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If they do run at you let the dog off the lead. They're the antagonist causing the attention, not you - and they'll be able to run away to safety. You're both at much more risk of being trampled if you stay together.

But they often don't loose interest, that's the point. They've got time to reflect/get further seduced/be irresponsible/whatever, and keep creeping up the bidding to compete. Often it seems people don't place a max bid for some reason, but go low, hoping to win it for that. It seems irrational...

Yeah but lots of people don't seem to know what they want to pay and fanny about inching up their bids rather than hitting a max amount. I like to determine what the most is I'd want to pay, (add a bit more if I'd be gutted to loose it for that!) - then hopefully blow everyone out the water with...

Well I do that, but lots of folk don't and if they've time to see they're not winning they can keep increasing their bids

Wow, that's buggered it all up then. Seems ridiculous. ...Will you be able to just add on an extra 2 mins before getting your late bid in, as before?

No doubt I'm being thick but I don't understand this. Are bids being accepted after the specified end time? (I always get my bid in with 2 seconds to go (well maybe 2 1/2) and always seem to be the last bidder. Twice the 'puter's stuck and it hasn't made it in time though).

Can't say I'm afraid. From memory it looks very similar to mine which was bought in Jan '82 and was the previous years 'model'.

One of these was my first decent bike back in 1982. It was heavily discounted as I believe Saracen were really struggling at that time. They made a comeback a couple of years later (after being bought out by Bluemels?). Mine was originally spec'd with a Shimano 600 chainset and Tourney mech's...

I'd say it's Bob on. 😀

Ok, I'd have thought the sprung b-pivot (hanger bolt) would make this an early one from '85. That 21 stamp is very confusing though

Beautiful Paul 😀

There were a couple of iterations of the 1st gen' C-Record mech. The earliest version actually had a sprung 'b-pivot'. All later versions inc. 2nd gen' were unsprung, if this helps at all..

Beautiful mech! I can't remember too well to be honest, but IIRC '85 is 11 as you say, '86 should be 22, '87 = 33 etc. Not sure how 21 fits in there. I'll try and find my old files but they might be stuck on an old PC

What a great deal 😀

I think Miche still make some replacements Juanjo