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47p2
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Location: Glasgow
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 Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:27 am Post subject: A bit of a clear out |
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Then I bought more bits 
I've been having a bit of a clear out and sold the 1946 Humber Sports Bicycle, I saved it from the bin men 15 years ago when SWMBO's aunt decided it was destined for the scrap heap. She bought it new in 46 and used it on a daily basis for over 40 years and when I saw it I couldn't let it be crushed. All original except tyres, cables and brake blocks.
After a polish up I advertised it and it sold within 2 days to a collector in China of all places
Then there was the 1980 Peugeot I was given 10 years ago which was too big for me, 100% original (I changed the tyres to sell it but kept the originals for the new owner) and done less than 100 miles, the original owner bought it to travel around Edinburgh but even back then the traffic was horrendous and it sat in his garage untouched for over 20 years. I couldn't believe how clean it was when I polished it up and could have sold it a dozen times over
I also bought a box of bits which I have been building up, a 1980 Italian ALAN aluminium bike which I took out for its first ride a couple of days ago, still a few things to sort on it but it is a nice bit of kit
For the past 28 years I have had this old Peugeot which was the first and only brand new bike I have ever owned, it's made of steel and is rather heavy, but reliable and well sorted and I love using it.
So I decided it was time to come into the modern world and go carbon...German of course
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Greg
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
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Location: Dreamland Margate
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Love the Humber.....to think it was going to be thrown out !! |
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V8 Nutter
Joined: 27 Aug 2012
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| Is it just me? but I think moderns look horrible. I know they are lighter but they look so heavy and clumsy. I ride a 1970's Carlton Pro Am 12. Incidentally I read a good Reynolds 531 steel frame is only about 1.5 pounds heavier than a modern aluminium one. |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| V8 Nutter wrote: | | Is it just me? but I think moderns look horrible. I know they are lighter but they look so heavy and clumsy. I ride a 1970's Carlton Pro Am 12. Incidentally I read a good Reynolds 531 steel frame is only about 1.5 pounds heavier than a modern aluminium one. |
I can believe that. Aluminium frames are made out of thick chunky tubing to give them a reasonable lifespan because, apparently (read this in a cycling book years ago) aluminium has no "fatigue limit" - so each and every stress in the frame, however small, weakens it a little until it eventually fails. Steel has a definite fatigue limit and so long as that limit isn't exceeded a steel frame will last indefinitely, corrosion permitting of course! Another factor is that aluminium frames really need to be welded together, so the tubes have to be chunky enough to weld, where steel frames can be brazed together with nice traditional lugwork. Of course for ordinary cycling for fun or to and from work/shops the weight of the frame isn't terribly important anyway so long as it isn't really excessive...
I'm also no fan of modern cycles, not so much for the looks as the technology. I wasn't a fan of derailleur gears back in the days of friction shifters, but these modern ones put me right off. Yes they might work very well when they're new; but when they wear or break think of all the tiny parts they must have inside, and the likelihood of being able to get those tiny parts rather than replacing the whole assembly for £££'s, which of course can only be done with the manufacturer's special tool! I'll stick with SA three speed hubs, ta very much  |
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255dropside
Joined: 27 Aug 2013
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Location: Northamptonshire
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:58 pm Post subject: 2 old bikes |
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I was given two old 1950's nurse's bikes, cannot remember their names for sure, they had baskets in the front and little toolbags behind the saddles.
Humber maybe.
I put them on an auction site, no bids but hundreds of lookers, someone rang and offered me £75, I took it.
A mate of mine reckons they were used in that "midwives" telly series!!!
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