Damn late thread arrival... Anyone seen where Ariadne went?
I bought a Raleigh Super Maverick at Terry Wrights in about 1985 (last years model, the Tange one) with a selection of those beautiful Suntour components. Welling up thinking about them...:'-*
Still using a VX rear mech with XC covered shifters on a rigid steel frame (Girvin forks...). The Mountech rear mech died fast as the top jockey wheel was a ring of plastic with teeth on around the lower spring housing - bad idea. VX was cheap and better! The Raleigh was lent to someone in London to help him get to work, and he sold it and told me it was stolen. Hey Jonty, how's the coke habit?
So anyhoo - I used to ride in the Peterborough area with a fellow on a grey Ridgeback and someone who lived in the Cathederal grounds with a dayglo yellow - I mean, YELLOW - Saracen, with the first biopace rings I ever saw. The Saracen was, IIRC, 531 tubing with 753 rear stays - maybe custom? Wonder where that went, he didn't ride hard enough to have broken it...
Mugged down Memory Lane
I bought a Raleigh Super Maverick at Terry Wrights in about 1985 (last years model, the Tange one) with a selection of those beautiful Suntour components. Welling up thinking about them...:'-*
Still using a VX rear mech with XC covered shifters on a rigid steel frame (Girvin forks...). The Mountech rear mech died fast as the top jockey wheel was a ring of plastic with teeth on around the lower spring housing - bad idea. VX was cheap and better! The Raleigh was lent to someone in London to help him get to work, and he sold it and told me it was stolen. Hey Jonty, how's the coke habit?
So anyhoo - I used to ride in the Peterborough area with a fellow on a grey Ridgeback and someone who lived in the Cathederal grounds with a dayglo yellow - I mean, YELLOW - Saracen, with the first biopace rings I ever saw. The Saracen was, IIRC, 531 tubing with 753 rear stays - maybe custom? Wonder where that went, he didn't ride hard enough to have broken it...
Mugged down Memory Lane
