Barry Hoban bike.

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gxaustin
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Re: Barry Hoban bike.

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My Barry Hoban frame is 531 with 501 forks. It fits 700c wheels.
Jamesh
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Re: Barry Hoban bike.

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Going to stick with my fusion MTB which I have put on wiggle 40mm commuter tyres on.

It's a good retro mountain bike - tange tubing.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/roc ... 92.268819/

Mine has an awful blue paint job and not the lovely burgundy one in the thread above.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/5rNV6F2ud9aLJzWb6

Cheers James
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NUKe
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Re: Barry Hoban bike.

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thirdcrank wrote: 26 Oct 2021, 12:04pm
NUKe wrote: 26 Oct 2021, 11:33am My Father and Barry were apprentice electricians together at Ardsley Colliery. when Barry announced he was leaving to go to france cycling my dad said " Why do you want do that we have a good job here"
Did they ever meet more recently? Your dad might have wondered if he'd learned to talk proper at the same place as Arthur Scargill
No they never did to my knowledge, I met Barry at Calder Clarion evening when he turned up with a load of Gear Shorts and shorts for sale, in the mid 70s. Funnily enough my dad new Arthur as well, Although Dad was COSA and not NUM.
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Re: Barry Hoban bike.

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If it's not clear, I was alluding to elocution. When Johnnie Walker used to do the Radio 2 Drivetime programme, he had a feature where listeners had to identify a clip of a voice. I only rang in once, when I was utterly and totally convinced that the mystery voice was that Keith Hellawell, who was at the time in the news as Tony Blair's drugs tzar. He was a former miner who may have been to the same elocutionist as the owner of the actual mystery voice, Arthur Scargill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hellawell
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