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  1. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Retro bike Influencer

    The narrow boat bit sells it for me ahaha I do miss looking after my brothers boat on the Thames many years ago before the hipsters moved onto them, it was always nice leaving as well, nice for a few weeks but I would need a lot of money and a Dutch or big barge to be convinced of living on one...
  2. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Retro bike Influencer

    Epic ahaha I don’t even know what’s going on there it has to be some kind of “art” …. surely this is “ironic norm-core” and he’s/they are ironically deadly serious about very serious silliness
  3. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Retro bike Influencer

    I thought that was the whole point of social media influencers…. absolutely no knowledge but somehow say the right things (tho mostly not) be “aesthetically pleasing” (mostly not, have you seen Turkish cosmetic “do it all” share prices in recent years) but have loads of social media clout or...
  4. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Today's Ride

    And so it begins…. usual day off and was excited for a snow ride on the DH but all the snow has gone and I managed to miss the early early train to the flying circus training spot, but it was -8 at 7 this morning so maybe the trails have thawed a bit by now got the usual dirty stare from the...
  5. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Today's Ride

    Made the excuse I had to go “to the bank” on my lunch time sandwich run so I could get some extra time taking a full send, snowy, 2 wheel drifting, klunkerteering detour through some wooded city spots I absolutely love riding in the snow, my old snowboard head pings on and suddenly anything...
  6. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    It can always get wierder ahaha but thanks for thinking of me on the astral plain, we are just space beings experiencing a rocky downhill trail 3D experience blah blah blah (that might just be me ahaha) but I think some of its correct maths wise : )
  7. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Today's Ride

    Thanks dude, surprisingly just an old pass me on iphone 6/7 something beater, 2/3 of em I edited a little with phones said generic app but rest just click and go, I am not really a photo head…. but there’s some info for the photo heads
  8. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Today's Ride

    First bit of 2024ing today and last Wednesday on the ground to air missile got me some original 80s cebe antifog ski goggs for xmas off the bay for the price of 3 northern pints or 1 and half southern pints, they are super neon and there’s probably definitely something in that rubber surround...
  9. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    Just imagine Ai riding it I think if one of those Boston dynamics robots got on it, it would just collapse
  10. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    I suppose there were lots of terms for generally people doing the same or similar thing with what they could find, was the term ballooners around before the klunkers, also was bombers and trackers just uk terms back then I still can’t get balls out of my head when I see/hear/say klunkers now...
  11. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    Are trackers just a British term for the early botch pre mtbs what did the repackers in the us actually call their bikes did the use the tracker name aswell or just klunkers
  12. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    Happy new journey round the sun retrobikers hope everyone had a good Xmas ect this is my first post on Rb for 2024 and it obviously had to be one for this thread, so if it hasn’t popped up yet here’s a proper mullet
  13. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Today's Ride

    Took the beast out yesterday for a very wet and blustery one - it’s finally in full fettle and can give it full beans which was a lot of fun - bit of gusty sketchy sideways gusts over the newer rollers and jumps on the south loop but no harm done also my friend lance and his dog max made it...
  14. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    Eeerrr not sure what to even say about this one, art is art I suppose

    Yeh a very funny eBay listing in many ways good info in titanium fixing tho I thought it might be a tough job but didn’t realise it’s much harder than ally or steel tbh I wouldn’t dare ride or bother fixing a cracked frame unless it was something sentimental but I am not very sentimental...
  15. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    MBUK Yorkshire connection?

    Ah yes that’s the one
  16. PercyInglesFlyingCircus

    MBUK Yorkshire connection?

    Was Pete Tompkins the guy in dirt on the full sus and full dh get up sliding down the quarry screes and floating over the tabletop at great ayton or was that someone else, I remember riding the tabletop when I was a kid but the tabletop disappeared at some point - I don’t remember it being there...
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