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Title: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: Andy M on June 02, 2008, 10:09:04 AM
Well chaps, as of two weeks time, my days of commuting by bike are over. The new job is based at home and comes with a car, so thirteen years of riding in any weather at 6.00 am is over. The MZ is going off the road (tax and MOT expired) for a referb/split the dates and the outfit will be a play thing.

This set me thinking. Should I be going out any buying something red with 12 mile service intervals and demonic valves? Am I more of a leather tassles person? Do I need something with a combined expresso machine/toastie maker build into the heated CD player?

The big question is how do I explain being so scruffy and riding a machine that see's more salt than polish when I can no longer claim it's just a machine to getting to the office?

Andy
Title: Re: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: guest27 on June 02, 2008, 10:18:27 AM
Simple - by being yourself.  If you wanted a highly polished crotchrocket you would have had one all along.  You ride a ratty bike because you are happy that way.  Dont change.

R
Title: Re: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: guest18 on June 02, 2008, 03:43:14 PM
Ahhh, for you? Whatever you like.. for the "proper" weekend wonders, whatever I fancy riding in a couple of years when they've taken the depreciation hit for me and run it in for a couple of thousand miles  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: squirrelciv on June 02, 2008, 04:25:37 PM
You could just ride around the block every morning and still claim to ride to work each day. ;D
Title: Re: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: guest27 on June 02, 2008, 06:28:38 PM
~Trials bike up and down the stairs should do it too ~

R
Title: Re: Start the week topic: What should a weekend wonder ride?
Post by: guest24 on June 02, 2008, 10:28:50 PM
My four year old says you can borrow her pink barbie bike...its got tassles!!