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by Ugly
4 Dec 2011, 5:08pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Has everybody gone Christmas Shopping?
Replies: 8
Views: 646

Re: Has everybody gone Christmas Shopping?

This one is getting over flu, even mrsugly said its flu
by Ugly
2 Dec 2011, 5:48pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Christmas Gift Expenditure?
Replies: 18
Views: 1035

Re: Christmas Gift Expenditure?

I would rather like a goat for Christmas -- much tastier than curried turkey
by Ugly
22 Nov 2011, 6:42pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Whats the most unusual item you have found in the road?
Replies: 79
Views: 9988

Re: Whats the most unusual item you have found in the road?

£125 in various notes, about fifteen years ago. Spread along the road outside a pikey site. Before you ask I didn't take them to Mr Plod, I invested the lot wisely in a variety of restaurants and bars
by Ugly
13 Oct 2011, 5:56pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Stiff neck and headache
Replies: 5
Views: 1132

Re: Stiff neck and headache

Find a cycling osteopath, I know a great one in Surrey. Too many experts will dismiss cycling because 'you are all hunched up'.
Get your position checked, some better bike shops offer this service.
by Ugly
30 Sep 2011, 9:01pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Pashley/Evans 90th Anniversary bike
Replies: 7
Views: 1061

Re: Pashley/Evans 90th Anniversary bike

I'm afraid it looks like its been cobbled together with all the left over bits that Evans had in that mega warehouse at Gatwick.
by Ugly
27 Aug 2011, 10:09pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: When I'm 93
Replies: 6
Views: 470

Re: When I'm 93

Sounds like folk law , there isn't a 20k national champiomship. 10miles 25m 50m 100m etc
by Ugly
27 Aug 2011, 10:00pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: compare/contrast Brompton and road bike
Replies: 29
Views: 9839

Re: compare/contrast Brompton and road bike

Many speed records were set on Moultons Quote from an earlier post

Which ones?

John Woodburn's Holyhead-London is the only one I can think of. I am sure no Road Time Trial records have been beaten on a small wheeled cycle.
by Ugly
27 Aug 2011, 9:50pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Road gradient signs just how do they do it?
Replies: 24
Views: 6054

Re: Road gradient signs just how do they do it?

I think it origenates from OS maps one arrow=steep, two arrows=very steep.

Mind you the OS then being a civil service department the cartographer was issued with one sheet of Letraset arrows and had to use them, so, in suffolk, short sharp hills got an arrow, whereas in yorkshire, only mountains got one or even two.
by Ugly
14 Aug 2011, 7:29pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Claud Butler 50 odd years partial restore/clean up.
Replies: 12
Views: 1596

Re: Claud Butler 50 odd years partial restore/clean up.

very nice indeed... just needs a simplex rear changer and a TA bottle cage
by Ugly
14 Aug 2011, 7:23pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Bromptom M3L
Replies: 7
Views: 950

Re: Bromptom M3L

John street Cycles list a number of different conversion kits. They may well be able to advise you as to the best way to achive this.

I guess that if a two speed sprocket is available to fit the hub gear on your machine it would be fairly easy to fit the Brompton gear changer, or even a cheap changer with a hanger.
by Ugly
29 Jul 2011, 7:16pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Post apocalypse bikes...
Replies: 17
Views: 2323

Re: Post apocalypse bikes...

I've got a feeling that bikes are the main transport in 'On the Beach'. Book by Nevile Schute, 1959 film by Stanley Kramer. Mind you it also features a Car race!
by Ugly
23 Jul 2011, 10:44pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: frame builders near Oxford / Bristol
Replies: 7
Views: 1550

Re: frame builders near Oxford / Bristol

brake bosses need to be positioned correctly, both in height and parallel to the rim, and stuck on really well. Get an experienced builder to do the job it wont be cheap but the efficient stopping of the bike, and you, depends on those little bits of metal
by Ugly
15 Jul 2011, 6:24pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: cattle grids
Replies: 41
Views: 4209

Re: cattle grids

used to be a cattle grid on the 10 mile time trial course used for the WCA rally at Builth Wells. Now that was fun with tubs at 110psi, short wheel-base bike and at speed you were across it before you had time to fall off!
by Ugly
10 Jul 2011, 5:33pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Le tour de France in Paris
Replies: 9
Views: 998

Re: Le tour de France in Paris

in a bar on their large screen TV!!!!!!