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I fail to see the issue, here we have ladies, more importantly, biking ladies, getting sweaty and needing washed more regularly, probably at teh workplace, and we have Boris to thank for this*

*this sounded much better in my head. Written down it looks damn right perverted, or maybe thats what Boris wanted?

Unfortunatly have to sell my much much loved DragoRossi Pintail. Approx 4years old. Unused for the last year (partly the reason for selling).

Not a bad craft for exploring rivers & tunnels, though its much more suited to grade 2-4+ whitewater, river and sea surf and messing about on artificial courses in.

Large Seat with thigh wings & home improved nuts + bolts.
2x Fins
2x Fin mount plates + bolts
1x Foot block + Ratch-it
1x Drain Bung
1x DragoRossi Backrest (comfy!)

Usual wear and tear to the boat, normal scuffing from rocks and transport. NO cracks. Though there is one small chunk taken out of the waistline of the boat behind and to the left of the cockpit on the seam (the thickest part of the boat anyway).

This boat is a joy to thrash down rivers, very quick, manouvrable in a slicey fashion, easy as HELL to roll thanks to its low waistline and you can throw a few tricks relatively easily which other river boats of the same length & bouancy probably wouldn't do without a lot more persuasion.
Shes also a beautiful surfer. Spent most of my ownership with this pintail on the sea at Sunderland & south shields, no wave is too steep to be able to get away with it thanks to a pretty extreme curvy rocker and the fins (thoguh they are very fragile, suggest only using on sandy beachs).
I'm throwing in a Gasket deck with a medium waist (upto 34") which is water tight but the seam has become to come away on the inside of the waist seal. 20mins worth of sewing and she'll be rate.

Pictures....

Rear view

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the suitcase style carry handles are actually brilliantly placed. Wish more boats had these!!!

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the rocker and rails are actually even more pronounced than this in real life, distortion from a wide lens to blame

the 'chunk'. Believe this happened when I let a mate put her on a vans rack. The plastic is extremely thick here so not a worry.

underbelly. Showing the fin mounting points. DragoRossi actually made a really good system here, you can adjust the fins for trim and toe-in/out

dog not included!!!!

thats better! Footblock not installed as I wear diving booties, wearing something more flexible it would be OK. I'm 5'10" and find the length snug, I can stretch out on flatsections and brace up for more interesting stuff. You can also stuff a thermos, a dry bag or two of gear (10-12l bags) behind the seat (one AIRBAG included). And then I also stuff a throwline between my legs with that black bungee you can see. Don't worry about the duck tape, its holding down a pile of foam insulation making the seat much warmer for your knutts and also holding your pelvis back into the backrest MUCH more effectively than the crazy drago thigh wings*
*strongly suggest only using these in a pool or man made course, they are lethal with dry pants.

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bits and pieces, footrest, two fins, thigh braces. One fin has a slight crack where it screws into its mounting disc (not pictured) and the other is fine. They were just in another bag so don't have pictures, but you can be assured all the bits are there.
Also with the seat, underneath the ducktape and padding its in perfect condition. I have added those to hold me in tighter as I've small hips. Can produce a photo prooving that if someone really wants.

OK so deal time!
IF anybody wants to try out the boat or purchase/take her away from me (you might have difficulty) you will find me near Cockermouth/Cumbria (the lake district).

Price is £300 with all the bits and a free neoprene gasket deck.

Don't suppose anyone can tell me what model this Raleigh bike is?? I'm told it is a 1980's bike. Recently bought it off eBay as a singlespeed.

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Cheers

Martin

Its a raleigh ace. Not a record or a road ace, just the bogo one. I have the same thing in my shed right now, though mine looks a bit bigger in the top tube (54st 57tt).
Mine rides nice but is in horrific visual conditon and I made it worse to make it less stealable. Mine had black & white chequered decals on it (factory) so I was guessing it was probably early - mid 70's 1974 was the year mentioned to me. I'm basing this on th similar front lugs and general proportions :)

Mega stuff received. Cheers!

WHAT is going on witht he Nishiki brake levers!11 Has anyone got a theory yet, because for a change, I don't.

ahhhhhhh NOW I KNOW WHAT THESE ARE ABOUT!

been seeing them for years, mostly a girls hair bobble put over the hub at build stage, and had to pick them off in bits after years of mank.
personally can't see me using one. but for looks a nice strap of leather with an unusual weight would be a pretty neat detail. Maybe a slightly different use for offcuts of brooks leather grip tape? :p

I've collected it now! it seems like the front is a replacement job and the rear could be salvagable.

This just tops off a shite weekend - I found a mayonnaise like substance on my coolant cap on saturday!

Thanks for the replies, I'll be posted in the wanted thread soon!

Have you had much luck reparing the damage? Theres a few wheelbuilders on here which seem to do stuff for incredible rates, a rim + some time from one of them will probably be your best & cheapest bet.

On the mayo, its evidence of moisutre in your oil. In any other part of the country thats bad, but in london if you have a car that does a LOT of short journeys and sat unused for long periods of time (more than 5days at a time) its to be expected in small quantities. take it for a 100mile+ trip every once in a while. or could actually be headgasket/water pump seeping :/

yup same noises here, they would have done me LUVERLY.

clues?? unfortunatly I don't live in a manor house lol :p
What I mean't was the front wheel will be BOLTED up in an interesting manor/fashion/method.

THink I will be bringing the ultimate in anti-porn to london with me. Put it this way, a whole working (ish) bike was offered to me for free, in my size, close by to me. And it looked SO DAMN AWEFUL that I almost said no to it. Since then I've made it worse.
However. seems theiving has gone one step further, not just nicking stuff for £££, nicking stuff to cause inconveiniance! Read somewhere on here someone had their decent wheels spokes chomped through to get a sensor for a computer, people having saddles nicked that are basically junk in the first place, scrapper bike front wheels nicked (so bad nobody would buy even for £1 kind of stuff). maybe I should just stop worrying about it and get on with riding :p

is that actually locked to anything?

Useful thread! Like the surly posted above, very tidy looking and would guess thats about the best way to lock on two locks.
For me if I worked in london and had to lock up in the same place you could have something for the rear, something for the front and an auxiliary cable (though seems lots of people have given up on those seen as they appear to be made of cheese).

would actually be interested in swapping the rear for a fixed wheel. But live about as far away from london as you can get before you are Scottish :p

the distance between the flanges will be less than a dedicated fixed so even when re-dished correctly to sort out spacing and chainline, the build will only be at least as strong as when dished over in original configeration. TBH though unless your getting off the ground for funs or enjoy smacking potholes i don't see the issue.

brake + lever is a deal. can't collect but someone should grab it!

its 5mins between hires to reset the timer.

I want to organise this but i live 412km from the nearest boris bike so its a bit difficult to get things on teh ground done. occasionally down maybe once or twice a month though.

TBH thats about all they can do. they can' realistically stand on every streetcorner for weeks on end on the off chance they come back, and with such a presence chances are they'd never form up.

sheldons got a lot to answer for ;)

reading this thread in hiendsight makes me look pretty thick lol.
freehub now off, axle out, spacers rolled under the fridge in comedy fashion. let the dishing begin!*

*I now see EXACTLY why its SO much easier to just buy the right wheel for the job first time around. I'm on a low wage/salary and the time I've already spent messing with this thing would have easily coverd £££ wise just buying a wheelset off here.

cheers for the updated headsup. probably ridden through there by chance one day.

Painting the road/cycle way 'watch out - pikies about' is probably the best thing you can do to alerting random riders.

cheers guys, thats the prod I need to buy a proper lock :D
realistically I will be flying all over london never returning to the same place so don't really want to lug a mini and a bigger lock. my front wheel is pennies and will be bolted in an interesting manor. so short lock for seattube/rear wheel or chainstay/rear wheel.

now seen a track hub in the flesh and get the idea :D
Trouble i'm having now is working out what freewheel/SS thing will fit. The bmx stuff seems to be reverse thread (antiClock to tighten!!???) to what I have (clockwise to tighten, pedal force tightens).
May infact just end up going back to geared, or doing the ghetto thing and running the whole block :p

yeah fair shout on peds. with wider canal paths it doesn't matter too much. but on the london stuff its generally less than 6ft wide so flying past at speed ain't going to win any favours.

Also people aren't mean't to moor across the towpath but in trouble spots they do, just to cause a nuisance to riders. People hooning around boats at close quarters often causes this.

I should add, I like dem narrow boots ;)

yeah was near there that bike robbery happened.

I rode along the other side (a crappy anti-cycle infested stretch verging along a shifty estate) and TBH the london corporation anti cycling structures are far harder to get around than a few bumps.

ONly issue I see with riding along that canal is a few narrow/wiggly/very low bridges so possible collision with peds especially at night. People lurking in the same places. and getting around camden, dear freaking lordie you need the patience of a saint.

Coming to london soon with 2 rigs, one that is worth a mars bar more than £5 (two inner tubes and some brake blocks lol) and looks like hell. the other is a bit more of a spend, still not actually worth anything in the scheme of things and I was instantly going to just pick up a fahg mini £50 or the £20 east end bike shop d lock thing.

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/product/masterlock1000mmintegratedchainlock.aspx?&id=7678

that is my existing lock, will measure the chain thickness tommorrow, the lock barrel itself I would guess is the weakness on this lock. but that said I know nothing of its 'REAL WORLD' attack strength.
For the north, its more than enough for parking up anywhere. But london is different.

michelin speedium 2's any good? Its either them, vittora something or what lfgss term as the 'unmentionable' ultra sports. all about £7-10 a pop. really can't spend any more, build has already bust the budget on everything by lots.

damn crappy hollow square taper filth. Cotterless solid steel billet axle is where its at or GTFO.

serisouly though, in roady world snapped BB's are rarer than rare. MTB/random shit bike mechanic for years I've never seen a roady snap a BB. however they go THROUGH bb bearings at a rate. Guessing due to more out of the saddle big ring cranking compared to MTB fellas who drop cogs and spin up stuff.
MTB guys snapped BB axles VERY commonly (square taper, shim octalink) until raceface ISIS came around, BB's with lifetime warrenties. idea being you snap or wear it out they would replace it with new free of charge for life for original buyer. Mine is STILL going, 9years old now, best £115 I ever spent in my life, and thats been on a single speed city thrasher for 5years of that. teh first 4years thrown down DH course, woods, homebuilt, singletrack and general mucking about. Winner.
then outboard came out and they will never snap (unless you use a road 2piece chainset for leaving the ground) but they do go through bearings at a rate unless you buy decent stuff.

snapped pedal axles was another favourite. I killed two left pedals in a month, thankfully I don't have any scars or busted ankles for the pleasure though.

Just left arrived back in the land of lakes after spending 5days in the smog you lot call home, 5days of seeing, hearing about, crashing into and almost crashing into thieves...

riding east along the regent canal on,er, friday late afternoon, maybe 4-5pm, I crossed a footbridge on a boris bike (yeah yeah feed me to the lions). RIding down the zig zag access back down the canal path theres a group of asian kids infront of me, so I creap down the ramp so I don't have to pass them until they are on the canal path.
I hear a massive shout from just under the canal bridge 50m away
*'get off the bike get off the bike, put it down' *

I glance to my left (still on the final section of ramp) and see a girl riding a bike looking a bit flusterd fly past me (tother side of railing). Fearing someone has just attacked her, and carryng about a grands worth of camera gear in my Boris Basket with these 'extra' asian dodgy kids infront of me, I sort of panic, what should i do, stop, ride down as fast as I can and go the other way on the canal path, see to the girl, chase the girl, chase the alledged attacker, run the attacker into the canal (regents is only 3ft so would be more of a soggy trouser day than a heroic deed).

While worrying about this, I don't notice the kid on the nice bike coming up the ramp at me, I've lost so much speed I'm actually trackstood (hehe new word), my boris basket pulling me over into the kids oncoming path. I drop the brakes stick a cranks worth in and get out of his way. He scoots up the ramp round the corner and past me.

Then the shouting guy is at the railings, "stop that kid, he's just stolen that bike", he then shouts some more abuse as he gayly rides over the canal bridge into some estate and freedom.
With some relief that the bike riding girl hadn't been attacked and I wasn't about to be I chatted to the guy and tried to save him from attempting to run after him, he would never catch the kid even if he was linfed christie the terrain was too open.

Dunno if it was anybody on here but I was about 2" from dropping the boris bike right across the path out of panic which would have blocked his escape, but alas it wasn't to be, and yet another bike got away in london. Hope you get your rig back fella.

*moral of the story, if you get your bike swiped, shout the right thing and others can help, I'm sure the 5shifty looking asian kids would have done a good number on the one white scawny estate kid. If he'd shouted 'stop thief' 'come back here with my bike' 'hes stolen my bike stop him' 'stop that bike' 'fucking bike theif' I would have probably had him but it wasn't to be :/