Something that has been puzzling me for some time. In Bristol lots of the kids and older chavs ride around with their V brakes undone.
Whats that all about?
Is it because they don't know how to fix them or is it to look cool? I constantly find myself wanting to stop them in the street and do their V brakes up.
In Bournemouth's 'vibrant'* Boscombe, the no saddle look is so hot right now.
*I believe it's estate agent slang for 'drug ravaged warzone'
Buckled wheels?
Most pikeys I see with bikes like that is because there wheels are foooked!
I see this all the time when doing DR bikes for local youth groups or estate projects. Its generally to do with the link bar where the noodle slots in. It tends to open up and the noodle slips through and doesn't engage or as nickjb says it could be to do with buckled wheels.
Cheapo V brakes usually have really soft metal in the brakes. The part where the noodle locates usually splays open. Recently discovered it happens more on kids bikes, if the forks spin around the V brake often catches the down tube or the cable gets stretched tight and pulls out.
was walking to Asda (bedminster) once when I hear SHshshsHshshSHHShshSHhshshsSHHSHSHSHSHSHSHSh getting louder and louder behind me. Chav rides past, nicked argos special, with NO tyres. Just on the rims
Do you know the worst bit?
They can ride those shitty bikes better than you can ride yours! 😀
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Do you know the worst bit?They can ride those shitty bikes better than you can ride yours!
Very true.
Pikey chavvy bike stealing scumbags can wheelie a bike better than anyone. FACT.
Pikey chavvy bike stealing scumbags can wheelie a bike better than anyone. FACT.
😆 So true!! I have seen umpteen of them popping wheelies.
How do you know they're [i]all[/i] thieves? Have you asked them? 🙄
Flashy, the closest you've ever been to a 'chav' is watching a documentary about inner city deprivation on telly.
If you saw me in my jeans, trainers and hoody, smoking a cig, riding my nice bike, you'd think 'ah, a 'chav', and you'd be jealous of my bike handling skilz.
And I'd still mug you.
If you saw me in my jeans, trainers and hoody, smoking a cig, riding my [b]nice bike[/b], you'd think 'ah, a 'chav', and you'd be jealous of my bike handling skilz.
That's the difference there. I generally see apolloesque bso, underneath the scruffy oiks.
If you saw me in my jeans, trainers and hoody, smoking a cig, riding my nice bike, you'd think 'ah, a 'chav', and you'd be jealous of my bike handling skilz.And I'd still hug you.
Awww, thanks. But you're not my type. 😉
Its simple realy its because its cool , well thats what the youngun at work said.
I've seen a kid pull a 300 m wheely in Lawrence Hill last winter on a junk bike wearing his parker when I drove past and shouted "good skills lad" his retort was "cheers mister". Made my day
Met some local kids on various cheap bikes but with helmets at Cwm Carn at the top of the DH course strugling to sort out a flat as their pump was buggered .
Well as they had got to the top they had to ride down so offered help and after a bit of faff all was good to go. My mate and I rode down with them and what a blast of the five , two were tidy and quick but that could have been due to only having a back brake the others were having a hoot.
It was fun to watch a kid in his jeans on a knackered DJ bike with only one brake all over the back wheel of a stormtrooper on a fullon DH bike. Made I laugh
It all starts with riding around without brakes - then comes the drugs and the theft. Sort the brakes and they'll become fine upstanding productive members of society.
It was fun to watch a kid in his jeans on a knackered DJ bike with only one brake all over the back wheel of a stormtrooper on a fullon DH bike. Made I laugh
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If you saw me in my jeans, trainers and hoody, smoking a cig, riding my nice bike, you'd think 'ah, a 'chav',
And he'd be right 😆
Sort the brakes and they'll become fine upstanding productive members of society.
Like Flashy? 🙂
And he'd be right.
Yeah. Maybe. Whatever. At least I can walk through a council estate without shitting meself for fear of a 10-year old looking at me a bit funny. 😀
Be careful though. Because one day I might come through your town/village. And I'll nick yer bike off you in front of yer mates. And happy slap you. And post the video on YouTube of you wetting your pants and crying like a little girl.
Be careful though. Because one day I might come through your town/village. And I'll nick yer bike off you in front of yer mates.
I doubt it, you'd probably see a cow or a tree and just stand there pointing whilst peeing yourself 🙂
Nah, we've got trees here. Cahs though; I can't believe they just let them mooch about all over the place. Bloody dangerous, that. Could bite a child's face.
One of my freinds was attacked by a cow in her own garden. It knocked her over, and kicked her unconcious. She doesnt know why it stopped.
I dont condone cruelty to animals but if I was her id make sure that cow was [i]scared[/i] of me.
See? No-one's safe.
mooooo 😆
You may laugh, Pitduck, but it's only a matter of time before one of these creatures gets inside someone's house and causes untold problems.
Remember; when you go to sleep tonight, it could be your face that gets bitten. 😯
Won't be laughing then, will you? No, you won't.
Basic cow control for city types.
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Is that a scene from the Hereford re-make of the matrix revolutions? (not shown in picture: "Agent" Smith)
It was fun to watch a kid in his jeans on a knackered DJ bike with only one brake all over the back wheel of a stormtrooper on a fullon DH bike.
He wasnt related to Smee by any chance?
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A proper coo - see thqat look he is giving you - a killer he is
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TJ that's not a cah, that's a Haggis! Dur, everyone knows that you wally!
A yoof rode past me on the pavement the other day, by Spar, and was riding with a proper pikey swagger.
I'd love to be able to swagger when I ride. 😆
I was walking down the hill in the pouring rain after the Singletrack Weekender when I saw a right character approaching: flares, white trainers, crewcut, unzipped brown suede jacket, general swagger. Generally looked a bit out of place and I must admit, I wondered what they were up to.
It was Terrahawk. 😀
flares???
cheeky