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sevenfourate
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my shifter cable snapped and it was stuck in the fast gear , no wonder i have thunder thighs
Don’t berate yourself….
Otherwise known as KOTM / Blue Jersey thighs 🤣
Your first real / treasured / remembered Bicycle.....
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Don’t berate yourself….
Otherwise known as KOTM / Blue Jersey thighs 🤣
Illaveago
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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I can remember the Triumph Rodeo from about 1964. They were a lovely turquoise metallic with twist grip gear change. I thought they were the must have bike! Didn't get one !
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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in my prime i had 28" waist and each thigh was about 25 " , getting trousers was a night mare .
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It was why I stopped wearing jeans, I was struggling to find a pair I could get my thighs and arse into without going several waist sizes too big.
I have a potted and thinking about it, not particularly successful history with bikes.. probably the most genuinely valued (at the time) was the Giant OCR I bought at Uni. An upgrade for the tatty 5-speed 501 racer I'd bought off a fellow student that had piqued my interest in road bikes, the new, ally OCR with its 3x8 gearing and budget STI shifters felt - if bottom-of-the-range - like pretty cutting edge tech.
The bike was really the first to indulge my love of cycling reasonable distances for the sake of it. I probably covered about 4-6k miles on it during my time at uni and then in latter years when I dipped back into the riding that I'd largely forsaken due to lack of geographical opportunity.
Retrospectively I can see it wasn't all a bed of roses - with very aggressive geometry that gave increasing amounts of head / neck pain until I finally twigged and swapped the bars and stem to reduce reach and increase stack. It also had a small, stiff, harsh frame that eventually succumbed to cracking at the seat tube / top tube junction thanks to Giant's cack idea to use a short plastic shim at the seatpost..
It served me pretty well but it's the last ally or Giant bike I'll ever buy; my advancing years and more descerning tastes now dictating more relaxed steel as the order of the day
EDIT: Dug out a photo from back in the day; from probably my first year or so of ownership outside the shed at the student hovel:
Below in its middling guise - many years after purchase; still sporting the silly-long stem and long-drop bars but also the replacement rims and (much nicer, Ultegra-level-that-I-wish-I'd-kept) shifters I got in replacement for those damaged after some stupid woman ran into me in her car..
The bike was really the first to indulge my love of cycling reasonable distances for the sake of it. I probably covered about 4-6k miles on it during my time at uni and then in latter years when I dipped back into the riding that I'd largely forsaken due to lack of geographical opportunity.
Retrospectively I can see it wasn't all a bed of roses - with very aggressive geometry that gave increasing amounts of head / neck pain until I finally twigged and swapped the bars and stem to reduce reach and increase stack. It also had a small, stiff, harsh frame that eventually succumbed to cracking at the seat tube / top tube junction thanks to Giant's cack idea to use a short plastic shim at the seatpost..
It served me pretty well but it's the last ally or Giant bike I'll ever buy; my advancing years and more descerning tastes now dictating more relaxed steel as the order of the day
EDIT: Dug out a photo from back in the day; from probably my first year or so of ownership outside the shed at the student hovel:
Below in its middling guise - many years after purchase; still sporting the silly-long stem and long-drop bars but also the replacement rims and (much nicer, Ultegra-level-that-I-wish-I'd-kept) shifters I got in replacement for those damaged after some stupid woman ran into me in her car..
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Saluki
World class procrastinator
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- ...Norwich over the water.
The first bike that I had, and just adored (apart from my red trike with the big boot thing at the back for all the things a 4 year old needs to take around with them) was a Puch Pacemaker in a bronze-green sort of hue. I got it in 1978, after I had saved like anything for it. It had 6 gears I think, suicide brakes and I loved it to bits. I went everywhere on that thing. It had a plastic saddle, which I just got used to as there was no give in the thing. My dad put a saddlebag on there with a repair kit, spare tubes and there was enough room for a mars bar and one or two other bits and bobs.
Dad also put one of those water bottle holders on the bars, meaning that the suicide levers were tricky to use, no bad thing really.
The bike went a bit ‘triggers broom’ before it was nicked sometime around 1991 or so. I did love it and had looked after it very well so I guess someone got a good bike. It was red by that time as an accident had crumped the Puch frame and a new frame had been sourced for all the other bits - also mostly change.
Dad also put one of those water bottle holders on the bars, meaning that the suicide levers were tricky to use, no bad thing really.
The bike went a bit ‘triggers broom’ before it was nicked sometime around 1991 or so. I did love it and had looked after it very well so I guess someone got a good bike. It was red by that time as an accident had crumped the Puch frame and a new frame had been sourced for all the other bits - also mostly change.
Illaveago
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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
This is me on the first bike I bought for myself back in 1971. I still have my bike. It is a Holdsworth Record.
ebikeerwidnes
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- Z’ha’dum
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sevenfourate
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Brilliant…and another fabulous pic ! 💪
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
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- Behind everyone else, Bolton
What a coincidence! I do occasionally see them coming up for sale and I think being an entry-level model must have been pretty common... aesthetically I think they've aged pretty well. How did you find it? What happened to it?
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
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I'm not sure what a 'proper' bike is, but my first air filled tyres bike was a Raleigh Budgie in baby blue.
My first adult bike was a Raleigh Mustang mountain bike in black and white.
First bike I bought myself was a Raleigh M-Trax Ti-1000.
Sadly no pics of any of these bikes but the budgie will always be my first love
My first adult bike was a Raleigh Mustang mountain bike in black and white.
First bike I bought myself was a Raleigh M-Trax Ti-1000.
Sadly no pics of any of these bikes but the budgie will always be my first love
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ebikeerwidnes
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AFter my Peugeot got knicked I went to the LBS and they had just got in a weird folding mountain bike
They had never seen one before - this was the late 1980s probably - called a Rudge Bi-Frame
like this
But those mudguards are no original and nor is the saddle
Basicall it has 5 quick releases
One for the front wheel
One to make the front brake blocks spring wider apart so you can then whip the wheel off easily
The 2 on the seat post which are just friction based
and one under the saddel that locks the frame open
after all that the whole frame folds around the seat post and can be locked in place with the seat post quick releases
Great for putting in a car
It was a nice bike - not really a mountain bike but it would cope with any track I tried it on
got left behind when I split with my ex - probably quietly rusting away in her garage along with her really nice road bike that was also a nice bike
They had never seen one before - this was the late 1980s probably - called a Rudge Bi-Frame
like this
But those mudguards are no original and nor is the saddle
Basicall it has 5 quick releases
One for the front wheel
One to make the front brake blocks spring wider apart so you can then whip the wheel off easily
The 2 on the seat post which are just friction based
and one under the saddel that locks the frame open
after all that the whole frame folds around the seat post and can be locked in place with the seat post quick releases
Great for putting in a car
It was a nice bike - not really a mountain bike but it would cope with any track I tried it on
got left behind when I split with my ex - probably quietly rusting away in her garage along with her really nice road bike that was also a nice bike
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
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- Behind everyone else, Bolton
@wafter The last road bike I had before that was a 531 framed Peugeot Optima that my dad passed onto me. That thing was a rocket. The OCR to me was a bit of a slug compared to it. I blame the curved seatstays.
It served me well for no idea how long but was eventually part ex'd back to the lbs I bought it from in favour of a mountain bike which later got nicked.
It served me well for no idea how long but was eventually part ex'd back to the lbs I bought it from in favour of a mountain bike which later got nicked.
Thanks - how come you binned off the Pug? Seems like a better bike than the OCR; although I appreciate that might not have seemed the case at the time given the push for aluminium and allure of STIs... tbh I loved mine when I didn't know any better.. seemed like an unforgiving little bone-shaker compared to the Team Carbon that replaced it however.
