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    Help with identification and history - Witcomb and Claud Butler

    Thanks, good to know there’s only one diameter to worry about! Surprisingly all 4 of the tubs have taken some air and stayed inflated over night, although I’ve only put about 30psi in so far as they are quite perished. I did work as a bike mechanic for close to a decade in my teens/early 20s but...
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    Help with identification and history - Witcomb and Claud Butler

    Thanks all, I’ve spent a couple of hours last night diving down a vintage road bike rabbit hole and think the Claud Butler is probably a 1952 Olympic Sprint from looking on the nkillgarrif website. I was a bit confused by the 531 decals as well as, according to the timeline on the H Lloyd...
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    Help with identification and history - Witcomb and Claud Butler

    Hi, this is my first foray into the road side of the forum and I will admit to knowing nothing about road bikes🤣 I’ve just been given a few old bikes and two seem quite interesting, one is a Witcomb road bike, 531 frame, shimano 500 mech, I think tubular wheels and tyres, the other is frame...
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    Eight thousand up! Cinelli Ottomilainsu

    That's a lovely thing, I've got its older sibling...
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    Show us your Kuwahara

    I’ve just picked up this Pacer from marketplace, looks fairly original but has no tubing sticker having read the thread and looking at the catalogues that were linked to I think it must be a 88/89 model so presumably will be exo quad butted tubing? I need to try and remove the hideous sprung...
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    Minty Maverick Pro - £25!!!!!

    Guttingly we got back from todays ‘shopping adventure’ and I mentioned how restrained I’d been*………she replies ‘whats the problem with another bike if it’s that cheap’😭😭 Women…… Not sure whether to laugh or cry🤣 *we had ‘a conversation’ after the last addition to the fleet and I was under the...
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    Minty Maverick Pro - £25!!!!!

    Somebody buy this to save my marriage…. https://www.facebook.com/share/1Lv5NmBpDi/?mibextid=79PoIi It’s not mine, and I really want it, but I can’t add another bike to the collection Looks super original
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    Rocky Mountain fs, possibly an ‘edge’

    Not mine but looks cheap https://www.facebook.com/share/15GA57LfYX/?mibextid=79PoIi
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    Raleigh White Lightnin’

    https://www.facebook.com/share/142ZvsMSS6/?mibextid=79PoIi
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    Wanted 21.1mm stem

    Thanks, that might work if I use a slightly higher rise bar and angle it a bit more forward- i’ll send a pm 👍 Still interested if there’s anything else out there though😁
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    Wanted 21.1mm stem

    I’m looking for a 21.1mm quill stem for a mid 80’s inspired build. Ideally something aluminium in the style of suntour sr or any of the sr mts range 120mm would be ideal but will consider anything between 100-135mm Thanks
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    Help identifying - mid/late 80s double u brake bike

    well that was quite the rabbit hole I've spent most of the day following... I think the Fuji/Toyo frames are probably better quality than this one, from what I have seen all the fastback frames have a shorter lug, a 'nicer' shape to the top of the stays/clamp and vertical dropouts, this one is...
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    Help identifying - mid/late 80s double u brake bike

    That’s one of the pics I found and is why I thought it could be an Emmelle, but all the pics I can find of the double u brake models have alloy suntour style stems and risers, if this one has been upgraded to the current spec then why would the bars, stem and bar ends be ‘upgraded’ to heavy...
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    Help identifying - mid/late 80s double u brake bike

    I've bought another mystery bike for under £20 from facebook marketplace, advertised as a 'cheap bike' for the princely sum of £18 I could see it had a front U Brake so obviously had to have it. Although it looks like it's spent several years at the bottom of a canal at one stage in its life it...
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    Wanted 21” Raleigh avanti, moonshine, white lightening

    I've sent you a message re a white lightnin"
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    Raleigh White Lightnin' - sell F&F or whole bike?

    So I found a Raleigh White lightnin' on marketplace last summer, thread here, I'd really like to keep it but no matter how many times I ride it I have to accept it's too big for me, I've tried every bar and stem combo in the spares box but can't get a riding position that agrees with my back...
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    Bici Italiane - show us your Italian MTB’s, components catalogues etc

    Cinelli Ottomilauno - I think it's a 1986, Columbus Offroad tubing, full M730 XT groupset.
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    Stuck BB removal options - *Update* It’s Out!

    I had to resort to welding a park bb tool to the bottom bracket trying to remove a very very stuck BB from my 2004 Kona explosif recently, I'd initially bolted the tool in but managed to strip the teeth twisting the frame with the tool in a vice. Even after getting it all red hot it still took...
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    Muddy fox courier mixte

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1135626060384276/?ref=facebook_story_share Somebody save this, its a bit too far away for me but looks in good original condition
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