http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Strange excuses for selling a bike en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:30:48 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128083 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:39:16 +0000 Focus 128083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re the fixie:</p> <p>"Give me a bell!"</p> <p>Sounds like a good swap to me ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128071 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:51:41 +0000 crowriver 128071@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I thought instantly "English is not first language" but then is that second ad for the jump bike really the same person? Linguistically totally different, it's a kind of young guy's casual slang.</p> <p>Very weird. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128069 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:44:05 +0000 gembo 128069@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All very cruel. Perhaps the gum tree person is Spanish and his English is not quite perfect but still good for it being not your first language and also he is feeling very cold a long way from home. With the orange he may be Basque. He also has a lovely wee dog. £200 is a bit pricey </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128064 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:57:29 +0000 Bhachgen 128064@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like how he describes it as a "head-turner". I can only imagine the stage following the headturning is the "point-and-laugh-er" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128063 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:36:43 +0000 le_soigneur 128063@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>... and a Turbo trainer ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128061 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:29:01 +0000 custard 128061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>swap for a road bike?<br /> with heaters no doubt </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128037 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:56:06 +0000 Iratesheep 128037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fire-eye-360-dirt-jump-bike/1033994267">Their other ad is weird too. </a></p> <p>£600 for the pair? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128033 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:22:16 +0000 Cyclingmollie 128033@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's a bad ad. Not as bad as the ones in Cycling Weekly where top-end road bikes are sold <strike>having been bought on a whim by people with more money than sense who have moved on to golf</strike> with only a couple of hundred dry miles use, never raced or crashed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128013 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:58:59 +0000 kaputnik 128013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Brakes are tunes to work rather well!" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128012 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:56:32 +0000 Baldcyclist 128012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My next Gumtree advert could be:</p> <p>"I'm selling this hardly used upright ladies bicycle because I'm a gullible twat.</p> <p>You see, we just recently sold our ladies and gents mountain bikes after my wasting £500 on them trying to get my wife to cycle, which she then said she didn't like.</p> <p>She then had a fad notion that she liked 'proper' upright ladies bicycles, so more the fool me I bought her one, meh"</p> <p>I haven't actually wasted any good money yet, but the day is soon coming, she has been on my back for weeks now. Perhaps I should just buy one to order - for someone else. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128011 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:56:14 +0000 Instography 128011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Strange excuse for a bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128008 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:50:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 128008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did think the same thing when I saw the pic... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128004 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:46:24 +0000 Coxy 128004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"And I get a strange pain in my crotch...." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11338#post-128003 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:44:51 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 128003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fixed-speed-bicycle-fixie-head-turner/1034987700">Recently purchased, but decided it's too cold outside to cycle</a></p> <p>Eh? </p>