Review Your Bikes!

[Kominic]

What the title says. Get your Jeremy Clarkson on and tell us why we should (or shouldn't) buy a model you already own. You don't have to be a technical whizz, but more than the stub "review" of "it's really good...and fast" you get on Evans Cycles site is preferable.

Feel free to suggest what bikes you want reviewed here and see if we can get the owners to give us their expert opinion on it.

I'll be reviewing my two bikes at a later point. Just seeing if there's an appetite for this sorta thing here first.

 

[vickster]

The show us your...threads might be a good place for this

Bear in mind models are replaced every year pretty much

 

[Drago]

REview of my 1958 Barnett Double-Graffe Cyclopopede.

This magnificent beast was bought early in 1959 by its first owner, but is clearly a 1958 model, as can be determined by careful investigation of the transfers on the downtube that say "Made in 1958". Clever stuff.

At the time of the manufacture Britain was still undergoing rationing of some items, including rubber. Therefore the brake blocks are crafted from bakelite, which adds a wonderful sense of excitement to each ride as to whether of not one will be completing ones journey in an ambulance. The tyres are made from cast iron, with the tread painted on using gravy.

The frame is made from the keel of HMS Certain-Suicide, sunk by a U-Boat in the North sea in 1949. Strangely, despite weighing 323 tons it has the rigidity of of a half inflated Latex Linda, which combined with the tyres adds further spice to each outing.

The bike is equipped with a 3 Speed hub gear, a direct copy of a design first developed in 1882 as a mechanism for flushing toilet cisterns. The gears are pleasantly spaced nice and wide, with a few random neutrals thrown in - in a different position on each model sold - to further add to the sense of adventure that the rider enjoys.

If you have a fondness for pith helmets and chasing down tribes of pygmies with volley fire, then this wonderful machine will leave you misty eyed with nostalgia for days of an empire long past.

 

[Kominic]

The show us your...threads might be a good place for this

Bear in mind models are replaced every year pretty much

I remember that thread! Just not where it is. Search bar...here I come!

REview of my 1958 Barnett Double-Graffe Cyclopopede.

This magnificent beast was bought early in 1959 by its first owner, but is clearly a 1958 model, as can be determined by careful investigation of the transfers on the downtube that say "Made in 1958". Clever stuff.

At the time of the manufacture Britain was still undergoing rationing of some items, including rubber. Therefore the brake blocks are crafted from bakelite, which adds a wonderful sense of excitement to each ride as to whether of not one will be completing ones journey in an ambulance. The tyres are made from cast iron, with the tread painted on using gravy.

The frame is made from the keel of HMS Certain-Suicide, sunk by a U-Boat in the North sea in 1949. Strangely, despite weighing 323 tons it has the rigidity of of a half inflated Latex Linda, which combined with the tyres adds further spice to each outing.

The bike is equipped with a 3 Speed hub gear, a direct copy of a design first developed in 1882 as a mechanism for flushing toilet cisterns. The gears are pleasantly spaced nice and wide, with a few random neutrals thrown in - in a different position on each model sold - to further add to the sense of adventure that the rider enjoys.

If you have a fondness for pith helmets and chasing down tribes of pygmies with volley fire, then this wonderful machine will leave you misty eyed with nostalgia for days of an empire long past.

You won't find a gem like this in Show Us Yours........decision to post vindicated