Why do I miss....

[legrandefromage]

My Dawes Cougar?

Quality shifting, quality build, BUT TERRIBLE GEOMETRY :facepalm:

Any pedal stomping immediately resulted in unwelcome wheelies making climbing anything steeper than a Fenland gradient all but impossible.

But I miss it, I dont know why...

Anyone else miss a guilty pleasure?

Here it is in action trying to throw me off

 

[Mike Muz]

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Couldn't you have sorted out a lower front end?
Mine would have to be the '95 Bontrager Privateer I built up. Lovely bike, but too small, and my back suffered

What you need is something beginning with S !

Mike

 

[02gf74]

Stop thinking about it and get out and ride what you have. It will soon pass.

 

[jimo746]

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Well, I've got a current guilty pleasure that tries to kill me each ride, most recently on the NE & West Yorkshire Nidderdale ride, my Orange Prestige . Great frame, great build, but pure evil if I don't give it 100% full attention.

But strangely, despite its Jekyll and Hyde persona (or perhaps because of it?) i really like riding it. I liked it so much that having sold it many years ago I bought the same frame back again :facepalm:

Here it is, as if butter wouldn't melt, having tried to kill me.... again... :twisted:

 

[The History Man]

It was always too small but I wish I'd kept it.

 

[ian shepherd]

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if its bikes we wish we still had heres mine

Orange Clockwork prolly about '90

always on the lookout for a replacement in the awesome purple/orange colour (even though in my pic the purple looks blue)

 

[02gf74]

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Cant blame it. Blue and yellow shoe combination what were you thinking!

 

[jimo746]

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Cant blame it. Blue and yellow shoe combination what were you thinking!

I'd left my brown loafers at home, so just had to go with what I had...

 

[Radar]

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Blue sidis were the rage at the time, unfortunately invariably coming with yellow highlights.

The modern equivalent being the Hoxton hipster look: in a few years time trendy young things will look at pictures of young dandys sporting Brian Blessed beards and just think "they were the mullet of their day". So it is with blue and yellow Sidis.

 

[legrandefromage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBhPDxszukU