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Title: bargain POS
Post by: pickle on September 22, 2013, 12:45 PM: Rather embarrassingly my son wanted a bike for Uni and I was all set to buy jon the bassist cruiser when he said he no longer wanted one. Well a week later he changes his friggin mind and wants a bike!

So checked out eBay and found this 5 minutes from my house. Picked it up for £30. It needed some brakes and a good clean but all in all pretty cool little Hoffman POS for uni. I raided the parts bin for bits so cost nowt to fix up.
(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a498/pickle1970/20130922_114505_zpsd4f51bde.jpg)(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a498/pickle1970/20130922_114515_zps38689025.jpg)
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: GavinDavis on September 22, 2013, 01:19 PM: Awesome lil find for 30 notes :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: Jon The Bassist on September 22, 2013, 01:34 PM: Good find, I've discovered that my cruiser wheels have (almost certainly) been stolen from Bradford's container anyway :2gunsfiring_v1: :2gunsfiring_v1:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: rodriguez on September 22, 2013, 01:39 PM: Just the job for spinning round to the offy :daumenhoch:

Instead of a crappy off the shelf bike lock go to a hardware shop and buy a 1-1.5m length of chain, I think B&Q do chains in lengths. Put the chain inside an old inner tube with a few zip ties on it and a decent padlock.

Oh and buy some insulation tape and some rattle cans as he'll probably want to make it more student stylee.
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: pickle on September 22, 2013, 03:42 PM: I thought about putting a grey front tuff on it but thought it might make it more attractive to theives
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: BMX1973 on September 22, 2013, 05:16 PM: Looks in really good condition :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: Gary72 on September 22, 2013, 05:28 PM: Quote from: pickle on September 22, 2013, 03:42 PM
I thought about putting a grey front tuff on it but thought it might make it more attractive to theives
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit Rob :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: rodriguez on September 22, 2013, 06:52 PM: Don't forget to spray the tyres as well :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: fischflo on September 22, 2013, 07:21 PM: ..don't forget to also give him reflectors of some sort ... to waer or whatever ...workhorse after all :-X
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: stevesredvxr on September 22, 2013, 08:23 PM: Tight git, should've given him the red and chrome beat to smoke around on.... :whistle:
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: Gashead on September 22, 2013, 08:33 PM: Quote from: stevesredvxr on September 22, 2013, 08:23 PM
Tight git, should've given him the red and chrome beat to smoke around on.... :whistle:

At least nobody would have nicked it ;)
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: pickle on September 23, 2013, 03:11 PM: :yahoo_silent: ;D
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: fugazi on September 23, 2013, 04:24 PM: Nice thing for that sort of money :daumenhoch: I think it's a HB Disrupter.
Title: Re: bargain POS
Post by: skki3330 on September 24, 2013, 11:11 PM: Nice 30 squid cant go wrong :daumenhoch: