Any love for the old Carrera’s here?

[abr303]

Lots of bike for the money, I've a couple
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Some of those bring back memories of my Halfords spannering days That Corsa GT though….

Lots of bike for the money, I've a couple
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[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Some of those bring back memories of my Halfords spannering days That Corsa GT though….

Thanks

 

[MR OX]

So, that Quattro 2 I’m never going to get round to doing anything with got a two day turn around. Purists look away now.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

So, that Quattro 2 I’m never going to get round to doing anything with got a two day turn around. Purists look away now.

That is just fine. A working bike, the shortys made me chuckle.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Classic and funky
Aren't they vbrake ez-fires tho?

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Classic and funky
Aren't they vbrake ez-fires tho?

I've got a pair on the Dahon 26"folder, they are for cantilever. I bought mine from bankrupt bike parts.

 

[Lucidone]

Build thread for the B52 from the first post:
Thread 'Carrera B52 - Fixing a Broken Heart'

Thread 'Carrera B52 - Fixing a Broken Heart'

Saturday at 00:24

My first build thread isn't going to be the one I ever envisioned. I'm building a bike I don't want or even really like that much, however, it's a bike build that I hope will make someone else smile and rekindle some good memories for them. It might even get ridden!

I've kept a (very lazy) eye out for one of these for quite a few years and when @sparkybhp bought one for it's groupset ( Thread 'Any love for the old Carrera’s here?'
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/any-love-for-the-old-carrera’s-here.494426/ ) an ask was made and he was good enough to do me both a...

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[Y282]

Iirc in the first run of Carreras we did a sort or flat greeny turquoise one too. Anyone got one of those?

 

[Bobmac892]

Had a Carrera STX with Shockwave suspension in my Uni days. Working at Halfords an assistant manager helped me scour the Halfords store catalogue for one that wound up less than half price after sale discounts and staff discounts. Loved that bike. My first proper mountain bike. Blinged it up with an IG 70 7 speed cassette from Edinburgh Bike Co-op and an STX Special Edition chainset off a stock bike, hmmm donated it's chromica crank arms to my chromica chain rings so I had an all chromica STX chainset. The eh, donation bike got the all silver STX stuff. Ah those heady days, Tioga Alchemy headset and stem, Onza barends, Vuelta saddle and toe clips.

SHE WERE A THING O' BEAUTY!!!

Then some junkie scumbag boyfriend of a flat mate nicked it. D1CK!

Looked something like this, but mine was betterer!