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On Apr 24, 7:35 pm, jim beam wrote:
Tom Sherman wrote: Andrew Muzi wrote: Andre Jute wrote: WHY A WATERFORD BIKE IS A JOKE An investigation consequent on being hounded by American roadies by Andre Jute Last year when I was shopping for a low stepover bike, Tom Sherman and other Americans, touting for business for their own industry, suggested I look at Waterford Cycles' Godiva model: http://waterfordbikes.com/now/models.php?Model=655 I looked, shuddered but said thanks politely, and moved on, eventually buying a German/Dutch crossframe mixte design with historic roots. [...] Godiva? Way too complex. Nice clean Waterford open track frame: http://www.yellowjersey.org/wfdopen.html Since you don't get it,you may as well not get it in a seductively pretty format with polished stainless lugwork. YMMV. What am I missing here? How is the Godiva more complex, other than cable guide braze-ons? For value, I think this is much better: http://www.gunnarbikes.com/crosshairs.php. $1150 for a custom geometry frame. what's with this ridiculous steel obsession? this group has been grossly infected recently it seems. I wouldn't mind trying an aluminum frame, and when hunting around e.g. Craigslist I do keep an eye open for Cannondale and Klein and the like; but since I started out acquiring older, used (more affordable) bicycles, I have a bunch of gear now for 126 mm rear dropout spacing, and most of the quality frames available for this gear just happens to be made of steel. typically, aluminum is: cheaper stiffer - and thus more sable for non-freds lighter more corrosion resistant. is there some kind of myopia/ignorance-of-the-facts virus i've been missing out on? methinks you must be immune, anyway ;-) |
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On Apr 25, 4:05*am, jim beam wrote:
Andre Jute wrote: I have two aliminium bikes which are both eminently satisfactory except for one detail: the welding on one is ugly that's an ignorant jobstian bull**** excuse. *if the mechanicals are good and the microstructure good, that's all that matters to your ability to ride the damned thing. How it it "ignorant" to demand aesthetic satisfaction from the artifacts one owns. Stop blustering, Jimbo; it makes you sound like a troll. A Ford gets you there. A Bentley gets you there with a smile on your face. Andre Jute *"The brain of an engineer is a delicate instrument instrument which must be protected against the unevenness of the ground." -- Wifredo- Pelayo Ricart Medina yeah, and the brains of non-engineers need boiling in brine and vinegar sometimes. Especially the zero-aesthetic barbarians. Andre Jute The Real Thing -- slogan I coined for wool, later used for a fizzy drink Original text, in case you want to know, dealt with value for money and pedigree in steel bikes: ******* WHY A WATERFORD BIKE IS A JOKE An investigation consequent on being hounded by American roadies by Andre Jute Last year when I was shopping for a low stepover bike, Tom Sherman and other Americans, touting for business for their own industry, suggested I look at Waterford Cycles' Godiva model: http://waterfordbikes.com/now/models.php?Model=655 I looked, shuddered but said thanks politely, and moved on, eventually buying a German/Dutch crossframe mixte design with historic roots. Now a bunch of American roadies, led by Russell Seaton, have been hounding me for being different. Seaton cites the Waterford Godiva as the sort of bike I should have bought. All right, since these pushy roadies insist, let's look into a Waterford bike in more detail. The pricelist, here, http://waterfordbikes.com/now/pricel...dels&Model=655 reads like some kind of a sick joke. The bare frame with the cheapest lowest common denominator lugs costs $1800, a fork is $350 and up, getting the fork painted to match is another $125 (!). box "pinstriping" is $250, Rohloff dropouts $150, upgrade to decent Rohloff dropouts from Paragon another $150 (a total of $300 for Rohloff dropouts!). The total for the frame and fork is $2825. No, I'm not pulling your leg. I looked it up and wrote it all down, and then added it up carefully, several times. A Waterford frame with a fork and the cheapest lugs plus good Rohloff dropouts, with the single luxury of box pinstriping, will cost $2825 or 2130 Euro. Better lugs will drive the price up by a minimum of $225, and a machined brake bridge is $125. Remember these sums, for which you can buy a whole bike some places. The total of $350 for a lug upgrade and a carved brake bridge at Waterford is more than halfway to the price of a frame with superb lugs and paint from a distinguished bicycle maker with breeding, as I shall shortly demonstrate. So, $3175 or 2400 Euro for a rather commonplace Waterford frame and fork with pinstriping. GET A FRAME WITH BREEDING INSTEAD -- FOR A FRACTION OF THE WATERFORD PRICE! Hmm. In Germany, one can buy a Patria or Utopia custom-lugged steel frame, with fork in the same colour, and stainless Rohloff dropouts, and no thought of charging $350 extra (!) for the good lugs and the delightfully carved brake bridge, and box coachlining by a famous bikebuilder, for 700-850 Euro or a maximum of $1125, that's $2050 cheaper than the Waterford frame. And that is not for a common or garden frame, that is for a very special frame. Or, if you actually want the narrow-tyre road frame rather than the German frames for tourers with Big Apple balloons, you can go to Mercian for a Miss Mercian ($920) http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/frame_miss_mercia.asp or to Bob Jackson (prices from $653, including Rohloff dropouts) http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/de...osCsid=68fd3b5.... and get a beautifully painted, arrow-lugged, luglined, frame and fork with a distinguished road pedigree. WITH THE SAVINGS OF NOT BUYING WATERFORD, GO UPMARKET Who in his right mind would choose a Waterford Godiva frame instead at over three times to five times the price of a Mercian or a Bob Jackson? A cyclist could have a Mercian or a Bob Jackson couriered to the street in front of Waterford Cycles, go ask them if they can match the pedigree, and still be ahead over two thousand dollars, essentially the price of outfitting a bike without ever asking the price of Rohloff/SON/BUMM/Brooks/Nitto/Ortlieb/the best of everything. A Waterford frame and fork alone costs as much as a completely equipped dream bike, with pedigree, from Mercian or Bob Jackson, fitted out with the best of everything. There is no contest. You're off your gourd, Russell Seaton, and your pals aren't any more sane. Waterford is a joke. IS WATERFORD'S GODIVA A MIXTE? There's another reason to give Waterford a big miss besides having no breeding and being grotesquely overpriced. It is that their frames appear to be bog-standard and dull. The same Russell Eaton we've already met as an example of someone crazed with roadie nationalism, also tells us that Waterford calling the Godiva a "mixte" frame is his excuse for taunting me that my Utopia Kranich unisex crossframe-mixte http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/...20CYCLING.html is a "girl's" bike. (I'm not even bothering to answer such crass American stupidity.) A mixte is a bicycle with two thinnish bars running from the head tube to the rear dropouts (or frame-ends, to be technically correct). The Godiva doesn't have these mixte bars and therefore isn't a mixte. The Godiva is a simple traditional parallelogram ladies' frame, pretty commonplace really. What Waterford actually says about the Godiva is a typical piece of advertising department weaselling: that it has "a classy mixte profile". In other words, Waterford knows the Godiva is not a mixte but is trying to claim for the Godiva the prestige or perhaps the cross-gender sales of the (unisex) mixte. Russell Seaton simply was too crazed with nationalist roadyism (or should that be rowdyism?) to comprehend that Waterford were intentionally misleading him. Poor Russell. Copyright © 2009 Andre Jute. Free to reprint on not-for-profit netsites. For any other use approach the author. |
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On Apr 25, 4:06*am, Dan O wrote:
I wouldn't mind trying an aluminum frame, and when hunting around e.g. Craigslist I do keep an eye open for Cannondale Gotta be a Cannondale. Smooth welding and beautiful lines. Last year I had a Cannondale Trekking Rohloff (probably a European-only model) on order but the factory sold out just as my order went in. Wonderfully satisfying custom-designed dropouts. -- AJ and Klein and the like; but since I started out acquiring older, used (more affordable) bicycles, I have a bunch of gear now for 126 mm rear dropout spacing, and most of the quality frames available for this gear just happens to be made of steel. typically, aluminum is: cheaper stiffer - and thus more sable for non-freds lighter more corrosion resistant. is there some kind of myopia/ignorance-of-the-facts virus i've been missing out on? methinks you must be immune, anyway ;-) |
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Andre Jute wrote:
On Apr 25, 2:57 am, AMuzi wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: Andre Jute wrote: On Apr 25, 1:40 am, AMuzi wrote: Andre Jute wrote: WHY A WATERFORD BIKE IS A JOKE An investigation consequent on being hounded by American roadies by Andre Jute Last year when I was shopping for a low stepover bike, Tom Sherman and other Americans, touting for business for their own industry, suggested I look at Waterford Cycles' Godiva model: http://waterfordbikes.com/now/models.php?Model=655 I looked, shuddered but said thanks politely, and moved on, eventually buying a German/Dutch crossframe mixte design with historic roots. Now a bunch of American roadies, led by Russell Seaton, have been hounding me for being different. Seaton cites the Waterford Godiva as the sort of bike I should have bought. All right, since these pushy roadies insist, let's look into a Waterford bike in more detail. The pricelist, here, http://waterfordbikes.com/now/pricel...dels&Model=655 reads like some kind of a sick joke. The bare frame with the cheapest lowest common denominator lugs costs $1800, a fork is $350 and up, getting the fork painted to match is another $125 (!). box "pinstriping" is $250, Rohloff dropouts $150, upgrade to decent Rohloff dropouts from Paragon another $150 (a total of $300 for Rohloff dropouts!). The total for the frame and fork is $2825. No, I'm not pulling your leg. I looked it up and wrote it all down, and then added it up carefully, several times. A Waterford frame with a fork and the cheapest lugs plus good Rohloff dropouts, with the single luxury of box pinstriping, will cost $2825 or 2130 Euro. Better lugs will drive the price up by a minimum of $225, and a machined brake bridge is $125. Remember these sums, for which you can buy a whole bike some places. The total of $350 for a lug upgrade and a carved brake bridge at Waterford is more than halfway to the price of a frame with superb lugs and paint from a distinguished bicycle maker with breeding, as I shall shortly demonstrate. So, $3175 or 2400 Euro for a rather commonplace Waterford frame and fork with pinstriping. GET A FRAME WITH BREEDING INSTEAD -- FOR A FRACTION OF THE WATERFORD PRICE! Hmm. In Germany, one can buy a Patria or Utopia custom-lugged steel frame, with fork in the same colour, and stainless Rohloff dropouts, and no thought of charging $350 extra (!) for the good lugs and the delightfully carved brake bridge, and box coachlining by a famous bikebuilder, for 700-850 Euro or a maximum of $1125, that's $2050 cheaper than the Waterford frame. And that is not for a common or garden frame, that is for a very special frame. Or, if you actually want the narrow-tyre road frame rather than the German frames for tourers with Big Apple balloons, you can go to Mercian for a Miss Mercian ($920) http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/frame_miss_mercia.asp or to Bob Jackson (prices from $653, including Rohloff dropouts) http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/de...osCsid=68fd3b5... and get a beautifully painted, arrow-lugged, luglined, frame and fork with a distinguished road pedigree. WITH THE SAVINGS OF NOT BUYING WATERFORD, GO UPMARKET Who in his right mind would choose a Waterford Godiva frame instead at over three times to five times the price of a Mercian or a Bob Jackson? A cyclist could have a Mercian or a Bob Jackson couriered to the street in front of Waterford Cycles, go ask them if they can match the pedigree, and still be ahead over two thousand dollars, essentially the price of outfitting a bike without ever asking the price of Rohloff/SON/BUMM/Brooks/Nitto/Ortlieb/the best of everything. A Waterford frame and fork alone costs as much as a completely equipped dream bike, with pedigree, from Mercian or Bob Jackson, fitted out with the best of everything. There is no contest. You're off your gourd, Russell Seaton, and your pals aren't any more sane. Waterford is a joke. IS WATERFORD'S GODIVA A MIXTE? There's another reason to give Waterford a big miss besides having no breeding and being grotesquely overpriced. It is that their frames appear to be bog-standard and dull. The same Russell Eaton we've already met as an example of someone crazed with roadie nationalism, also tells us that Waterford calling the Godiva a "mixte" frame is his excuse for taunting me that my Utopia Kranich unisex crossframe-mixte http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/...20CYCLING.html is a "girl's" bike. (I'm not even bothering to answer such crass American stupidity.) A mixte is a bicycle with two thinnish bars running from the head tube to the rear dropouts (or frame-ends, to be technically correct). The Godiva doesn't have these mixte bars and therefore isn't a mixte. The Godiva is a simple traditional parallelogram ladies' frame, pretty commonplace really. What Waterford actually says about the Godiva is a typical piece of advertising department weaselling: that it has "a classy mixte profile". In other words, Waterford knows the Godiva is not a mixte but is trying to claim for the Godiva the prestige or perhaps the cross-gender sales of the (unisex) mixte. Russell Seaton simply was too crazed with nationalist roadyism (or should that be rowdyism?) to comprehend that Waterford were intentionally misleading him. Poor Russell. Copyright © 2009 Andre Jute. Free to reprint on not-for-profit netsites. For any other use approach the author. Godiva? Way too complex. Let's forget the Godiva. There's nothing special about it to justify even the base price, never mind tarting it up. Especially now that we do have something special to look at: Nice clean Waterford open track frame:http://www.yellowjersey.org/wfdopen.html Okay. Very nice. A colour I love too. And excellent photographs to perve over. What does "open" mean in your sentence above. I don't know either. Maybe it has something to do with where the handlebar tape stops. We say "open frame" rather than "girl bike". I certainly hope Seaton sees that. This thread is was created to educate him. (p.s to Carl: tape, double bumpers, saddle angle etc were explicitly specified in great detail.) Bumpers? (Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know, TGIF and you're trying to get to the pub.) But Sheldon doesn't have bumpers in the glossary. -- AJ Bumpers (which almost look like S&S type couplings) are on the down tubes to protect the tubes from impacts by the handlebar if it swings around that far. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:44:44 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute wrote:
(p.s to Carl: tape, double bumpers, saddle angle etc were explicitly specified in great detail.) Bumpers? (Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know, TGIF and you're trying to get to the pub.) But Sheldon doesn't have bumpers in the glossary. -- AJ I'd think that being so sophisticated that you deem one of the finer makes a joke you might have the ability to look at a ****ing picture and pick out the items of which there are two that aren't mentioned in Sheldon's glossary. Hint, they are prominent in the photo's and most bikes don't have them. First magnafluxing in a thread about aluminum seatposts and then this. Seems you have that getting to the pub problem solved. |
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Andre Jute wrote:
On Apr 25, 4:05�am, jim beam wrote: Andre Jute wrote: I have two aliminium bikes which are both eminently satisfactory except for one detail: the welding on one is ugly that's an ignorant jobstian bull**** excuse. �if the mechanicals are good and the microstructure good, that's all that matters to your ability to ride the damned thing. How it it "ignorant" to demand aesthetic satisfaction from the artifacts one owns. Stop blustering, Jimbo; it makes you sound like a troll. A Ford gets you there. A Bentley gets you there with a smile on your face. it's attributing more value to the aesthetics than the tech, that's why. tech news group, remember? Andre Jute �"The brain of an engineer is a delicate instrument instrument which must be protected against the unevenness of the ground." -- Wifredo- Pelayo Ricart Medina yeah, and the brains of non-engineers need boiling in brine and vinegar sometimes. Especially the zero-aesthetic barbarians. Andre Jute The Real Thing -- slogan I coined for wool, later used for a fizzy drink Original text, in case you want to know, dealt with value for money and pedigree in steel bikes: snip more steel blathering andre, examine the facts associated with the following: corrosion price stiffness weight now quitcher bitchin. |
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On Apr 25, 4:30*am, Carl Sundquist wrote:
Andre Jute wrote: On Apr 25, 2:57 am, AMuzi wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: Andre Jute wrote: On Apr 25, 1:40 am, AMuzi wrote: Andre Jute wrote: WHY A WATERFORD BIKE IS A JOKE An investigation consequent on being hounded by American roadies by Andre Jute Last year when I was shopping for a low stepover bike, Tom Sherman and other Americans, touting for business for their own industry, suggested I look at Waterford Cycles' Godiva model: *http://waterfordbikes.com/now/models.php?Model=655 *I looked, shuddered but said thanks politely, and moved on, eventually buying a German/Dutch crossframe mixte design with historic roots. Now a bunch of American roadies, led by Russell Seaton, have been hounding me for being different. Seaton cites the Waterford Godiva as the sort of bike I should have bought. All right, since these pushy roadies insist, let's look into a Waterford bike in more detail. The pricelist, *here, http://waterfordbikes.com/now/pricel...dels&Model=655 *reads like some kind of a sick joke. The bare frame with the cheapest lowest common denominator lugs costs $1800, a fork is $350 and up, getting the fork painted to match is another $125 (!). box "pinstriping" is $250, Rohloff dropouts $150, upgrade to decent Rohloff dropouts from Paragon another $150 (a total of $300 for Rohloff dropouts!). The total for the frame and fork is $2825. No, I'm not pulling your leg. I looked it up and wrote it all down, and then added it up carefully, several times. A Waterford frame with a fork and the cheapest lugs plus good Rohloff dropouts, with the single luxury of box pinstriping, will cost $2825 or 2130 Euro. Better lugs will drive the price up by a minimum of $225, and a machined brake bridge is $125. Remember these sums, for which you can buy a whole bike some places. The total of $350 for a lug upgrade and a carved brake bridge at Waterford is more than halfway to the price of a frame with superb lugs and paint from a distinguished bicycle maker with breeding, as I shall shortly demonstrate. So, $3175 or 2400 Euro for a rather commonplace Waterford frame and fork with pinstriping. GET A FRAME WITH BREEDING INSTEAD -- FOR A FRACTION OF THE WATERFORD PRICE! Hmm. In Germany, one can buy a Patria or Utopia custom-lugged steel frame, with fork in the same colour, and stainless Rohloff dropouts, and no thought of charging $350 extra (!) for the good lugs and the delightfully carved brake bridge, and box coachlining by a famous bikebuilder, for 700-850 Euro or a maximum of $1125, that's $2050 cheaper than the Waterford frame. And that is not for a common or garden frame, that is for a very special frame. Or, if you actually want the narrow-tyre road frame rather than the German frames for tourers with Big Apple balloons, you can go to Mercian for a Miss Mercian ($920) http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/frame_miss_mercia.asp *or to Bob Jackson (prices from $653, including Rohloff dropouts) http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/de...osCsid=68fd3b5... *and get a beautifully painted, arrow-lugged, luglined, frame and fork with a distinguished road pedigree. WITH THE SAVINGS OF NOT BUYING WATERFORD, GO UPMARKET Who in his right mind would choose a Waterford Godiva frame instead at over three times to five times the price of a Mercian or a Bob Jackson? A cyclist could have a Mercian or a Bob Jackson couriered to the street in front of Waterford Cycles, go ask them if they can match the pedigree, and still be ahead over two thousand dollars, essentially the price of outfitting a bike without ever asking the price of Rohloff/SON/BUMM/Brooks/Nitto/Ortlieb/the best of everything. A Waterford frame and fork alone costs as much as a completely equipped dream bike, with pedigree, from Mercian or Bob Jackson, fitted out with the best of everything. There is no contest. You're off your gourd, Russell Seaton, and your pals aren't any more sane. Waterford is a joke. IS WATERFORD'S GODIVA A MIXTE? There's another reason to give Waterford a big miss besides having no breeding and being grotesquely overpriced. It is that their frames appear to be bog-standard and dull. The same Russell Eaton we've already met as an example of someone crazed with roadie nationalism, also tells us that Waterford calling the Godiva a "mixte" frame is his excuse for taunting me that my Utopia Kranich unisex crossframe-mixte http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/...20CYCLING.html *is a "girl's" bike. (I'm not even bothering to answer such crass American stupidity.) A mixte is a bicycle with two thinnish bars running from the head tube to the rear dropouts (or frame-ends, to be technically correct). The Godiva doesn't have these mixte bars and therefore isn't a mixte. The Godiva is a simple traditional parallelogram ladies' frame, pretty commonplace really. What Waterford actually says about the Godiva is a typical piece of advertising department weaselling: that it has "a classy mixte profile". In other words, Waterford knows the Godiva is not a mixte but is trying to claim for the Godiva the prestige or perhaps the cross-gender sales of the (unisex) mixte. Russell Seaton simply was too crazed with nationalist roadyism (or should that be rowdyism?) to comprehend that Waterford were intentionally misleading him. Poor Russell. Copyright © 2009 Andre Jute. Free to reprint on not-for-profit netsites. For any other use approach the author. Godiva? Way too complex. Let's forget the Godiva. There's nothing special about it to justify even the base price, never mind tarting it up. Especially now that we do have something special to look at: Nice clean Waterford open track frame:http://www.yellowjersey.org/wfdopen.html Okay. Very nice. A colour I love too. And excellent photographs to perve over. What does "open" mean in your sentence above. I don't know either. Maybe it has something to do with where the handlebar tape stops. We say "open frame" rather than "girl bike". I certainly hope Seaton sees that. This thread is was created to educate him. (p.s to Carl: tape, double bumpers, saddle angle etc were explicitly specified in great detail.) Bumpers? (Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know, TGIF and you're trying to get to the pub.) But Sheldon doesn't have bumpers in the glossary. -- AJ Bumpers (which almost look like S&S type couplings) are on the down tubes to protect the tubes from impacts by the handlebar if it swings around that far. Thanks, Carl. I studied the photographs again and wondered about those, deciding they must be some obsolete brand of folding couplings. Okay, bumpers. That's altogether a nice bike with its tasteful brightwork. -- AJ -- Andrew Muzi * www.yellowjersey.org/ * Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Andre Jute wrote:
On Apr 25, 4:06�am, Dan O wrote: I wouldn't mind trying an aluminum frame, and when hunting around e.g. Craigslist I do keep an eye open for Cannondale Gotta be a Cannondale. Smooth welding and beautiful lines. Last year I had a Cannondale Trekking Rohloff (probably a European-only model) on order but the factory sold out just as my order went in. Wonderfully satisfying custom-designed dropouts. -- AJ who givesa****? cut that sucker up and put it under the microscope - i'll tell you what's beautiful. and Klein and the like; but since I started out acquiring older, used (more affordable) bicycles, I have a bunch of gear now for 126 mm rear dropout spacing, and most of the quality frames available for this gear just happens to be made of steel. typically, aluminum is: cheaper stiffer - and thus more sable for non-freds lighter more corrosion resistant. is there some kind of myopia/ignorance-of-the-facts virus i've been missing out on? methinks you must be immune, anyway ;-) |
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:23:52 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute wrote:
On Apr 25, 4:05*am, jim beam wrote: Andre Jute wrote: I have two aliminium bikes which are both eminently satisfactory except for one detail: the welding on one is ugly that's an ignorant jobstian bull**** excuse. *if the mechanicals are good and the microstructure good, that's all that matters to your ability to ride the damned thing. How it it "ignorant" to demand aesthetic satisfaction from the artifacts one owns. Stop blustering, Jimbo; it makes you sound like a troll. A Ford gets you there. A Bentley gets you there with a smile on your face. Andre Jute *"The brain of an engineer is a delicate instrument instrument which must be protected against the unevenness of the ground." -- Wifredo- Pelayo Ricart Medina yeah, and the brains of non-engineers need boiling in brine and vinegar sometimes. Especially the zero-aesthetic barbarians. Andre Jute The Real Thing -- slogan I coined for wool, later used for a fizzy drink Original text, in case you want to know, dealt with value for money and pedigree in steel bikes: Criticising Waterford as lacking "pedigree" is probably not a real strong argument. |
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Andre Jute wrote:
Bumpers? (Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know, TGIF and you're trying to get to the pub.) But Sheldon doesn't have bumpers in the glossary. -- AJ Urethane layered with a tempered steel center. Keep the handlebar and caliper from denting frame tubes. I was attempting levity with my 'complex' comment. Didn't achieve it I guess. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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