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New bike or take a cab - same price!
My usual road bike was at my other address and my pub bike had a puncture, the tubes were not working and a cab to work would have cost over £60.
So I went to Tesco this morning and bought a brand new Vertigo Richmond for £70...
I have left it in the car park at work and did not have a lock but for £70...
It is heavy-ish (about 12kg) and the brakes and gears are not exactly state-of-the-art but for £70...
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That's not a bike, that's a BSO - a Bicycle Shaped Object.
Ummm...good luck getting home.
If this was London, the LTDA should hear of this...
Love it.. but face it - when the other bikes have broken you will still be riding the vertigo, this time next year you won't have ridden any other bike for 6 months...
Also - I would not have admitted that I was so incomptent that I couln't fix a puncture! Get better at repairing tubes!