togglechaintour bikes
- MikewsMITH2
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Life don't get more perfect than living in Norfolk with a Sunbeam
Lovely photos and Norfolk is mercifully flat
S.O.S - Save Our Steel!
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
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Lovely to see the Sunbeam getting some use Graham, Devon was too hilly for it and it spent twenty five years in dry storage. It did get taken on the Sunbeam centenary ride back to the Wolverhampton factory in the early nineteen eighties though. Couldn't have gone to a better home!
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steve browne wrote:Lovely to see the Sunbeam getting some use Graham, Devon was too hilly for it and it spent twenty five years in dry storage. It did get taken on the Sunbeam centenary ride back to the Wolverhampton factory in the early nineteen eighties though. Couldn't have gone to a better home!
I hadn't realised you'd owned it for so long Must have been quite a wrench to see it go
It'll get plenty of use, within the limits I set on irreplaceable bikes. The odd weekend jaunt, V-CC runs and those "looks nice outside, think I'll have a couple of hours out on a bike" types of ride
It's a joy to ride and I can now see over some hedges that were previously blocking my view It's become joint favourite bike with the Clubman and BSA
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Life don't get more perfect than living in Norfolk with a Sunbeam
Gorgeous bike, lovely county - made for each other
- MikewsMITH2
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A few more photos of TCT2.
Start of day 1 at Poole Quay
1st Pub Stop day 1 lambs Green Inn
Cap'n Steve and Matt
Rob and the Crew at the wet start of day 2
Did anyone take photos of day 3?
Start of day 1 at Poole Quay
1st Pub Stop day 1 lambs Green Inn
Cap'n Steve and Matt
Rob and the Crew at the wet start of day 2
Did anyone take photos of day 3?
S.O.S - Save Our Steel!
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
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'ave you photoshopped my beard, Mike? It's not really that big is it? No wonder I could feel the headwind....... It'll be much better once I've plaited it
Courtesy of Graham, I've lowered the gearing on Christine this evening by replacing the rear 20T with a 24T. Gives me a much more useable range on the rough stuff Once the Dorset style shower has passed over, I'll try it on the road instead of around the garden.
Steve
Courtesy of Graham, I've lowered the gearing on Christine this evening by replacing the rear 20T with a 24T. Gives me a much more useable range on the rough stuff Once the Dorset style shower has passed over, I'll try it on the road instead of around the garden.
Steve
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Greybeard wrote:'ave you photoshopped my beard, Mike? It's not really that big is it?
Well, yes it is, actually. We were thinking of giving it a name
Graham, wot never told Steve we were renaming him Beaver Features
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GrahamNR17 wrote: wot never told Steve we were renaming him Beaver Features
Mmmm. I supose I do enjoy rivers and I'm good at woodwork - I take it that's what you meant
Steve (wot has some niggling doubt at the back of his mind )
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Greybeard wrote:Steve (wot has some niggling doubt at the back of his mind )
You'll make Detective at this rate
- MikewsMITH2
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Courtesy of Graham, I've lowered the gearing on Christine this evening by replacing the rear 20T with a 24T. Gives me a much more useable range on the rough stuff Once the Dorset style shower has passed over, I'll try it on the road instead of around the garden.
24T!? I thought 22 was max and 2:1 was the min gearing?
Mike wots heard that Steve busts hub gears
S.O.S - Save Our Steel!
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
1971 Raleigh Mercury
2010 Condor Fratello
1980 Peugeot Tandem
1989 MBK Aventure MTB
195? Viking Severn Valley
1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
See them here http://tinyurl.com/Mikewsmiths-Bikes
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MikewsMITH2 wrote:24T!? I thought 22 was max and 2:1 was the min gearing?
You thought wrong then
MikewsMITH2 wrote:Mike wots heard that Steve busts hub gears
Well at least ya hearin' works right
- hubgearfreak
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am i the only one that's noticed rob's jaunty poses in two of those three pics?
mike - i've been riding 48/24 since i built my black one. i've gone up a 1:6 (see page 1 of this thread) on it and it didn't break
mike - i've been riding 48/24 since i built my black one. i've gone up a 1:6 (see page 1 of this thread) on it and it didn't break
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MikewsMITH2 wrote:Mike wots heard that Steve busts hub gears
I prefer to think of it as exposing defects in manufacture and design weaknesses I wonder when I'll get the 9-speed back from the farterland
Christine is now running 48/24 - a 24t sprocket was the easiest option and avoided looking for a smaller and less pretty chainring (I did see a 60t on ebay but I can't afford the chain - or the time to make a 30t sprocket )
Steve