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t Stiff brakes can be fixed. New shimano cables and some cleaning lubrication and adjustment - new chain and 6 speed freewheel, shimano 14-28, and then just change the gear levers, as Jim says above. - your banana looks clean and restorable. It will never have decent brakes as it has...

So interestingly there are multiple pathways to inappropriateness: Deceitful marketing (the Townsend) Lost in translation (titanal) Deliberately unpleasant (gt aggressor) Deliberately rude (dogs bolx)

I had always considered that The Townsend Team Professional was the most inappropriate named item in the cycle world, but I think the Drama Coach wheelset might take the title. Is this the AI takeover I am dreading?

You can stretch the leather like this, but it's surprising how little🙄

It's a lot like a Disk Trucker But older, cheaper, and much more experienced...😄

How did you get the old glue off? And what and how did you reglue?

Out riding it this evening. 😍 Not at all sorry to have a bike that stops - it's very hilly round here, and if it didn't stop, i would ride something else.

Amazing the leather wore through but the foam is still working right. Unglueing and reglueing will be interesting. I've had a go at repairing saddles a couple of times and was struck by how little you can stretch leather. It's much less than you'd imagine🙄

Don't buy the park one, it's over-complicated and bits fall off it. My favourite is the old campag one, takes a little more skill to use, but it's not hard, and one you've got it, it's easy. There are copies available new if you don't want to start a retro toolkit. Assuming it's possible to...

I can't claim any pants, but I've got some socks from 1983. I've worn them many times biking. Back then I had a carlton 5 speed, chromed Rims, slippery as an eel. It probably takes 5 years or so to change bike wear fashion

Does anyone remember: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/state-of-the-industry-a-running-thread.471470/ I think it's what the state of the industry sounds like. It's not deliberate - it just happened😪

The Wide Bars come to the Narrow Path... Bryn Oer tramroad, Edge of the Beacons SO 09270 15148

And if you're tired of redoing your tubeless setup on those deep deep carbon Rims, there's just enough left in the can!

You can usually adapt the adapters if you need to lose a few mm Everything is possible!

This sounds like DressCode2000 not the 95 of my nostalgia