Posted June 5, 200915 yr tyre prices have shot up in the last month and a half !, my local bike shop has increased the cost of a Bridgestone BT 45 from £65 to a whopping £80, with a 'good-will'' reduction of a fiver, £75, by my rough calc' thats nearly a 25% increase in just short of 2 months, a 'shares' opportunity, or a rip off ?
June 5, 200915 yr tyre prices have shot up in the last month and a half !, my local bike shop has increased the cost of a Bridgestone BT 45 from £65 to a whopping £80, with a 'good-will'' reduction of a fiver, £75, by my rough calc' thats nearly a 25% increase in just short of 2 months, a 'shares' opportunity, or a rip off ? Hi Jim, get a cheese wire and cut some deeper groves in the old ones !! Regards Jim
June 5, 200915 yr Hi Jim, get a cheese wire and cut some deeper groves in the old ones !! Regards Jim I kid you not Jim, in my last job in an agricultural engineering firm I saw one of the fitters put his bike on the centre stand, start it up and put it into first gear and while the rear wheel was spinning round he used an angle grinder to deepen the centre groove.
June 5, 200915 yr I kid you not Jim, in my last job in an agricultural engineering firm I saw one of the fitters put his bike on the centre stand, start it up and put it into first gear and while the rear wheel was spinning round he used an angle grinder to deepen the centre groove. Hi Mike I've seen that too.... along with 'adjustments' to the side tread but they are beyond it ! Regards Jim
June 8, 200915 yr Author I kid you not Jim, in my last job in an agricultural engineering firm I saw one of the fitters put his bike on the centre stand, start it up and put it into first gear and while the rear wheel was spinning round he used an angle grinder to deepen the centre groove. but thats farmers for you !
June 8, 200915 yr Moderator tyre prices have shot up in the last month and a half !, my local bike shop has increased the cost of a Bridgestone BT 45 from £65 to a whopping £80, with a 'good-will'' reduction of a fiver, £75, by my rough calc' thats nearly a 25% increase in just short of 2 months, a 'shares' opportunity, or a rip off ? Tis true but what goes around, comes around
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