Royal Mail "Mailstar"
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grldtnr
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Technically that bike still belongs to the Royal Mail, it should have been handed back to the stores to be disposed of.
But having been responsible for servicing RM bikes. Many were not, and kept by posties, ineffective management overlooked the issue.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Several hundred had been taken out of use and dumped round the back of the RM depot in Crow Lane, Northampton.
Rather carelessly they were in full view of an adjacent footpath and one night some sticky fingered herberts used a car jack to open up the pallissde fencing enough to get inside and steal a couple of dozen of them.
No records were kept re serial numbers or the like, and they didn't even know for sure how many were there in the first place so they could only guess how many had been stolen and had no way of identifying individual bikes if they ever came to light.
With no CCTV, no witnesses, no useful evidence at the scene, and no means ID'ing the bikes, that investigation was closed and filed before it began.
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classic33
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The ones stored in the Bradford Sorting Office were sold on, "disposed of", by Royal Mail before they moved.
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grldtnr
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I could never fathom why it had odd sided wheels the fronts were 24" the rear 26" , meant two sets of tyres ,tubes , and spokes.
Far better to have had 24" shells ft & back, even then 24 " wheels were off for British market,
I get the idea of a smaller front for loads over the front wheel
Far better to have had 24" shells ft & back, even then 24 " wheels were off for British market,
I get the idea of a smaller front for loads over the front wheel
N0bodyOfTheGoat
Member
- Location
- Hampshire, UK
They were horrid to ride, imagine a typical ebike hybrid at ~25Kg*, but the only motor was your legs!
* May have been lighter, but didn't feel it, they were like tanks when I joined RM and used them in 2010.
* May have been lighter, but didn't feel it, they were like tanks when I joined RM and used them in 2010.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
A lot of them were sold off when RM stopped using bikes. A lot of them were converted into Elephant Bikes.
grldtnr
Über Member
Our 'region ' of postal sector ,should have sent of to Third world countries, but I don't recall our office doing that
They were horrid to ride, imagine a typical ebike hybrid at ~25Kg*, but the only motor was your legs!
* May have been lighter, but didn't feel it, they were like tanks when I joined RM and used them in 2010.
I like riding mine, but I don't need to do it as my job! It handles well when loaded and the step-through frame is ideal. It is a bastard to get uphill though.
It is about 25kg, so that's no exaggeration.
