Yep, we did the medium. Brilliant. 630 rims excellent on the bumpy stuff ! The new (old) standard ?

Your local Evans may be open until 7. Ours in MK is…

I’m doing exactly the same thing. I shall have the frame cold set. 3×9 105 off my CAAD4 Cannondale which has developed some worrying looking corrosion.

I believe problems with brifters and old stuff is due to the rear mech, the new mechs are optimised for indexing in some way.

Suntour stuff goes for reasonable money on ebay. Suntour rear mechs from late 70s look like modern ones. Campag and Shimano from that era look archaic.

I was in my twenties, completely out of my financial reach then. The Road Ace, particularly, rides like a dream.

If the Pantera is like my Zaskar from that era it will have the date of manufacture stamped into the frame near the one of the dropouts. Mine says 8/95.

Amazingly, we’ve also got one of those uranium Treks, which is my wife’s ‘leave at the train station’ bike. So far, indestructible.

The exact year of the Raleigh will be indicated by the serial number stamped under the bottom bracket.

It should start with a ‘W’, which indicates it was either made in Worksop, or in the part of the Nottingham factory that the Worksop group moved to.

The next is a letter that indicates the month of manufacture (A = January, B = February etc, although I have seen ‘P’ which sort of contradicts this)

The next is a number which is the last digit of the year. You do have to know the decade though, but the groupset should help there. The kit looks very like the stuff on my wife’s one which is 1982.

We’ve got very into vintage bikes in the last year and we’ve bought 4 Raleighs from this era recently. From the catalogue, we’ve got a Royal, a Record Ace, a Road Ace and a Competition.
Check the welds carefully, the Record Ace failed at the seat-stay seat-tube junction recently after some enthusiastic commuting. Up side was that the LBS rebrazed it and it’s back into service.

The forks look OK to me inasmuch as they always seem to look bent like that.

Here’s the Royal

A good one would fetch a couple of hundred, maybe more as we enter Eroica season…

+1

Starting to make my subs to STW look superfluous.

Too much texting / FB-ing whilst driving IMO. Driverless cars now, please !

I think the Human Rights Act is overrated as I really don’t know when or where to apply Human Rights Act to be honest.

So, you’re not an expert but you think it’s overrated. Classic. Typical kipper, you think everyone’s as clever as you are.

OP – have you read about their cycling policy ? This is a pro-cycling forum. If you’re pro-UKIP you’ve really no place here.

See the ‘Son in hospital in coma’ thread for why voting for UKIP is wrong. That service would just not be available to folk if the UKIPpers got their way. Scum.

why you trying to make a super light build then using a QR ? bolt thru lighter and tighter.

thanks, all. icloud is the missing link then. I’ll try endomondo.

bookwyse, that’s an Isle of Wight number. You a caulkhead ?

sprocketjockey –

I virtually broke that one in two

I DID break mine in two ! And as for the estate, we had 11 in one once, getting to a party…

I’ve done 6. Sooooooo weather dependent. A marvelous day out in dry sunshine, a freezing horror story if it snows on you whilst you’re sat on a lift.

There are some optional climbs if you feel like it but I’ve never seen anyone else doing them. We actually rode Morzine to Zore one year as the lift queue was so long !

car purchase price 5% of income. as it’s a ‘classic’ it’s nearly 5% a year to keep running, but I am doing 18k a year in it (yes it’s an old diesel merc).

Why would they at 45 ? Born after its release. I’d be more worried if they’d never heard of the Sex Pistols.

If they’re stopping at 12 does this mean we’re going to return to £sd ? Now that would appeal to the Ukippers…

Del – if you’re anywhere near Milton Keynes, email me on jackalope dot taylor at gmail, I could be interested.

cheers

I’ve had good luck with time machine. Our imac died, I had a time machine backup and the new one restored from it perfectly using migration assistant.

I’ve not tried to partition the disc though. Your other assumptions I believe to be correct.

They’ve just arrived. Looks like I’ve quite a cleaning job to do first.

White spirit to get the old glue off ?

OK, I just googled the sealent. WOuld you put this in from new rather than wait for a puncture ?

I’m a dog owner / lover. AFAIC the guy with the dog should be prevented from ever having one again, his stupidity caused the dog serious injury at least and the OP could have been Schumacher’d. Idiot. As for dazzlingly bright lights on cycle paths, more boiling blood…

Mine did that.

I found some NOS that had different flight deck buttons, but I managed to move the controls from the old to the new. All still working fine.

If you work out how to fix them I’d be very interested as I’ve still got the old ones (in amongst all my other old crap…)

If it’s got a big bend and none of the spokes are loose, this means that some spokes WERE loose when it was straight, or some were over-tight. For l’Eroica use I’ve just rebuilt an MA2 (not at a shop!) and I used a tension meter to ensure nothing was over tight.

We found a well recommended builder (not the cheapest), looked at some of his previous work, got him in and asked him to recommend an architect. For us, it worked really well and we were satisfied with everything.

BTW, when we changed the velux sizes we had to go back through planning…

Contrary to Rule 30, Zefal frame pumps are absolutely brilliant, about 10 strokes gets you back above 100psi.

They must have known – why else did they go into Chile at the first opportunity?

As Kuco says. The GP should get in touch even to say all’s OK, did with me recently.

Mrs flap_jack had not dissimilar surgery 15 years ago, and it took her over a year to get over it. This year she rode two centuries, back to back. Keep the faith !

had a couple of comments about my arms getting bigger. I’m pretty chuffed as putting on muscle mass at age 51 should be a toughie

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it’ll probably be glycogen + water. If I’m training arms my guns go up by two inches, and straight back down a month after I go back to legs (i.e. winter in gym, spring on bike). It ain’t a change in muscle for me (aged 53)…

As for OP question, up from 96kg to 102kg. It’ll take months to lose 🙁

Cost us 5k for a solid oak staircase plus 1k labour for chippy to fit it. It’s a thing of beauty.

The old one didn’t comply with building regs so we had to move it.

I have a 1994 W124 3 litre diesel. 210k miles.
It’s my everyday motor. Bought for 2.5k 5 years ago.
It’s needed a bit of work along the way but nothing major. Bit of rust on one wing but that’s all.
30-35 mpg.
No performance whatsoever (if I wanted performance I’d buy another R1, and after that everythong feels slow) but holds 85 all the way to Morzine crammed to the rafters without fuss and quiet enough to hold a conversation without raising your voice.

Are those hinges grinder proof ? Or have you hinge bolts inside ?

The whole GU10 light, TBH. WHen they break, they either take out the lighting circuit trip or explode into a thousand sharp pieces. Sometimes both…

I use lights instead, personally.

Why not as well as ? Can you be too visible ?

I used to know an incredibly fit woman whose RHR was 90. My brother is much fitter than me but his RHR is 20 higher (he got my father’s whizzy heart, I got my mother’s plodder). It only means anything if it changes for you.

wheelpro book +1

resistance drops as the temperature increases.

Sadly, that’s certainly my experience on the two Tacx turbos I have. If you re-cal after an hour it’s moved by about 4 points which equates to a reading of about 10% (yes, 10%) less power !