Recent content by French Marigold

Re: You are all so kind and helpful! What a wonderful forum. The information from you has been relayed to my husband and galvanised him into action. He now says he has various bits in his shed that "might do" and has gone to check (he bought a large job lot of bike parts at auction some years...

Re: Thanks so much, that's really helpful and kind of you. It probably wasn't the best bike ever made but I like it, and I particularly like the saddle! I've been to look at new (hybrid) bikes but mostly they weren't any lighter and looked decidedly chunky. The cheapest was £150 plus so...

Re: Hello Bats. Will this do? The gap is 5 inches. (or 12.7 centimetres). Sorry, the ruler is plastic so it's not that easy to read. My husband suggested moving the gears off the mountain bike but that that will mean it has no gears then!

Re: Oh doesn't that look lovely! Yes, sort of. Same gears I think but my seat is the original and therefore quite worn but so comfortable I would have swapped it onto a new bike. I changed to straight handlebars a while ago (after coming off on a gravelly corner, seriously damaging my arm and...

Hello. At 68 I have decided not to buy a new bike but to update my Raleigh Wisp, bought new in 1980 when the children were small (and which replaced my all-steel Raleigh with locking front fork!) and which I've ridden ever since. So I've ordered new tyres so that I can go down tracks not just...