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    here's a retro classic Raleigh

    Rim aint designed for a rim brake.
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    1955 Pat Skeates 23" frame and bits - Crawley

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326631156709 Paint too good to be original but not good enough to be good (!) by the looks. Pretty rare bird with some backstory on the owner. 23 inch CTT Built in 1955 Reynolds tubing 531 C/W OMT Agratti Drop outs This Frame was built in Pats Landor road shop...
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    Raleigh Road Ace Frame and forks

    Do tell
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    20min YouTube Cycling Documentary: "The Lost Merckx" with Gerry Shields

    Thanks for posting this up @sjcprojects . Everyone loves it when an urban myth isn't a myth. Gerry seemed mentally sharp and active until the end, which is tremendous.
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    Roll up, roll up, original Strida for sale

    Yep. Then all you need is a mount for your palm pilot on the stem. (I'm not being rude here, I know that has an alternative meaning in some parts).
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    Roll up, roll up, original Strida for sale

    Someone needs to make one of those 'bikepacking' bags to fill the whole of the frame space.
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    What Happened to Campagnolo?

    I don't agree with this @pigman Shimano, the multi billion dollar international company and industry leader, household name ... but as soon as they might have released 3-4 million critically failing components they should be considered to be too small to withstand a rigourous recall policy...
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    What Happened to Campagnolo?

    Some of the failures were extremely rapid in damp / wet enviroments though. Its totally nuts that they thought they could bus this one out.
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    What Happened to Campagnolo?

    The one they knew about for 11 years and did nothing until the lawsuits. I know you said up there somewhere that Campagnolo were an 'arrogant' company. Japanese companies are normally the most transparent when it comes to recalls....I could not understand how this was left to fester into the...
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    Ottadini racer - 60cm Durham

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357033323765 Atlanta 96 wheels and mixed Campagnolo 8v gruppo. These frames are well thought of in these here parts I believe.
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    What Happened to Campagnolo?

    Sure, I'm one of them. @gfk_velo gave some great insight into how they're still a very viable company, albeit a niche one. I was Campagnolo target market and now I'm not. Age and cycling tastes move me out of the Campag orbit and into the clutches of Brooks, SKS, Schwalbe...all of which I swore...
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    What Happened to Campagnolo?

    Thats a long time to be going down the drain. Perhaps they are not going down the drain?
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    Very original Dawes Nomad - Sheffield

    ah, beaten to it by MTB marketplace watch. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/dawes-nomad.494583/
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    Very original Dawes Nomad - Sheffield

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/316896508667
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