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...and a spare!

The cheap Vittoria tubs look the part. Use double sided tub tape. Fit the tape to the rim, peel back a couple of inches of the backing tape from the outer surface, at the valve. Leave it sticking to one side a little. Lightly inflate the tyre, fit valve, roll tyre onto the rim. Centralise...

Woah It's on there tight! Some are though Next trick? 2x 5 pence pieces😃 You removed the little slim steel washer? That stops removal, killed many crank extractor threads

Don't ride them though, they look awful fast😉

That's not the real ET🤔

Looks nice in that colour! You can make a good trueing stand out of a steel mtb rear triangle, use canti bosses to mount the vert and horizontal gauge. Looks like the rear wheel rim is worn through by the brake though😪

The small centre but spread suburbs make cycling ideal for most, But also the varied geology is great - you've got the cotswolds, the mendips, Somerset levels, the Severn and the Avon valley, and South Wales all within an hours ride. In this area, great domestic, industrial, religious and...

Intermission: Night scene of Colston st, Bristol. Cue soft jazz, perhaps a lady with a tray of mini ice creams. The glow of cigarettes in the darkness.

I fort we fort it weren't no beagle

Do you know what it is yet, Bob😉

Bristol has loads of great bikes knocking around😍 It's the opposite of Holland, where everyone says "great for cycling" but most of the bikes are crap. Bristol, hilly, poor roads, rainy, seething with white van men, make of it what you will!👌

Colleague Jo's minivelo after hours at the shop, just now😃

Oh yes you do!😉

All alloy hunts, fashionably black and aero for the year. We are fitting a 42 sprocket, 11/42 cassette should give a nicer range, and then upping the tyres to 35s, and i bet my younger colleagues will force me to fit amberwalls. Well, not fit exactly, just pay for🤣

The www.argos decal is very 2005🤣 Paint colour is a bit undercoaty for its niche, but preferable to the current dayglo pastel fade for a discreet quality look.