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the main reason why the flexitor design didn't appear before it did in a Moulton bicycle was because Dr Moulton had sold an exclusive license to a car maker. He had to wait for this to expire before he could use his own invention in his bicycles. It is very clever of course but it doesn't offer tru...

Hi, Alternatives to telescopic are heavy, and unsprung weight affects handling. If not then lateral stiffness, too many moving parts adds to complexity and cost.........then there's maintenance..... The former may be a compromise but works well..........enough.... Apologies, Moultons again... Neith...

It was from my dad's Rohan catalogue in about 1986 that I first came across Moultons. They seemed an appropriate brand pairing at the time - both high-tech alternatives, both rather idiosyncratic, both quite expensive, both utterly derided by non-believers!

Hi, Ha I never thought of that :wink: At a pinch a nut and bolt with a suitable size head can get you out of trouble if you have a spanner to fit. a good option here is a single M5 connector nut; https://cdn.aws.toolstation.com/images/141020-UK/800/28559.jpg 'hollowed for lightness' too... :wink: c...

Quite sad about this. I had them build a frame for my wife for her 40th birthday, and they were really helpful throughout the whole process with useful advice about what tubing upgrades were worthwhile etc. The wife 'had her colours done' a few years ago...... She now has a very nice 631 open frame...

I like the pictures on the Swrve website with a bloke halfway up a ladder. It reminds me of a bit by possibly P.G. Wodehouse about a guy buying a suit after seeing an advert with a very stylish man climbing the steps of an omnibus, and then finding that the suit looked absolutely awful except when c...

I have had a fair bit of Rohan stuff over the years, with varying degrees of satisfaction. I like their breeches, which they don't do anymore, and their slim Newtown t-shirts, but some of their stuff is not very flattering. What I do like is that they publish weights, pack size and drying times for ...

Quite sad about this. I had them build a frame for my wife for her 40th birthday, and they were really helpful throughout the whole process with useful advice about what tubing upgrades were worthwhile etc. The wife 'had her colours done' a few years ago, which means a person peers at you and consid...

Although recent Galaxies were not what they might have been (and my wife's 1982 Galaxy is a pretty terrible touring bike for a number of reasons) this is quite sad news I think. I don't know if people still go into bike shops to look at bikes and consider what they might buy but not that long ago Ga...

Interesting graph indeed. I expect much of the increase between 1920 and 1960 was better road surfaces or at least more widespread decent road surfaces. Tarmac is the cyclist's best friend!

Bmblbzzz wrote: veblen

Not come across the term before but a quick google reveals a most useful concept and name for it. Thanks Bmblbzzz!

Clearly much of the attraction of a £13000 bike is the fact that it costs £13000,[ and the justification for this massive cost is the measurable fact that it is apparently the world's something something something . Go on, prove that, clearly you can't, yet again someone failing to grasp why someon...

Can I ask how you find the performance of the 70mm drum brake? Not enormously whelming, but: (a) they've not been on terribly long, so may bed in further with time. Apart from the fairly flat pottering around South Derbyshire that we normally do on the tandem, which doesn't require a lot of serious...

How is the horn? :D Am I right in thinking the f&f are Thorn? How do you think the forks are coping with the 90mm hub brake? I ask with selfish interest as I recently put a Sturmey X-FDD dynamo / 70mm hub brake on the front of our Thorn tandem in addition to the Magura rim brake. Mostly i use it...

Yellows are a bit like cocaine - the world seems a much brighter and sunnier place when you're wearing them. But when you take them off, as you inevitably have to do at some point, everything looks emphatically dull and grey... I like to stock up with the glasses with three sets of interchangeable l...