Bike purchase is turning into a long running saga.

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, bud said:

I wonder if it's like those press bikes from the 90's then? The press bikes always used to have a little extra power for some reason.

 

I was in cars by then, just as well I think. 

[RideWithStyles]

Well just out of thought.

maybe an average quoted? Or

Maybe the mags RR of choice was a little more optimistic , done in a cooler, more dense, closer to sea level environment at the time that in a sweat box of Japan and their or pessimistic of average?

Edited May 11 by RideWithStyles

[V650]

On 10/05/2025 at 12:47, bud said:

I wonder if it's like those press bikes from the 90's then? The press bikes always used to have a little extra power for some reason.

These ones the Evening Press 

 

[bud]

10 hours ago, V650 said:

These ones the Evening Press 

 

Piled high with papers. I bet it's a wheelie machine.

Edited May 12 by bud

[Throttled]

And now I have got the bike, I cannot ride it, as a disc in my lower back has ruptured, pressing against a nerve, so total rest for me.

 

[S-Westerly]

23 minutes ago, Throttled said:

And now I have got the bike, I cannot ride it, as a disc in my lower back has ruptured, pressing against a nerve, so total rest for me.

 

That must be immensely and insanely frustrating! I feel for you.

[bud]

You just can't win mate. I hope you feel better soon.

[Simon Davey]

I can, and do 100% sympathise @Throttled

Hope the spasms relax soon.

[V650]

10 hours ago, bud said:

Piled high with papers. I bet it's a wheelie machine.

I remember these delivery bikes flying round Dublin absolute loons

 

[RideWithStyles]

Love on how the forks are actually offset from the handle bar, what a beast if they have to totally break from the norm.

[Tinkicker]

On 12/05/2025 at 10:31, Throttled said:

And now I have got the bike, I cannot ride it, as a disc in my lower back has ruptured, pressing against a nerve, so total rest for me.

 

 

 

That's  a bit of a bugger.  I wonder when you were queuing up at the heavenly quartermasters stores for your official issue of future life experiences, that you were told to go stand in the same queue as I was.

 

I did note the sign said the "more stringent life" but I did not know what stringent meant at the time.

 

 

Edited May 13 by Tinkicker

[Throttled]

1 minute ago, Tinkicker said:

 

 

That's  a bit of a bugger.  I wonder when you were queuing up at the heavenly quartermasters stores for your official issue of future life experiences, that you were told to go stand in the same queue as I was.

 

As a family, we are on a run of bad luck, so it does feel that way.