Some folk see STW as a community of friends.

druidh, I do, that’s the reason I come here most often and don’t go anywhere else! Anyway, is the season to be jolly, Merry Christmas to you all

I dont get why we cannot have feedback to stop potential rip offs and we also cannot say that the item is a potential rip off [ cheaper new]

Agree completely, it stops us getting ripped off. Just because someone wouldn’t think to look at CRC, Evans etc… is not a reason to see people being ripped off.

In my opinion if someone is selling a second hand part for more than you can get it for new then as a community someone should chirp up. That’s the reason I signed up here, people helping each other, giving advice and making sure we don’t get ripped off by one another. But maybe I’ve missed the point somewhere…

At peterpoddy, was it a formal rant or did you use words like monkeyballs and forkinforkwits? I really hope the later 🙂

Was at the other end of this…made a request to a supplier, he wasn’t too happy and replied calling me a pr!ck. Needless to say it wasn’t meant for me, we’re a large company and they weren’t so big. They are now struck off our books never to be used again, unfortunate for them! It can really weaken your position making that mistake, but there is a way to get the mail back in outlook without the receiver reading it, they have not to have read it though. I’ve used it before 😀

send it back, everytime you ride it you’ll be reminded of the headache and hassle, everytime you look at it you’ll want to cry. I had the same with a BMW I bought (motorbike not car), that blew up, that was some bad times, still have it but it took a looooooooooooong time to not resent having it! If they are £1550 new, and you’ll be looking at £1000 for the one which has been chucked together, keep an eye out for sales after Christmas or money off. 20% off voucher at Wiggle brings you close to the price you paid!

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My Dad’s yellow tracer in the front with my Alpine 160 in the back. Bit of a colour clash next to one another! In Les Gets this year, hopefully be back again next year 😀

tomcrow where is the pic taken, looks amazing

right, that’s my new years resolution sorted!! Great write up and pics 😀

it was mine too, and all the stars have aligned to get this for me…how many times in your life can you say “just flying business class to Toyko to go shred for a week or two!”

It’s an oppurtunity I can’t pass up and my boss has been cool about it, only real headache is I have to do a week or twos work before I get to fly North to Niseko (or any other resort to be honest).

Thing is do I treat myself to a new powder board?

😀 just grim, eh?!

I’ve a few stories, but there is one which I’ve never been able to fathom.

We have a fair few sub-contractors working on our sites, they do cleaning, odd jobs etc…

One day one of the lads was asked to do the thankless job of cleaning the mens, urinals, and when I say cleaning I mean unblocking the pipes where all the fat and rubbish from your pee clogs. Trust me this is not a smell you ever want to be exposed to, it is truly horrific.

So the chap tries his best to unblock with no success, so using his intelligence went and fetched some neat caustic to tip into the urinal to help the process, a bit like using bleach but if you aren’t aware of what neat caustic does google it.

When the caustic didn’t go down the pipe, and hence the pipe hadn’t unblocked there was obviously only one solution, to take a short length of hose pipe…stick it in the urinal and try to syphon out the fluid.

What actually happened was he sucked too hard and got a mix of caustic, urine and coagulated fat in his mouth.

To say this is possibly a bad enough punishment for his stupidity is an understatement, but nevertheless he walked and his caustic, pee, fat breath has not been smelt since! 🙄

looking at the price of the 7UP jersey that was sold, £670, these aren’t going to be cheap!

that the same chap as this: http://anodising.blogspot.co.uk/

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That is not ugly……..this is ugly

This one is mine, got from an antique shop in Todmorden. Issued to the swiss as an avalanche shovel in 1958, date of issue is stamped on the leather pouch. I’ve used it for shaping jumps, but it weighs a ton. Don’t get much better lifetime guarantee than it already being 54 years old. 😮[/url]
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Prices on eBay are ranging between £200 and £500. To keep or to sell 😆

MrSparkle, war was mentioned to him by a colleague, he laughed it off fortunately.

motorhead13, that is a nice build, how much did you end up doing to it? Did you find the work difficult? Looks like a hell of a lot of fun.

wrecker, I found a few companies selling kits for these bikes and a few more being commissions. Alot of details on bikeexif.com, many are drool worth and so far I’m on page 100 :S

I know moto werks as I’m just down the road from them, already been on their site scouring for bits.

I was recalling a conversation last night, it was with my boss, so I came in to work today. Turns out, with him being German and all, that he has a mint original R75/6 in storage in Germany…right tips for brown nosing pleaseeeeeeeeeee

Another one for mooch, lots of vegetarian options as you’d expect 😉

Well there is a R80/7 on ebay at the moment not too far from me…

Lots and lots of late night research, a quick run by the boss and some buy in from others and I’ve decided I’m going to do it. Once in a lifetime experience to build the bike I’ve always wanted to own, it’s not something that I’ll be selling in a long time once it’s complete and thanks to freeridenick for the video Long Live The Kings has really inspired me to go for it as that’s really what it’s about for me. Right, time to find a doner bike!

Compromise???

had my frame go here on a 2006 model, was a common issue with the frame and spesh hold matt black spares so sourcing one shouldn’t be an issue

My days that R75 is unbelievable 😆

🙁 weekend warrior, I like to think not, I ride everyday rain or shine. This is going to be for tinkering and playing with, think of this as my ti Jones 29r, with my other bike being my Alpine 160 do it all bike 😀

🙁 weekend warrior, I like to think not, I ride everyday rain or shine. This is going to be for tinkering and playing with, think of this as my ti Jones 29r, with my other bike being my Alpine 160 do it all bike 😀

yep, £3.79 for a box, 16 capsules, each drink needs a milk and a coffee capsule so 8 drinks in a box…zzzzzzzzmmmmmmmmmppppppppppaaaaaaaaappppppppp = £0.47375

Can only speak for Dolce Gusto and Nespresso, but depending on what type of coffee you are into then each has its’ benefits. If you like espresso coffee, and aren’t too bothered about longer, coffee shop style coffees then Nespresso is a good option. If you canvass opinion from the forum massive I believe there is a number of users that really like the coffee from their Nespresso machines. The patent on the Nespresso capsules has just finished, this will no doubt mean there will be a number of other coffee makers producing coffee to use in their machines.

As for Dolce Gusto, the machine can still make espresso coffees but the range is limited. The coffees are more akin to what you’d get in a high street coffee shop, you can get lattes, mochas, hot chocolates, ice coffee etc… but can only use Dolce Gusto capsules. This is the same (if I remember correctly) for all machine makers, you have to buy their capsules. Dolce Gusto costs between 24p and 48p a cup, I forget the Nespresso cost.

As far as difference between models there is very little, mostly it is aesthetics but they will all try to sell it on some magical wisdom inside the machine.

If you are interested in Nespresso John Lewis allow you to go sample coffee, as do a number of other stores, they may even do Dolce Gusto as well.

Ai it’s a r80/7, I love it!

around the £6-8k mark I think

teddy, good idea and I fly to Russia in one week…worthwhile riding it back?

freeridenick, base bike price is circa £1k. I think if you get one that’s a runner, then a full strip done by myself, a repaint of everything and a smattering of parts made by the engineering shop down the road, the lads at work and myself then I think I’d manage it with £2k.

is that a kevil speed shop bike freeridenick? I had a look at his stuff and thought I can do that, the reality may be much much different 😀

this is also along the lines of what I’d want the finished article to look like…

Thanks both, I’m aware old BMWs are a very marmite in the looks stake. For me it’s a chance to build myself a motorbike how I want it, and to learn a lot more than I know now about how they work. Also, it’s a chance to drag my dad into working on it with me!

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=89824

I paid £1600 for a bike off the classifieds, turned out it was fine but it is a huge risk and when you are told that things were serviced last month but there is not receipts you have to take it on the chin. I found this after being told a shock had been serviced 6 months ago by Mojo. Turned out when Mojo put in the part number, when I sent it in due to an issue with the propedal lever, that the shock had never had a service but had been back 2 years ago for warranty work… Nature of the beast I guess, but as said above, only spend when you can afford to lose.

by the way you can’t use the upper with a bash if you were planning on…

Looks like it will work to me with the recessed lower from Freeborn and standard upper, I believe the seperation is to allow adjustment on each independant of the other. Like mysterymove said the DMR site shows them mounted together so there should be no problem!