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Just tried to lookup Brifterising in the OED and couldn't find it 😉 Nice word!

Not really. For one, the OP's don't look to have cutouts in the lever body to let the cable escape onto the top of the bars, and secondly the ones in the video have black levers, the OP's look silver

Please tell me your sponsorship influence didn't force them to ride a single 60T chainwheel and a 12-18 block

Back in the day before hidden cables were invented, it was a thing for some time trialers to force the cable through the housing of a standard lever and drill the bars to accommodate the cable. Braking would have been compromised, but as the bikes were solely used for flat TTs, it didn't matter...

Yeah. I'd forgotten about the canyon shop. I did go in earlier this year for a mooch around. Let's just say I wasn't there long. And I didn't see any road bikes, just gravellers and MTBs. A Different Gear is good. They also build up used bikes to sell at reasonable prices. And then there's...

I think to fit these levers, you're meant to drill the bars. A hole where the lever is to thread the cable into the bars and another hole near the stem for the cable to exit the bars (each side of course). Not something I'd be comfortable in doing or riding

Bike shops are now moving towards how the motor industry is. Franchaised shops. So here in Sheffield we have a Giant/Liv shop, a Trek shop, Evans is essentially Pinnacle and Brompton. There's the Pinarello shop in Manchester. All are looking at selling spanky , new glitzy machinery. Plus...

It's been built up by a raw amateur bodger. Interesting way of mounting the front mudguard in front of the caliper. And the downtube cable stops are upside down. Someone with some spannering knowledge could turn it into a nice tourer though

Further to Jim's post, I was always afraid I would strip the thread on the biggest cog when climbing a meaty hill. The thread is only as 'long' as the steel plate from which the cog has been stamped. And 42-21 on a steep hill takes a lot of torque. (bear with me on the layman's engineering speak)

Good to know. I've only ever had cheap nutted wheels 👍

QR hollow axles are usually a larger diameter than steel nutted axles, so his existing cones won't thread onto the hollow axles. A further consequence is that the fatter QR cones won't clear the existing bearing shields

Some flawed maths there

That version is the best colour

Recreating the days of the steam expresses passing close to the back garden

I'm sure when Shimano acquire and sell hubs, they don't just say to one of the manufacturers 'what you making at the moment? .... Ah those! ..... We'll have x000 of those and sticker them up as Shimano and sell at a massive premium. Meanwhile, we're ok with you continuing to sell them...

Did you settle it with shiny Campag bits?

To be fair, back in the day, the plugs were more often than not stuck on top externally. Or at least they were up here. I guess the reason was that with benotto you could start taping on top and work downwards towards the end plugs which held the taping in place.

It's a piece of static artwork. Scrap this along with all the museum exhibits and save public monies then ?

Surprisingly, it's got a lot of people cycling and walking to see it and also talking about something positive for a change. Don't know who's funded it though - waterways or council? Arguably everything but food, welfare and health is a public waste of money. Not sure where one draws the line.

You need to see it close up But I usually make sure I'm parked next to something more desirable. If I'm doing an evening pub in town then I've either prearranged something where the bar manager will let me bring it in or I don't park it on bike stands but prefer a secluded corner behind a...