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buzzy bee
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Greeney in France
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very nice great looking machine, I bet you get a few glances from the neighbours 
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roverdriver
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Really good. James Starley, who, I believe was the inventor of the radial spoke wheel, would be proud of you.
Especially like the elegant dismount in the 3rd clip.
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peter scott
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pigtin
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By golly! you're brave Buzzy. I like the way the music on the first clip seems to build up the menace. Nice quiet roads around where you live, if I rode one out of my gate I'd immediately be mown down by a chav in a souped up Corsa. 
Don.
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the fly
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| I realy enjoyed that Buzzy a nice old bike . could be a few probs fitting a J A P v twin on it . Do you have the lamp that hangs from the hub ? my imagination runs riot when i think of the mayhem caused if the lamp braket seized to the hub spraying the unfortunate jokey with flaming fuel . please excuse my warped sense of humour . Keep up the good work thanks again . The Fly |
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buzzy bee
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I don't have a lamp they cost as much as the cycles! The biggest problem with them and the modern replica's are that the hanging part shears off, it falls into the spokes, and jams the wheel as it is taken through the forks, thowing y the rider off forwards. Can be quite nast, then when you recover, if you are that lucky! You have to remember you have just wrecked a very rare lamp and a very rare cycle!
Glad you liked the videos though - Cheers
Dave
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Brian M
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Second half of part two......
Your interpretation of a Road Movie?? 
You have to be mad - bees and Penny Farthings, can't you chose a safe hobby, like needlework?
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buzzy bee
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| Brian M wrote: | Second half of part two......
Your interpretation of a Road Movie??
You have to be mad - bees and Penny Farthings, can't you chose a safe hobby, like needlework? |
Second half is showing you what the surface I am riding on is like! I couldn't work out how to edit the video! hehe
Penny's are safe as houses unless you fall off! 
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buzzy bee
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| roverdriver wrote: | Really good. James Starley, who, I believe was the inventor of the radial spoke wheel, would be proud of you.
Especially like the elegant dismount in the 3rd clip. |
Hi
I hope he is, I would found the following on spokes, quite interesting:-
"...add weight to a bicycle wheel, the top spokes tension does not go up but bottom spoke tension goes down. So the hubs load sits on the bottom spokes, instead of hanging from the top!"
You would have thought if they were all a similar tension the loading would be quite uniformed, well I would! Then again the bottom Spokes tension would go down due to the slight flattening of the bottom of the rim where contact is made with the floor... hmmmm
I hope mr Starley knows he keeps me awake at night thinking about these things, does everyone do this type of thing, or is it just me?
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pigtin
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Quote: Penny's are safe as houses unless you fall off!
It's not the fall that hurts... it's the sudden stop when you reach the ground. 
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buzzy bee
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It is also the fact you have time to think how much it is going to hurt, as you start to go over! hehe
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Penman
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buzzy bee
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Hi
Funny you mention the Bibendum! My dad was an accountant at Michelin for a long time, and when I was young, on more than one occasion, when I arrived home from school there was "The Michelin Man" in our hall way! He used to come and pick me up, and it was all very exciting!
Also got lots of Michelin toys, gifts somewhere, in the loft. My sister got the whole set of I spy books, they were good fun!
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