Forum | guvnor delivery times

Hi Del,

I got mine about a month ago after an 8 week wait .… well worth it though.

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Hello again Del,

On the issue of summer ending I feel after the deluge I rode my Guv in today that you have not a thing to worry about .… I still grinned .…in fact it was almost tantric .… Gogol Bordello’s new album in the ears, Eddie Stobbarts finest blasting past .… the satisfied feeling of knowing the Brooks saddle cover is actually not that bad despite the reviews (also I am informed it makes a grand cod piece for drunken Jethro Tull impressions) .… at the end of the day it’s a bicycle … it will chuckle with you in the rain & it will buff up a treat when you want to pose your way past the lycra victims (when they ask how you stay comfy without it simply say “duct tape works a treat” & watch the bemusement) .…another good thing is the absence of roadwash flying straight in your face even without mudguards.

Worth the wait & impossible not to ride whenever you have the time, whatever the weather.

TTFN

Well gents the Gov arrived today along with my wifes poppy thats six and a half weeks so not bad i was just getting inpatient. Only managed a short ride round the block but felt great will be up early tomorrow and off into the sunrise.

 Good afternoon gentlemen,

I am very happy to report that I collected my Guv’nor last week, a mere 5.5 weeks after placing the order.  This rather fortuitously and happily coincided with the first week of my 3-week summer holiday.  The initial attempt to collect the machine was aborted due to weather – and although I’m a firm believer that skin is waterproof and rain is simply nature’s way of cooling you down, the absence of almost all visibility and puddles resembling small lakes led me to concede defeat and allow my wife to turn the car around and head home.  However, following a short trip to order some new furniture for the living room (far more expensive and not nearly as exciting as the Pashley order), the sun shone again and the mission was back on!

We drove into Oxford and the shop had to experience one supposed adult acting like a child, one adult acting like and adult (and baffled by previously-mentioned adult’s behaviour) and one offspring wondering why anyone would want to ride a bike with no suspension and anything with fewer than 354 gears from which to choose!

Within a few minutes, I was off – giggling to myself as I set off toward home.  A short ride negotiating traffic and pedestrians; within a few hundred yards the delightful bell was ‘christened’ which made the young chap stop before the previously inevitable collision, and made me chuckle which brought a strange look from another pedestrian who has not witnessed the bell/child encounter and clearly thought he had met some mad chap who spends his spare time cycling and giggling without reason.  And after about a mile, I was out of town and in the country – about 5 miles uphill along a dual-carriageway and then onto a lovely windy A-road for the remainder of the ride home.

The initial ride took about an hour.  And it was joyous!  For the past 30+ years I’ve not had a bicycle with anything fewer than 10 gears and now I have a quite gorgeous machine with just one.  I absolutely love the fact that whatever the incline (in terms of both direction and gradient) I can do nothing but push harder or simply stop pushing completely.  Conscious of the on-going debate regarding 1 or 3 (or even the possibility of fitting 5) gears on this site – I wish to firmly place my flag in the single-gear camp please.

We’ve been out and about around the Oxfordshire countryside almost daily since and the love affair is coming along nicely.  Mrs Moncrieff isn’t too chuffed that we now must share our living room with a ‘bike’ (and even confessed to dreaming of an argument we had following an oil stain on the carpet as a result – however thankfully awoke to discover both the stain and ensuing argument were simply figments of sleep-induced imagination).

Thank you for allowing my entry to your club – thank you to Pashley for creating such a thing.  And here’s to many more happy hours and miles to come.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Adam, it’s the toll bridge at Warburton near Lymm. 12p for cars, but the nice chap just waved me through.

I can see the benefits of a single gear model, but am pleased to report that I’m very happy I opted for the 3 speed (especially towards the end of the ride). Seeing that Sturmey Archer have been building 3 speed hubs since 1902, I feel this modern convenience is an allowable addition to the guvnor. I just wish they still made the old style metal shifters. Oh well, maybe a search on ebay…

Great bike, great ride

Pete

Thanks James, I had spotted it. Great looking bike. After taking the guvnor out today for a short ride and getting 2 punctures (the second proberbly a result of my shody first repair) I’m thinking the pashley wing nuts on the front wheel might be a nice addition too.

Geoff -  Great. Keep me posted.

Pete