If you get something like a Spit or an MG there’s always parts available and they’re cheap too.
Nothing that goes wrong can’t be put right and you get the satisfaction of doing stuff like this…

Done/doing just that very thing. My advise would be to buy the best you can afford, rather than a basket case for less. We’re in the process of restoring a Mk3 Spitfire for my lad, it will take about 5 years and cost will be over £5k.

In the mean time I bought a mint Mk4 for £3000 and after sorting all it’s minor issues (rebuilt the head, suspension, new clutch, brakes, bushes, oil feed issues and whatnot) it’s been great. In fact my youngest daughter and I just drive to Moniga del Garda in it. 2400 miles in ten days and no serious issues.

Look at loads before you buy, go on bodywork condition over mechanical, and join an owners club – loads of advise from folk who’ve already done it all before.

Have fun.

I found a guys wallet when walking my dogs. Bits of it scattered all over the place. I collected it all and rode round to his house later that day (drivers license had the address). He looked at me like I’d nicked it and almost point blank accused me of helping myself to the cash.

Not really, robber will have had the good stuff and discarded the rest. Someone else, who is obviously a nice person, has found it and popped it in the post.

And the White Industries CX 11 is a 130mm disc hub too. You can run that with a Campagnolo 11speed cassette.

Top one is a Raleigh Activator 2. Full suspension and everything!

If you like it, do it. Who doesn’t love a square exhaust pipe?

There’s two ways to eat celery. One is dipped into a mound of salt, the other is filled with chunky peanut butter.
You chose.

Muke posted while I was typing 😉

Nirvana init.

We’ve got loads of Nate’s in stock and if you want the best soft conditions tyre ever then that’s the one to go for.

It’s a small Intense Tracer 2 in a raw finish. Reverb post, SLX 10 speed, Rockshox Lyric fork, Answer bars, SLX brakes with Icetec rotors now (I think). We have the frame number and it’s not a common size/colour combo – please keep ’em peeled folks!

Oh, CCDB Air shock too!

The wheels are unusual too, Hope hubs with Mavic 819 tubless rims, but the rims are not disc rims – quite distinctive.

Heat, torx bit and remember it a left hand thread. They come out easily enough.

I’ve driven a GTR in Vegas. Flat out ten tenths, as fast as I possibly could. It was awesome. Made my arms ache.

Warm it up, they’re usually threadlocked.

They absolutely rock in mud. Trust me, it seems to be all I ever ride in 🙁

A bit. More of an icy crust over mud to be honest. Hard work, but a laugh.

Just built this for a lady. Wasn’t sure the colour combo was going to look nice, but liquorice and blackcurrant seems to work just fine…

Only shake hands with the strongest male. Crush him.
If there are any ladies present (shouldn’t be, what can they possibly know?) then bow and kiss their hand – they love that stuff.

Hullo 🙂

email me your desires and I’ll see if we have it and how much.

Tim.

Me, me, me I do. It started with a Puglsey, then another Pugsley, now this…

Oh, just saw the c2w aspect – forget it, sorry.

Dunno if it’s the right size for you, but…

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sideways-Cycles/272904326112367

All moot points at present as they’re out of stock and Spot are re-designing the fork too. No idea what the new one will be like 🙁

No longer made. 31.8 in stock here, but you’ll have to hunt for 25.4.

All the FMC cars are Ford Motor Company press cars. The GT500 is theirs, not Clarksons.

It’s also not £35k when you get it into the UK. Like a lot of people who live in cloud cuckoo land, they chose to ignore the duty and VAT that has to be paid on any import. If you pick up a brand new GT500 for £35k, you’ll have around £1000 shipping, plus 10% duty plus 20% VAT, plus around £1000 to get it through an IVA test before you can tax or drive it. Call it £50k, then buy an Audi instead.

Unless you’re going to wear ballet pumps, I’ll be **** amazed if they don’t. Might just be optical, but I’d be getting them to find a different seatstay solution sharpish.

Is that your ‘Finland Special’ 😉

Looks to me like they’ve chopped the back end of a carbon CX bike in half to provide the stays. That pointless flare out halfway down the seatstays is just going to catch your heels when pedalling. Can’t see it making production like that.

Forest Whitaker’s second best film.

They’re ace dogs. As said above, they’re a proper velcro dog and will not leave your side (unless it’s to get up to no good, then they’ll come straight back). Don’t expect to leave one a lone for long periods of time without him letting you know it’s not a good idea. Very loyal, very protective. Trust ours implicitly with the kids and the people he knows (and likes) but he will happily nip anyone he thinks is in the wrong place.
Will happily run with you and can make a good biking dog, if trained. All round point/flush/retriever too. Ours can take pigeons out of the air if he really tries. Very difficult to tire them out, great dogs for traversing rough or overgrown terrain and I think they might be one of those breeds that you can’t be allergic to.
Wouldn’t be without one, even though they can be a whiny pain in the arse.

If you take it to a shop or want to try a few different tools, removing the lockring does sometimes help.

Flip you say?

Double post

Hmmm, I must be more methodical in future, it’s more like £1800 now I’ve written it all down 🙁

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Tim is miles away and 9:Zero:7 is probably way beyond budget nice thought though.

Can’t help with the distance, but can put one together for around £1600ish

What’s not to like? We have some Carvers on the way too and Sandman have finally been in touch – only taken a year!

It’s pigs that can’t look up.