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Lovely sunny day.Did a 14 mile test ride for the Wife's new Dawes bike,i rode her other one ( on the left )with the saddle jacked up in...

33° today, hilly and hot 🥵 Thought about giving up after 10 km already but somehow did the whole 85 with an average below 15 km/h 😬

Find it strange that Raleigh were putting cable guides on top of the BB in 1984 when my 1982 Gran Sport has the more modern method ?

About 5 miles from me,even lived there for seven years !

(yesterday's ride) Not getting many opportunities to head out on the bikes at the moment so when I do the legs are feeling very slow 👎...

I never thought I could get my BB7 so hot to colour the disc and fade all the power of it around here on my 'own' trails. :eek: ...but...

Got back from last weeks ride feeling like it was tough work towards the end. Bike had developed a terrible creaking noise. When I got...

Picked up this Dawes Galaxy for £50 from an elderly gent who has owned it since new! Very tidy, looks to be all original, think it just...

How sad showing off your tins of grease ! :rolleyes:

Everyone's garage or shed in the 70s had an everlasting pot of Castrol LM guarded by a dad fearful of kids making an even bigger mess.

From ebay,had to spread them a bit to match her other bike. Nice and light aluminium,same with the brake levers which i saved off an old...

Test ride,and she likes it ! :)

Apologies for spamming this thread, but I am trying to get out for a ride every evening at the moment - the weather is nice and I am...

Nope , but I did a lot of damage to the shed with a pellet gun . Tin cans became a favourite and you could get a right bang from an...

Yep I had a gas pipe framed bike,boy did I get a bollocking from my dad when he saw what I had done to our heating system.