http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Boris's Broken Bike en Mon, 18 May 2026 12:28:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143224 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:50:22 +0000 Roibeard 143224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The <a href="http://42bikes.warnock.me.uk/2012/07/19/a-bike-for-life-the-british-bits/">British Bits </a>of a Bike for Life...</p> <p>Built around a Shand frame, as it happens.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143221 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:34:58 +0000 chdot 143221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boris says -</p> <p>"Now is the time for a bike that won’t expire beneath me, a bike that won’t snap. It’s time for a British bike."</p> <p>The only bike that has ever collapsed under me was a Birmingham brazed Dawes.</p> <p>Got a new frame free - still in almost daily use (not by me). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143220 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:27:20 +0000 EddieD 143220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a good article on British bikes in the Guardian a few years back, involving Shand, bikemakers from Livingston, and they said that even when they make the frames from tubes from Reynolds in Birmingham, no-one makes transmission components here, tyres, etc, etc...so there can't really be a "British" (or as Pashley proudly say, English), bike anymore. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143218 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:24:44 +0000 algo 143218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+1 for Shand (beat me to it) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143217 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:20:23 +0000 wangi 143217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shand... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143215 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:15:46 +0000 fimm 143215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brompton!!!!</p> <p>I liked the article, though I'm no fan of Boris... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143211 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:10:13 +0000 kaputnik 143211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My Dawes is made in Britain, but I bought it 15 years after it was made and 14 years after Dawes stopped making frames here.</p> <p>My "British" Ridgeback was made in Taiwain.</p> <p>My British Raleigh was made 4 years before I was born.</p> <p>My American Cannondale was the last batch made in the US before they shifted production of frames to Taiwan. It says in garish silver letters on the stays "HANDMADE IN THE USA". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143207 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:02:15 +0000 EddieD 143207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...the only defect it had. My friends, it was made in California. Now is the time for a bike that won’t expire beneath me, a bike that won’t snap. It’s time for a British bike. "</p> <p>I wonder what he'll get? Pashley? Mercian? </p> <p>My Genesis is "British" - but it's not made here.. I think the Airnimal is, but with tubes from elsewhere... (My oldest bike is German...with tubes made in Poland) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12267#post-143193 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:01:21 +0000 Stickman 143193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Love him or hate him, this phrase from Boris Johnson in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10642745/Riding-my-broken-bike-is-like-working-with-the-Lib-Dems.html">this article</a> about his broken beloved bike made me laugh out loud:</p> <p><em> I swear it sometimes wagged its rear mudguard when it saw me coming.</em> </p>