Recent content by jim haseltine

Looks very much to me that there's a cutout. The levers look to be those for the short-lived Weinmann/Dia Compe delta brakes - the issue with the cables was that the original Weinmann/GB/Altenburger metal bodies weren't subject to a major redesign for aero cables, they were just slightly...

The levers in this video look to be similar to the ones you're trying to fit.

Can't really see everything I'd like to see in the pictures but it looks to me as if the front mech is angled. Ideally the outer cage should be parallel with the chain rings. Also get an impression that the cage is high too - it should clear the outer chain ring teeth by no more than 3-4 mm at...

Thought there was a lip on the rear sprockets? Sort of doubled the thickness at the thread from what I remember. Things are still not much clearer - Everest Chain was started by Vittorio Fossati in the 1920s. At around the same time Guglielmo Caimi started making freewheels under the Caimi...

Regina Extra and Oro freewheels seem to start at around £15 on a popular on-line auction site. The vast majority of them have the remover slots buggered up but there are a couple that look ok to me. There is actually a NOS Everest body there too. Then comes the first of a couple of pieces of fun...

Almost certain that Everest freewheels were actually a branded version of the Regina Oro model so most likely a Regina Extra or Oro body would fit those sprockets. If so, the rear two sprockets were left hand threaded and fitted from the back of the body.

Syncros DC 2.0 70mm, 1-1/8" 31.8mm. The only visible evidence of it having been fitted to a bike is a small amount of scuffing/scratches on one corner of the plastic cable cover and it looks like the top cover bolt isn't original. The actual metal part of the stem is unmarked. Can supply...

More Twiggy on a Wisp and another Raleigh advertising shot Note the similar index plates - TV was one of the area codes used for Nottingham. The E suffix was used between January and July 1967

There was the Raleigh Wisp - produced when the RSW16 production line clashed with Raleigh moped production.... Twiggy used to 'ride' one - despite her wearing different outfits in pictures I can find, they all appear to be on the same piece of road at much the same time of day so suspect that...

None legally in the UK since changes to the Road Traffic Act classified them as mopeds and required the riders to have insurance and a licence.

First front mech I owned was a Spirt.

I remember a set of Phillips 'Philite' rubber tread pedals being on one of my father's bikes for many years. There's a slim chance that they could be in a box or drawer in his garage but I doubt it. I think the 'cats eye' type reflectors in those pictured are custom as I don't recall anything...

Nothing wrong with the M71, I used to ride them a lot for time trials, especially on fixed wheel. I now regret that when I stopped racing I sold my pairs.

My wedding photographer regularly rode an ordinary around the York area. And no, I'm not THAT old - it was during the 1990s.

Ah - found a pic of the pedals