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If it's cleaned up and working ok that's what you want. Get Riding👍 but if there's wear in the straight ahead position, you can rotate the cups to reduce it, but ideally you'd replace the headset.

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Always surprises me how rarely we see broken bars without evidence of prior crash - but that sensation of a handlebar breaking when riding is never forgotten😬 With motor vehicles, driver error is around 95%, mechanical failure 5% Retrobikers is probably no different. In Bristol, a deliveroo...

Looks like it was chucked together on the hearth by a major concern, and badged up for HP?

And the other end of the market, Hugh Porter branded gaspipe special

Depends on weight, alloy, level of use, design and corrosion. Any 30 year old bar will be weaker than when it was new, but the difference might be insignificant. Try asking the manufacturer if the bar is still safe to use as designed🤔 Few retrobikes are used to their original limits though...

Surface corrosion is different to fatigue - but any 30 year old lightweight aluminium bar is beyond its life expectancy. How much they've been used probably has a bigger effect than corrosion, but is sometimes less obvious.

That's true - Creak is rarely the headset - it can even be the cables! But if the headset is suspect noisy, then dismantling it, cleaning it up and relubricating it will definitely change the noise if not eliminate it. Alloy cups with steel inserts are a bit troublesome - and if you've got a...

I only eat certain wild fungi: Giant puffballs Shaggy ink cap Oyster Chicken of the woods Field mushroom where I know they live. I didn't know dryads saddle was edible! Although iirc there aren't any toxic bracket fungi. Stats on poisoning hospital admissions are eye Opening for the amateur...

Griff outsized by fungi Dryad's saddle

https://ebay.us/m/kogJWL OK it's down to £200 plus ebay's cut. Might sell now...

Here's a double-broken chainstays i functionally fixed a while back - cinelli gazetta. Surprised it broke, it was only a few years old.

60 seconds will do 3 locks. The police know who the thieves are here though, so they can't "go equipped". Spot a bike, then go get the tools. but Angle-grinder man (Homo Molendi Angulare) is interested in the big money. Crappy retrobike e-stays ubrake in flouro livery is of little interest...

These would last around 5 or 20 seconds in Bristol Usually twisted until it bursts - bare hands only required. But a cable cutter will nibble through in about 25 seconds. This kind of lock is maybe ok where you don't have professional bike thieves.

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