So that's why new bikes don't have pedals........

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akc1
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So that's why new bikes don't have pedals........

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http://m.cambridge-news.co.uk/Bungling- ... story.html

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my SM-T320 using hovercraft full of eels.
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It's unlikely that anyone could have afforded the pedals (the bike cost £8,000) - they are one of those things you have to do without if you want such an expensive bike.
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I wonder why the article was written in American ?
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greyingbeard wrote:I wonder why the article was written in American ?


As in licence plate number?
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Re: So that's why new bikes don't have pedals........

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The author was an American?
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The thief sounds about on a par with this one in Leeds a couple of years ago, I like to think that someone put the garland there in celebration.

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