triker_Chewie
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« on: November 23, 2011, 09:04:27 AM » |
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 happy biker rides her chop my girl on her bike. all built out of kerbside rubbish bikes- 7 bikes in total |
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 09:34:59 AM » |
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you only live just down the road then mate
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triker_Chewie
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« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2011, 02:10:13 PM » |
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not far at all
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2011, 10:04:20 PM » |
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Cool ride!  |
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« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2011, 10:29:14 PM » |
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Excellent. "My dad made this" - what a great phrase she has to say. Top job  |
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared
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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2011, 10:52:41 PM » |
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2011, 08:54:44 AM » |
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Excellent. "My dad made this" - what a great phrase she has to say. Top job she helped its got "coaster" brakes. pedal backwards. because the front wheel is smaller then the original one off the forks, the clap type wont fit "proper" choppers dont have front brakes |
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2011, 06:09:39 PM » |
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I built something similar, if a little larger, over 40 years ago for my oldest boy, and I still recall the local kids squabbling over who was going to ride it next, with their own shiny "shop" models cast to oneside! happy days....Morrag
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« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2011, 10:47:15 PM » |
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When I were a lad, my parents bought me a bike from an ad in the local paper. I proudly rode it off down the lane outside our house, off to explore the world on my shiney new steed. Got a few hundred yards before I hit a pothole -& my lovely new bike broke clean in two. The frame snapped -the result of some distinctly dodgy repairs. I was badly shaken up, covered in mud & dripping blood from a gashed knee, but was terrified to go home. I was convinced my Dad would be furious. Eventually I appeared at the end of the lane, dragging one half of my busted bike in each hand -to be met by gales of hysterical laughter from my parents. -emotionally scarred me to this day.  |
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« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2011, 01:12:00 PM » |
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front end will be changed to one with brakes, she likes to use them on hills
my folks wouldnt have tolerated the mess but i wish i'd done stuff like this when i was a lad
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2011, 04:37:58 PM » |
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When I were a lad, my parents bought me a bike from an ad in the local paper. I proudly rode it off down the lane outside our house, off to explore the world on my shiney new steed. Got a few hundred yards before I hit a pothole -& my lovely new bike broke clean in two. The frame snapped -the result of some distinctly dodgy repairs. I was badly shaken up, covered in mud & dripping blood from a gashed knee, but was terrified to go home. I was convinced my Dad would be furious. Eventually I appeared at the end of the lane, dragging one half of my busted bike in each hand -to be met by gales of hysterical laughter from my parents. -emotionally scarred me to this day. So THAT's why you never ride your postie bike!  |
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You don't stop havin fun because you get old - you get old if you stop havin fun!
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« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2011, 11:07:29 PM » |
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We don't have bicycles any more Bobbi.
It varies from depot to depot, but in my sorting office, (Basingstoke, Hampshire), everything's done by van now. We work in pairs, with a small van between us -my "van buddy" & I have a Vauxhall Corsa van to do our 2 deliveries with. Some Posties use small fold-up trollies, (like converted golf trollies), to carry the bags around the streets. When I started, over 26 years ago, you could buy the old bikes for a couple of quid. I had an old Post Office Pashley with rod brakes, that I rode to work on, for the princely sum of 8 quid. Then they started donating them to third world charities instead, but eventually started cutting them up -no doubt some health & safety directive.
All our mail comes from Swindon in Wiltshire, about 40 miles away, where it's sorted into postcode areas by machine. Then we sort it by hand into the seperate deliveries & again into the various streets etc. When I started, the mail arrived by train. Used to be my job to unload the midnight mail train & drive it all up to the sorting office in a big ol' Morris van. Now it's all done by lorry. No bicycles.
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2011, 10:21:33 AM » |
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my kids saw me building chops n trikes and wanted there own (wiv engins in em) so built a few over years first pic was daughters honda 50 chop second was my youngest sons at 3 yrs old trike he is now building a cbr 600 trike and thirdly 2 of my grankids who now want me to build em totrods and chops
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2011, 11:40:06 AM » |
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Very cool Ron!
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2011, 02:05:02 PM » |
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Very cool Ron!
ye would be if i had more hours in a day lol |
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