Recent content by novocaine

just ride it, it hasn't collapsed with the extra weight of a child hung off it in a weird way.

best bit, Lancashire tea is based in Earlstown/Newton le Willows. which is in Merseyside these days.

unlikely to be rust beneath the paint, it looks pretty solid and in the paint, normally the paint would bubble.

IS that the perfect stem for @historyman ? think of all those bars you could have. :)

yes, the tramway cut in the boards was making it much to easy to get round the corners.

Motor pacing maybe?

Twice.

Trailing caster, it would self centre, be amazing for straight line racing. Maybe something like mega avalanche back in the day, flat out down a sky slope.

off topic. but meh. the off grid crazy was the thunder sprint for me. held in a little town in the cheshire plains, on a car park. It was part of the sprint circuit, but you'd get a few real racer turn up for the fun of it (and for publicity). They'd do the sanitised version and we'd do the...

He'd have to be someone known, as most tracks won't allow it. I've never liked them I have to admit, but each to their own. Right up there with eyelashes on a micra, but again, not harming anyone.

I wear gloves with bones on the back. :) They are silly, they make me smile, F🤬🤬k it. this world is full monochrome these days, every car is black white or grey, bikes are grey, or black with black decals, all the clothes are grey, all the people are grey, there is little joy left, if a bear...

A modern steel bike is my preference. you get the skinny tubes but a modern geometry.

I think we should all follow suit and hang a small stuffed creature from a saddle rail. IT brings me joy. Both of your bikes are lovely.

geniunely how we used to touch up long scratches in car paint, because the thinner paint laid in to the thin line nicer. We then ran over it with a squeegy, but don't do that. :)