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Best bike purchase excuses to wife / girlfriend
"I got it less than half price off Huw. Yeh the frames too big for him so he let me have it for £800. I know amazing. Well he's loaded isn't he?"
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- brooksby 5 hours 4 min ago
I trust that you also encourage motorists to buy white or yellow cars and to shun vehicles the colour of a wet road?
- stonojnr 5 hours 23 min ago
nah they just read the question as do you always not leave the recommended 1.5m when overtaking cyclists. I know people overestimate their...
- David9694 5 hours 30 min ago
Worcester hospital parking 'horrific' as petition handed in...
- stonojnr 5 hours 32 min ago
Ive never seen the figures broken down by who reports them, you can kind of infer things from stats, like Ive seen them break it down as careless...
- Hirsute 5 hours 59 min ago
Are you going to answer?
- wtjs 6 hours 11 min ago
No more of this! HP will turn to stone!!
- wtjs 6 hours 20 min ago
I'm using 700c, 9-speed 46/30 with a ?-34 cassette for all my cycling including the Bob trailer. It's about right - I can't get up everything on my...
- Bmblbzzz 8 hours 26 min ago
"A brutalist interpretation of a road" So true. Grey markings on grey paving slabs surrounded by other grey paving slabs...
- Simon E 8 hours 10 min ago
Driver in a Citroen travelling at 70mph crashes into the front of a house in Canterbury Road, Faversham at 5.30am on Sunday....
- arichman 8 hours 59 min ago
Somewhat confusingly, Velocio includes both a fit and a size chart, and says to use the fit chart (which uses height and weight) as the guide for...
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"It cost x euros, but that's hardly anything these days." - using a foreign currency removes immediate realisation of how much it actually was. Worked for my new wheels.
It's not what you spend it's what you save- my story on my latest purchase ALWAYS starts with what the RRP of the item is.
I need a good one to explain away a whole TT bike
Dont know about best, but most common for me goes a bit like this...
'they wear/it's worn out, it's a consumable, I need this/these or I can't ride my bike' often accompanied by 'we can't argue with saftey, we do not want to have hindsight from a hospital bed do we'