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    Something is wrong: Cheap old Cantilever is better than modern cheap V brakes? Top Line 93-94

    cantis can be as good as V's , which can be as good as discs, until is is wet and muddy and then discs will be better than v's, which will be better than cantis.
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    Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

    It is absolutely approved by Thomson for both Elite and Masterpiece versions. I think it is written in the specs somewhere and they will OK it by email. I found through trial and error that i needed to get my knees way ahead of the pedals to keep my knees happy as they are both lacking ACL's...
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    Mercian on BBC News Derby.

    A hundred quid to apply decals!!!....but they kind of have you by the short and curlies if you want the lacquer over them. When you factor in prep, primer, prep, final coat, lacquer and drying time in between coats then with todays prices of workshop consumables, electricity, cost of floor...
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    I've pretty much had it with Rampage. In fact I have.

    My wife reminded me that the olympics already has one of the most dangerous sports and i did mention it upthread without thinking. Eventing with horses is very dangerous and i think i might be right in saying that it is top of the list, for death and disablement, in sport. There aren't a great...
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    I've pretty much had it with Rampage. In fact I have.

    Have watched the crashes and surely it is just what most people would expect. Sometimes it goes right and sometimes it doesn't and events happen where, for some weird reason, you get loads of serious crashes all in one event. Like a years worth in one day. I was at Castle Combe helping a mate...
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    I've pretty much had it with Rampage. In fact I have.

    They choose to do it. Same goes for all the high risk sports like eventing with horses, racing motorbikes, etc and nobody is holding a gun to the Rampage riders heads to do what is, to a lot of people, really dumb. What isn't right is if an event goes ahead, that really should not due to...
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    1931 Raleigh Record

    another win for ebay buyers is quite a few people seem to be using the suggested price tool ,because they think it knows best, and you end up with some crazy cheap BIN's because the tool is goofy.
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    DeKerf built TIG TOAD #1

    Stunning 😎
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    1931 Raleigh Record

    Go Bob!
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    For Sale Mavic rims, karma........ Collection only

    Super karma deal of the year. If i was close enough i would be on the way to collect.
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    My Latest Project - Early 1970’s Grandini

    Why do cameras make a handlebar look so odd? That first pic is like some kind of ai goof yet stand there in person and the bar will look completely normal and in scale.
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    1992 Specialized S-Works Cross

    what great looking bikes. Perfect for almost everything.
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    For Sale Sunn Revolt

    Looks at advert pics....looks at lonely carbon Obsys fork....looks at pics again...looks at fork again....
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