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I had a go on a swing bike at Billing in about 2005, very weird, the whole rubbing your stomach and rubbing your head thing going on. Today I finally assembled the bike trailer for youngest and we went for a ride. Bonus x2 Raleigh Chopper content as well, my daughter shares my weirdness.
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Swing bike? Educate me please.[/quote] Terrible things to ride. They were always sold at custom car events/exhibitions in Birmingham. Somebody importing custom car parts there must have shipped a job lot over. They were done up in the style of custom cars at the time so I really wanted one. They had a pie crust cheater slick rear tyre, and candy flake seat vinyl. They had a head set at both ends of the main frame, so the back wheel turned the same as the front wheel. It was locked and unlocked by a catch underneath and when released the back wheel could be steered with your Harris at the same time as the front wheel. So mad tricks were possible on these that couldn't be done on anything else. For safety there were two springs to stop it going too far and to pull it back to the centre. I removed my springs because I was totally hardcore yo! I also had a removable downtube that clipped in and out so that the bike didn't look quite as mental. Mine looked like a really cool American chopper with the doentube in. They were a lot longer than the British chopper and the angles were better. They looked like something from an orthopedic care facility without a downtube though. When I wanted to impress someone with my mad skills, I flung my down tube aside and wanged off up the road like a drunk curling one out after having his pelvis removed. I never had any girlfriends when I was 8.
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 15:19:47 GMT by Deleted
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Rich
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I just started reminiscing about bikes because my best mate, whose dad ran the last garage in Birmingham allowed to use the Morris name, had a Mk1 Chopper that his dad had rebuild and customised for him, in a weird candy flake metallic black paint from the states. We'd never seen anything like it, and I have to assume it didnt catch on because I've never seen anything painted in anything like it before. But his Chopper was the coolest bike for miles around. I on the other hand, was the proud owner of one of these... Which I spent all my time customising with stuff picked up from all the custom car shows my dad took me to in the 70's and 80's. It had handlebar tassels, loads of mirrors, a massive wangy aerial with a fake raccoon tail. Any old tat I could find, on it went. Terrible bike to ride but in swing mode it was a tonne of fun (almost literally, a tonne). Oh the seventies, how I miss you. Swing bike? Educate me please.
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Swing bike? Educate me please. Yeah that's pretty much it, but he still has his springs in, the amateur. I could fully put my wheels side by side and drift down the road with the length of the bike widthways. There was a very high chance of falling flat on your face or your back doing that.
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 17:23:13 GMT by Deleted
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Imagine trying to backflip that off the megaramp!
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Imagine trying to backflip that off the megaramp! I still had my Swingbike when the first wave of BMX arrived, so it got relegated to the back of the garage when I got my first BMX (a Hawk Scorcher. The world's cheapest "BMX style" bike). One of the things everybody was constantly trying to do on their BMX back then was a table-top... ...which in the early days of figuring all that new stuff out was proving almost impossible. So I dug the old Swing bike back out and had a go on that and was the first person in my neighbourhood to do the table top It was quite easy on a Swingbike, you just went hell for leather towards the ramp and at the last moment .... WANG!
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 17:35:31 GMT by Deleted
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Hahaha brilliant...now I know a what I want for christmas - a new coccyx!!
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dafmad
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quick follow up.. after being satisfied with how it looked I decided to refresh it up a bit Lantern was masked off and also got a coat lamp post up near the back door is also undergoing a colour chane as the blue had gone a bit mk2 astra if you get my drift
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Lamppost looks great.
I’ve managed to finally change the pump in the rainwater tank only to find after last weeks rain re filling the tank that the new pump does not work and is out of warranty! 😡 Particularly miffed as I bought British and from the company who supplied the tank in the first place. Question now is do I give them one last chance or spend more on an alternative from the likes of Grondfoss or similar?
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Lamppost looks great. I’ve managed to finally change the pump in the rainwater tank only to find after last weeks rain re filling the tank that the new pump does not work and is out of warranty! 😡 Particularly miffed as I bought British and from the company who supplied the tank in the first place. Question now is do I give them one last chance or spend more on an alternative from the likes of Grondfoss or similar? How long have you had the pump, and has it been used, or just sat in the box? Might be worth firing off an email to the manufacturer to see if there’s any sort of goodwill claim. What have you got to lose?
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Yeah that's pretty much it, but he still has his springs in, the amateur. I could fully put my wheels side by side and drift down the road with the length of the bike widthways. There was a very high chance of falling flat on your face or your back doing that. I built a reverse steering BMX, local scout group borrowed it I think they charged 50p if you could ride it 10ft you won £10, made a fortune as not one person could ride it!
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It will come in handy even if you never use it
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bstardchild
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I got this to run and move under it's own power yesterday......... It hasn't started for 3 years (no fuel pressure at the rail) Archive picture it doesn't look anything like this good now having been abandoned on the drive for 7 years Plan is fix the suspension issues which is why it got taken off the road in the first place - get an MOT Pass hopefully and remove my bloody plate off the car.
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May 10, 2020 10:00:30 GMT
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Yeah that's pretty much it, but he still has his springs in, the amateur. I could fully put my wheels side by side and drift down the road with the length of the bike widthways. There was a very high chance of falling flat on your face or your back doing that. I built a reverse steering BMX, local scout group borrowed it I think they charged 50p if you could ride it 10ft you won £10, made a fortune as not one person could ride it! My mate did a similar thing, but he put two gears on the headstock, so when you turned right it went left & vice versa. He spent hrs & could ride it just as if it were normal. Literally no one else could even get going. I had a go, it was impossible. He used to do the same & go to summer fate’s etc & clean up
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jpsmit
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May 10, 2020 18:49:29 GMT
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Back on page 9 of this very thread Sir Grumpy showed us that whether cars or stoves, his attention to detail and cleaning skills are impeccable. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I thought I would have a go at cleaning ours (which is just a normal North American Gas stove - unlike his gastronomic piece de resistance.) First thing I did was sheer off the screws holding the burners on and then managed to break the ceramic igniter while trying to extract the screws and then managed to break off the screw holding the igniter to the burner. So, screws extracted, hole redrilled, and new igniter ordered, all is back together - Oh and it is clean too. Though not THAT clean. sigh. In other news we managed to evict the skunk who had taken up residence under the shed and have covered the holes with wood metal and dirt. The metal came from a flue pipe in our basement - that used to attach to a boiler that hasn't been there for years. Oh and finally put skirting around our back deck. Now all this would sound like a tremendous burst of energy if I had actually been doing this (I did break the stove & repair it ) The confession here is that we have an apartment attached to the house - and the tenant (son of a family friend and his bride) is without work right now - so we currently have a work for rent arrangement which is getting a ton done and is mutually advantageous!
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Last Edit: May 10, 2020 19:44:23 GMT by jpsmit
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May 11, 2020 11:48:31 GMT
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The confession here is that we have an apartment attached to the house - and the tenant (son of a family friend and his bride) is without work right now - so we currently have a work for rent arrangement which is getting a ton done and is mutually advantageous! Barter economy. Can't beat it!
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May 11, 2020 12:12:14 GMT
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Ain’t it marvellous? I spend ages looking for proper cream cheese, not the poor pretender that’s Philadelphia, and then when I’m not allowed out of the house the stuff literally appears on my doorstep Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: PROPER CHEESECAKE!!!!! I have to say, this is actually round 2, 2kg of cheese goes a long way, fortunately, you’d never have got pics of round one, it didn’t hang around long enough 😁
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stealthstylz
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May 13, 2020 17:49:13 GMT
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We're binging cheesecake too. Been going to a local place called the Real Junk Food Project where you load your car up with whatever they've got for a charitable donation. Apart from becoming a black market chip dealer we also ended up with 4 gallons of cream cheese. Didn't realise how many biscuits you need to buy to use up 4 gallons of cream cheese.
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May 13, 2020 18:17:39 GMT
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It’s unbelievable, before all this I couldn’t get it anywhere!
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May 13, 2020 18:24:44 GMT
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The thing about cheesecake is, everytime ive had an expensive 'luxury' (pre-made) cheesecake, its been rubbish, but everytime ive had one of those things that comes as a bag of powder and a bag of biscuit crumbs, its been absolutely banging. But I don't think ive ever had a real one. I must make one.
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Really easy, I just googled no bake cheesecake, takes about 20 minutes to make , and about 3 for it to disappear! 😀
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