I saw a guy up in the hills on an Activator 2 earlier this year. Can’t imagine there’s many of those left.
Alternatively, I think the Patriot Joe Barnes was racing on at innerleithen at the start of the month is the only one in the world so, I’ll go with that.
mmmm, drunk window shopping, so much safer when the shops are shut! 😀
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Yates DOGSBOLLOX????
You mean a Roberts!
I do mean a Roberts, of course. Ahem. I will sit in the retro naughty corner for 33 minutes (a minute for every year of their life, isn’t it?) and think about what I said. 😳 😳
I had a prototype Shimano 9 speed on my Scott Octane in 1996. IIRC there were only a couple of sets in the country and the lads at the LBS were very keen to have a look.
I’m nowt special by the way. I got the bike off Brant who was at MBR at the time and he had too many of them in his house so he gave one to me on loan… that Scott never asked to return.
Saw a green mantis last year round rivvy and the titanium alpinestars at the Manchester Midweek race last year. Saw the raleigh dyna tech team off retro bike at Mary Townley 2 years ago.
I know that there are others out there but apart from one being ridden across town I cannot recall ever seeing another Dekerf out and about aside from my own.
On an old skool note, there were a few Fuquays kicking about the Ipswich area bitd but I’ve not seen one of those for years now.
CFH, they had a complete bike built up on one of those frames in Twinner (now Sport 2000) in Bourg Saint Maurice 2 or 3 years ago. Stupidly light. Think it was selling for something obscene like 9000€!
I actually witnessed someone riding an Orange 5 at CYB last weekend!! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I mean, I’ve seen loads stood up outside trail center cafes and bike shops, but actually moving………..on the trails……….unbelievable.
I had one of those til 2007 when it got nicked. If you see one around, RC38 hollowform forks, X-lite bar, Flite SLR saddle, Middleburn XC duo 2×9, Pauls component/dura-ace shifters.. it’s bloody well mine 🙁
XTR v-brakes, does anyone else still use them? Some kid was swooning over mine on the train the other day.
Oh that Kirk Revolution – I loved mine! Thieving barstewards…
Tart that I am I had Brantsupply me with a Ti Il Pompino (though the wait for it to arrive was so long that by the time I got my hands on it my employer had relocated so I couldn’t use it to commute on. A real shame really as I built it up with such tasty bits as Cook Bros E cranks and WTB Dirt Drops). In my current collection I have the first SS Roberts’ DOGSBOLX built and what I beleive is one of only two Vicious Cycles’ Groovers in the country.
well back in 2003 they had a litespeed road bike in muddocks window that had been ridden by a tour de france rider (robbie meckewen i think?sorry that i spelt his name wrong 😳
Yep that Colella tandem was at a few of the NEMBAs’ too in the mid 90’s. I was about to tell you who was riding it, but its gone from my mind! It might have been Guy Kesteven?