Hi
Here's a photo of my Super Galaxy, bought in 1981 after I left college for £257.50.
That summer I toured England on it with a mate who had also bought one. In the first 10 days or so we were each breaking a spoke or so a day. We cut short the tour and cycled to the Dawes factory in Birmingham. We rode into their nice clean executive-looking foyer in sweaty touring kit with dusty pannier-laden bikes and harangued them about the problem. After all they were top of the range touring bikes and the back wheels couldn't cope with carrying a little bit of weight on reasonable UK roads. At the time there had just been a story in the national press about a couple of blokes who were going round the world on Super Galaxies - I wonder how their back wheels fared.
Anyway. the Dawes service then was excellent. They put together a couple of 40-spoke rear wheels for us there and then, no charge, and gave us a guided tour round the factory while we waited, so we saw the frames being put together and sprayed, the wheels being laced etc etc. Never broken a spoke since.
The bike is pretty much as it was then - 531 DB, Brooks B17, Sun Tour Cyclone, TA cranks, Weinmann centre-pulls, Campag hubs, SR stem, Maillard skewers.
Jonathan