waiting for another several weeks for a fresh one. Bugger.
Bugger. Bugger. Bugger.
It was with a sense of resigned acceptance that I peeled away the yellow tape to get to the wreckage beneath. I flipped the bike over onto its wheels, turn the front wheel to face the right way and prepare for the worst.
To cut a long story short there’s bugger all wrong with it. Miraculously it it in perfect condition. If it ever had an owner’s manual that fell out on the way. But apart from that, it is unscathed, immaculate. It’s just perfect.
I ate my dinner with it parked just there. Then after, greased the pedals, stem and post, chucked a pair of lights on and took it around the block. And around again. And around the next block. And up to the old folk’s home and back.
It an absolute gem.
Pics tomorrow.
(As I wheeled it in to the garage to put it down for the night it dawned on me that 75% of my bikes have coaster brakes.
I see a trend emerging…)
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by Mick Allan
It would have been too easy for it just to have arrived without incident. The courier shuffled into the office this afternoon with a slightly sheepish look on his face. ‘I’ve a really big parcel for you’ He says, ‘But you’re not going to be very happy with me when you see the state of it’.
Oh gawd.
As the light from the opening door illuminated the van’s interior I could see a large box, ripped and dented. It had been roughly wrapped up with yellow packing tape in an effort to keep it all in one piece. There was a large footprint on it.
‘Sorry mate but it was like that when I received it. Give it a good check over before signing for it’.
This was not looking good. I’ve been looking forward to the arrival of my new bike, a 60cm Taurus Contropedale for many weeks. I was hoping that this moment would be straightforward. But no. I peer inside the box through the hand holes to see an upside down bike within. You never ship a bike upside down. Dragging the box off the wagon I can’t imagine that it’s not bent in two and I start to imagine the enormous PITA that will be communicating with Taurus in Milan (my Italian and their English is less that optimal) and suing the carrier. And waiting for another several weeks for a fresh one. Bugger.
Bugger. Bugger. Bugger.
It was with a sense of resigned acceptance that I peeled away the yellow tape to get to the wreckage beneath. I flipped the bike over onto its wheels, turn the front wheel to face the right way and prepare for the worst.
To cut a long story short there’s bugger all wrong with it. Miraculously it it in perfect condition. If it ever had an owner’s manual that fell out on the way. But apart from that, it is unscathed, immaculate. It’s just perfect.
I ate my dinner with it parked just there. Then after, greased the pedals, stem and post, chucked a pair of lights on and took it around the block. And around again. And around the next block. And up to the old folk’s home and back.
It an absolute gem.
Pics tomorrow.
(As I wheeled it in to the garage to put it down for the night it dawned on me that 75% of my bikes have coaster brakes.
I see a trend emerging…)
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
I've been trying to remember where I've seen that Blu colour before, and for some reason this sprang to mind
Mad at urage
New Member
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- Just N of Cardiff
You're right (he should have chosen black).I've been trying to remember where I've seen that Blu colour before, and for some reason this sprang to mind
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mickle
innit
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Keep voting suckas!
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DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
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- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Not my thing, but looks lovely.
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mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
General dimness and 'inexpensive' camera. Probably combined with some children's baked bean sauce fingerprints on the lens.
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innit
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Mad at urage
New Member
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- Just N of Cardiff
Same here: It's a fix I tell ya!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
