Recent content by Russell

Halfords and Evan’s cycles have both existed for over a hundred years as bicycle shops offering sales and service to ‘the average man’. It isn’t a modern thing. Marketing campaigns have always tried to sell ‘the next best bike’. Chainless drive anyone? You’re guaranteed to kick ‘his’ up the...

The average man in the street could never strip a bike themselves which is why bike shops have existed for over a hundred years in the UK. There is nothing ‘current’ about this narrative at all.

No, all steel is indestructible and all carbon fibre is weak and feeble. Retrobike facts.

Did the Ritcheys sell? If not, dm me your payment details please.

No, people aren’t generally mad so no one’s going to buy it for that. It will sit on eBay unpurchased for the next 5 years along with all the other old bike parts that people seem to think are worth huge money.

Retro/vintage part pricing was a bubble. Now the bubble has burst and it’s back to normal pricing again… and about time too.

I’m a very patient man with very specific requirements 😂

Now sorted. Thanks all 😂

It’s almost as if these are AI generated and not actual real life pictures…. Oh, hang on.

Interested in the whole lot, will drop you a pm.

Just ridiculously skillful. This is my favourite thing on the internet.

A classic tandem, clearly loved, hanging forlornly on a garage wall and unused because the owner ‘has no one to ride with now’! Why not? What’s happened to your riding partner? Have they passed? Divorced? I need to know more, I’m half tempted to get in touch with the seller just make sure...

Save yourself £120… https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/brakes/0-suntour-selfenergising-se-cantilever-brakes-rear/

Yeah, the ride is ‘of its time’ I would say.