CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Show us your steel.....its real...
- Thread starter Cooperman
- Start date
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All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
That is perfect! Bike, view, everything!
russ.will
Slimboy Fat
- Location
- The Fen Edge
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
As good as it gets!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I was reminded of this post just now when @avecReynolds531 'Liked' it.Here'a an old steel Basso converted to a single-speed bike. I keep it in the midlands for riding around the undulating lanes north of Coventry on my frequent trips back there. I scrounged the frame. forks and wheels off a mate who has emigrated (on condition that he can have them back if he ever comes home). Most of the other bits came from my junk box. It only cost me £25 for cables, bar tape and tubes!
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I kept on going to Coventry to visit my elderly mum until she died in 2010. The bike served me well on those frequent visits.
The friend who lent me the bulk of the parts for the bike DID eventually return to the UK so, as promised, I returned the bike to him. He kept it with the one small chainring, but put a rear derailleur back on and made it a 1x9 (or 1x8?).
He was kind enough to donate another frame/fork to me so I made myself another singlespeed bike, which I have ridden thousands of kms on. That includes lots of metric centuries, imperial centuries and even a few double metric centuries. The replacement singlespeed bike has an aluminium frame though.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
That’s a cracking ride on a cracking bike!
Thanks FF. The bottom bracket failed on my modern carbon bike a couple of days b4 my holiday, so I took the eddy merckx instead. Looking back on it I'm so glad I did now
avecReynolds531
Veteran
- Location
- Small Island
...if it had to be only one bike - a 531in the country sun...
vickster
Legendary Member
New to me steelie
Going to change to SRAM brifters and rear mech, add crosslevers, flat pedals and .... orange bartape
I’m as yet undecided on rack (I’ve only got a silver one) and mudguards
Going to change to SRAM brifters and rear mech, add crosslevers, flat pedals and .... orange bartape
I’m as yet undecided on rack (I’ve only got a silver one) and mudguards
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CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
New to me steelie
Going to change to SRAM brifters and rear mech, add crosslevers, flat pedals and .... orange bartape
I’m as yet undecided on rack (I’ve only got a silver one) and mudguards
Nice!
I think I'd go black Tubus rack, and SKS Stingray mudguards with the blue accents.
https://m.bikester.co.uk/sks-blueme...B4AQ5WFzVkZzLwyo6KbwaAliNEALw_wcB&ev_chn=shop
a.twiddler
Veteran
Bit of a cheat.....already appeared on Bike on a Bridge...but it's definitely steel!
Bike is a 2011ish Revolution Country Explorer bought 2016.
Added Nitto Randonneur bars 42cm. Has a generic Viking plastic saddle which is strangely comfortable. Blackburn front rack, bit of a monstrosity but hard to find a high front rack for a disc fork. This will take high or low panniers. Shimano specific Mirrycle, transferred from last bike. Cheap plastic accessory bracket from Amazon. Original ancient pinger bell transferred via various previous bikes. Also have on trial a traditional bell pinched from Mrs Twiddler's bike which I have been trialling back to back with that following posts on Bells thread. The pinger wins! So the other bell is going back on her bike before she notices it's missing.
Wheel spindle mounted side stand. And finally, a 1980ish Carradice Nelson Longflap Saddle bag on a Karrimor quick release frame. It's still an eminently practical thing even if empty it weighs as much as some riders' underseat toolbag fully loaded.
The tyres are Panaracer Pasela 700X35c which I have found comfortable and free rolling.
Apart from the above, it's pretty much how it came.
The bike is comfortable and responsive (if a little heavy) and feels stable at speed and on loose surfaces, just nice to ride.
I didn't mean to write a review, but oh well, there you go.
Bike is a 2011ish Revolution Country Explorer bought 2016.
Added Nitto Randonneur bars 42cm. Has a generic Viking plastic saddle which is strangely comfortable. Blackburn front rack, bit of a monstrosity but hard to find a high front rack for a disc fork. This will take high or low panniers. Shimano specific Mirrycle, transferred from last bike. Cheap plastic accessory bracket from Amazon. Original ancient pinger bell transferred via various previous bikes. Also have on trial a traditional bell pinched from Mrs Twiddler's bike which I have been trialling back to back with that following posts on Bells thread. The pinger wins! So the other bell is going back on her bike before she notices it's missing.
Wheel spindle mounted side stand. And finally, a 1980ish Carradice Nelson Longflap Saddle bag on a Karrimor quick release frame. It's still an eminently practical thing even if empty it weighs as much as some riders' underseat toolbag fully loaded.
The tyres are Panaracer Pasela 700X35c which I have found comfortable and free rolling.
Apart from the above, it's pretty much how it came.
The bike is comfortable and responsive (if a little heavy) and feels stable at speed and on loose surfaces, just nice to ride.
I didn't mean to write a review, but oh well, there you go.
