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It’s funny how two British riders with very similar talents - Boardman and Obree, came along at the exact same time. Boardman is also very fair to Obree in his book, saying that although at the time they had a not particularly friendly rivalry, on reflection Obree was the real innovator and of...

Just in case you did want to split it, I’d be interested in the frameset, although you’d have to post it to me, so I can well understand you might not want the hassle of that even if you did split it.

I just finished reading his autobiography. It’s pretty good, for that sort of thing. He’s certainly honest about both his talents and his failings (like his rather quick realisation that he would never be able to succeed beyond time trials in the grand tours).

I should add that I took the bike to my local bike co-op and having tried a few they had in stock, they reckoned it was somewhere between an M5 and M6, so probably imperial - hence my post here. But it does seem to take an M6, after all. I guess I'll try the right length regular M6 bolt with a...

Yeah, I did kind of answer my own question, there, really... But actually, I'm wrong. I've found an M6 bolt (from an old stem) which does fit the thread, seemingly - but the head is too small. So it looks like I need a specific length M6 with a large head...

I have a 1960s frame which doesn't take the usual (i.e more 'modern') seat bolt size, and it's also not an M5 or M6 size either, it seems somewhere in-between. Imperial, perhaps? The thread is on the left-hand side, and the right-side has quite a large opening for the bolt head to fit into...

Can’t really go wrong for £50. Too far from me, though, which is a good thing, really.

This went for £200, which I was actually a bit surprised by, given the market. I went to see it, and it was somewhat on the rough side. Nice wheels and of course the full 10 speed 105 groupset, though. I'd be very surprised if it doesn't get stripped for those parts.

'Used but loads of life left in the old girl. Little bit of elbo grease n she being gleeming.' Indeed.

No tatty shortish 26mm stems out there? I could go to 90mm at a push...

They're pretty common with French-made BB's like Stronglight or TA, designed for touring triples. Less common with Japanese ones, I think, although I know Shimano did at least make some.

Those shifters with the big friction adjusters were around from 1974, according to Velobase. I was surprised that the matchbox style FD apparently was around until the mid-80s (although, being Campagnolo I shouldn't really have been surprised). Both the RD and FD look so out of date compared to...

Now that Dawes does have a rack I approve of. It also ticks one of the other street-bike boxes - having only one mudguard (as does the red one behind it, in fact). And once again the saddle is worth about three times as much as the bike, of course.

I think we have the current winners for the longest seatpost and the worst bar tape in there! And that Rourke with a front rack 🤔

It does make me wonder how specific certain vows might have been, let’s just say that.

I'm after a 26.0mm clamp quill stem - 70-80mm long - can be rough/tatty looking as I'll be spraying it black. As I don't mind it being rough I was thinking of about £10 posted, really, if that's possible... Thanks

Yeah, but I definitely wasn't going as fast as you were!

With the discussion about the climbs out of Hathersage in Derbyshire earlier in this thread, I got to thinking – what if I did a ride stringing all the five climbs together, doing them in clockwise order? So today I did exactly that. It wasn't as painful as I was anticipating, although the...

Well, you can do more about a frame being a bit too small than it being too large. It sounds like I’m pretty much the same size as @winjohn and I ride bikes from 56-60cm. For me a 56 means quite a long seat post, but I find they still ride nicely. I agree with the above, 60cm would definitely...

Cheers. Yes, you’re probably right about the decal design being part of the issue I have with them. The design makes me think of an 80s supermarket or something, rather than something that belongs on a bike. But thinking about it more, I probably will keep them as they are - there seems...