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May as well have been riding a victorian radiator
May as well have been riding a victorian radiator
Worst Bike I Ever Had
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It would give you fewer piles.
I had a yearning for a French porteur bike (it didn't last long): it looked pretty cool with it's flat, swung back handlebars and the dinky aluminium dynamo lighting.
But to ride it... It had all the get up and go of a tortoise with a broken leg. Anyone wanting a delivery from a vintage era porteur rider wouldn't want to be in a hurry. I could get about 18mph out of it, all guns blazing. And it fairly rattled your teeth.
They might be alright bringing your Toulouse sausage home from Le Boucher, but you wouldn't want to ride it any further than across town. Big pile of sweating steel anol.
And it was bottle green.
Worst bike I never had.
Non merci.
But to ride it... It had all the get up and go of a tortoise with a broken leg. Anyone wanting a delivery from a vintage era porteur rider wouldn't want to be in a hurry. I could get about 18mph out of it, all guns blazing. And it fairly rattled your teeth.
They might be alright bringing your Toulouse sausage home from Le Boucher, but you wouldn't want to ride it any further than across town. Big pile of sweating steel anol.
And it was bottle green.
Worst bike I never had.
Non merci.
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In contrast, this is BEST bike I ever had. A 45 year old Vitus 979 duralinox. It's been to hell and back, a dozen times over. In the late nineties I took it touring with my wife eleven hundred miles through Italy. With bags. And a rack. It's been battered through thirty winters, the down tube unglued itself from the bottom bracket (a spot of industrial 3M sorted that, with the help of a wooden mallet). I've crashed it half a dozen times, broken the front forks, got a real shit replacement pair, dented it, abused it through every kind of salt encrusted route and highway and still...
It refuses to die! Like my old grandad said of Perkins diesel engines: If you want rid of it, you'll have to take it out and shoot it!
It refuses to die! Like my old grandad said of Perkins diesel engines: If you want rid of it, you'll have to take it out and shoot it!
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zerogravitas
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Nice, some lovely memories tied up in that bike I'm sure. Surely the bar tape deserves some love after all it's adventures! 
klunkrider
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Cube Travel Pro.
The Alfine hub gear went on the blink real quick despite me keeping on top of the cable tension religiously. The fork was made of aluminium so it had the compliance of a brick but also managed to weigh an absolute ton. The belt drive meant tuning the gearing to my preference was frustratingly expensive.
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About 7 years ago I bought my 9yo daughter a Schwinn branded BMX off the net. On paper it had a good spec and looked really decent. When I built it, the V brakes were awful and were stiff to operate. It wasn't light for an alloy frame and components were average at best. It did look nice and seem to ride ok but those brakes just were not effective. She didn't really like it and never rode it. Sold it a couple of years later for what I paid for it to a local lad into BMX and he was going take off the brakes and switch out components as he was just after the frame.
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