rBoTM April 2014 - Nominations please!!!

[NeilM]

It has become a competition for wall hangings and forensically clean, soulless foreign machines.

My Basso is foreign, but it's not a wall hanger, or soulless and the only reason it's clean is because it's been nice and dry since I finished building it.

And if you think the road section is bad for garage queens, you should take a look in the pre97 mtb section sometime. :shock:

 

[bugloss]

I think the lack of response says something about the way this 'competition' is going. I entered my 1958 Constellation some time ago so it can't be entered again, else I would. Most owners with period correct English machines and the odd spec of oil, rust or love simply won't bother now, or so it seems. It has become a competition for wall hangings and forensically clean, soulless foreign machines.

There you go that should get the pot boiling.

That's not quite true spokesmann, as my Raleigh that won in Feb was;
1 British.
2 Chipped and scratched.
3 Never been on a wall apart from when leaning against it.

My De Rosa that I entered last month is;
1 Not pristine.
2 Has rust.
3 Is my Audax bike that did a 300 in April, is doing the Bryan Chapman in May and the Hamburg-Berlin-Koln-Hamburg in August.
4 Never been near a wall except when leaning against it.

 

[Spokesmann]

It has become a competition for wall hangings and forensically clean, soulless foreign machines.

My Basso is foreign, but it's not a wall hanger, or soulless and the only reason it's clean is because it's been nice and dry since I finished building it.

And if you think the road section is bad for garage queens, you should take a look in the pre97 mtb section sometime. :shock:

I have.

Also I did not mention any names or owners. It is my opinion only I should say, although Im pretty sure quite a number of others think it, but maybe feel they should not nail their colours too firmly to the mast, for fear of recriminations.

I have no such fear.

 

[The History Man]

I think the lack of response says something about the way this 'competition' is going. I entered my 1958 Constellation some time ago so it can't be entered again, else I would. Most owners with period correct English machines and the odd spec of oil, rust or love simply won't bother now, or so it seems. It has become a competition for wall hangings and forensically clean, soulless foreign machines.

There you go that should get the pot boiling.

My Armstrong is a case in point. Agreed. But have argued for. A concourse comp in past. Plus a BOTM for such careworn loves.

 

[bugloss]

It's unfortunate that you have to bring this up again spokesmann.

I don't think I've ever seen any comments from other forum members dismissing British bikes as not worthy in this competition, so I can't see why you seem to think that it's acceptable to rubbish non British bikes in the way you do, when people have plucked up the courage to enter their bikes.

It's a competition for nice looking bikes, no matter where they were made or who the owner is.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité - non?

 

[The History Man]

I don't buy the brit bike thing but do think its a concourse/preserved in aspic comp rather than loved and lived with. Bugloss being the exception with his Raleigh. And you know what they say about exceptions.

Tis what it is though.

 

[Ian Raleigh]

I may enter my old daily shitter! I know it won't win neither the less but this bike has covered over 100,000 miles, believe it or not!

*edit* 'Winter mode' and two years ago .... Who says you can't keep an old bike looking well

 

[The History Man]

Off out on my Gerald

 

[Ian Raleigh]

Off out on my Gerald

I'd go out, but baby sitting for the grandson all day :roll:

 

[Spokesmann]

It's unfortunate that you have to bring this up again spokesmann.

I don't think I've ever seen any comments from other forum members dismissing British bikes as not worthy in this competition, so I can't see why you seem to think that it's acceptable to rubbish non British bikes in the way you do, when people have plucked up the courage to enter their bikes.

It's a competition for nice looking bikes, no matter where they were made or who the owner is.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité - non?

I didn't it was alluded to already, the 'elephant in the room'.