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Title: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 07:13:16 PM
SO we go to look at bikes. They fall into three cagtegories: cheap, more expensive and  HOW MUCH?

The spotty yoof salesperson gravely advises the Boy that the middle range is best for him. A suitable bike is selected and The Boy tries it out by riding it round the shop scared2:

Yippee, you can get three "accessories" for the price of 2  :thumbsup: rubschin:

These include: mudguards. Since when are these an accessory? Oh, and lights, and a lock.

The Boy then announces he needs a pump. Yoof produces "pack of accessories": pump, lock, lights (no mudguards). We buy the pack and get mudguards as extra. Banghead

Yoof then advises we get oil. HOw lucky that they have some on offer (half price with every bike  :thumbsup:) The Boy sugests this might be useful.

I insert my card into the machine and look away  noooo:

Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 07:36:25 PM
How much...? Popcorn:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 07:37:55 PM
 Snoopysick:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 07:38:57 PM
Snoopysick:

More than your 60-gear ebay special then...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 07:39:36 PM
 sad24:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 07:43:10 PM
So, is this a 'road bike' or a 'mountain bike'...?  rubschin:

I'm guessing mountain as special shoes and cleats are not included on the list of extras...  whistle:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 07:53:37 PM
Mountain bike

21 gears and disc brakes, like
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 07:56:46 PM
Mountain bike

21 gears and disc brakes, like

Lucky - you escaped shoes and cleats...  :thumbsup:

And Lycra...  noooo:

Now you just need to take him to Winter Park! (http://www.winterparkresort.com/index.htm) In summer, they take you up to the top of the mountain with your bike on the back of the Ski lift... then you just zoooom down to the bottom and do it all again!  :thumbsup:

A burfday present perhaps...?  whistle:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 07:59:43 PM
No fvcking chance. He was eyeing some remote controlled cars in another shop. I reminded him that I had bought him four of these and that each one had only survived one excursion. The first, he was 5, departed his bedroom and arrived 4 flights of stairs later in the kitchen in a heap of cog wheels and springs  evil:  That was at 10.00 Christmas morning evil:


And then there was the toy hovercraft  noooo:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 08:03:40 PM
No fvcking chance. He was eyeing some remote controlled cars in another shop. I reminded him that I had bought him four of these and that each one had only survived one excursion. The first, he was 5, departed his bedroom and arrived 4 flights of stairs later in the kitchen in a heap of cog wheels and springs  evil:  That was at 10.00 Christmas morning evil:


And then there was the toy hovercraft  noooo:

What could possibly go wrong with a fecking mountain bike then?  eeek:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 08:08:19 PM
The previous one only lasted 2 years noooo:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Barman on December 18, 2011, 08:10:19 PM
The previous one only lasted 2 years noooo:

http://www.bupa.co.uk/ (http://www.bupa.co.uk/)
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 18, 2011, 09:18:23 PM
And then there was the toy hovercraft  noooo:
Full of tiny eels?
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: apc2010 on December 18, 2011, 09:19:20 PM
And then there was the toy hovercraft  noooo:
Full of tiny eels?


 drumroll: ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 09:19:59 PM
There was no time to find out  noooo:

2 hours to build and then one 20 second journey into a swamp noooo:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Grumpmeister on December 18, 2011, 09:29:34 PM
There was no time to find out  noooo:

2 hours to build and then one 20 second journey into a swamp noooo:

Were any pieces left over at the end of the 2 hours?  rubschin:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 09:31:15 PM
No, but lots after 2 hours and 20 seconds  noooo:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: apc2010 on December 18, 2011, 09:32:20 PM
Swamp............ rubschin:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 09:33:33 PM
We lived next to one  noooo:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 18, 2011, 09:36:37 PM
Swamp............ rubschin:

It's where he met Growler.
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 18, 2011, 09:41:09 PM
No, Growler had a nearby swamp  ::)
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Miss Demeanour on December 18, 2011, 09:43:11 PM
The VP swamp ducks ...aaaahhhhhh  8)
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Grumpmeister on December 18, 2011, 11:57:06 PM
Quackers Miss D?  whistle:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on December 19, 2011, 04:48:54 AM
Ooo crackers = Christmas = sprouts.  I like sprouts, we should start a thread for sprouts. whistle:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Pastis on December 19, 2011, 04:59:12 PM
Is it time to put them on yet?    razz:
Title: Re: "Essential" accessories
Post by: Nick on December 19, 2011, 05:03:51 PM
My mother would have said yes  noooo: