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Just read the spoke thread!! Northwind to this thread please.
Ta
Bez - Schrödingers Outrage is excellent.
OP might post a couple of photos; after that he'll return to obscurity.
It's been good for a giggle so thanks OP for inviting us to have a laugh at your expense.
Like the literary reference in your picture wwaswas - there just hasn't been enough Beckett in this thread.
Other titles by Beckett that might be useful to the OP:
The Lost Ones
Catastrophe
What Where
and
Happy Days
Sorry cant work out how to post pics
There you go:
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Looks nice - love a Mega!
edit: too slow!!
Looks good OP (really)
Maybe just a few spokey-dokeys for that finishing touch?
So is it finished?
Got spare time before your holiday to tidy up your garden now?
Cheers for the pic edit👍
Wow nice! Great looking bike and possibly the best stw thread ever! Good work everyone 😄
I think we need a copy of today's paper in the photo
All of that fuss and you haven't even lined up the valves properly :-/
Bastards at CRC didn't line his tyre logos up with his valves. (too slow!)
Make sure you send a pic to
willkernan@chainreactioncycles.com
along with your complaint about the terrible service you've received.
Is that a stock photo off the Internet? I agree, I think it needs another picture with an apology to crc in the back ground to prove its real.
Cables look a bit short to me but what do girls know.
Just zoomed in on the pic..is that a crack on the chainstay???
Bars turn fully each way Tracey 👍
Is that what all the fuss is about?
Hardly seems worth 7 pages on here.
Apology to CRC, and everyone he has bad mouthed on here? I suspect Hell will freeze over before we see any of that.
Tracey
Subscriber
Cables look a bit short to me but what do girls know.
Sexist
That rock garden is ****ing atrocious!
Bloody nice bike that.
Now get out and ride it OP and cheer yourself up!
They’ve sent you the wrong frame, the wheels are right, but that’s not an Orange Nomad 🙈
Not sexist, thought I would preempt some one asking me how would I know.
I would run mine longer that that in event of bar spins and crashes but thats just my opinion from multiple crashes over the years.
Hmm, that cable/hose does look like it may be a [i]smidge[/i] short...
Poor OP. First the stress of waiting for a parcel and now all the girls are telling him his hose is too short 🙁
Really nice bike that.
Not a fan of concrete steps.
Not a fan of concrete steps.
Mm. Certainly one of the less energetic tribute bands I’ve seen.
Certainly one of the less energetic tribute bands I’ve seen.
The real thing hasn't been the same since H left to join Line of Duty.
is this thread for real or have I missed something? Did someone really get a little panicky about not ordering something on time and decided they were special?
Definitely agree cables to short, but then again he's not going to agree that as that'd be admitting he did have all the correct parts.
Is that a day early too, or was it always Thursday?
Nice bike.
I hope it was worth the stress.
Bez - definitely on form!
As for the bike, I' m with Sarawak - is that what all the noise was about?
Yawn.
I bump into the OP on the trails sometimes. Needless to say I know that he's been ill, was hospitalised at Christmas, a critical component on a fork broke, his property was broken into and one new frame turned up with a dent in it. So sense of humour breakdown.
Besides, telling Tom Howard to do one is standard practice for me, so I will buy the OP a beer. I see he followed the OP into another thread to have a go at him there, the sycophantic bullying little weasel that he is.
Made for a funny thread though....
Nice looking bike OP
Besides, telling Tom Howard to do one is standard practice for me, so I will buy the OP a beer. I see he followed the OP into another thread to have a go at him there, the sycophantic bullying little weasel that he is.
Naawww, fanks. If you read up that thread, you'll see I started by offering genuine advise to the OP, about how good Stif are.
At least I wasn't telling lies about others situations to try and get my non issue sorted, eh?
I get the odd customer like this. Had one today who ordered something on Monday to go to him in the US and he desperately needed it for Friday, despite the fact that he knows we're based in the UK, the delivery method states 3-5 days and Friday is a non-working day. He then proceeded to throw all of his toys out of the pram.
I don't know why people expect everything to be instant; it's actually a miracle that most orders get to people on time, given all the potential issues along the way.
JP
At least I wasn’t telling lies about others situations to try and get my non issue sorted, eh?
I wasn't and I totally stand by my accusation.
By going into another thread to have a go at him you made yourself look pathetic.
You:re like one of those kids at school who would stand behind a teacher or a bigger kid going, "yeah, I told you so, that's him!".
If it was me, I would reflect, change my forum name and start again.
Edit. Or take it on the chin, learn from it and go and enjoy my bike
Am I? Who am I hiding behind?
In truth, I thought jungle had just replied, as I had had just clicked back off the spokes thread and hadn’t realised I was still in OPs posting history, realised too late for an edit and get it looks childish now.
You enjoy forum lynchings and seem to revel in getting stuck in when you think the weight of forumite opinion is on your side.
I think ray must have missed the bit where the op told tomhoward to f off within about 6 posts of the thread starting..then started throwing around insults to all that pointed out he was being unreasonable.
That would of got my back up as well if I'm honest.
You enjoy forum lynchings and seem to revel in getting stuck in when you think the weight of forumite opinion is on your side.
And the 7 previous pages is all me is it? Do me a favour, check to see the first few responses, started out at light hearted ribbing, from all. OP then starts getting a bit of a mard on. Do you take kindly to being told to **** off?
Merely responding in kind, you reap what you sow. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off of my first ride in 5 months. Have a nice evening.
Do you take kindly to being told to **** off?
I don't mind it, it:s why I don't mind TJs more robust responses to me. They usually make me laugh and I can brush it off and banter in the next thread. Most of the thread was ligght hearted banter in response to the OP waking up on the wrong side of bed. What I can't abide though are people who go out of their way in an attempt to bully others, especially relatively new members or inexperienced posters.
Just when you think a thread is about to end it keeps on giving. It's a good job I still have some biscuits left.
The op may have had some bad luck previously but this was OTT and he made it worse by losing his cool straight away and using swearing.
I hope his fork problem wasn't user error. If it was, you might want to give his bike a once over before he "goes on holiday"
If it was me, I would reflect, change my forum name and start again.
Edit. Or take it on the chin, learn from it and go and enjoy my bike
This +1.
But I do like how the thread has flipped effortlessly into a slanging match between two old enemies, a bit like when the plot slowed down on Dallas, they’d always go to a JR Ewing vs Digger Barnes storyline.
Lovely stuff.
And glad the OP got sorted and didn’t have a cardiac arrest. Maybe time for some reflection......?
... And for the OP to seek out some stress/anger management therapy. Seriously.
Very entertaining however, even with the latest axe grinding plot twist.
I’m in the cables and hoses too short camp, apart from that, a solid effort to get the bike put together.
Tom Howard
Do you consider your 3 posts on page 1 of the thread to be helpful or perhaps sarcastic and unhelpful? I stand by my original description of you🖕
Just been for a ride, shortened the chain a little, thanks Tracey the cables and my hose are long enough🤔 to allow full bar spin, so all good to go.
You have entertained us well. Go forth and have a relaxing holiday 🙂
My ride was great thanks, knackered now though.
RBW. OP has been on here longer than I have, as have you iirc, I forget due to your name change (s?).
CL. How many of the responses on the first page were genuinely helpful? I think one person in this whole saga has given you a genuine email address. Yes my posts were sarcastic (toughen up princess) but they illustrated the same point everyone else was making. Emailing the ceo’s supposed address doesn’t get you though to the boss, especially when using the tone you were here. That and you were ranting, raving and swearing about a problem that hadn’t yet happened which I, and I think most people, think is deserving of ridicule. Had you ordered it months ago, and you were being given the runaround, I’d have been on your side (see the sick threads, I get called out for sticking the boot into sick for mugging people off, ho hum). What I’m struggling with is that you latched on to me from the outset, when others were making the same joke, asking the same questions? Or are we back to ‘its not what you said, it’s the way you said it’ thing? Have I offended you before? Or do you just stalk my posts look for something to be offended by, like ol’ RBW up there?
As I said before, enjoy your holiday.
Well that's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back. On the plus side, it was more entertaining than the TV. Glad the bike got built! Happy Easter riding everyone!
OP in the wrong.
The end.
The nukeproofs all look sorted these days. It's a great understated finish in grey.
That was ace, thanks everyone. Was wondering how to fill half an hour this evening and that was just dandy. And best of all, everyone lives happily ever after.
Cyclelife trolled,
Cyclelife got a result from a certain type of forum user.
Brilliant
Now that is a nice bike...
Bike looks ace.
If you trim back that Aubretia it will flower in more compact way and look less leggy, though.
It’s a great understated finish in grey.
It's 'meh' to me. I just don't get the shiny battleship grey thing.
I was about to type the same. Grey is the colour you paint the inside of a prison in order to make prisoners feel sad about their life choices. That bike looks like an airfix model that needs painting.
Sort of agree but looks right on this and the scout. It's quite a shiny finish.
I have bad taste as well.
OP was stressed.
Maybe about nothing and maybe he should of ordered earlier or 24 hrs delivery etc. Just call CRC - they are very nice and sort out issues quickly too.
Yet many of you all enjoyed winding him up like a pack of girly bullies as none of you screwed up ever.
I ordered some forks, hoping for Thursday but told not I stock, I’ll wait and ride another bike.
You learn the hard way, we all **** up and learn.
There are people struggling for food...
I’m glad the OP got their bike built considering all the crap they’ve had over the last few months.
Karma bullies, karma.
Ive learnt to accept that some people live in a bubble .a unrealistic bubble.
My dad is just like the op.its a bloody nightmare .
Anyhow no one's died and it's a great bike.i have one.
It's one of the best bikes I've ever ridden .
Downsides are
Mine was a 2018 model that was one of the early batches that the factory in Taiwan used the wrong loctite on the frame pivot bolts.
As the std frame bearings failed so quickly this problem soon came to light so keep that CEO email handy 😉
The 2 blind bearings in The chainstay are a pig.
The flanged bearings in the rocker are the first to go .I got some enduro black oxide bearing kits from kinetic bearings for £35 and was the best investment i did .
I drilled out the seized pivot bolts and received money back from crc as I was oversees racing at the time and had to sort it myself and luckily team factory giant managed to source me some pivot bolts to fit .
The lower shock bush doesn't last long so get a bounce suspension stainless upgrade .
Then the paint .cough near it it will chip so invisframe it pronto.
Enjoy
Blackflag called it correctly on page 3 for me:
Cyclelife is winning me round by still responding to this thread. Many lesser members would have flounced off ages ago.
Chapeau OP for posting the built bike pics.
And the 7 previous pages is all me is it? Do me a favour, check to see the first few responses, started out at light hearted ribbing, from all
Second post in you were trying yet again to belittle someone on the internet.
I will just leave this for you to digest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying
Hmmm....
This forum has a lot to like about it. I spend way too much time on here but what the hell, it's a great forum.
There are some threads that can be a little unpleasant to read though.
Personally and with no malice implied (genuinely) I think there are a few that might want to step back from this thread and get a little bit of perspective.
However, what do I know? I'm a complete cluster funt of imperfection and don't have much right to lecture anyone.
OP, love the bike mate. A proper MIG fighter of a bike. Glad it all came good in the end and as someone said, no-one died, no harm done.👍