What would you choose

Simple, pick one.

Then surely option 8 gets you out of the closet?

I'm not saying what I voted for, but as it's a 3 way split I guess you'll work it out.

I never voted as my choice is not supported

You want to pay more than £300 to ride that thing? It is...... so ugly!

What's so nice about it that you would like to ride that instead of a nice sports bike or a serious mountain bike?

I used to ride a £1100 mountain bike back in the early 90's, tricked out with full high end kit and carbon suspension forks. I do miss it but frankly it's so rare that I get into the real wilds I just can't justify owning one. I'm looking at going mountain biking next month and I'll hire something way nicer than I could afford to buy for ~£30 a day. The other big problem with an MTB is theft, 3 times more likely to get scoused than a bike with dropped bars and skinny wheels. Throw in living in shared housing and the mud never goes down well

In terms of sports bikes the serious fun starts at about £1000, even then you're taking compromises. I don't do lycra and have no interest in doing hundreds of miles a day in a pack so that rules that one out. A fixie still appeals but they can be hard work as an only bike. If I had the space (or budget!) for more than one bike then I would own a modest fixie, something like the Charge Plug. for ~£550 would do the job although I might be swayed by something a little lighter and more chuckable.

So to the Pashley. Hand made here in the UK under licence from Moulton. The moulton versions start at about £2k for the good stuff, the Pashley is made to the same spec under licence. Why do people ride them?? Well they are fast as fcuk (The non assisted cycling speed record was set on a Moulton) and they have very short travel suspension to take the edges out of the streets. On the options list is the split frame, you can then take the bike into two bits for easy storage or chucking in the back of even a small car. Tricked out with racks you're good for > 60Kg of load, being so low it's stable as hell. That model I linked to has an 8 speed Stermy hub gear - no bits to get clogged with muck and easier when taking them on trains etc and the maintenance is near zero for them. They do versions with high end Campag groupsets or even the mighty Rohloff hub which has been used for many round the globe tours. Trouble is that a Rohloff on it's own can be over £1000 just for the Hub! That frame is the same as is used on some of the £2.5k models and will take the upgrades. Second hand the older ones go for more than new ones - If I could get it to Japan I'd make money on it!

Ultimate bottom line - I'm fcuked off with boring bikes. There like BMWs, any dumb chunt with a cheque book can have one.

I'm sorry, unless the woman are carzy over this "bike" AND they can give a BJ so that my nut sack is inverted in location I have to tell you (with all due respect) that that idea ain't worth a velvet painting of 2 whales getting it on...

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@Mac

I think we've just found you a car that would fit...

http://www.shelbysupercars.com/news-012209.php

If only you were a rich Irish business man...

There's about as much chance as you getting to install Duke Nukem Forever.

lol its only 1.5 million USD.

The first shooter I ever played. My sons left and I got a PS to play with. My son was over and said if you want to have fun get Duke Nukem. I did and loved the game.

Then my son said if you think Duke Nukem is fun on PS you should check out the PC games. Well, I did and Duke was the only game I ever bought for a PS. I built my first gaming rig at that point and I'm still building my gaming rigs today playing FC2.

I've sure played a lot of games, but Duke Nukem will always be a special game to me!

On January 12th, 2009 George Broussard posted on his Twitter account "Game developers often say 'Cutting is shipping'. We begin this year with a vengeance and a chainsaw".