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[EasyPeez]

Afternoon commute past The Deep, Hull.

 

[simon.r]

Sunset and moorhen...and random blue dot that appeared in all 4 photos I took at about the same time.

 

[Goggs]

Autumn has arrived. Excellent!

 

[booze and cake]

Site of the Tyburn Tree near Marble Arch, a place for public hangings for nearly 600 years.
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-london/marble-arch-and-public-executions
'Still water' bronze horse head sculpture in the background. Nearby I also snapped David Bruer Weil's 'Brothers' in the lovely autumnal sunshine

 

[clid61]

That would be this one I don't know if it's changed in 35 years, but you could see through the wooden slats to the long drop below

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That's the one ! Last time,(before last week), was 45 years ago as a fearless child. I couldn't tell you if it's changed , I didn't look down

 

[Goggs]

 

[EasyPeez]

Wow, idyllic. Where's this?

 

[Goggs]

It's about 3km outside Saint-Remy-de-Provence. This is along the path we walk the dogs so we pass it more or less every day.

 

[biggs682]

Early 600 front mechanism

 

[bonsaibilly]

I hate you

 

[Goggs]

Early 600 front mechanism

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When I was a teenager I owned a Benotto that had this exact groupset. I could shift gears telepathically it was so smooth. I miss that bike. I won a few races on it.

I hate you

Can you see the Anarchy symbol in it?

 

[Alex H]

Electric car charging point at our local HyperU. I would have perhaps expected this in somewhere like Paris or Bordeaux, but Saint Junien only has a population of 12,500. Although I have seen a car plugged in, once.

 

[swee'pea99]

When I was a teenager I owned a Benotto that had this exact groupset. I could shift gears telepathically it was so smooth. I miss that bike. I won a few races on it.

I had a Benotto for a while. Lovely bike. Nothing fancy - it wasn't Columbus or anything, not marked as anything in particular, and it was no lightweight, but it was a lovely thing to ride - and looked dead cool for a bonus.

 

[jack smith]

First Proper ride since last June for me on a brand new bike and I loved it! Made the move to 28c specialised turbo tyres and I'm never going back!

 

[Goggs]

I had a Benotto for a while. Lovely bike. Nothing fancy - it wasn't Columbus or anything, not marked as anything in particular, and it was no lightweight, but it was a lovely thing to ride - and looked dead cool for a bonus.

My bike was the full Columbus triple-butted affair. It was in a sort of gold colour. Although I loved the groupset it had its quirks. Instead of a regular 600 stem & seat post it had 600 aero. That stuff looked great but the stem quickly lost its angled cap for adjustment (blu-tac to the rescue) and more severely the seat post had an aero profile for the top two-thirds. I wasn't quite tall enough to raise it enough so that the profiled part was fully exposed and so water could collect around the top & seep through into the seat tube and then down to the bottom bracket. Couple that with the heart-shaped cutout underneath the bottom bracket & it was a recipe for disaster. Shimano equipped the BB with a plastic sleeve for such purposes but Japanese & Italian crafts men used different rulers, or something. I must've replaced the BB two or three times at least.

Still a fabulous bike though. Very comfortable and very fast. Then I left school, discovered cars, girls & fags. The rest is history.

I should do a write-up on the Flying Scot I owned. That was a beautiful bike too.