what is your oldest piece of cycling kit?

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borisface wrote: 12 Oct 2021, 4:45pm Just as an aside, is anyone still using old wool shorts with a proper chamois?
I've got a pair from 1958. I'm not tempted to wear them.
I have also a campag crank bolt spanner (15mm so not been used for a long time) - that's a similar vintage.
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I've got a pair from 1958. I'm not tempted to wear them.
If they still fit after some 63 years you deserve a standing ovation. IME cycling togs have an inexorable tendency to shrink considerably over the years.
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millimole wrote: 12 Oct 2021, 10:09pm The rest of it is Tiggers broom territory.
Is Tigger's broom a pogo stick?

(Yes, I know you mean Trigger's broom)
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A very faded yellow Campagnolo cycling cap, a cotton Bristol Road Club jersey, and a pair of crocheted cycling mitts with chamois palms, all dating back to the early 1980s.
Those mitts (ubiquitous in those days) served to identify fellow cyclists when in ordinary clothing, as they left suntanned oval patches on the back of the hands.
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Hi,
ANTONISH wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 9:32am
borisface wrote: 12 Oct 2021, 4:45pm Just as an aside, is anyone still using old wool shorts with a proper chamois?
I've got a pair from 1958. I'm not tempted to wear them.
I have also a campag crank bolt spanner (15mm so not been used for a long time) - that's a similar vintage.
I had some from eighties, not sure I still got shorts but the pad maybe.
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My oldest piece of cycling kit is the first pair of (Pearl Izumi, though the emblem is long gone) cycling shorts I ever bought in 1993. The aren't padded, but they have a multi-layer fake chamois that's still the most comfortable pair of shorts I own. The shorts are not fit to be worn in public, but I still wear them under other clothes.
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rjb wrote: 12 Oct 2021, 7:08pm King Dick !
I'm not bragging but mine's 12"
How big is yours. :lol:
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What's the significance of the square hole in the centre of the spoke key. I've a similar one but with a diamond ?
I have 12" too, but mine's made in China! :D

Square hole in the centre of my elderly spoke key is for ..................

I have no idea!
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Me.
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prestavalve wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 7:28pmMe.
But are you branded?
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jb wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 7:37pm But are you branded?
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A small,collapsible,Optimus stove.I could claim it as cycling kit as we used to brew up and cook stuff when I first started cycling further afield.1966.Otherwise,some simplex downtube levers from a Claud Butler Majestic,1982-3ish.
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jb wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 7:37pm
prestavalve wrote: 13 Oct 2021, 7:28pmMe.
But are you branded?
Or tattooed?
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I have a Mafac tool kit, had that a long time.
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I still have a Dunlop Long Cycle Repair Kit from the early 60s, complete with a spare valve rubber, talc puffer and a couple of steel (alloy?) tyre levers. Haven't used it since the 60s, but it's still in the bits box in the workshop.
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I have a 1939 Sturmey-Archer AM that is used regularly. The frame it is used on may be pre-war but has proved impossible to identify.
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