DynaCol":wwiny0l6 said:Right enough, never thought about that. So do you use the line "I know Dave Yates kitchen fitter" in social situations as an icebreaker? Small world eh.retroyetiguy":wwiny0l6 said:Yeah, the good thing is being near Newcastle and Gosforth is loads of bikes that he has built turn up , if it's either a Joe Waugh , Yates or M Steels. A bloke we met on the ferry to Holland fitted his kitchen at his house down in Licolnshire,
Yeah, nearly all yates that turn up are around the north , many were bought , used then chucked in the shed. My guitar teacher has a Yates road bike which he bought new, I didn't know until he asked could I sort his mountain bikes gears out and right next to me was a Blue Yates drowned im Campag.
It was a pretty weird trip over to Holland, we were on the Tyne ferry and this Lycra clad bloke came over and started admiring my friends Yates wayfarer tourer and he just burst out with, " I fitted his kitchen" . Then on the DFDS ferry a bloke on the top deck came over and said were we the cyclists waiting in front of him in the queue. he was going over in his Land Rover and at home him and his wife had a Thorn and a Yates tourer. It certainly is a small world .