Old Peculiiar and cotterpins

[MichaelM]

Mrs M brought me in a few bottles of Old Peculiar. Takes me back to the days of my old bike, cranks with cotter pins, no name cast iron frame with 27" wheels, Turbo saddle from Arthur Caygill Cycles, and rides from Catterick to the Tan Hill for pint.

We seemed to have nicer summers back then, though I do live in Scotland these days...

 

[Saddle bum]

Nostalgia is not what it used to be............

 

[tyred]

I still ride 27" wheels and cotterpins on some bikes.

 

[vernon]

Nostalgia is not what it used to be............

The older I get the better I was.

 

[GlasgowGaryH]

Guess I was expecting the post to be about something different http://www.theakstons.co.uk/Ales/Old-Peculier/

 

[MichaelM]

Guess I was expecting the post to be about something different http://www.theakstons.co.uk/Ales/Old-Peculier/

It was - and all my reminiscing of Yorkshire.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Cotter pins, the thought still fills me with dread. Technology has advanced.

 

[Arsen Gere]

One trick is to loose one and the bike is unusuable.
We had a chief inspector who found a 1928 Co-Op bike in the basement and had it renovated. He then made people ride it in public in uniform in a very hilly area. Hills were so steep they built tower blocks on their side. This bike weighed a ton and you pushed it up hill and the rods for the brakes - no cables - would bend/twist but not stop the bike coming down.
You can image what that did for moral.
So there became an endless loss of cotter pins so the thing was unusuable. Eventually it went to Beamish museum.

 

[Svendo]

When I was poor and living in London about 15 years ago, before I began road cycling for leisure, I commuted from Wembley to Camden on an old second hand SunTour 10-speed (2x5 speed). It had a cottered crank, and the pins had worn out and needed replacing. The bike shop didn't have the right size (in fact I think I was lucky they had any at all). Luckily the maintenance man at Arlington House where I worked let me use his grinder to get the nearest size reduced to fit. Did work although the bike didn't last much longer, although I can't remember what happened to it.