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Ah, yes. The Mountech used the odd internal cable route slant parallelogram from the AR series rear mechs.

Gear lever looks like Huret but the rear mech looks almost like a Suntour Mountech

Couple of things in the pictures say "maybe it is" but most say "no it's not". $1500? - maybe if they're Hong Kong or Trinidadian dollars.

I'd also check the condition of the threads inside the nut and on the pinch bolt.

I vaguely remember one day in late 81 or early 82 a box van arrived at the Falcon factory in Brigg with the contents of the Quinn workshop - including a couple (or more) Quinn frames - which were all stacked in a corner of the little used 'showroom'. I moved on a month or two later so have no...

I'm almost certain that there's a pot of LM in my parent's garage, pretty much unused since he stopped servicing his own cars back in the 1980s. My garage has (from what I can recall) a pot of high-temp, a large container of Campag (again, 1980s and isn't close to empty yet), some red rubber...

You can always trust website customer reviews. Can't you? What? Some might be false you say? No, surely everything on the Internet is true..... All joking aside, a few years back I tried Revolubes and grudgingly agree that it's good stuff. A chain coating lasts 500+ miles and doesn't wash off...

With that badge on the extension I'd say that's a 1. The 5 was a similar stem from the same period but I don't think it had the badge and the rear part of the extension was more in line with the steerer part rather than being at a bit of an angle. 1950s-1960s I think.

I've not ridden tubulars this century. I've thought about it but to be honest, clincher technology has moved on so far from when I were a lad that I can't justify anything else. A couple of weeks back I bought a bike just for the frame which was fitted with load of awful modern kit including an...

Only problem I've had was a delivered order a year or so back which was short one set of Carlton decals. Swiftly sorted with one email.

Back in the 1970s I rode Zeus but spares were few and far between and the kit became more and more difficult to get hold of so by the mid-80s I'd moved to Campag. The last complete group set I bought was 9-speed Record Ti in either 1999 or 2000. I have had to move to UT crank sets on a couple of...

Even after the 1950s too. One cone (the righthand I think) usually had no spanner flats and was screwed down to butt against a step on the axle, the other cone had spanner flats for adjustment. Fitment method was to lock up the right track nut, nip up the left track nut with fingers, adjust the...

A series 1 - I always preferred the text on the cap to the later ones with the Cinelli logo.

Yep, I still do that with my quill stems. They aren't loose by any stretch of the imagination though as even with the front wheel gripped between my knees it takes a fair bit of strength to move them. I fully intended to use the torque setting listed by 3TTT for my Evol stem (20Nm) but on...

Not a problem. In my experience the issue is (sometimes) trying to get a 22.2 into a French steerer. I've always preferred expanders over wedges but the heavy-handed can end up distorting a steerer tube with them.

"A timing light? What's one of them?" "It's one of those, locked in the display cabinet behind you." "Oh. Is that what it's called then? I've never sold one of those." I had a similar conversation (except for the display cabinet part) with a young lad in the only LBS in my parent's town when I...

I fix things myself if I can and will continue to do so while I'm able. If a job requires a special tool I weigh up it's cost against how much I'll be charged by a professional, so that means I've got a garage bench covered with specialist tools, mostly for use on VAG vehicles.

Given the current state of the market you'll be lucky to find a buyer who wants the exact spec of a used bike. I gave up trying to sell a couple last year and broke them to components - inside a couple of months all I was left with was the frames, freewheels and wheel rims and had realised more...

It probably came about because steel seat pillars for utility frames back in the day were usually rather short. Maybe 6-8" at most which gave you only a maximum of 2-4" adjustment once you'd fitted the saddle clip and had a reasonable amount in the seat tube - not that too many people bothered...

Falcon built a couple of copper plated bikes for the 1980 Milan Cycle Show. A road bike and track bike, both 531 and fully-kitted throughout with Super Record. I saw them in the factory showroom before they were packed for transport and pointed out what nobody else had seen - the left pedal on...