Show us your decent bike disguised as a crappy bike.

[mickle]

When you want to ride a good bike and park it anywhere without attracting the attention of thieving scumbags you disguise it as a 'sh!tter'.

Mine came to me as a £35 knackered old mid nineties Marin Kentfield. I took the paint off and my parts bin, ebay and my local bike recycling jount supplied the upgrades. It's geared low enough to tow a trailer.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When you want to ride a good bike and park it anywhere without attracting the attention of thieving scumbags you disguise it as a 'sh!tter'.

Mine came to me as a £35 knackered old mid nineties Marin Kentfield. I took the paint off and my parts bin, ebay and my local bike recycling jount supplied the upgrades. It's geared low enough to tow a trailer.

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How does that dog stay on the rear rack???

 

[raleighnut]

When you want to ride a good bike and park it anywhere without attracting the attention of thieving scumbags you disguise it as a 'sh!tter'.

Mine came to me as a £35 knackered old mid nineties Marin Kentfield. I took the paint off and my parts bin, ebay and my local bike recycling jount supplied the upgrades. It's geared low enough to tow a trailer.

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I've got several but here is a piccy of the Raleigh,looks nothing to thieving scrotes but is mechanically perfect

Equipe

• raleighnut
• 18 May 2016

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I've got several but here is a piccy of the Raleigh,looks nothing to thieving scrotes but is mechanically perfect

Equipe

• raleighnut
• 18 May 2016

Nice bike

gear change levers in the right place!!

 

[fossyant]

I don't have a sh1tter in the Stable. Am I missing out ?

 

[raleighnut]

Nice bike

gear change levers in the right place!!

Aye, hard to spot but it has 'Suicide' secondary brake levers too and the Brooks is a B5n (very rare nowadays, superseded by the B17n)

 

[Big John]

I used to have a Raleigh Equipe. Reynolds 501? Bought it 2nd hand and bought an accompanying smaller framed Equipe for my lad at the same time. Great bike. I got knocked off it and went through the windscreen of the car that knocked me off, which was the end of that particular bike. Mine was about the same size frame as the one in the photo....25"?

 

[raleighnut]

I don't have a sh1tter in the Stable. Am I missing out ?

No 90's MTB or Hybrid or even 70's-80's roadie that you can lock anywhere ?

Criteria- Must be mechanically A1 but look nothing, old carrier bag over the saddle when leaving helps.

 

[raleighnut]

I used to have a Raleigh Equipe. Reynolds 501? Bought it 2nd hand and bought an accompanying smaller framed Equipe for my lad at the same time. Great bike. I got knocked off it and went through the windscreen of the car that knocked me off, which was the end of that particular bike. Mine was about the same size frame as the one in the photo....25"?

Nah it's a 23" in basic 18-30 I think (no sticker so it could be 501) but it has that 'loping' Raleigh ride quality...............real mile eater that I could ride all day.

 

[fossyant]

No 90's MTB or Hybrid or even 70's-80's roadie that you can lock anywhere ?

Criteria- Must be mechanically A1 but look nothing, old carrier bag over the saddle when leaving helps.

Hmm, old bike but not crappy. XT and LX.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

When you want to ride a good bike and park it anywhere without attracting the attention of thieving scumbags you disguise it as a 'sh!tter'.

Mine came to me as a £35 knackered old mid nineties Marin Kentfield. I took the paint off and my parts bin, ebay and my local bike recycling jount supplied the upgrades. It's geared low enough to tow a trailer.

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I'd steal that. Ain't no fooling me.

 

[FrankCrank]

All my bikes are cunningly disguised as crappy bikes, cos that's what they all are

 

[Paulus]

I made a Raliegh Pioneer commutor look really rubbish about twenty years back. The first time I left it at my local station, all that was left of it was the shackle and broken lock.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I made a Raliegh Pioneer commutor look really rubbish about twenty years back. The first time I left it at my local station, all that was left of it was the shackle and broken lock.

Yup
it reduces the chances
but not to zero

 

[mickle]

I made a Raliegh Pioneer commutor look really rubbish about twenty years back. The first time I left it at my local station, all that was left of it was the shackle and broken lock.

To be fair, being a Raleigh, they probably stole it so they could throw it in a canal.