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No idea Mick but would be interested to hear your report if you do buy some. I've just bought a couple of Contact Speed 28-406s for the Jubilee, almost equally cheap from Germany but obviously there's postage too: Continental Contact Speed Not ridden them yet but they are there for when the rear Dur...

Am pleased to report that the 135 wheel just squeezes between the dropouts of my Jubilee, so we are getting somewhere! The brake side has a massive nut about 5mm thick and I reckon I could get a mm off the drive side without calamity, so I think I will try and thin it down by 2mm or so overall to ta...

I had a Duopar Eco on my Raleigh Weekender in about 1986. It was a lovely bit of kit that I used to bang on proudly about (certainly compared to the standard Ecos on most of my friends' 1980s Raleighs), and worked well (inc LEJoG) until I lent the bike to a friend for some sort of charity ride. He p...

I am finally getting somewhere with this! My Sturmey X-RDC arrived from SJS yesterday, built up into a 36h 406 wheel on a Sun CR18 rim. Unfortunately SJS would not re-space the hub to 130mm so have built it as a 135mm wheel and I will have to deal with that along the way. Also on the downside the hu...

Thanks very much chaps. Very useful information in there. In the absence of Grand Prix I reckon I'll give them a go and will try and remember to report back after a thousand miles or so. Well I completely forgot to report back so here we go, fairly unhelpfully. In short what I have learned is that ...

I don't think anyone's mentioned AirBnB yet. This massively increases the options for overnight stays in a bed. I used it extensively touring in France last June and rarely booked more than a day ahead, often booking at lunchtime for the same night. A wide variety of possible berths for the night fr...

Thanks Scott, that's very helpful. The cassette is now on order, the hub will be shortly!

Thanks very much gents. Spa Cycles have that cassette on special offer at the moment so I'm going to give it a go. Will report back with findings, but it may take a while!

As part 4007 of the slowest upgrade programme ever, I think I'm about to order a Sturmey X-RDC rear cassette hub brake, in an attempt to solve the rim overheating issues previously discussed here . Currently the bike - a Moulton Jubilee - is running Shimano 105 11-speed (53/36 x 10-32). I don't real...

In particular the height of the reaction arm clip for the front brake makes a big difference to how easy it is to refit the wheel. Also the reaction arms need to be 'set' so that they are not being strained sideways when the wheel is installed; if not then the wheel is less easy to refit and the br...

In particular the height of the reaction arm clip for the front brake makes a big difference to how easy it is to refit the wheel. Also the reaction arms need to be 'set' so that they are not being strained sideways when the wheel is installed; if not then the wheel is less easy to refit and the br...

Paulatic wrote:

speedsixdave wrote:Definitely don't forget a corkscrew.

Once had to resort to a wood screw and pair of pliers.

Good improvisation, That's vastly more cultured than my 'smash the neck off and try not to get too much glass in your mouth' option!

Sounds like a lot of hard work! Don't forget to have some fun and enjoy the ride.

Definitely don't forget a corkscrew. Beer bottles can be easily opened with a screwdriver, key, coin or cigarette lighter, but corked bottles are significantly more messy without an appropriate tool.

By their natural geometry bike frames are stiff vertically but flexible laterally. If you can design a frame which is stiff laterally but more flexible vertically that may prove beneficial to the rider. Good luck!

I used to have a Moulton TSR2 with the belt drive and a Sturmey S2C (later a SRAM Automatix) 2-speed hub gear / coaster. The bike predominantly rode a 5-mile flat commute to my previous office, and sometimes to the shops. It rarely went on journeys of more than ten miles. In this application it work...