Pub Bikes: cheapest, best build?
Pub Bikes: cheapest, best build?
Hate spending money on short distance utility bikes. Here's my attempt at a pub bike, Raleigh Yukon, total cost, including tenner original purchase price at car boot sale, £21.80!
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Just the job! a little too clean perhaps.
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Not much more than a round
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that will do the job nicely
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Pay for a pub bike!!!
Side of the road was where the last came from. Donations of bikes are stripped of the good bits and junk added before riding. I would regard any of them being worth no more than the value of the inner tubes and they are always multi patched.
Side of the road was where the last came from. Donations of bikes are stripped of the good bits and junk added before riding. I would regard any of them being worth no more than the value of the inner tubes and they are always multi patched.
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Thinking about it, you might need to spend as much again on lights (unless all your drinking is in daytime )
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freiston wrote:Thinking about it, you might need to spend as much again on lights (unless all your drinking is in daytime )
Lights: pound shop. Front and rear.
Batteries: Alkaline 12x, as above!
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THIS is a Pub Bike (or rather Trike)
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Cunobelin wrote:THIS is a Pub Bike (or rather Trike)
Where can I buy one?
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Halfords have this for £85, basic single chain ring and no suspension, could do worse and with(shh rival ) british cycling membership discount brings in in at £76.50
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/m ... untainbike
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/m ... untainbike
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actual cost of 'pub bike' is arguably a little immaterial; if it is used 'as intended' the cost of the bike will soon be drowned in a sea of beer expense, and all bikes need some fettling, so how do you value your time....?
For me, a good pub bike needs to
a) be fitted with idiot-proof, theft-proof lights, and
b) mudguards , and
c) needs to be sufficiently scruffy looking that it doesn't look to be worth nicking.
The OP's bike arguably fails on all three counts. If you want a practical bike that might give you a proper laugh to boot, an old Raleigh with a chaincase, dynohub, and fork lock would be a top pub bike. Having removed the (essential) main lock, (but with the fork lock still engaged... ) you can challenge your tipsy chums that 'they can't ride your bike'....
cheers
For me, a good pub bike needs to
a) be fitted with idiot-proof, theft-proof lights, and
b) mudguards , and
c) needs to be sufficiently scruffy looking that it doesn't look to be worth nicking.
The OP's bike arguably fails on all three counts. If you want a practical bike that might give you a proper laugh to boot, an old Raleigh with a chaincase, dynohub, and fork lock would be a top pub bike. Having removed the (essential) main lock, (but with the fork lock still engaged... ) you can challenge your tipsy chums that 'they can't ride your bike'....
cheers
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Nice bike. I assume you live in the city? My pub bikes are any bike I own as I am rural. I leave them in the stable yard behind the pub. I rarely lock them apart from the one with Dutch/nurses lock. Then only becouse they are so quick and simple to lock.
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Brucey wrote:
The OP's bike arguably fails on all three counts. If you want a practical bike that might give you a proper laugh to boot, an old Raleigh with a chaincase, dynohub, and fork lock would be a top pub bike. Having removed the (essential) main lock, (but with the fork lock still engaged... ) you can challenge your tipsy chums that 'they can't ride your bike'....
cheers
Exactly what I want albeit just to look at and with a porteur rack to boot. Occasional rides no more.
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Brucey wrote:actual cost of 'pub bike' is arguably a little immaterial; if it is used 'as intended' the cost of the bike will soon be drowned in a sea of beer expense, and all bikes need some fettling, so how do you value your time....?
For me, a good pub bike needs to
a) be fitted with idiot-proof, theft-proof lights, and
b) mudguards , and
c) needs to be sufficiently scruffy looking that it doesn't look to be worth nicking.
The OP's bike arguably fails on all three counts. If you want a practical bike that might give you a proper laugh to boot, an old Raleigh with a chaincase, dynohub, and fork lock would be a top pub bike. Having removed the (essential) main lock, (but with the fork lock still engaged... ) you can challenge your tipsy chums that 'they can't ride your bike'....
cheers
Ladies version might be a better bet for mounting it for the return journey....
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Not a pub goer, but my shopping bike is the same idea. Old Raleigh Plaza folder out of a skip. Mis-matched cranks (the left was missing), mis-matched tyres already discarded from better bikes, old steel rim rear wheel with the hub welded up (didn't have a brake cable spare), duct tape for handlebar grips, plastic crate on the rack... My local supermarket is close enough to walk to, but a bit far to walk back with shopping bags. This thing does the job nicely, cost nothing (a welding rod and a large bolt, everything else came from the skip or the scrap box) and lives outside. It's not likely to be stolen and won't matter if it is.