Author Topic: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK  (Read 31349 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #25 on: 16 September, 2020, 10:10:27 pm »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?
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quixoticgeek

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #26 on: 16 September, 2020, 10:13:30 pm »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

Yes, usually found on the shelf next to the custard creams.

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Kim

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #27 on: 16 September, 2020, 11:06:36 pm »
Chocolate biscuit that tastes like ground-up antimalarial tablets...

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #28 on: 16 September, 2020, 11:37:34 pm »
Do we reckon they sold many in the UK? I can't say I've seen many (any?) out and about, or talked about on forums etc.
I've got one, an disc braked cross bike, customised to a gravel/winter road bike before such things were available off the self.

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #29 on: 16 September, 2020, 11:37:52 pm »
Bikes need to meet the BS standard when sold in(to) the UK.
I always thought that the RH brake front was a matter of tradition, not teh law.  Surely swapping the front brake to the left wouldn't invalidate your insurance.  I would have thought a "WARNING, FRONT BRAKE LEFT" would suffice.
So I am genuinely surprised.
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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #30 on: 16 September, 2020, 11:52:59 pm »
Planet X website are able to sell you a bike with either brake configuration, although the "euro/usa style" costs extra. For example: https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXPCDFOR22/planet-x-pro-carbon-disc-sram-force-22-road-bike

Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #31 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:02:56 am »
As a slight diversion, am I the only one who always sets their bike up with LH front brake? I've done that for decades; with modern components and frames everything is designed to be used that way.

fuaran

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #32 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:27:30 am »
Cycling UK article here. https://www.cyclinguk.org/cyclists-library/regulations/safety-regulations
And the full regulations. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/198/contents/made

There is an exemption for bikes "to the design of an individual person for use by that person in competitive events". So that could cover those Planet X road bikes.

Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #33 on: 17 September, 2020, 07:10:27 am »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

 :o

The best of biscuits - you're missing out and must try them!

Anyway, on the subject of Rose, at least I won't have any reason to lust after this beauty any more...


Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #34 on: 17 September, 2020, 07:28:30 am »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

Yes, usually found on the shelf next to the custard creams.

J

Although our local shop has custard creams I note that they do not have bourbon creams.  There is a fake bourbon cream biscuit on the market that is essentially a brown custard cream.  This is not a genuine bourbon cream and must never be mistaken as such.  These imposters are tacky, crude and nothing close to the real thing.

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citoyen

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #35 on: 17 September, 2020, 08:34:36 am »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

https://youtu.be/MHMuSA63eoA
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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #36 on: 17 September, 2020, 09:04:12 am »
I live close to the German border and know quite a few people with a Rose bike, not so long ago you could configure
your own bike, at least choose different saddle/stem/wheelset etc... but they have stopped doing that, all thats left now is the
size,group and colour.  So I guess not delivering UK specific bikes was a logical step in that process.

FWIW -  More of a custard cream man myself (When i can get them)
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Alan

FifeingEejit

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #37 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:05:32 pm »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

Yi whit?

Bikes need to meet the BS standard when sold in(to) the UK.
I always thought that the RH brake front was a matter of tradition, not teh law.  Surely swapping the front brake to the left wouldn't invalidate your insurance.  I would have thought a "WARNING, FRONT BRAKE LEFT" would suffice.
So I am genuinely surprised.

Hmn, looks like the requirement to meet BS6102:Part1 is no longer the case, replaced with European standard...
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/198/pdfs/uksiem_20100198_en.pdf


Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #38 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:08:18 pm »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

https://youtu.be/MHMuSA63eoA
The Garibaldi, now that's a proper biscuit. Notable lack of German names in that biscuit litany...
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quixoticgeek

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #39 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:39:11 pm »
As a slight diversion, am I the only one who always sets their bike up with LH front brake? I've done that for decades; with modern components and frames everything is designed to be used that way.

Nope, that's how most of the world does it...

When I built my bike I copied how my Brompton was setup. (Brompton purchased in Amsterdam).

I hadn't actually realised there was variation in this until my tame mechanic shoved his hand into my spinning back wheel while applying the front break, and swearing at me.

J
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FifeingEejit

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #40 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:46:37 pm »
The Garibaldi, now that's a proper biscuit. Notable lack of German names in that biscuit litany...

German names were disposed of in the 1910s for some reason.
The Norn Irish still call Belgian Biscuits "German Biscuits" and in some parts they have the colonial "Empire Biscuit" name.

http://traybakesandmore.com/german-biscuits

T42

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #41 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:52:48 pm »
As a slight diversion, am I the only one who always sets their bike up with LH front brake? I've done that for decades; with modern components and frames everything is designed to be used that way.

Nope, that's how most of the world does it...

When I built my bike I copied how my Brompton was setup. (Brompton purchased in Amsterdam).

I hadn't actually realised there was variation in this until my tame mechanic shoved his hand into my spinning back wheel while applying the front break, and swearing at me.

J

I didn't know either until a visiting chum borrowed a spare bike from me in 2010 and warned me afterwards "you need to get that bike seen to, they've put the brakes the wrong way round."

They're all out of line except our Bert.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #42 on: 17 September, 2020, 01:02:57 pm »
It's supposed to have its origins in rule of the road, but it doesn't follow that nowadays. At least, I'm sure I remember NZ bikes being Left Front. More to the point, there's personal and 'genre' variation, UK road racers following Left Front too (perhaps this dates from the League of Racing Cyclists – was that the name? – with their continental manners in the 1950s, as opposed to the TTers).

But bikes with coaster brake and front lever brake always have the lever on the right. As do motorcycles since the 1970s at least.

And QG's mechanic was rash to put his hand in the spokes before they'd stopped spinning.
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ElyDave

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #43 on: 17 September, 2020, 01:19:40 pm »
I'm not even sure what Bourbon creams are! Type of biscuit?

https://youtu.be/MHMuSA63eoA
The Garibaldi, now that's a proper biscuit. Notable lack of German names in that biscuit litany...

+1 for the Garibaldi, great biscuit and a great name as well.
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LittleWheelsandBig

  • Whimsy Rider
Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #44 on: 17 September, 2020, 08:44:16 pm »
NZ are right hand front brakes, just like Oz.
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadcode/cyclist-code/about-cycling/learning-to-ride#stopping

It was the British League of Racing Cyclists, an interesting bunch of characters. The last of them are dying out now, including a couple of my friends in the past couple of weeks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_League_of_Racing_Cyclists
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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #45 on: 19 September, 2020, 08:51:25 am »
I can (sort of) see the need for standardisation of the brake layout on new bikes, but why the RH in the UK - is it just tradition or is there an actual reason for it?
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #46 on: 19 September, 2020, 08:53:51 am »
RH-front brakes when riding on the LH side if the road mean you can control the rear brake while making hand signals. The opposite when riding on the RH side of the road. That is the reason for the brake arrangement convention.
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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #47 on: 19 September, 2020, 08:56:50 am »
I've still got the hideous green ceramic bowl they once sent me along with their gigantic catalogue. I'm still baffled by it.

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #48 on: 19 September, 2020, 09:15:31 am »
The Rose Bowl is a thing in the USA. It was their very punny response.
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Re: Rose bikes stops selling to the UK
« Reply #49 on: 19 September, 2020, 09:34:29 am »
Bit of a missed target if they are sending it to somebody in  Gloucestershire who has never heard of a minor sporting event in a far away country.

Would have been more appropriate if they had been able to work up something to do with Fred West's wife