Synthiaks
Senior Retro Guru
I bought it......I put in M-Powers crystal ball prediction of £400 (well £401) as my limit and it went for £3 less, so guess it was ment to be.
won't collect it for about 2wks due to work, I'll post some warts n all pics when I do so I can be told its a piece of cr*p or not....either way for my purposes its fine as at present I have no plans to do anything other than get it rideable so will only replace things that are properly broken or safety issues and I'm pretty lenient when it comes to that....also the seller says its all fine as it is, but proof will be on pickup.
I had a chat with the seller, story was that he works in the NHS and during lockdown was doing up tatty bikes for key workers (in a minimal way, re-cabling etc, but not full rebuilds as hes not that capable), this came in with a pile of others & the person who ended up with it hasn't ridden in a while so asked Chris to stick it on auction as it was a cut above the other run of the mill ones they were used too, so if thats all true then someone took it to a local tip as thats where all the bikes came from & it ended up with the 'scap' bikes he was givn to fix up...maybe its still is scrap, I'll find out....anyway, nice story if real....I have no reason to doubt it, seemed an entirely genuine guy...he's happy for me to check it over before taking it away so if theres anything terminal (other than the obvious) to look out for let me know.
won't collect it for about 2wks due to work, I'll post some warts n all pics when I do so I can be told its a piece of cr*p or not....either way for my purposes its fine as at present I have no plans to do anything other than get it rideable so will only replace things that are properly broken or safety issues and I'm pretty lenient when it comes to that....also the seller says its all fine as it is, but proof will be on pickup.
I had a chat with the seller, story was that he works in the NHS and during lockdown was doing up tatty bikes for key workers (in a minimal way, re-cabling etc, but not full rebuilds as hes not that capable), this came in with a pile of others & the person who ended up with it hasn't ridden in a while so asked Chris to stick it on auction as it was a cut above the other run of the mill ones they were used too, so if thats all true then someone took it to a local tip as thats where all the bikes came from & it ended up with the 'scap' bikes he was givn to fix up...maybe its still is scrap, I'll find out....anyway, nice story if real....I have no reason to doubt it, seemed an entirely genuine guy...he's happy for me to check it over before taking it away so if theres anything terminal (other than the obvious) to look out for let me know.