Hello new ride. Its quick, can flout the highway code with immunity and doesn't cost a fortune to run.... Engine is a bit wheezy mind and the suspension could be a bit more.....
Ade
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The S - temporarily out of commission....
Hello new ride. Its quick, can flout the highway code with immunity and doesn't cost a fortune to run.... Engine is a bit wheezy mind and the suspension could be a bit more.....
Ade
Hello new ride. Its quick, can flout the highway code with immunity and doesn't cost a fortune to run.... Engine is a bit wheezy mind and the suspension could be a bit more.....
Ade
2000 R1100S Sport
1980 Vespa P125X
1980 Vespa P125X
Schweeeeet!
That looks like an old cyclo-cross frame to me.
Cheap to run until you need parts. Thanks to Shimano's dominance of the market, in-built obsolesence and an aggressive product replacement ('development') strategy, you soon find that just as you wear out something major, like rear sprockets, you can't get a freehub with x sprockets any more, you'll have to have x+1 sprockets. Oh, but your hub's not wide enough so you need a new hub. Then you find that your frame can't accommodate the wider hub......
Still, at least it's summer . . . .
That looks like an old cyclo-cross frame to me.
Cheap to run until you need parts. Thanks to Shimano's dominance of the market, in-built obsolesence and an aggressive product replacement ('development') strategy, you soon find that just as you wear out something major, like rear sprockets, you can't get a freehub with x sprockets any more, you'll have to have x+1 sprockets. Oh, but your hub's not wide enough so you need a new hub. Then you find that your frame can't accommodate the wider hub......
Still, at least it's summer . . . .
It is indeed a quite good (apparently) Cannondale cyclecross frame - brother bought it as a hack couple of years back (he is now an obsessive triathlete and has road bike worth more than my S ) and he has just replaced the wheels and groupset.
He will no doubt want paying at some point - I picked it up to cycle to my weekly 5 aside kickabout, but it might get more use now the S has keeled over (although that should be sorted in the next week or so courtesy of Jason).
Ade
(Doing my bit for the planet and midriff)
He will no doubt want paying at some point - I picked it up to cycle to my weekly 5 aside kickabout, but it might get more use now the S has keeled over (although that should be sorted in the next week or so courtesy of Jason).
Ade
(Doing my bit for the planet and midriff)
2000 R1100S Sport
1980 Vespa P125X
1980 Vespa P125X
Ade
I cycle to work as much as possible,allows you to drink more booze cus your burning of the calories!
I did time trial and road racing for about 6 years in my youth.And people think motorcycling is expensive,my 3 bikes cost the best part of 6 grand back in the early 90
,s.Then their was running costs and special diet costs.Not a cheap hobby.
Hope you get the S sorted soon and as cheap as possible.
Good luck
gus
I cycle to work as much as possible,allows you to drink more booze cus your burning of the calories!
I did time trial and road racing for about 6 years in my youth.And people think motorcycling is expensive,my 3 bikes cost the best part of 6 grand back in the early 90
,s.Then their was running costs and special diet costs.Not a cheap hobby.
Hope you get the S sorted soon and as cheap as possible.
Good luck
gus
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