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3rd March 2003, 6:06pm
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#1 | | I wont let you fall apart
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Shawlands
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| [Biking and BMX] good bike websites
for buying them! best so far prices is www.evanscycles.com any other good sites please? 
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5th March 2003, 12:17am
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#2 | | Registered User
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| Don't buy a bike off the net, you'll never have any idea how it'll feel on you. Go to a good bike shop like Alpine (Great Western Rd. or Glasgow Outdoor Centre) or Dales Cycles (just up from Buchanan Bus Station). No, these are not plugs, I don't work there, but I wish I did 
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14th April 2003, 1:10pm
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#3 | | Goned
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| buy a bike of the net all you like....but try and find the bike in a shop before parting cash with it for as Abstinence says you wont know if the design will fit your body etc.
But to be perfectly honest even that might not help you. I had a mate that insisted on only buying a bike after test riding it. He liked it, bought it and brought it out for a run with us. After an hour of riding his back was sore and his knees were get torn to shreds from the inside. It turns out that while his ride position on the bike was comfortable for the short time he was testing, it didnt click in his head that the front end was a little to light and he was constantly putting more pressure on the handle bars than usual causing the back pain...and the positioning of the pedals in relation to the rest of the bike put undue pressure on his knees with every down stroke..thats easily fixed by moving the seat about but it wasn't a comfortable ride after that.
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14th April 2003, 5:58pm
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#4 | | lynne the nice girl
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| yeh, go to a good bike shop where you can try stuff and ask questions and play around with stuff. id recommend alpine on great western road  (this is a plug). gear's good to tho, but ive never been able to find dales.
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14th April 2003, 10:53pm
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#5 | | Registered User
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| Fuck, that's it. I'm gonna come in when you have a lunch break and take you to Dales!!!
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15th April 2003, 9:10pm
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| Quote: Originally posted by limabean
yeh, go to a good bike shop where you can try stuff and ask questions and play around with stuff. id recommend alpine on great western road (this is a plug). gear's good to tho, but ive never been able to find dales. | I had no idea there was an Alpine bikes in Glasgow... I always either go to Dales or go through to Edi bike .... which I've done a few times when Dales haven't had what I've wanted d'oh!
When did it open?
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15th April 2003, 11:06pm
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#7 | | Registered User
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| Alpine?! It's been in Glasgow for years! And there's two!!! One on Great Western Rd. and one in Glasgow Outdor Experience!! 
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16th April 2003, 6:33pm
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#8 | | lynne the nice girl
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| Quote: Originally posted by Abstinence
Fuck, that's it. I'm gonna come in when you have a lunch break and take you to Dales!!! | lunch break? yeah right. y do u think i get u to bring me space raiders. oh hang on i might be working at goe on friday so i might get one and you could show me where it is. (it is near there isnt it?)
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16th April 2003, 9:05pm
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| Quote: Originally posted by Abstinence
Alpine?! It's been in Glasgow for years! And there's two!!! One on Great Western Rd. and one in Glasgow Outdor Experience!! | Really? Fucking hell! I'll go look up their website...!
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16th April 2003, 9:19pm
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#10 | | lynne the nice girl
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16th April 2003, 9:27pm
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#11 | | Modified
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| yep, worked... looking now, cheers
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16th April 2003, 9:30pm
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#12 | | Modified
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| * doogie realises that one Alpine is right next to Dale's... 
How the fuck did I miss that ???????
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16th April 2003, 9:40pm
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| Hmmmmmmm....... no Specialized, no Vistalite, no Cannondale, no Maxim....... erm, you say you're a bike shop?
You do appear to stock PowerBar though....  not had them for years, since everyone suspiciously stopped stocking them..... 
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16th April 2003, 10:48pm
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#14 | | Registered User
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| I'll bring you some tomorrow. Thursday. Happy? When will you repay my favours, by the way?
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17th April 2003, 9:58am
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#15 | | Goned
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| Quote: Originally posted by doogie
You do appear to stock PowerBar though.... not had them for years, since everyone suspiciously stopped stocking them..... | Tiso had them up till last year I think. Always the first thing that goes in my pack when going on a long distant ride or walk up Nevis or something | |
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