Showing posts with label tank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tank. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Free bike

After yesterdays wondering about whether Bike man would be giving me a free frame or a complete bike I found out as, bang on 7pm as I crossed over the main road I live on I heard toot-toot, looked around and saw him waving at me from the other side of the road.

As I crossed back to his side I saw it - a complete bike. She's not my first choice of frame as it's the old style femme frame, she's purple (really don't like purple on bikes), but you know what, she's free so I'm not complaining!

She's a Concept Evolution, with Shimano SIS gearing. The twist-type gears are something that may take a while to get used to as I've never had a bike with that type of gearing. The seatpost, stem, headset, handlebars, cranks, pedals and saddle are all non-branded and non-descript, so they'll be the things I'll change on her other than a respray at some point.
I won't be riding her til she has a service at Gerry Shields although I haven't found any rust or anything wrong with her.

Did I mention that she's steel? I shall call her Tank or maybe Evo.

She'll do until I find work and can afford the rather nice Pinnacle I've seen at Evans.