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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:

Saracen Diva

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 :-)

Date: 2008-11-14 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com
Oh gosh! Congrats! How exciting, winning competitions is ace (I should enter more! I should get 'puzzler' mag or sthg).

Date: 2008-11-14 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com
Yes yes! Here are my codes
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...

Date: 2008-11-14 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
mk code is 4683 1904 4338

lnr (posting from the wii)

Date: 2008-11-14 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perdita-fysh.livejournal.com
Oooh, how lovely! Looks pretty nice too. Lights coming on a bike seems like a really weird thing to me, but then I think the more expensive you get with them the less you get as standard because the more picky about what you get you are likely to be or something? Often people do deals in shops where if you buy the bike you can have up to X of accessories free and then you get to pick what it is you want.

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.

Date: 2008-11-14 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perdita-fysh.livejournal.com
I had a Saracen aluminium frame hardtail with V brakes as my second bike (only because the first fell off the car at a very young age and was replaced by the company who made the defective bike carrier). I loved it to death and only moved upward because the trails we were riding were so rough that a hardtail was giving me a painful choice between burning thighs (from never sitting down) or aching kidneys (from the constant rattling). Their full-suss bikes were not great then, very heavy steel things which lost most of their momentum into the suspension; but they did make nice hardtails.

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.

Date: 2008-11-14 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com
My experience is that they last pretty well, if you periodically replace any bits you've crashed.

Date: 2008-11-14 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
Oh, cool! Ok, it's not actually *useful*, but it's nice to win it. :-)

Date: 2008-11-14 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com
If you're not sure what to do with it, I could buy it off you, since I'm in the market for one what with Saracen being a bit on the rusty crap side ;)

Date: 2008-11-15 12:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] catyak
And I'm not *quite* sure what I'm going to do with it :-)

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).

D

Date: 2008-11-19 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com
Happy birthday! :-)

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