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That looks similar to the nipple on a 50's Simplex shifter, which I just got a cable for: Jagwire Basics is the one I found Could only find the tandem version on Ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235404147523 Edit: Found the Jagwire page...

Just going to suggest SunTour Power Shifter band-on down tube shifters. Available on Ebay for around £20-30. Also in all chrome if you wait for a bit. Possibly the best friction shifters ever made, and work fine with SunTour Cyclone GT rear deraileur. I can friction shift 8 speed with that...

I'm running Stronglight 49D 52/36 on the front on a Tange Seiki LN-3922 square taper spindle. SunTour New Winner ultra-6 13-15-17-19-24-32 on the back - in 120 dropout. SunTour Cyclone derailleurs front and back, GT on the back for 35 wrap. Stronglight 49D is a very good 5 pin and the rings are...

ok, maybe not rocking horse turds. End of last year two Whirlwinds turned up on Ebay, I bought the first as my offical state retirement present. Turned out it was cromovelato magenta from 1953 :) Still working on it but looking pretty good Just fitting a Cyclo Benelux Mark 8 Tourist I've...

A wild guess - could it be a Jack Taylor https://classicrendezvous.com/country-of-origin/the-british-isles/jack-taylor/

Spotted in Putney recently. Not vintage I think, but I had to look twice. Finger trouble at top

2 days to run, no bids, £58 Collection near Camberwell, South London Needs a good home to go to, but not me - I've got a 1961 Cyclone already. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/316514293362

I finally bought a bicycle torque wrench last year. I was using my car/motorbike one which is 10-150ftlb, right hand drive only. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0D2H9HF16?ie=UTF8&th=1 £30ish, 5-60Nm, left and right operation Haven't found any issues yet.

Apparently the GB components are being marketed by Pashley. https://road.cc/content/news/42424-pashley-launch-%C2%A36k-steel-super-bike%E2%80%A6-and-bring-back-gb-components https://lovelybike.blogspot.com/2011/09/gb-components-are-back-and-you-can-have.html And Jeremy Burgess is still running...

Still available - I've bought 2 sets in the last 3 years https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276827111614

Brooks bought Wrights and after that apparently the leather was "inferior" in some way - presumably so Brooks was the premier mark. Before that apparently they were roughly equivalent. My Wrights have 4mm leather vs 5mm for Brooks. In theory the Brooks will last longer, but given my Wrights are...

1967 Wrights W3SW Swallow A bit on the hard side (so far), so I'm currently riding a 1975 Wrights W3ST ("Sport Touring" apparently) And about to try my first (1982) Brooks B17 Champion Standard.

https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/classic_components/gb-the-classic-design/ "The last GB brakes were made in the 1970s – they were really quite low-end products. But GB continued with bars and stems into the early 1990s. And GB has survived – it diversified into tubular furniture in the...

I ride GB Tourmalet bars because I like them: They also provide my stems (1960s catalogues)

That one came free on a £20 1952 Bertin frame I bought to practise painting on. 3 years later I've got a 1953 Holdsworth Whirlwind in need of a rusty Brampton Alatet replacement. I must have done something good somewhere in my lifetime.