Recent content by Fat Mike

Yummy!

Here's my Bontrager..... What a handsome chap! I've also got a couple of custom built road bikes - a Pat Rohan and a Chas Roberts - and a ridiculously small 21" Orange Clockwork. I'll see if I can get a pic or two. :wink:

6' 7" here too. Having bars that low would kill my back!!

I'm feeling under-endowed at only 6' 7". But that's a different story! :oops:

Thats lovely! My 80's Roberts has a similar scheme only in pearl white and mauve. It seemed right at the time. :oops:

Sorry for the delay. I've had a good look all over and I can't find any frame numbers whatsoever. Sorry I couldn't be of any more help. The gold decal example you posted earlier is spot-on for my mid-eighties frame - when Rohan were still using the same headbadge that you showed in your...

I wish I hadn't binned my SSC rear mech. Truly a piece of bike art. The rest of the bike is pretty tasty as well. ;)

That's lovely. I may be showing my age but that's what a TT bike should look like

Nice! Brings back memories for me - my road bike is a Ron Thomas-built Pat Rohan bought back in (I think) 1985. A mix of 531 tubings - what later became known as Designer Select - and as sweet as the proverbial nut. Ron was a cracking bloke with a wicked sense of humour and I spent many...

My Roberts road bike from the mid-eighties was sprayed a fetching metallic mauve blush over pearl white and sported.............yep, fluoro pink Bennotto tape. :shock: I thought it was waaaaaaay cool BITD. And I stand by that today. Kind of.

The Ronde was always a highlight of my cycling year; hanging off a tree halfway up the Koppenberg, the tour coach getting stuck on the narrow roads and, of course, belgian beer. I was there in the year Jesper Skibby nearly got run over by the official's car after falling off at the base of...

That really is rather lovely!

That's sweet! Spent many £s in Whiskers in my time. A real Alladins cave of loveliness.

Can I join the club too? Had mine for 28 years together with the crank puller, crank bolt spanner and bottom bracket / cone tools as well. These babies were certainly built to last! :D

Oh yes! I once got a blister the size of Bristol on my finger from my Hope mechanical disc brake (don't ask!). Whether it's a practical solution or will catch on I don't know but I applaud the lateral thinking (cue someone coming up with an example from 1832....)