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[Closed] Please allow me to introduce myself.

cogwomble · 2018-02-08T09:46:20Z

I'm a man of wealth and taste.. OK that's debatable, on both counts.. ask anyone who knows me :). I am however, a guy who's quite fond of bicycles. My brother put me on to this place, drewd (*waves*) and I recently Dan from Newark way, lovely chap who sold me a load of his old kit. Basically, a few years ago I bought a Charge Plug 3 2015 ex demo bike from Evans, and it re-kindled my love of cycling. Before that I'd been a BMXer, then learned to drive, then got fat, got a Mrs, never really did much riding as we went everywhere in the car. Then, when I was working at a local college the wonders of the C2W scheme happened, and I bought a bike. Infact I bought two, first was a Boardman Team FS Pro, the early grey ones.. Nice enough but I always felt a bit dissapointed with it, then I got a Bianchi hybrid which was great.. I should probably point out at this stage that I live right near Rutland Water. Although there's some good riding round here, much of it can be done on a road bike, and a flat bar hyrid worked ace for what I needed, and I had the Boardman as backup. Fast foward a few years, and I was chatting to Drew about his gravel bike.. these weren't really a thing back in 2015, but the idea of a steel frame drop bar I could throw down a cheeky trail really appealed to me, so I pulled the trigger, and I was back in the saddle a lot more regularly. I sold the Bianchi to Drew, and I kept the Boardman for a bit, but it wsan't getting used, I enjoyed the gravel bike more, and belived it'd be my life bike.. then I started to explore more trails, more bridleways, and the skinny tyres in mud just didn't cut it. I had to get another mountain bike. During this period, I also started to tweak and work on friends bikes, and got back into my BMX's, mostly mid and old skool stuff. It got a bit out of hand and I ended up with a lot more bikes than I had space. Something had to give. So, I started CogWombles. Basically, I was picking up abandoned, ex police auction/recovered and scrap bikes, and building good ones out of them, just to pass a bit of time. Because I was donating the proceeds of this to local good causes, my name started to get about, and before I knew it, I was doing two or three a week, because people were litterally giving me the stuff out their garages. A lot of that was crap, like proper BSO's, and got broken for what useful parts they'd yeild, but the odd good bike came in, got done, and got people into riding again. All good stuff. Oh yeah.. my own bikes.. So using the C2W scheme again, I decided I needed a mountain bike, so I bought the most sensible one I could.. steel, single speed, 27+ rubber.. yeah I bought a 2017 Kona unit :D, started to throw it around the local trails and bridleways, and then realised that although I love the idea of a single speed bike, I don't love the reality of it, specifically my fat carcass and my dodgy knees don't like it. So I did the sensible thing, and what we'd all do faced with my situation, I put gears on it.. Actually, I didn't.. I bought a used bike and built that up instead.. So enter bicycle of use number three into my stable.. (remember that Mrs I mentioned?, yeah we're now married, we've got a 3 bed mid terrace house with no shed, and 4 cats.. and although I have a workshop unit, it's 6 miles from my house)... So yeah, Sarah's getting a bit annoyed at me at this point, but N+1 right?.. So, now I own, an Orange Aero, 1x11, Toora forks, and stuff.. A Kona Unit, 1x1, Brooks C17 saddle, HT Flow Pedals A 2015 Charge Plug 3, Vitoria tubeless 38c tyres, Superstar Nano pedals. And in my non usable stable PK Ripper Loop Dyno Compe GT Pro Race XL Falcon Harrier (updating to 700c wheels and making a commuter) Some old Raliegh stuff :D [urlcycling stuff[/url] by [urlon Flickr [urlcycling stuff[/url] by [urlon Flickr [urlby [urlon Flickr [urlby [urlon Flickr [urlRaliegh stuff[/url] by [urlon Flickr [urlby [urlon Flickr

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Poopscoop

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I’m a left leaning hippy who voted remain.

Your my best mate already.

For today.Lol

You'll fit in fine. 😀

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Posted : 08/02/2018 10:09 pm

Poopscoop

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Ok, your not a Div by the way.

Contrary to calling you that many times above!

Posted : 08/02/2018 10:11 pm

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