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jeddy11
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PostPosted: 18:56 - 26 Oct 2012    Post subject: Another old bike shop goes up the swannee!! Reply with quote

Popped into Coburn and hughes at moor street luton to find about 4 bikes in there . He is packing up in November as the lease runs out and the council want some extortionate price for a new one ???
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PostPosted: 19:05 - 26 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shame. This shop has been there for as long as I can remember.
My first memory of the place was back in the early 70s when my older brother picked up his Puch Maxi.
We stopped off there for a welcome break during my very wet CBT.

End of an era.
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PostPosted: 21:51 - 26 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blimey..I almost bought a bike from them last week!
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PostPosted: 09:55 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^yer your not going to get much of a warrenty Razz
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PostPosted: 10:43 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think most local councils only want bike shops on industrial estates. Too many small dealers have gone in the last 10 years. Its gonna be pretty crappy when the only bike shops are ones controlled by the manufacturers. Sad really.
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PostPosted: 12:25 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do so enjoy well thought, measured and articulate political jousting. Rolling Eyes

Perhaps we should vote on the basis of 'my party leader has a bigger dick than yours' and bollocks to the rest of the world's economic influences Wink

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PostPosted: 14:34 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Golden Showers wrote:
Dont know the bike shop but sorry to hear this. Thats what you stupid cunts get for voting Tory. Rolling Eyes


I think I've figured out why you are a failed careers advisor rather than a proper academic. You make stupid statements which aren't backed up by the facts. Luton council is controlled by the Labour party.

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PostPosted: 14:47 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You dope. Labour and Tory are Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Only a retard would introduce them into a conversation which had nothing to do with politics to begin with.
Dumb, dumber, dumbest.

In my short, unproductive time as an underqualified and overpromoted, failed University careers adviser, I came to realise I should have been offered the job of Environmental Technician - ie binman or lavvy man. I would have been really pleased with that, especially if it was lavvy man. Its my...thing, you see.

I'm such a failure..... Thumbs Down Sick

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PostPosted: 16:20 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Golden Shower clearly doesn't understand anything, apart from what The Daily Sport tells him "maahhhhh Tories this blah blah cuts"

Break it down into simple terms.
Tory areas are rich, why is this? Because they are quite clearly smart enough to make money and do well in life

Labour areas are poor, because most people who vote Labour have no career aspects, expect to live off hand outs, expect the unions to stop them from doing any work.


Always makes me laugh when Labour voters get out there and blame Thatcher usually, not understanding there was a government that followed her, a government that left Labour with enough money to pay off our debts, then Labour got involved, sold ALL OF OUR GOLD AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, what idiot does that? It's like inheriting a massive mansion worth millions and selling it for £2.

Why because Labour are inherently stupid, what makes it funnier is that you have clearly failed in life at a spactastic job half a window licker could do, and bang on about how Tories are bad, but Labour are good.....

Labour failed this country because they are mongtarded gammon slippers
Labour supporters don't understand how a government works, because they are also mongtarded gammon slippers.
You're clearly a mongtarded gammon slipper with your failure of a life.



InB4 it comes out that he is an obvious troll, trying to get trolololols, which should prove interesting as I have yet to really see a successful troll on BCF, they usually go home tail between legs after flouncing Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 17:56 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

adamfatbloke wrote:
I think most local councils only want bike shops on industrial estates. Too many small dealers have gone in the last 10 years. Its gonna be pretty crappy when the only bike shops are ones controlled by the manufacturers. Sad really.


Not necessarily a bad thing. In my experience just about every small dealer I visited to have work done on my bike has left it with some sort of a problem. I only go to the main dealer I purchased my bike from now. They are god dam expensive but I save even more by not having to pay for repairs on bodged jobs. I really dont understand what the hell the reason is for independant garages being crap in general.
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PostPosted: 18:04 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Golden Showers wrote:

Why dont you grow a pair of bikerballs and fix the bike yourself?


Who the Christ is this bloke? Thinking
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

qb78 wrote:
Golden Showers wrote:

Why dont you grow a pair of bikerballs and fix the bike yourself?


Who the Christ is this bloke? Thinking


Who's this Christ bloke anyway? Wink
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PostPosted: 18:14 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed.
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PostPosted: 18:23 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Who is this cunt? If it didn't seem so earnest I'd say it was Warped's attempt at a troll.
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PostPosted: 18:26 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

multijoy wrote:
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Who is this cunt? If it didn't seem so earnest I'd say it was Warped's attempt at a troll.


There can't be two, can there? Thinking
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PostPosted: 18:28 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends whether he can weld to 9 thou whilst typing at the same time...
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PostPosted: 19:21 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheBikerStig wrote:
adamfatbloke wrote:
I think most local councils only want bike shops on industrial estates. Too many small dealers have gone in the last 10 years. Its gonna be pretty crappy when the only bike shops are ones controlled by the manufacturers. Sad really.


Not necessarily a bad thing. In my experience just about every small dealer I visited to have work done on my bike has left it with some sort of a problem. I only go to the main dealer I purchased my bike from now. They are god dam expensive but I save even more by not having to pay for repairs on bodged jobs. I really dont understand what the hell the reason is for independant garages being crap in general.


You've just not found a good independent.

Just because it's an official Honda dealer, doesn't mean that the 16 year old apprentice hasn't razzed it around the car park before declaring the job "done" and charging you £60 p/h for the privilege.

There are good garages and bad garage, some are dealers, some are not.
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 02 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Golden Showers wrote:


I weld to ASME IX if you know what that means, dork.


Nine thou it is! Welcome back, warped...
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