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To me, warm lettuce has got to be one of the most unappetising ‘conventional’ foods ever.

Cheers Brucey. The paint combo reminded me of Viscount. I was tempted by it as a high street hack just for its quirkiness but the fact remains there is no more room int’ shed.

I have no connection to the seller. This machine looks like original and un-modified but has a two toggle chain Sturmey 5 hub with, I believe, a 3 speed freewheel block. Bit of an odd bod for the conventional bike market but who produced it?

I can think of lots of bends on seriously steep hills where abstaining from braking on the bends will, if you are lucky, put you in the next field. Rosedale Chimney bank and Wrynose Pass are good examples. The hairpin bends are themselves so steep that not covering the brakes would see your speed in...

It’s not advisable sure but an experienced rider can reduce the risk of a spill by reading the road conditions and knowing the handling characteristics of their bike. There is a difference between braking to reduce speed and braking to eliminate greater speed. In the first you are shifting the weigh...

My local radio station had a phone-in today on the subject of the licence fee. Almost without exception it turned into comments about what state the world would be in with/without the BBC. A few made a point of how important it is to have an independent news organisation free of political bias and s...

The serial number will be on one of the rear wheel fittings of the frame. They were number sequentially and the Jack Taylor Register online will give an accurate date.

That era of bike really was a golden age for off road machines. Suspension still wasn’t main stream and manufacturers had put slack angles and bus-like wheelbases behind them. Frames wore more responsive geometry and lightweight steel was compliant enough to make suspension unnecessary for most trai...

There’s no straight answer to that. Everyone is built differently and their joints and muscles will find certain positions more tolerable than others. Throw the ageing process and injuries into the mix and the standard model of what is right becomes less and less relevant and the science starts to b...

I bought a new Triomphe groupset for my Holdsworth back in the mid 80’s . Aesthetically it was superb for what was the bottom of Campag’s range. The finish was top notch and stayed that way for a couple of seasons before rust started to show on the chrome brake fittings. Retailing at £155 it could b...

TrevA wrote:Shades of Call the Midwife. Interesting that she had the use of a car but still did most of her visits by bike.

Petrol rationing, I expect.

Ah ha. That bike looks very much like the Hercules I have, even down to the chrome-less bars and crankset. Does anyone know if the health service back then owned these bike in the same way the Post Office did?

Post-Brexit innovative idea succeeds in selling by the thousand! :D https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LT0AAOSwoC9duylP/s-l500.jpg A spokesperson said this brilliant idea has been in the pipe-line too long, and now Brexit is Dung we can really clean up the pre-Brexit flush blockage! :lol: Ha ha. And yo...

It’s mostly brake pad material. It has to go somewhere when it wears away. The rim may look smooth but the metal has thousands of pits and imperfections in its surface that act like a microscopic cheese grater.

I have decided to take a job as a mirror polisher.
I might take a shine to it or see things the other way but will have plenty of opportunity to reflect on my choice.