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Bars are a little plain, saddle past its prime, but this is The most valuable saddle in the world. No doubt.

A problem here is the deer lack predation and so they are overgrazing the woodland understorey, including young trees. Similar to many parts of the Highlands - except they've been overgrazing for so long most of the forest died off. It's almost impossible to legally cull them. Cars get a...

You can build in some ride softness or compliance with steel quality, and some butting to allow the flex along a greater length of the fork blade. So theoretically a straight fork could be as good, but it would be a lot more difficult and expensive. As a rule, cheap straight forks are...

Here's one end of the village: The trees tend to be on the boggy or steep ground, or in the hedgerows, with the sheep grazing in walled or hedged enclosures in between. The mature hardwood trees formed part of the working landscape, providing timber for building and fuel for heating. This...

You can always send online purchases back for a refund... By these might be 8mm short of steerer😪

Exactly how many bikes is useful to estimate transport requirements. Looks like 14? I think I can get this many in my estate car plus trailer - sadly 26" mtbs are slow sellers, but I'm thinking about it😉 Tom

There's been plenty of unsuitable, destructive tree planting too. There's all- day chainsaws in the background here at home, removing several acres of 80s tax-break plantation that is now sick, Almost nothing lived there in the darkness anyway, now leaving a boggy mess. It was planted over...

Shill bid? The "accidental" buyer doesn't normally respond until you raise a case with eBay after 5 days

Great buy! European welding is often like that, but you've also got that amazing chromed seat cluster lug making it one of those late steel frames straddling the end of lugs and the start of tig. (Plus shaped columbusv tubes, pantographing &gios fork worth what you paid for the bike...) That's...

Update - sold at £200, but just the single bid

Close inspection advised🤔 🤞

It's also that period where bike specs hadn't realised that STIs bring the ride forwards onto the hoods, so you want a shorter stem than in the "downtube days" We still have 2 boxes of 110+ ahead stems, anything cheapish goes straight in the recycling.

It's filler Hopefully just over a dent - It's an unlikely place to crack, and you don't fill cracks anyway, so there's no reason to think it's anything more. It's also a popular location for large dents, where the bike falls against a Sheffield stand. If you removed the filler, you'd most...

All steel Forks are not equal. - basic pg straight Forks are pretty horrible. I remember these, The Dawes ClubPerson we called them😁, being in tune with the Zeitgeist... you can't get 28s on there with Guards, just as wider tyres were becoming normal. 520 frame, it's a nice ride. One of the...

A lot of European quality stuff has to compete with Chinese lookalikes at a fraction of the price - like £30! - and the advertised weights aren't always representative! This is why popular quality brands hold value better than lesser known ones.