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There will be a frame number stamped under the bottom bracket. This link: http://www.blackbirdsf.org/taylor/serials.html will give you a lot of information about the date that frame was built, as well as a lot of other information. The 'box lining' on the frame is certainly the handiwork of Jack Tay...

I still have one, and yes, it did spend its working life (actually quite long - about 10 years) on a tandem.

I use bar-end shifters: but I'm surprised that some folk think these are easier on the wrists. I actually find they put more strain on the wrists than, say STI - partly because the lever is so short (complete contrast to the long Sun Tour ones Brucey has mentioned.)

Given the cycling investment announced today, which turns out to be nothing added to the paltry sum already promised (what a surprise), it looks as if the 'cycling minister' won't have a great deal to do anyway.

The Met Office now has a separate observations website. Click on the map and you can select observations for any period:
https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

Happened quite a few times to me when a muckspreader was working just the other side of a hedge. Rotary muckspreaders fling the stuff out to quite a distance, especially if there's high liquid content in a strong wind.

I've always regretted not being able to do any of the longer Audax distances, but I knew I couldn't cope with the sleep deprivation. Me too, I've DNF's two 600's, both times ridden the distance but slept too long to be within time. I want the SR badge! I'm even tempted to do a 700, probably by ECEi...

I've always regretted not being able to do any of the longer Audax distances, but I knew I couldn't cope with the sleep deprivation. I suspect that those who clearly can cope with it don't realise how unusual this is, but that it's as much an essential requirement in doing these distances as any spe...

I've found that the best way to deal with the boredom, without having to spend a fortune on smart machines, zwift etc, is to set up a Kindle in front of the bars (I use a music stand) and read. I worked my way through a good chunk of the lesser-known Trollope novels that way. A couple of chapters ju...

I plead guillty to using the bike space for luggage, since it's the only place on a new GWR train where you can put a full-length ski bag! I trust you paid the fare for luggage over 1m in any direction? There would be mass protest if there were such a charge in Norway, where trains have a designate...

Yes, the cycle spaces on GWR Hitachi trains are designed as cycle/general luggage/catering trolly spaces, the train operator then decides what to allocates the space as when the trains are configured. . The fact that these spaces are theoretically thus allocated becomes pretty meaningless in practi...

Cugel - do you happen to know which model of e-Paralane you have? There appear to be no less than 9 different specs, with £6k difference between the cheapest and most expensive!

I've been hillwalking in the Highlands for a good few decades, and of course midges are much more of a problem for hillwalkers than (road) cyclists, for all sorts of reasons: not least because when walking in the hills you're more often close to midge-breeding wet ground than on the road. However, w...

The impression I get, partly through my own recent experience of driving, is that older drivers who grew up with generally narrower cars find it difficult to adapt their reactions, especially instinctive awareness of nearside clearance, now that msot cars are significantly wider. Some overcompensate...

Presumably, since there's no sign on the necks of anything which could be described as a reinforcement - and no sign of incipient cracks or other weakness, despite years of hard labour, especially on the tandem!.