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anyone seen a bike in a skip?

  • 22-07-2009 4:16pm
    #1
    NeilMcEoigheann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭


    anyone seen any roadbike frames in skips or abandoned?
    I mean dumped not just locked for a while.
    lets not go down that road.


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  • #2
    E@gle.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    i heard a rumour of a full carbon tt bike with deep section wheels being found in a skip.


  • #3
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    There's an old Mercian in need of a bit of TLC in a big skip on Cross avenue.


  • #4
    barrabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭barrabus


    Sean_K wrote: »
    There's an old Mercian in need of a bit of TLC in a big skip on Cross avenue.

    wha?


  • #5
    damomeasa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭damomeasa


    very rarely see roadbikes in "skips". there's a few fair decent abandoned mtb/hybrids around though.


  • #6
    NeilMcEoigheann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭NeilMcEoigheann


    Sean_K wrote: »
    There's an old Mercian in need of a bit of TLC in a big skip on Cross avenue.
    thanks for the tip, the whole skip was gone.
    If anyone sees anymore of any vintage that would be great.
    oh and i'm a size 60


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  • #7
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Haha, I wondered who would be the first to go down there.


  • #8
    Wez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Wez


    E@gle. wrote: »
    i heard a rumour of a full carbon tt bike with deep section wheels being found in a skip.

    Saw a thread on bikerforum.net about a lovely fully rideable fixie (retro, proper track bike). Made me drool!

    I've built 3 bikes up out of skips. They're great if ya know what to look for! My pride n joy was when I was on my grad night, buckled drunk stumbling back to a friends, when in a back lane, we found a gold mine! Built 2.5 bikes there n then, I stashed the best in a bush (picked it up in my brothers Skyline the next day, which was already full of stuff), the other was donated to whoever found it after I abandoned it!

    Got a racer/tourer that I've stripped n cleaned, planning on painting it up. Gonna build another fixie, and sort a friend out! There some patches of rust I wanna investigate, but hopefully it's just on the surface!

    Gooooo, skips!


  • #9
    mikedublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 360 ✭✭mikedublin


    I think it would be brilliant if there was somewhere set up (maybe by the government department who should be encouraging cycling) in the city centre where people could bring old un-wanted bikes, and just leave them. So that then when people want a bike for free they can go along and get one.
    It would save old bikes ending up in skips and landfills, or worse in the canal or the liffey.


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