I won a bike!
Nov. 14th, 2008 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
They recently had a promotion in the canteen at work. One raffle ticket for every sandwich you bought. I ended up with 3 tickets, so was very surprised to find that I'd won. And this is what I won:
It's definitely a more expensive bike than I was expecting it to be (more details). But I'm not entirely surprised to find it doesn't have any lights. And I'm not *quite* sure what I'm going to do with it :-)
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Date: 2008-11-14 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-14 11:55 am (UTC)console - 4417 7719 6728 7057
mario kart license - 0516 8800 7809
Gimme yr codes! If you are in tonight and have a go, text me and I'll come on, I think I am too full of cold to go out, really...
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:29 pm (UTC)My others are here:
http://lnr.livejournal.com/565344.html
I have just been round putting all my friends' codes into my LJ memories :)
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Date: 2008-11-14 09:29 pm (UTC)lnr (posting from the wii)
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:00 pm (UTC)Could you use a new bike? GHWT isn't a bad idea either mind *&) We bought Rock Band just before GHWT came out, annoyingly (should have paid more attention). Plus we bought it for Wii thinking the guitars would be interchangeable with Guitar Hero but it doesn't look like it, so we might as well have got it for the PS3 really.
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:28 pm (UTC)I was wondering what your opinion of it would be, since you're the most serious mountain bike rider I know :) Clearly it's a pretty entry-level bike, but it does look like it might actually be a real mountain bike (iyswim) rather than just a toy bike.
I don't really need a new bike: my own is only a couple of years old and in good nick and more appropriate for commuting and a slightly higher price-band bike anyway. But it is quite tempting to hang on to it and give some off-road stuff some more of a go. We had fun on the hybrids round Thetford forest but they definitely had their limitations: notably being too *long*.
I only discovered GHWT because I was looking up rock band on amazon: I was intending to get that but I realised the guitars aren't compatible. It's a complete arse that you can't just buy another guitar hero compatible guitar on its own though. Dammit I want to play 2-player!
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:47 pm (UTC)Mine was pretty decent and robust for a cheap bike. I gave it to my mum when I got a new one and she rode it for a while although it was too big for her. She has a full-suss Specialised (that she never rides!) now so they've taken it over to France for their house there and I look forward to riding it a bit when we're there next summer. I did lots of local off-road trails on it with no problem, it was the steeper rockier stuff we started playing on that gave me the problems - and that took a couple of years of riding really.
If you don't need the money it might be fun to play on and see how it goes. Check out the second-hand value first though on ebay - if they don't hold their value well it might be worth selling it as new without riding it. I know Marins hold their value really well, I can't remember how Saracens do.
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Date: 2008-11-14 04:15 pm (UTC)And gosh, I didn't realise you were still reading!
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Date: 2008-11-14 02:23 pm (UTC)I'll have a think over the weekend about whether I want to keep it.
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Date: 2008-11-15 12:27 am (UTC)Normally you sit on the flat bit top left, hold the handles top-right then put your feet on the pedal things bottom-centre and move your feet/pedals in a circular motion clockwise (as viewed on that picture).
Sorry, it is Friday, after all (well it is here, you seem to be into Saturday by now).
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