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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Schwalbe say they will do tyre recycling, but atm it's all done by Velorim in the uk. Costs about £100 for 4 bags you can perhaps get 25 tyres in each of they aren't too huge. Tube recycling you have to make an 18kg box and get a free label to drop off with UPS. No Slime!
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    We get the odd hippy wanting Tubes to knit a basket, belt or slightly irritating jewellery, and the occasional horticulturist wanting to support fruit tree saplings, but given we produce 10kg of tubes a week, it's barely a scratch. Atm schwalbe offer free tube recycling, as long as we pack...
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    B screw not moving jockey wheel away from cassette

    I know exactly what you mean. Is the chain tension rotating the whole derailleur forward so the b- screw is no longer touching the steel plate? Also, the chain tension can overcome the spring tension Alternately, is the tab on the plate correctly in contact with the derailleur hanger "stop"?
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Fifty pound??? Let us hark back to the cheapskate bartape of using an old innertube🤯 Ideally with a couple of orange patches in the weave. Cheap bar tape and tube recycling covered in one easy move🤣
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    Claud Butler

    Lucky this Mirage is exactly that! Any relationship to campagnolo componentry is entirely imagined. Good old shimano And RSX, what a groupset! Shame this bike lacks the STIs, and iirc one or 2 of the chain rings were made of 100% unavailabilium🙄
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Thanks - some of those "facts" are plucked straight from the air though😁) Soft, grippy, flexible rubber is likely to wear faster than that hard shiny stuff. But 2many's experience of the knobs breaking off seems odd. We don't sell that many knobblies, mostly schwalbe or conti for the deliveroo...
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Cinelli cork bar tape, still £12😃 And they invented it. I think tyre quality has increased massively since we used to think a Michelin world tour was a good tyre😉 And the demand for light weight can mean that 1000 miles is beyond usable range!
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Nowdays ithink all tyre suppliers have to pay to recycle. Uk creates 700,000 tons per annum! If we rate cycling at 2% of journeys and tyre weight at 5%, then cycle tyres represent 1/1000 overall, but harder to recycle.
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    Orange vitamin t/t2 owners club

    Is that the 1" head tube? It's very similar to mine with that exception, and bizarrely mine is a T, so earlier🤔
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    Mainstream consumer culture is a one-way flow. Resources dug out of the ground Shipped to refinery To Asian Manufacturer Then Assembly factory shipped to consumer nation sold to the punter half-used item then binned and buried back in the ground. 🙄 The abandonment of reusing glass bottles...
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    Claud Butler

    And what's wrong with campagnolo? I mean, gentlemen of a certain age... They usually have a couple of glossy catalogues under the bed...
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    Tyre life - what's wrong with this photo? ....

    We send our tyres for recycling It works out costing about a pound a time. You get ones with good tread where the bead has failed due to low pressure riding or poor fitting technique, and huge glass cuts cutting the casing, but id say its about 10%. 90% are baldy. If a customer wants new tyres...
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    Claud Butler

    What's wrong with a mirage?
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    Claud Butler

    Is that regent 93?
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    Claud Butler

    Those little grey spring covers on the cantis will probably break once you start using it though😪
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    Claud Butler

    Deffo Would've been rsx to match the chainset etc imo
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    Sold 1993 Stumpjumper

    This is already pretty presentable as a funky town bike- I can definitely find it a loving new owner...
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    i thought I dated my litespeed!

    I thought that at first but could find no evidence beyond the 4- digit frame number. 🤔 The catalogue model inb the 94 catalogue looks a perfect match - although they might have changed nothing for 5 years of production, but that's very unusual. What's your evidence?
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    Car Transporter...?

    Avoiding the motorways. Carry gaffer tape, baler twine, cable ties, plumbing repair tape, wd40, a load of cash, food, drink, maybe balaclava and a gallon of 4star for emergencies?
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