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Henry’s old shop. I worked there as a lad in the early 70s to earn a bit of money for TT entry fees. Henry also fixed my Langsett after it had a coming together with a parked car during an evening TT.

Bet that’s fun in crosswinds.

Thought at first that it might have been a grease nipple. That shows how old I’m getting!

Only if it has a Ducati badge on it.

Pity they messed up the cable routing for the back brake on the 1984 model, going by that image.

Are those socks UCI-compliant?

And wings, like F1 and MotoGP.

The old cyclo-cross method of using a quarter of an old tyre outer, taped to the frame, was a cheap way of doing it.

And socks? How much weight did they add?

Is that what is meant by swan upping? I’ll get my coat….

I wonder if that might be too thin. Pedal Pedlar have some NOS Modolo cables which they say are 1.8mm. https://www.pedalpedlar.co.uk/collections/modolo/products/d-cab-s11v-modolo-professional-nos-vintage-black-road-brake-cable-set

Wouldn’t fitting a decent pair of side-pull brakes make life a lot easier?

Thought it was a rite of passage to learn how to repair tubs. It’s how I learned to sew. Or was that just those of us who couldn’t afford to buy new ones?

In a similar vein, there are plenty of photos that were taken by my dad or Bernard Thompson (and others no longer with us) that people have put on the web or Facebook. Strictly speaking, those pictures are still in copyright until 70 years after death but it would be almost impossible to enforce.

Few years back I went to a main Kawasaki dealer to get some parts for the GPZ500 I had at the time. Stood at the parts counter in my (admittedly well-worn from year-round commuting) bike gear waiting for ten minutes while being studiously ignored by all three of the staff who were too busy...

Can’t remember the brand of my first bike, which I got aged 11. Only standout was that it had a Benelux derailleur, which somehow malfunctioned leaving me with bottom gear only. Despite coming from a family steeped in cycling, nobody knew how to fix it! Fortunately, a growth spurt saw me...

“No, I said blow it up to 30 psi, not 30 bar!”

Could you actually use the front changer with that setup?

You’d soon find the limits of how much steering you can put on left turns.