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[998kid]

That's ok it's only a bike. Parts are cheaper than those for a mini lol

[creakyjaws5533]

I ride/race road bike ride MTB and used to Bmx
So I have two road bikes a Boardman Team alloy and a falcon 60's steel frame
MTB's genesis Mantle 10 29er
One bit of advice do not use halfords for bikes they are useless when they built my boardman up they wouldn't do the simple things like greasing the bb and headset cables weren't tight so the brakes slid loose, find a local bike only shop and it will be a lot better and cheaper and safer down the line.
I raced last year not done anything this year I do about 200-300km a week on my road bike and whenever I can get on the MTB been up to about 70kph which is good fun ahaha spent to much on my bikes defo a lot more than my mini
Here's my winter bike and commuter


Complete with a turbo ;)

My race bike
Excuse the forks I crashed in a race at 35mph cost over £400 to repair the parts and the white and pink forks and £125 cheaper than the grey ones and rattle cans aren't that much ;)

Terrible photo of my MTB


Cheers Jack

Edited by creakyjaws5533, 01 September 2013 - 01:22 AM.

[Turbo Nick]

I do a lot of trails/XC type stuff, mainly over Cannock Chase as it's just up the road. Just for exercise more than anything to help lose weight, tend to avoid the DH type stuff now as I don't get sick pay at work so don't want top risk being off with broken limbs!

 

Bottom bracket has just started creaking on it again so looks like I'll be swapping that out this week if I get chance.

 

 

Also got me an old raleigh racer with a  reynolds frame I stripped down and turned into a fixie, tops out at 35mph but is great fun on the roads :)

[samsfern]

Single speed converted Saracen hard tail, with fox front suspension, halo sas wheels, cane creek headset, dmr wing bars, dmr crank set, hope 32t front sprocket, updated 203mm 4pot hydraulic avid disc brake setup on the back, no front brake.

[OfMini&Men]

Store I work at isn't rubbish for fixing bikes ;]

 

and loving that reliegh bike! top notch!

[the_samkingdon15]

I need a tyre/inner tube for a bmx if anyone can help..

[rally515]

Just got two puncher's today bleeding thorns from the farmer trimming his field bushes walked to tesco for my repair kit as my old kits adesive had evaporated into thin air :s haha

 

This thread should be like a "what did you do on your bike today/recently ?" kinda thread haha

 

Oh and gave my gears and chain a good clean that i,ve never done before, stripped the whole frame and cleaned piece by piece and i never knew some of the parts were painted in those colours  

[olds_kool_lews]

Ive got a load of old skool bmx's (well frames really) ive not long sold 2 raleigh burners (with mag wheels) and a raleigh reactor, ive always had bmx's, some rare 1s too but at the time (when i was 10-11) they were just bikes, so got used, abused, stripped and recycled into other bikes! Ive got a early 90's chrome redline bmx frame in my metro at the mo, been in there for about a month, keep meaning to sandblast it so i can paint it and build up a custom bmx

[BronkoMini]

Just broke my headset only the bit where the bolt lies flush to is broken of but I need a whole new headset as cant get the replacement part more money rahhh

[ChrisCityE]

When I mountain bike it generally ends up like this:

 

 

 

So instead I stick to this;
 

Edited by ChrisCityE, 06 September 2013 - 05:38 PM.

[rids]

I do a lot of trails/XC type stuff, mainly over Cannock Chase as it's just up the road. Just for exercise more than anything to help lose weight, tend to avoid the DH type stuff now as I don't get sick pay at work so don't want top risk being off with broken limbs!

 

Bottom bracket has just started creaking on it again so looks like I'll be swapping that out this week if I get chance.

 

Also got me an old raleigh racer with a  reynolds frame I stripped down and turned into a fixie, tops out at 35mph but is great fun on the roads :)

what gearing are you running to achieve that?

[rally515]

Heres mine, not an outdoors picture due to the fact im out when its dark most nights

 

[samsfern]

My Saracen, now has different bars and forks and back brake calliper.

Edited by samsfern, 06 September 2013 - 11:53 PM.

[rally515]

My Saracen, now has different bars and forks.

 

Guess its popular to have only one Maxxis wheel on bikes then hahah, i,ve got an urge to buy another as its doing my head in haha

[OfMini&Men]

You guys want to see how to ride a bike properly!! watch this video found it watching BMX video's never seen anything like it!