The wrongest MTB ever.

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Goldie

Senior Retro Guru
Raleigh Nexos - hewn from pig iron, but with amusing tinfoil brakes from the Lee Chi brake company. A massive 10 whole gears to choose from and a front mech cunningly set up to permit the chain to be complately derailed, whenever you wish. On the move, it feels like steering the Ark Royal. It was a tenner, outside a charity shop in the rain, and I failed completely to keep walking:

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But then, after I'd given it a fettle, I started noticing things I liked. Like the way the metallic purple paint job sparkled in the sun. And the rear brake cable, run cleanly through the top tube. And... well, that's it so far.

Anyone else got any bicycle chaped skeletone in their closet? :oops:
 
Quality town centre pub bike!

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Pub bikes all weigh 45lb - either because they just do, or because your Litespeed Obed with full XTR needs 23lbs of chains to secure it.
 
This would be almost authentic to the era if it has a massive crud catcher on the seat post pointing up at a 45 degree angle... Along with bar ends almost vertical and the brake levers rising up from the handlebars.

Might I also suggest a £2.99 Halfords combination lock wrapped around the junction of the top tube and seat tube.

A Kelloggs Cockerel reflector on the rear wheel spokes would probably be slightly to early for this model.

Have fun :D
 
I was recently at a classic car show and someone ther had a Morris Marina (teal blue deluxe) in mint condition.

Now I as much as anyone thinks that it is a shame when the only things from days gone that are kept and restored are the exotic and un-usual. There is something about this Morris, that as sad as it once was made me think 'at least one will survive to remind us how far modern family cars have come'.

I think the same is true of bike, lets see a few lower range bikes being rebuilt, and not with XT and ano but with chrome plated steel wheels and a gel blob seat, plastic pedals and reflectors.

Do it! Full rebuild / resto and see if we can't get a "sub £200 BOTM" catogory! :lol:
 
Kaytronika - it did indeed come with poorly fitted crud catchers front and rear on purchase. However I wrenched the god forsaken items from their mountings, crying "run free child!" at the same time. Well, almost.

Tintin40, it was the Abandoned Animals shop near me in Urmston, Manchester - they've got the local market in creased, stained Barbara Taylor Bradford paperbacks rtotally stitched up.
 
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