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    SNight

    Very happy with the wheels, clearly and accurately described, nicely packaged and delivered quickly.
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    Carlton Corsair

    A couple of years ago I bought an early 80s Carlton Criterium, which was a great bike but just not suited to my purposes. After a bit of research I concluded that the Corsair would be more suited to my needs. Then a Dawes Super Galaxy came up on here this time last year and I bought that...
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    Repairing a buckled wheel

    My son managed to buckle the front wheel of his Raleigh Eclipse by hitting a manhole cover or something. It's properly buckled, there must be about 10" of the rim affected and it's out of line by about 1/2", though as far as I can tell it's not out of round. It's a Rigida alloy rim in black...
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    Loose spokes

    I bought a nice but tired Raleigh Royal at the weekend. When had a go at riding it the front wheel was creaking quite badly, which I quickly discovered was caused by all of the spokes being loose. The first question is how would that happen? The rim seems to run fairly true, I don't think it's...
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    What's my Carlton made of?

    Just out of curiosity I was wondering if anybody knows what this is made of P1050214 by RichardB5, on Flickr Wet Carlton by RichardB5, on Flickr It's a 1981 Carlton Criterium, one of the last Worksop bikes I think. The seller said it was Columbus tubing but I've never seen anything to prove...
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    Raleigh Eclipse, because I really needed another bike

    I've been keen to try a bigger frame because I feel I'm on the limit with the 22.5" bikes I have so I couldn't resist bidding on this fairly local 1980s Raleigh Eclipse. From the description and the seemingly selective photos (it turned out that the seller didn't realise people might want to...
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