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Clandy

The Dead BSO Thread...
« on: 10 April, 2010, 03:08:19 pm »
If this has been done before then please merge the threads…

Saw this expired BSO on my way back from Hadleigh Castle this morning:


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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #1 on: 10 April, 2010, 08:48:59 pm »
I saw this on the Greenway path in east London:

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #2 on: 10 April, 2010, 08:57:17 pm »
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Getting there...

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #3 on: 10 April, 2010, 09:11:31 pm »
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #4 on: 10 April, 2010, 09:11:51 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #5 on: 11 April, 2010, 12:29:26 am »


It took a lot of mussel to do this one in..
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #6 on: 11 April, 2010, 12:32:39 am »
Carping on again are we?
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #7 on: 21 April, 2010, 08:59:42 pm »
This one has almost returned to ore, except for the plastic pedals.

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #8 on: 25 April, 2010, 10:09:05 pm »
I've thrown better than most of that lot inna skip . . .
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #9 on: 26 May, 2010, 11:14:17 pm »
Seen at the seaside last weekend:

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #10 on: 01 June, 2010, 03:13:08 pm »
Seen at the seaside last weekend:



Whitby???
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #11 on: 01 June, 2010, 03:19:40 pm »
Rockhopper?
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #12 on: 01 June, 2010, 03:30:06 pm »
Whitby???

Sorry, only just seen this post.  It was Northumberland actually, just south of Amble.


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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #13 on: 02 June, 2010, 08:50:21 pm »
The one on the rocks actually looks happy, with its decoration of flotsam and jetsam.
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #14 on: 03 June, 2010, 11:30:50 pm »
The one on the rocks actually looks happy, with its decoration of flotsam and jetsam.

You're getting into Flann O'Brien territory . . .
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #15 on: 04 June, 2010, 06:44:48 pm »
I was purchased by a scally
Whose name was Jack O'Malley
He rode me to the pub
And someone nicked my hub
He never oiled my chain
A wheel went again
His mates told him one day
I'm a girl's bike, so he was gay
He threw me in the sea
Thought that was the end for me
But I sit here on the rocks
Shat on by the flocks
Draped in smelly weed
But when the sea is calmer
I think I've reached nirvana
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #16 on: 18 August, 2010, 04:23:29 pm »


Leaning against part of the French farmhouse restaurant I was sat in last week,

It is truly abandoned and yet looks like it was "installed" to help with the atmosphere.


Clandy

Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #17 on: 18 August, 2010, 05:40:38 pm »


Leaning against part of the French farmhouse restaurant I was sat in last week,

It is truly abandoned and yet looks like it was "installed" to help with the atmosphere.



Nice find! Not sure if it (in the strictest terms) qualifies as a BSO though… looks more like an old BSA, although that may be unlikely given the location.  :)

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #18 on: 19 August, 2010, 03:43:15 pm »
Time for a confession....I don't know what BSO means

Clandy

Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #19 on: 19 August, 2010, 03:56:06 pm »
Time for a confession....I don't know what BSO means

Bicycle Shaped Object. A poorly made cheap 'bicycle' that will most likely fall to pieces within a month of purchase. For example anything sold by the likes of Asda, Tesco etc. for less than £100 or so. I have seen it said that anything costing less than £300 is a BSO, but I have seen some nice bikes for sale priced less than that.

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The only reason I said your example may not qualify as a BSO is it looks like it started out as a good quality bicycle. Still a good find though and thank you for sharing it.

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #20 on: 19 August, 2010, 04:52:12 pm »
Clearly Lee's isn't dead - it's hibernating!

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #21 on: 23 August, 2010, 06:56:14 am »
In a skip:
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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #22 on: 28 August, 2011, 02:55:24 pm »


Outside a house somewhere in Holland  :-\

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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #23 on: 28 August, 2011, 03:23:31 pm »
I've only just noticed this thread.

I too have seen the BSO depicted in the OP, when taking the dog for a walk.



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Re: The Dead BSO Thread...
« Reply #24 on: 28 August, 2011, 05:04:10 pm »


Neighbour's bike last summer.
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