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Looking good - just two things: the shifters are mounted upside down, and also ideally the skewer QRs should be pointing upwards rather than forwards or backwards, though I appreciate it’s still a work in progress anyway…

Yeah, all founds very familiar! I'm pretty sure I've never built up a bike without at least one thing occurring that I'd never come across before with a bike. The last one that springs to mind is a brake cable that had become totally rusted stuck in a brake adjuster, which led to me melting a...

Don't forget in Sheffield we also now have Veloroo, which is a 'Canyon Experience Partner' 🤢. Naturally, they can't describe themselves as a 'bike shop', that would be far too mundane. I don't really see it lasting long, I think they've rather mistimed the opening given the general state of the...

I feel your pain. I've lost count of the number of times I've had issues with stem and bar combinations (there are at least 3 different common sizes, 25.8mm, 26mm and 26.2mm, and it's not uncommon for people to list the wrong size when selling). I've had to resort to shims for the bars on a few...

Yes, I can see from your photo that there's no cut-out part for the cable to exit through - you're right, most aero levers do have that. I can only guess that the cable is just meant to go out of the side, at a logical point - it looks like there are areas at the sides where it's just the rubber...

Isn't your 653 currently for sale on eBay? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167733154221

Put them on the ends of the outer brake cable/housing and then you should be able to feed the outer cable into the inside of the lever where the inner cable threads through. So, it's the cable housing that keeps them in place. They should be a fairly snug fit on the end of the outer.

Have I gone too far with these wheels? :LOL: In my defence, I'm continuing the theme of a bike that looks...well, kind of odd. I've definitely upped the odd factor with these. They also follow the theme of looking one thing and being another, as although they may be partly carbon, they are in...

A well-used Longstaff tourer. Double-wrapped bar tape, which is kind of ugly, but considering the state of the bar tape on the other bikes in this thread, I'll not criticise...

I would guess the tubing is the butted version of Kromo, rather than the plain-gauge. Your decal probably read 'Butted Tubes Forks & Stays' or similar.

That's an Accles & Pollock 'Kromo' decal: There's a bit of info here on A&P: https://classicrendezvous.com/country-of-origin/the-british-isles/classic-british-components/accles-pollock/

Actually, yes, I should revise my earlier statement. There is not a hope in hell that it will sell at that price.

The Tange BB on the bike with the SR Apex cranks was 125mm long, so yes, it looks like you'll need something much longer than 113. Not that that's conclusive, and I may have just muddied the waters even more!

Sure - I've actually recently taken some SR Apex cranks off a BB, so I'll just check what the BB length was on that bike...

I have an unused 113mm threadless BB somewhere if you're interested for £10 posted? It's one of these M-wave ones. It's pretty heavy, but seems fairly well made.

It’s obviously a rare find, but I’m not sure it’s both rare and particularly desirable, at least not to the point of being worth over £850. I very much doubt it’ll attract any bids, though it’ll be interesting to see one way or another. Also, what’s going on with that bar tape?

Now on eBay at a starting price of £30. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336159346454

I was once at a birthday party where Phil Oakey was in attendance, as his girlfriend was a friend of someone I knew. He’s quite a shy bloke by all accounts. Maybe that’s why he went for a haircut that covered half his face - or maybe it’s just because it was the 80s 🤔.

I'll PM you – I'm sure we can work something out.

Looking at the head tube it doesn’t look as big as a 22”/56cm frame to me. I’m in Sheffield so I can potentially collect this and drop it off at the train station @Stormylolol