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This link any use?
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ ... Viking.htm

According to the above, the badge you have was not used until the 1960's.

That's very interesting . Over the years I've collected several film and digital cameras, an mp3 player, DAB and FM pocket radios, a few obsolete mobile phones, a Garmin car satnav and a Garmin Legend gps unit (which is for walking but can be fitted on h'bars). I've just ordered an HTC Wildfire in the hope that I can combine at least the phone, radio, camera and mp3 player in one unit. The Wildfire also has gps and Google Maps capability, so I'm keen to test the navigation options. I shall take a look at the app you suggest

Gore if you can afford one.
http://www.tgstore.net/mens-cycling-jac ... lines=0_48

FireFox for me too with Adblock, NoScript and IETab as essential addons. I keep IE8 and Opera for those very rare occasions when I need to test a website in alternative browsers. I've tried Chrome but didn't like it, maybe I didn't give it enough time but there were things I tried to get it to do/not do that either it wouldn't or I couldn't. Yes, FF does take a little longer to load these days, but it gives me the browsing experience and security I like. I can also synchronise my bookmarks across several networked pc's, and access my bookmarks from other locations (with XMarks)

Grass. Unless you're riding through a concrete jungle, it's usually available close by, cheap, and very good for cleaning hands in emergencies!

Heard the news whilst I was away on holiday myself. Bob was an ex-professional, Tour de France rider, Olympic rider, National Champion, RRA Record Breaker, Worlds Masters Champion, excellent clubman and general all round good egg. RIP.

Yes I saw that article, too. Whilst I'm sure some of the output of CE is no doubt 'making work for the boys', surely the Government can't dismiss/eliminate the Cycling Proficiency Test (I refuse to call it Bikeability, I bet that cost a few quid to think up!). In view of the London Bike Scheme, the 2010 Olympics and the general drive to get people off their sedentary backsides, maybe we should inundate Boris, Cameron and Clegg with letters asking for their views and support. I do hope the CTC (which curiously isn't mentioned in the article) will take up cudgels in defence of the Test, it serves a useful purpose in educating future car drivers about cyclists and two-wheeled traffic in general.

It's a very long time since I passed my CPT

garygkn wrote:Good idea.
Shame Tubus don't sell adapters.

If you look on the SJS site, they do!
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Tubu ... -22700.htm
and similar for the right, for mounting the Fly on eyelets of the seatstays

Many, many years ago, Wilson's Cycles in Birmingham sold an excellent q/r bag attachment called "The Leech". The bag strapped to the Leech and the Leech fitted to the saddle rails with one quick turn of the cam-lock lever. No bag loops required, easy-peasy to operate. Wilson's (and the Leech) are no more; although the shop building still stands, the only one left in a row long-since demolished to make way for the A38(M) and surrounding 'improvements'.

Ah, baggy woollen shorts, braces, hard crinkly chamois until you warmed it up
Never used cream, never had anyone to rub it in for me ......

p.s. I like COGIL, it has a ring about it

enigmatic wrote:Blimey, thanks for the heads up. "Uncle Bob" is a fine man and I wish him well. He bought himself a new bike a few months before his 80th birthday. I asked him how he liked it. "Oh I haven't ridden it yet, I'm waiting for my birthday".

Here's the link to the Veloriders thread. http://www.veloriders.co.uk/phpBB2/view ... 3c15350052 let's hope he responds to treatment and makes a good recovery.

Latest report is that Bob is 'improving'

BTW, he's now 86 so he's got a few miles in on that birthday present!

Three loops for me, too, then parcel tape or string to stop it exploding again. Learned how to do it when I was a kid and had to carry a new tyre home from the LBS. It's like riding a bike, once you've done it you never forget

It's all in the mind ..... Remember how old your Grandad seemed to be (and acted) at the age you are now? Did you expect to be doing mega-mileages in far-flung places on expensive bicycles when you reached that age? Or are you happy that you're not a couch potato who's given up life as he/she used to live it?

BAH! HUMBUG! HANG MIDDLE AGE! POOP, POOP!

If you've got the time and energy then you could take in the Raid Alpine which is a fabulous route over a lot of the classic cols and including a fair bit of the Route Napoleon. If you accept that climbing Alpine passes with (and without!) bags is a slow process and plan daily distances and overnight stops accordingly, you should be ok.

Couple of links you might find useful :
http://www.takenote.co.uk/cycle/raid-alpine/index.html
http://www.sportingtours.co.uk/postcard ... lpine.html

Mal Rees frames normally had a 2-digit year date in the middle of the frame number. In the early years that meant the second & third numbers of four digits in total. Doesn't help you definitively, except that you could hazard a guess the frame was built in 1964. The other numbers may well denote the builder and/or the chronological build number of the frame. Try www.classiclightweights.co.uk for more info.