[Closed] Anyone in the NWest have any spare forks that I can borrow?

The weird thing is anything electrical works forever with me.

get one of those Lefty's with an electric lock out?

Maybe its a sign Hora. Perhaps you should give up on this whole bike thing then and start buying ice cream makers, or sewing machines or something? Just a thought

The weird thing is anything electrical works forever with me.

Have a go on the chair.

Please.

Maybe its a sign Hora. Perhaps you should give up on this whole bike thing then and start buying ice cream makers, or sewing machines or something? Just a thought

Me and you together? After all, we'd probably be both be better at that than riding 😉

Have a go on the chair.

A fair point. Shall we make our own ice cream and sell it at the top of the ice cream run of a weekend?

We could make a kind of monster truck/ice cream van hybrid vehicle. It'd have to be electrical though, or you'd break it. Actually, with most people on here I imagine skinny decaffe lattes would be more in demand 😉

Interestingly; did you know it was Margaret Thatcher who invented Mr Whippy?

Kinda leftfield but I'm going over to Huddersfield tomorrow and I'll be passing Dixons ice cream palour in Lockwood. Nectar of the Gods.

What spec, travel, steerer tube diameter, and length do you need? may have a spare set [b] you can borrow, [/b] depending on what you need 😉

You going to pick up a curry? Or have you found anywhere in Manchester that makes them yet?

LoCo, Are you sure!!!??? Having read the other posts, I wouldn't lend Hora a suck on a Lemon.
Probably a nice bloke and all that but sounds like a mechanical nightmare 😉

Probably a nice bloke and all that but sounds like a mechanical nightmare

you're right on the second point. But he's not a nice bloke, he's a ****!!! 😉

My favourite Hora mechanical bodge ever was when he zip tied his front shifter to his stem. Not because it was broken, but because he is left-handed.

I am not making this up.

Have a few spare old sets of working but not particulary pretty forks, which are my own, so no problems

A lot of STW'ers own many bikes

hmm. i wonder why that is.....

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My favourite Hora mechanical bodge ever was when he zip tied his front shifter to his stem. Not because it was broken, but because he is left-handed.

I am not making this up.

what happened to the 'back-up forks'?

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure that Mr Smith can confirm the stem shifter

The backup forks were sold as I'd found a set of Fox36's that worked for almost 2yrs. Back to lyriks and hey-ho.. Loco thank you but abit far for me to pickup/drop back 🙂

Binners, I've eaten curries from where you've been and they are not my thing. Even Akbhars (the only one I did like here in Manc) has gone downhill recently. The one in Hudds is consistent and near family.

So there's nothing on a whole mile of curry that takes your fancy? You must be right picky...

Knowing Hora, he probably drives to his Mum's in Huddersfield when he needs a poo, because it just doesn't feel right doing it anywhere else.

I've been to a lot of places down the Curry mile and for the main its swimming in oil, made from the same base for white folk with no balance, depth of flavour/spices.

I can lend you some 130 air u turn revelations, never bin off-road in there life, but they come with the age old Pays and Claims terms.

MB

Made for White folk? As opposed to what you were used to eating during your authentic upbringing in kashmir?

Epic bell-endery! Even by your standards 🙄

Binners I suppose you need to drink 10 pints before you eat at your favourite curry places. Sort of numb your tastebuds to save them from savagery that follows.

How many lashed-up Indians do you see in your fave-takeaways then?

Remember the Goodness Gracious Me 'going out for a English'? 8)

So you can't get a decent curry in Manchester? Of course you can't! What was I thinking? Or the surounding areas? Of course not! If only we had some kind of community that could produce such a thing? Alas, it's chip barns everywhere. We simply can't compete with the cosmopolitan, sophisticated, ethnically diverse world of ... Erm.... Huddersfield

Please tell me that STW is not about to descend into curry snobbery now?

Oh, it's hora... of course it is.

Epic bell-endery indeed.

Hora, email me! I have a set of 55rs you can borrow (you pay the postage from and to croydon) or a set of Reba races

Where though? Tell me where and I'll try it. Come on. I'm talking GOOD Hindi Veggie or Punjab dishes. Not cooked by men using a base sauce and slop.

Depth of spice etc.

I'm all ears. SERIOUSLY.

Just like you'll struggle to find a decent chippie inside the M60. Go over WYorks way and you can't go too far wrong for Fish n Chips. It tends to be more hit than miss

Oh and Bradford (certain places) for curry.

'Curry mile' - it just reminds me of a sort of Blackpool. 🙁

Go and ask your ****stani/bangla/indian friends/colleagues where to go and eat for that 'authentic' taste of the east, instead of whining about curry houses that are obviously, deliberately aimed at a western audience.

Struggling to find a decent chippy inside the M60? Only if you struggle to find your own bollocks with a bollock map and a compass.

South Manchester isn't the only place in the world you can eat, why not try venturing out of your middle class enclave once in a while.

If i was broken you could borrow my Pikes. But i'm not, so you can't. That's my good deed for the day.

Itv4 now at Cadwell. Amazing

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure that Mr Smith can confirm the stem shifter

etched in my memory. how could one forget such cretinous behavior?
i can't confirm which worthy steed the aforementioned cockpit modification graced? i think it was baby blue and had 3 wheels?

Hora, middle class? Pmsl he makes shameless look posh!

my piss is posher than Hora

Hora's threads are the gift that keeps on giving...

I've got a pair of Manitou Magnum R's you can borrow - 80mm of elastomer springy goodness!

And Al Faisal for curry, or Forts of India in Whitefield if you're feeling flush.

Looks like my Pikes had a lucky escape!!

Local STW'er lending me a pair. Thanks guys.

cb, I'd still be interested in buying your Pikes.

Someone in our office raves about Forts but as she eats curry so little I wasn't sure. Might have to sample theirs. I'll always travel to sample curry.

Sajan takeway in Sale/Manchester is a good example of English-curry. Clean, friendly, good place but made for English.

Gary, I have a feeling that it was the below bike which eventually sported the stem shifter. With a stem that long, he could have zip-tied both shifters, brake levers and a washing machine to it

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Brick Lane/East end- how good are the curries on the strip there in general? Good or run of the mill?

I don't have any spare forks but you're welcome to my kidney...

Can't find a decent curry house in Manchester?

Can't find a decent chippy within the M60?

Can't find his own arse using both hands?

Actually Hora, I know the guy who owns Sajan. He often regales me with tales of the time you spent together in the Pashtunwali heartlands, risking your lives sourcing spices while dodging taliban fighters

Literally placing your lives on the line to provide the holy grail - a half decent chicken rogan josh. You're dedication to the cause didn't go unnoticed

I wonder what Hora's thought process was as this thread developed into the marvel it now is. Not content with being ridiculed about forks, he must have thought long and hard on how to make himself really stand out as a belm. It just so happened that he was eating a Tikka Masala Pot Noodle and it struck him, a way to make himself seem like a real foodie, put down Lancashire, appear multi-culturally aware and get up everyone's noses all at once.

Overjoyed with his success, he had half a glass of red red wine, popped his favourite Nickleback CD in the stereo, put the kettle on and had a second Pot Noodle.

incidentally: which loon has lent Stan Laurel a pair of forks? If the logic was to just get a new set when he inevitably breaks them, then well done. I can see where you're going with that one. Particularly if they're on their last legs anyway

Otherwise: WTF ARE YOU THINKING?!!!!! 😯

Is Hora actually a pastiche of himself? This thread is a gift.