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<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I live on a quiet little no through lane in mid-Wales, with about eight houses and 3 farms spread along it's length.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Last year my nearest neighbour gave me an old push bike. It's a 1952 Sunbeam gentleman's bike. It was bought new in 1952 by the man who lived at the first house on the lane.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When he got too old to ride it<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, about 30 years later,</span> he gave it to the farmer at the top end of the lane.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">20 years later it was passed on to my nearest neighbour who is now in his mid-seventies (not a cyclist).</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So last year he gave it to me 🙂 It's in "oily rag" condition, working but flat tyres and could do with a fettle, but very original and unrestored.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: " helvetica neue","helvetica",helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So I pumped the tyres up (26"), I looked to see if there was a psi marking on it, and found the following lettering. Love it :-)</p>
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