Mundane News

[Lullabelle]

Spent 3 hours in the garden this morning, lawn mowing, weeding etc...

 

[fossyant]

Health MOT this morning, yep a sunday.

BP ok, activity fine, classed as active... 3 hours or more a week cycling, over 3 hours walking, over 3 hours gardening.

 

[Gravity Aided]

At least my Raleigh's seatpost needs to be up a bit,

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But then I do have long legs.

you must, but then I would always need a higher spoke count.

 

[Kempstonian]

I don't post here very often but now I've got something so mundane I feel it has to be shared.

My speedometer the other day: just wanted to round the trip up and the total kilometreage jumped up too: the OCD in me wasn't happy!

Man, that's a lot of fives! Even your fuel guage would say 0.5 if it was a decimal one.

 

[classic33]

At least my Raleigh's seatpost needs to be up a bit,

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But then I do have long legs.

They reach the floor, going no further.

 

[Gravity Aided]

It is however one of the top Raleigh bikes of it's era an 83 Raleigh Road Ace in 531c,

View: https://youtu.be/Yu78Cv6GRIE

EDIT at 1 minute 52 he shows an 84 Road Ace with the same paint/decals as mine but with a different gear lever position.

Inlaid levers, probably Suntour top mounted downtube levers. Never caught on as you needed a different braze-on, like a water bottle braze on, but farther up the tube.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Still tall enough that I would need a set of steps to get on board

 

[Gravity Aided]

I have to admit that that frame is a bit of a challenge for me. That and the Corso are about the limit for me.

 

[Salty seadog]

you must, but then I would always need a higher spoke count.

 

[Illaveago]

Half moons ! We have been to do a car boot sale . The intention was to down size, but we ended up buying a few bargains .

I bought a rusty old wheel with a Sturmey Archer ? Speed hub with dynamo , an old pair of Ross of London Stepruva binoculars and a 1960' Corgi F1 BRM .

 

[raleighnut]

you must, but then I would always need a higher spoke count.

TBH that bike used to have 2 wheelsets, a low spoke count Shimano set shod with Continental Grand Prix Supersonic in 700 x 18 and a 32 spoke set with Mavic MA3 rims and much more sensible Schwalbe 700 x 23 tyres and a normal cassette (the light wheels have a 'corncob' Time Trial set) however I wrecked the front wheel on my Ridgeback so nicked the 32 spoke front from the Raleigh as a temporary measure until I got around to getting that rebuilt hence the mismatched set in the photo.

 

[raleighnut]

Inlaid levers, probably Suntour top mounted downtube levers. Never caught on as you needed a different braze-on, like a water bottle braze on, but farther up the tube.

Yep they only went on the 84 bikes, mine is an 83 so has standard gear bosses but had the same 'pearl white' paint scheme.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Kind of looks like that Falcon Milk Race scheme in the video. A very beautiful bike,@raleighnut

 

[Reynard]

Pizza, and F1zzzzzzzzzzz...

 

[Reynard]

Still tall enough that I would need a set of steps to get on board

Never mind steps, I'd need the climbing gear...