Bought for £25 off ebay
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Threw on a few bits from the garage, now ride to work on it. Super light 🙂
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WANT!! Where did you get it from Retrodirect?
here's a pic of my tricross mentioned before:-
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I do too Mick if its any consolation! Going to build another sometime...
Nice red Trek road bike for £250 (should have been £400). Had it 10 years and had lots of great rides on it. With the exception of a new set of wheels (I "accidently" ended up off road and wrecked the original wheels) I've done little more than fix punctures on it. In effortless smile-per-pound terms it is way better than my expensive full susser, although by modern standards my full susser seems mid-range 😯
It was from an online place on offer.
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This is the current equivalent model though it has lots of small niggles sorted. This one has a euro Sealed Bottombracket (well worth the extra money).
If you want one, BMX Cruisers come up on ebay for dirtcheap. There's currently a REALLY nice haro x24 sitting wih no bids a £150
For basic and cheap, this is my favourite
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I bought it 9 years ago new for peanuts - it was a cancelled order and it has served for centuries, tours, mountainbiking, and very rarely what it was intended for, commuting.
Otherwise I would say any On-One SS.
I bought a Specialized Hardrock new in 2003,I think it cost £375,best value for money bike I've had
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It's in rigid full mudguard commuter mode here,but I've also ran it with discs/100mm Marzochis,it's the bike that got me into proper mountain biking.
I've done a couple of IOM E2E's on it,Calderdale mtb marathons a few loops of the marin trail etc,gets used in all weathers.
Definitley the best vfm bike I've bought
This cost less than £500 to build, all 2nd hand parts off various classifieds. And yes you may laugh at a tripple ring Coiler 😳
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It's gonna be my Charge Plug Freestyler, paid £25o delivered off the 'bay and it was brand new, saved me a fortune in tube fairs over the last 10 months, way more than it cost
a triple ring coiler makes perfect sense to me.
they're ace bikes, they just appreciate a nice granny gear.
My £240 Diamondback Mojito SS 29er. Best cheap bike I've ever bought and a great introduction to the world of 29ers.
An STW classifieds mongrel of a Stumpjumper Comp frame, Reba forks, Hope/Mavic 717 wheels, xt gears, Juicy 7 brakes. Total less that £500. I've ridden it more last year than my Flux or 5 Spot.
A customer kindly gave this to me (without wheels, but we had some lying around the back of the workshop). I swapped the saddle and put a newer 105 rear mech, a chain and 39 ring and the grand total is.....free!
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Specialized Epic carbon road bike.
[url= http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=y22eby&outx=600&quality=70 ]Bugaboo on the Spink[/url]This Carrera Bugaboo, my first full suss - frame was £150 and then parts off ebay brought it up to about £350. I cracked the chainstay (well known design flaw) and brant sold me an on-one for warrenty price as he was pissed and felt sorry for me (i later found out I could get the upgraded replacement for £50 and it started me on the slippery slope of owning more than one bike).
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Loved that bike loads but had my head turned by a cheap SC Blur, so i swoped it for a set of deore disc brakes. 3 years later I get rid of the blur and I got a Merida Transmission Speed - the expensive grown up version... I still have a hankering for the original though as it's hung up in my mates garage looking unused.