A few questions on vintage road bikes

[Illaveago]

Do you mean attempt a repair of the frame? I did consider it but a new seat tube would be the only way and it was a later CB, so probably not worth the expense. If it had been a 1960s classic with fancy lugs I probably would have repaired it.

I see what you mean . I saw one in a local auction a couple of years ago, it looked a bit scruffy and in vivid green colour, horrible graphics! I only bid half heartedly .

 

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I think my sister has a 'Stang in that color.

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[Poacher]

I think my sister has a 'Stang in that color.

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C'mon, you must know this!

 

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stang - Wiktionary

 

[woodbutcher]

C'mon, you must know this!

As a wild teenager living in the Lincolnshire fens, in the autumn/early winter we used to wade out into the creeks on the mudflats with a sort of multi pointed spear . You went with bare feet to feel for flat fish ( Butts ) lying in the mud which you hoped to spear ....we called this "butt - stangin" . Not a pastime for anyone who felt the cold

 

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I really don't understand, am I being thick ? maybe it's an age thing.

 

[DCBassman]

Ok, I'll break this - it's short for Mustang, as in the car!

 

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Ah I see,I was thinking of bikes.

 

[biggs682]

Ah I see,I was thinking of bikes.

Why would you do that this is not a cycling forum is it ?

 

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I don't know anymore.

 

[DCBassman]

I don't know anymore.

I'll confess, I sometimes wonder...

 

[Poacher]

I really don't understand, am I being thick ? maybe it's an age thing.

Sorry! Actually, I thought my hint was spectacularly unsubtle, with the bold an' all, but I apologise unrervedly for any embarrasment caused. Sometimes we're on different wavelengths, me as much as anyone.

 

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No need to apologise.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Same here, sorry, made the leap over to Fords with the Deep Impact Blue.

 

[Kempstonian]

Anyway, its a nice colour