Author Topic: Members' bikes  (Read 2399799 times)

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #725 on: 24 October, 2008, 08:19:20 pm »
Peiter,
Cheers for that, but, how much??  Too much !!




Yes, I went and looked and liked what I saw until I saw the price.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #726 on: 25 October, 2008, 12:49:09 am »
£16 isn't that bad surely.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #727 on: 25 October, 2008, 08:32:23 am »
No not at all !!  :thumbsup:

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #728 on: 25 October, 2008, 08:43:16 am »
Grub, it's never been cheap being a dedicated leader of fashion like you.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #729 on: 25 October, 2008, 08:56:00 am »
They look ace but I think C+ did a review recently and they didn't get rated as high as the stuff I normally buy.

donpedro

  • ain`t haulin` any lambs to the marketplace anymore
    • But, I'm Swedish!
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #730 on: 25 October, 2008, 11:54:38 am »
Since when could you trust a review in C+?  ;)
"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."

mr_brooks

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #731 on: 26 October, 2008, 05:09:38 pm »
My hard working day-to-day hybrid, based around a Roberts Audax compact frame, built from Reynolds 725. Equipped with seemingly indestructable Harry Rowlands built wheels, bearing the similarly sturdy Marathon Pluses. These do feel a bit lump-like, but I rate their hardiness. Strength was the overriding specification when this bike was built - 14,000 miles later, I sometimes (normally when going uphill) feel that it may be over-specced for day-to-day use, but there's something reassuringly stable and solid about it. In every aspect other than the appalling, cottage-cheese based paint-job, which appears to practically peel off (I'm exaggerating only a little) on the slightest contact with anything at all. Roberts' touch-up paint is notoriously hard to obtain (I suspect the dour Andrew just ignores the first 15 or so requests from each new owner), so it's been liberally adorned with various nail varnishes where the paintwork has sustained damage. I'm somewhat concerned now that the drop-outs are extremely rusty, and may Hammerite them in due course.

It's taken me on a wonderful End to End, done a bit of touring, but primarily its a bike for transport. A Tubus rack and Ortlieb panniers have helped with this no end (I can fault neither), and occasionally a Carry Freedom Y-frame gets hooked up for larger loads. I switched to the Brooks Swift on the advice of Bicycle Workshop in Notting Hill  - awesome (complete?!) stock of Brooks saddles, and am very pleased with it - comfortable from day one. Bar ends and grips are Ergon - comfy, though to my mind very ugly, and the grips aren't particularly durable. Transmission is based around Shimano XT and SRAM Attack shifters - I'm a huge fan of the latter. They've always struck me as reassuringly simple.



(That's my rabbit, Charlie, in the background)

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #732 on: 26 October, 2008, 05:34:28 pm »
Looks like a great bike  :)

I like your rabbit: so he just has the run of the place then?

chris

  • (aka chris)
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #733 on: 26 October, 2008, 06:19:26 pm »
Roberts' touch-up paint is notoriously hard to obtain (I suspect the dour Andrew just ignores the first 15 or so requests from each new owner)

I'd heard about the touch up paint, so when I bought Mrs Chris her Roberts I refused to sign the cheque until said Andrew produced some touch up paint. He reluctantly went out into the back of the shop and came back ten minutes later with a small bottle of paint.

mr_brooks

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #734 on: 26 October, 2008, 08:30:12 pm »
Roberts' touch-up paint is notoriously hard to obtain (I suspect the dour Andrew just ignores the first 15 or so requests from each new owner)

I'd heard about the touch up paint, so when I bought Mrs Chris her Roberts I refused to sign the cheque until said Andrew produced some touch up paint. He reluctantly went out into the back of the shop and came back ten minutes later with a small bottle of paint.

There's something League of Gentelmen-esque about the Roberts shop, I swear... Good plan though - wish I'd thought of that.

mr_brooks

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #735 on: 26 October, 2008, 08:33:29 pm »
Looks like a great bike  :)

I like your rabbit: so he just has the run of the place then?

Why, thank you, on both counts!

The rabbit should really be called Houdini. An enormous run was not enough for him - he now patrols the entire garden. He'll be inside for the winter - he's originally a house rabbit, but that concept is causing some confusion where I now am... !!

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #736 on: 26 October, 2008, 09:35:05 pm »
He doesn't appear to be the slightest bit interested in bicycles.

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #737 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:20:02 am »
A Roberts Audax as a 'day-to-day' bike?  Doesn't sound too Quotidien to me ;D
Getting there...

eck

  • Gonna ride my bike until I get home...
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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #738 on: 27 October, 2008, 07:29:04 pm »
n + 1 = 8  :-[



My "new" winter bike, originally from alves, via young Miss Noodley, pedals courtesy of GruB. Only changes are a longer stem, a new rear mech, and I've nicked some lighter tyres off our tandem. Had it out for a 80k run yesterday, and a shorter run today, including a bit of "rough stuff". Very comfy, thanks to all involved.  :thumbsup:
Sparkly tyres, eh?  ::-)

It's a bit weird, but actually quite wonderful.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #739 on: 27 October, 2008, 08:52:35 pm »
 :thumbsup: :o Check out those tyres.

Rob S

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #740 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:08:17 pm »
My velo in autumn mode.


LEE

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #741 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:10:55 pm »
My velo in autumn mode.



That is an unusual collection of tube sizes

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #742 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:12:46 pm »
Rob, I'm not sure, like, but is that a Colnago, by any chance? ;D
Getting there...

Rob S

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #743 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:18:29 pm »

That is an unusual collection of tube sizes

Yep, bladed top and down tube  :thumbsup:

Rob S

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #744 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:19:40 pm »
Rob, I'm not sure, like, but is that a Colnago, by any chance? ;D

I don't know...the shop told me it was a Lampre!! ;D

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #745 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:21:04 pm »
Watch out: You can die of a surfeit of them, tha knows!* :o




* Ask Henry I
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Rob S

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #746 on: 27 October, 2008, 09:29:34 pm »
Watch out: You can die of a surfeit of them, tha knows!* :o




* Ask Henry I

From above the top tube looks like a normal round tube....probably to make the airbrush guy's job easier than for health reasons!! ;D


eck

  • Gonna ride my bike until I get home...
    • Angus Bike Chain CC
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #747 on: 27 October, 2008, 10:03:32 pm »
:thumbsup: :o Check out those tyres.
Sadly not pimpy whitewalls, just boring Schwalbe Marathons. Not very colour co-ordinated I'm afraid.  ;)
It's a bit weird, but actually quite wonderful.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #748 on: 27 October, 2008, 10:29:09 pm »
Rob S, are the pedals on that Colnago seekrit?

Rob S

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #749 on: 27 October, 2008, 11:33:56 pm »
Yes...my pedal choice is classified. 8)