Today's Ride

[bikeworkshop]

That's a rule in the cycle industry that
"Handlebar finishing tape must not work"

 

[winjohn]

Thanks . I actually found this tape in a charity shop for a fiver. The cloth finishing tape and bar ends came with it as a kit.

That's the bargain of the year.
https://www.brooksengland.com/en_uk/leather-bar-tape.html
£60 from Brooks but I now see the full kit includes the nifty fabric tape.
I got my Brooks bar tape, second hand but unused, in a job lot with a matching B17 saddle, I think I paid £60 for saddle and tape...so I got the saddle for free! Didn't include the cute little cotton tapes though

 

[GLB]

I've been in and (mostly) out of Retrobike for a good few years and had strangely never found this thread before. I'm not a bicycle collector, still less a rebuilder. I'm 75 now, I've got two bicycles that are Retrobikes, both of which I've had for 30+ years, from new(ish) and which have gone through various spec changes and upgrades over the years, so I don't really think of them as retro. I've written them up in earlier posts eg https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1990-ken-bird.99773/
I've no plans to add to the stable, or delve into newer technology. After many years and thousands of miles, why change now?
Most of my year round riding is on a superbargain Fuji fixed gear but this Ken Bird is my favourite dry sunny day only treat of a ride.
So that's just a bit of background and I'll look forward to dropping a few pictures from my usual 20 - 30km trips round North Kent in future. Like these from the weekend.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I've been in and (mostly) out of Retrobike for a good few years and had strangely never found this thread before. I'm not a bicycle collector, still less a rebuilder. I'm 75 now, I've got two bicycles that are Retrobikes, both of which I've had for 30+ years, from new(ish) and which have gone through various spec changes and upgrades over the years, so I don't really think of them as retro. I've written them up in earlier posts eg https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1990-ken-bird.99773/
I've no plans to add to the stable, or delve into newer technology. After many years and thousands of miles, why change now?
Most of my year round riding is on a superbargain Fuji fixed gear but this Ken Bird is my favourite dry sunny day only treat of a ride.
So that's just a bit of background and I'll look forward to dropping a few pictures from my usual 20 - 30km trips round North Kent in future. Like these from the weekend.

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Thanks for adding
It's worth thinking of this thread too -

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I actually go riding places i wouldn't think of just to get a photo, and more famous ones are a worthy destination
Tom

 

[GLB]

Thanks for adding
It's worth thinking of this thread too -



I actually go riding places i wouldn't think of just to get a photo, and more famous ones are a worthy destination
Tom

Bikes and Bridges? I've book marked it thanks, and have a few ideas for future trips. Actually, if you zoom in as far as you can on the horizon on the far right of my second picture, you might just make out the QE2 bridge/Dartford crossing. So I suppose I'm almost there already. I've also found the bicycles and churches thread which got me digging out my old login. Bicycles and postboxes anyone?

 

[wynne]

Bit of an experimental ride today and one for the Sussex bridleway completist rather than the byway aesthete. Loaded the Chickens up with my tent, sleep mat, sleeping bag, pillow, book, and all the other essentials for a night under the stars and then rode it up and down some of the most rutted and overgrown bridleways we have round here. It passed with flying colours. I love the Ortlieb fork bags.

Probably a night under canvas on Friday if the weather holds.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Drove 45 minutes only to find out that my doctor's appointment was canceled, so another 45 minutes back home and the afternoon free. Selected the onespeed for some singletrack therapy, all within a few kms of home base
Perfect weather, not too hot, not too buggy. The usual rooty rocky, mostly dry, but some mud pits and swampy spots at lower elevation. Short ups and downs on tight old trails that twist back on themselves through narrow tree gaps. A few hike a bikes, a big fallen tree to climb over, clothes covered in prickleys, a great adventure that felt a little like a kid on an afternoon of playing hookey from school