bombarding you with tip finds...

Seeing this thread,
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92920 I thought I'd go and have a shufty.

Took my bike tools and came away with:

Someone through away that :shock:

It makes me mad how wasteful some people are :x

Malvern and the surrounding area is extremely wealthy, our Freecycle network is astounding, 10,000 members and treasure galore..

I have a pair of Spendor BC1 speakers that were just given away :shock:

We have given some old cars away so I suppose we are a bit like that ourselves.

A local tip [ I wont say which one for obvious reasons.. but fairly local ] has in the past supplied me with a brand new Dawes Galaxy [ insurance job ] several 1940-60's retro racers, a few Moultons, various boxes of tools etc and sundry insane treasure

I ran a business doing up bikes for several years in the 80's on the cast off local bikes I got out of skips and donated by people who knew what I was doing.

Found this frame on a pile of rubble a couple of years ago I will be out on it tomorrow.

I am still amazed at what turns up, what an affluent society we live in..

malvernman":ombmkhbb said:

Malvern and the surrounding area is extremely wealthy, our Freecycle network is astounding, 10,000 members and treasure galore..

I have a pair of Spendor BC1 speakers that were just given away :shock:

We have given some old cars away so I suppose we are a bit like that ourselves.

A local tip [ I wont say which one for obvious reasons.. but fairly local ] has in the past supplied me with a brand new Dawes Galaxy [ insurance job ] several 1940-60's retro racers, a few Moultons, various boxes of tools etc and sundry insane treasure

I ran a business doing up bikes for several years in the 80's on the cast off local bikes I got out of skips and donated by people who knew what I was doing.

Found this frame on a pile of rubble a couple of years ago I will be out on it tomorrow.

I am still amazed at what turns up, what an affluent society we live in..

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I see your Spendor BC1 and raise you a pair of Spendor BC1 Active - found those a couple of years ago

Just after Christmas, found a £2.5k set of PMC studio monitors

And have shown countless bikes on here, some just for a laugh but some were quite good finds. The best bike find has been a set of Campagnolo Deltas in mint condition.

Na... I'll keep the BC1s

House renovations give up some decent treasure, some mates found a complete lighting rig in a skip outside a private school that was having a refit, a decent p.a. system turned up shortly after..

One of my customers popped her very ancient clogs and the family gave me the book collection .. [ read Library ] ... including very early Isaac Newton books and a 1720's copy of Paradise lost... nice, I gave about a 1000 books to the local Amnesty book shop.

The local house clearance guy has my phone number for any old bikes he finds.

Is this turning into LGF 'V' Malvernman challange fight for king of the skip monkeys ?

no, not really, 'cos I can throw in a MOOG synth, Linn amplifiers, Meridian 206 etc etc....



I am Ming of the Kip Skonkeys - no-one can take that away from me.



anyway - get out there and rummage!

TheGreenRabbit":f31hthxl said:

Is this turning into LGF 'V' Malvernman challange fight for king of the skip monkeys ?

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yes but lgf already has the title in his profile, or this could be *ring announcer*' tiiittttllllleeee ffffiiiiiggggghhhhhtttt!!!'

Y'ken the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the ark of the covenant is in a packing crate being shove up a long aisle??



That's in LGF's garage, that is..........

It just seems a fitting tune for a Skip Monkey
If only I could change 'Bongo' to 'Skip'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m7hxzwW0qw

G