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I am still on a promise[
]…….as Santa couldn’t pick it up, or heave it onto the sleigh and Rudolf was moaning like a good un. Health and Safety issues raised by the ELF Union said, “no way is that’s going down the chimney, lady”.That’s the promise of an industrial button-holer….very sexy!
]You cant beat a fast machine!![
]Claire
ID,
Thanks for the support, British manufacture is in decline it’s true. Of course we look after our customers, they pay our wages and are the most important people to please. The larger chains buy stuff mass produced from abroad, stick it on the shelf and sell it. Their business is different to ours. It’s like the difference between a woman buying a dress from the Next catalogue or having Vivian Westwood personally make her a designer one. Chalk and Cheese.
It is an interesting point about forum members. Some may have purchased one of our products already. We have sold some on Ebay and to be fair that is where we send them for review. Ebayers leave feedback. I will start a thread and see if anyone has actually purchased anything from us. I did see a biker on youtube with a micro-fleece the other day but b*gg*r me I can’t find it again now.
Thanks again for the comments.
Claire
I remember the hype at one point that said there was going to be another Ice Age. Then came Global Warming, then a slight play on words to Climate Change.
I don’t know of any other job where you can consistently get it wrong every week without fear of being sacked. Weathermen (is that PC these days)are untouchable. Maybe if they fired a few they would have a better focus on the job in hand and a real reason to get it right.
On the balance of probability (i.e. good weather vs bad weather) you have a fifty – fifty chance of getting it right. The Met Office defies probability (or they are really unlucky sods) as they get it wrong more times than than they get it right.
Conspiracy theories at the ready. It could be in the interest of the government to keep everyone indoors. So tell everyone on a Wednesday that there will be bad weather at weekend and hey presto, most stay indoors.
When there is no chance of bad weather (i.e, in Summer and the wool can’t be pulled) then make some other frightening story up, such as high pollen count or high UV chance of cancer and hey presto, most people stay indoors.I think if ALL of the occupants of an average large town (say 180,000 people)decided to go out to park for a picnic there would be chaos. The token gesture Police force couldn’t cope with the potential surges in incidents. Plus with everyone together they may talk about things that are wrong with the country. Its only a thought. Probably nothing in it at all.
CGR BIKE GEAR….a brief introduction (not a life story).
One cold day I said to Claire (my other half) it’s bl@@dy freezing. Knock us up one of those polo-neck thingy’s. I had looked on Ebay for one but couldn’t find any, nor a norwegian type top either. I don’t do clothes shops and some of the stuff I wear has been in and out of fashion more than once!! Claire and I run a company that makes luggage, pram bags, childrens clothes etc and goods for other companies. So off she went into the workshop and emerged later with one polo-neck in 100% cotton. That’s effing brilliant I said when she gave it to me. First one of my mates that saw it said, where did you get that from? Needless to say he had one and then his mate etc. CGR was born. We posted some on the dreaded Ebay, firstly as a marketing survey. Two things can be said about Ebayers…1) they always want a bargain. 2) They can leave negative feedback if the goods are not up to scratch. Our feedback was outstanding, we had got the product right…job done. We still list on Ebay as we have built up some repeat customers and don’t want to let them down while the website address is given to all of them. Ebay costs continue to go up. We do not want to put our prices up so we started our own website.
We are not run of the mill faceless, nameless people buying from sweatshops in a foreign land. We do not mass produce anything but take care and pleasure in what we do. We are real people trying to provide gear made in England at the right price. We have always specialised in doing things that the big companies just won’t do. Could you ring NEXT or BURTONS or TOP SHOP for example and say ” I like that top but can you make it with longer sleeves?” Obviously not. Contact us and any item will be made to your own measurements. We have made lots of one-off’s, longer sleeves, longer bodies, thumbhole cuffs, longer necks, and one armed jackets. It’s what we do. For more information follow the CGR Bike Gear link. Our names are Paul and Claire and we answer all e-mails personally.
Ride safe guys and gals, be careful out there.
Any excuse to pop out on the bike…night or day, must be taken.
Trouble is we don’t have any normal pics on the web as such, oh well. It’s my work vehicle, how many builders have pics of their white van? [
]Got some recent boring pics of the bike, think they are all on the website though. How do you put a picture on here? Not got any old photos, lost by the wayside in a hundred house moves.
My Yamaha was stolen from the side of the house…hate that. You get the gear on and go round the side of the house and end up staring at an empty space…then the anger kicks in…then for some strange reason you start thinking it was your own fault for leaving it there.
Anyone else thought that?
TT07,
Yamaha YBR 125 was my first love…(following a mis-spent youth on Vespa’s and various rip-n-go, chicken chasers) Still tip my lid to anything on two-wheels,as they are dear to my heart. I had a 50cc for a while and quite a few “bikers” wouldn’t let on even if coming the opposite way. Shame really because the scooter boys of today are frequently the bikers of the future. We shouldn’t forget where we came from. I ride because I enjoy it and I give a big thumbs up to anyone I pass on two wheels, especially if the weather is bad. Long may they ride.
Katana,
It does as well as can be expected. I dont have any illusions, its my workhorse. Wash it on Sunday’s with help(?) of the kids (like a good religious person[
]), bit of oil here, bit of WD40 there, like you do. When she’s well past her sell-by I will get another. For me that’s when it becomes uneconomical to repair[]Would get another after this one, cant beat a reliable, comfy machine. They’re not for everybody I suppose but thank god for choices…being vertically challenged I couldn’t say I would enjoy having to ride a CBR everyday for example….
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