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Good evening,

Slighly off topic, here is a picture of my
crappy bike bike disguised as a crappy bike
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Someone still pinched it.

Bye

Ian
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
Raleighnut would steal that. He's got a kink for patina.

Nah I've already 'been there done that' with my Raleigh City. I saved the SA 3 speed and serviced it then had that and a Shimano dynahub laced on to 700c ally rims, that meant I had to fit shorter reach brake calipers* but I had a couple of Wienmann ones in the shed that were perfect. Took off the steel cottered crank and heaved that into the bin fitting an appropriate length square taper bottom shaft (from the shed) and a Stronglight crankset. New Aluminium handlebars and a Brooks (sprung) B67 completed the build.

* Meant I could dispense with the bits of twisted steel Raleigh laughingly called brake calipers fitted to all their cheap bikes including the 'Chopper'
 
Good morning,
I'd nick that just so i could install the rear rack the right way round.
That was my plan too, I went to Halfords, bought a rack and and started to bolt in on in their car park.

I then found that the shrouds around the rear ends got in the way and drat I had no angle grinder with me. :laugh:

Bye

Ian
 
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