Recent content by Birdy60

Love those bars, a padded seat back on the saddle and it would be perfect. Luxury🙂

Much as I love my Ranger I get what you are saying. It was one of the first MTB’s in the UK and would have been very unresponsive on trails which was what it was supposed to be doing. But it was fabulous for me and such a comfortable frame when fully loaded. Once I put some completely slick...

It’s never too late! The hardest part was starting after that you just take it as it comes. Dawes gave me the bike, Brooks the saddle and Carradice the panniers. They didn’t want anything in return but got a reasonable amount of publicity en route. I was raising money for a charity but it was...

Stunning place to live, I loved cycling there though I remember it being freezing coming down from there!

Great photo, really shows up the long wheelbase! When did they go blue. I know they started off burnt cherry then Indiana red. That looks great.

I am sure people generally would look after you as much now as they did then!

Haha that would probably bore you to tears! But basically I started in Scotland, cycled through England, France, Germany, Austria then behind the Iron curtain as it was then, through Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Then Greece and Turkey. I had planned to cross Iran and Afghanistan...

I wish mine still looked like yours, that’s beautiful

The long wheelbase was great for touring. This was a 1986 model that Dawes sponsored me with for a 27000 mile round the world trip I did 1986-88. They added extra lugs for the front pannier rack and a third bottle cage. After a few months I changed the chainrings from 26-36/46 to 26/46/50 as I...

I cycled round the world on a Dawes Ranger back in 1986-88, Dawes gave me the bike with extra water bottle and front carrier lugs, I am also 6’3” so has a longer seat post as the 22” frame was a bit small for me. It was completely reliable and clocked up 27000 miles and handled very predictably...