All uphill
Still rolling along
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- Somerset
They have a certain style; I'd like one in a pale metallic blue, please.
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Thank you, that was an interesting read. There were some lovely Charge mixtes a while back, I think.
wouldn’t that be beautiful 🤩 There is a Pashley one in a pale green, but I like your pale metallic blue idea more.
Just did my local 4 mile loop with my daughter on her new bike. Turns out I’ll never win any races with her if I’m on the mixte! I can carry a tub of jelly babies in the basket though.
DCBassman
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- The lumpy far South West
If there's ever enough money, maybe I'll have this one pwder coated in just that colour, how'd that be? At the same time, maybe an extra bridge across the lower downtubes to mount a decent brake on!
I am outrageously late replying, but yes, that would work beautifully!
Another question please. One of my brake levers has snapped off at the end. I think the bike must have fallen somewhere or been knocked when parked. I was going to have a go at replacing just that one as it doesn’t look too hard according to you-tube (wide eyed innocence/naivety) but haven’t found a perfect match online yet. So I might have to do them both with a different lever. Do I need to know anything else apart from the diameter of the handlebar and the type of brakes? Photos follow. Thank you.
edit - not sure why that last photo is upside down..
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DCBassman
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- The lumpy far South West
And a gratuitous reason for another pic of mine, now with shiny silver wheels and almost no spokes!
Edit: and with bottle cage mounts too!
Edit: and with bottle cage mounts too!
Pure geometry. Beautiful. I like it with the reduced spoke count. And bottle cage 😄
SkipdiverJohn
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Wheels with that few spokes are just wrong! 
raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
Nah, low spoke count wheels are ace, hub flange is too small though.Wheels with that few spokes are just wrong!
DCBassman
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- The lumpy far South West
SkipdiverJohn
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DCBassman
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- The lumpy far South West
I do get where you're coming from, I really do!That makes it even more wrong!.
It's essentially just the way things have worked out.
Abd both these R550s and the R500s on the Scott have seen far tougher action than designed for, without any problems. So I've kind of got used to them!
SkipdiverJohn
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Don't get me wrong, if I had a buckshee set of such wheels knocking around, I would use them on something - but probably only on a beater bike I didn't care about the appearance of. I really can't find any love for wheels that look like half the spokes are missing.
