My first post here, so hello!
I somehow stumbled upon this forum at the weekend, and was inspired enough to start looking for a suitable bike for my next project
I spotted this little gem on everybody's favourite internet auction site, stuck a cheeky bid on, and managed to win it, much to my surprise:
It's a Pashley Mailstar, one of thousands once used by Royal Mail for delivering letters and parcels across the UK (all now retired due to health and safety concerns...).
I had a little ride to the shop and back to try it out, and absolutely love it! It's ridiculously heavy (25kg), and very slow, but a joy to ride, and should make a great cruiser/shopper/child-mover.
It does however need some rat rod treatment, to relieve it of the Royal Mail livery is nothing else, so I spent the last couple of days stripping it down.
I'm not 100% sure what my plan is yet, but it will be low cost, fairly simple (it's my first bike build), and probably a little ghetto knowing what my handywork is like!
I somehow stumbled upon this forum at the weekend, and was inspired enough to start looking for a suitable bike for my next project
I spotted this little gem on everybody's favourite internet auction site, stuck a cheeky bid on, and managed to win it, much to my surprise:
It's a Pashley Mailstar, one of thousands once used by Royal Mail for delivering letters and parcels across the UK (all now retired due to health and safety concerns...).
I had a little ride to the shop and back to try it out, and absolutely love it! It's ridiculously heavy (25kg), and very slow, but a joy to ride, and should make a great cruiser/shopper/child-mover.
It does however need some rat rod treatment, to relieve it of the Royal Mail livery is nothing else, so I spent the last couple of days stripping it down.
I'm not 100% sure what my plan is yet, but it will be low cost, fairly simple (it's my first bike build), and probably a little ghetto knowing what my handywork is like!
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