Ungrateful Bar**ards.
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marin man":1d53d5vj said:"I look up at him because he is upper class but I look down at him because he is lower class"
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This one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo which is what i think he was referring too.
Stick Legs
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I hope no-one here is taking this too seriously.
I worked in a bike shop as soon as I could work to buy better bikes, one of which (my Dyna Tech Roadbike I still have) and appreciate the effort my parents went to to get me the Shogun.
I just know that many will have suffered disapointment from well meaning intentions. I have seen enough 5'5" kids in the shop I used to work in leading mum and dad to the 16" Trek 820 or whatever and the parents buying a 23" Raleigh Activator, "he'll grow into it". :roll:
I worked in a bike shop as soon as I could work to buy better bikes, one of which (my Dyna Tech Roadbike I still have) and appreciate the effort my parents went to to get me the Shogun.
I just know that many will have suffered disapointment from well meaning intentions. I have seen enough 5'5" kids in the shop I used to work in leading mum and dad to the 16" Trek 820 or whatever and the parents buying a 23" Raleigh Activator, "he'll grow into it". :roll:
suburbanreuben
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TWTDTW! :roll:marin man":2l3afe0x said:"I look up at him because he is upper class but I look down at him because he is lower class"
You kids know nothing!
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My first proper bike was a second hand Dawes Dalesman 5 speed road bike. Given to me by my uncle. Despite being 12 years old and the bike being far to big for me the first proper ride was a 50 mile epic with a mate during the summer holidays. Loved that bike, we had some real adventures. My first new bike was also my first mtb, a Trek 930 which soon got me hooked.
No nightmare stories here - Quite the opposite, IMO.
I had a couple of used bikes & then my parents saved liked crazy to buy me a Grifter.
I rode it everywhere for years. It ended up looking very scruffy, but it had a busy life.
I would never have deliberately abused it/ tried to break it because I knew how my parents struggled to buy it And anyway, I lurved it. But I guess I was lucky - My parents decided to invest in something useful, rather than some shonky old man's roadster.
The next one was a Raleigh Ultra Burner. Awesome kit on a very average frame. I paid about 80% of it, which took me forever to save up delivering newspapers. My parents helped with the rest for Xmas & birthday. Again, they found the money & resisted the urge to suggest a cheaper BSO.
Thanks, folks!
I had a couple of used bikes & then my parents saved liked crazy to buy me a Grifter.
I rode it everywhere for years. It ended up looking very scruffy, but it had a busy life.
I would never have deliberately abused it/ tried to break it because I knew how my parents struggled to buy it And anyway, I lurved it. But I guess I was lucky - My parents decided to invest in something useful, rather than some shonky old man's roadster.
The next one was a Raleigh Ultra Burner. Awesome kit on a very average frame. I paid about 80% of it, which took me forever to save up delivering newspapers. My parents helped with the rest for Xmas & birthday. Again, they found the money & resisted the urge to suggest a cheaper BSO.
Thanks, folks!
My time line was...
1974...1978 raleigh commando in a purple colour
1978...1981 raleigh arena 10 speed...got ran over by a mates dads car..picture the scene..i go to mates house leave bike flat on the drive behind said parked vovlo..i go in the house mates dad has to go out reverses..... :shock: :shock: ..say no more
1989..1991 raleigh maurader..nasty "pig iron thing"
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Ernie
1974...1978 raleigh commando in a purple colour
1978...1981 raleigh arena 10 speed...got ran over by a mates dads car..picture the scene..i go to mates house leave bike flat on the drive behind said parked vovlo..i go in the house mates dad has to go out reverses..... :shock: :shock: ..say no more
1989..1991 raleigh maurader..nasty "pig iron thing"
:roll: :roll: :roll:
Ernie
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In 1991, after my mate got a 1990 Fire Mountain (new!!) I pestered my parents for a 'real' moutain bike. I think they could see I was serious and when a 1989 Muddy Fox Courier came up for sale second hand at Mum's work she gave me the seller's number and Dad and I went to look. They agreed to pay half and the rest I would would earn and pay back. It took a while but was worth it.
I loved the Muddy Fox and rode it for miles and miles (and crashed a few times too!). Sadly I grew too big for the Muddy Fox so it sat in the shed from the mid-1990s onwards. Recently though baj has given it a home.
I loved the Muddy Fox and rode it for miles and miles (and crashed a few times too!). Sadly I grew too big for the Muddy Fox so it sat in the shed from the mid-1990s onwards. Recently though baj has given it a home.
