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#8926 Re: Nothing In Particular
oh my, just felt the guilt coming on(or maybe it's just a cold coming). My Holdsworth is out in the elements getting greener with moss with every passing day. I had a look the other day and the white saddle is now almost completely green. I ought to clean it and put a cover on it, but it's awfully cold out there....and I don't have a cover. Still, I'm warmed by the thought of my daily 7 a.m swim.
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#8927 Re: Nothing In Particular
You know it makes sense! All you need is some spanners and a bin.
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#8928 Re: Nothing In Particular
Shame, that. Could’ve been fun. I suspect that if you ever did get into boating, it would be something like that.
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#8929 Re: Nothing In Particular
The Napier "Deltic" engine was developed for use in MTBs.
Later to find fame as the engine in the (aptly named) Deltic locomotives on the East coast main line that supplanted Gresleys A4 pacifics.
https://www.absolutelyeverythingabout.c ... er-deltic/
Later to find fame as the engine in the (aptly named) Deltic locomotives on the East coast main line that supplanted Gresleys A4 pacifics.
https://www.absolutelyeverythingabout.c ... er-deltic/
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#8930 Re: Nothing In Particular
As a teenager I had a holdsworth cyclone de lux. Beautifully built bike from the 50's... been on the lookout for one these over the last few yearsed wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2017 9:18 am oh my, just felt the guilt coming on(or maybe it's just a cold coming). My Holdsworth is out in the elements getting greener with moss with every passing day. I had a look the other day and the white saddle is now almost completely green. I ought to clean it and put a cover on it, but it's awfully cold out there....and I don't have a cover. Still, I'm warmed by the thought of my daily 7 a.m swim.
Look after it...
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#8931 Re: Nothing In Particular
You were lucky, I dreamed of having a Holdsworth...!
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#8932 Re: Nothing In Particular
Luxury! We weren't allowed to dream.... etc. etc.
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#8934 Re: Nothing In Particular
..and you had to get up at 2am and clean the lake !
I saved up and bought a Holdsworth frame with 531 main tubes in 1980 and had some decent kit on there including tubs. I crashed it into the back of an Austin Maxi in mid-1981 during a 10 mile time trail, just before my O-levels.
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#8935 Re: Nothing In Particular
I thought I had rather cleverly got out of doing O levels by getting meningitis. The bastards made me sit the papers when I got out of hospital- no time to be normal nor revise nor care particularly except that I was alive.
I started racing on a £12 Bike from Halfords. Benelux gears came eventually - 4 gears! I finally got an old Peugeot racing frame that might not have been 531 but had very fancy lugs. That took me through time trails and road races. Tubs of course but most if the buts were hand me downs and cast offs.
I started racing on a £12 Bike from Halfords. Benelux gears came eventually - 4 gears! I finally got an old Peugeot racing frame that might not have been 531 but had very fancy lugs. That took me through time trails and road races. Tubs of course but most if the buts were hand me downs and cast offs.
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#8936 Re: Nothing In Particular
What is 'tubs'?
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Confused of Dirtfud.
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#8937 Re: Nothing In Particular
I'm as confused as you Dave, but could this be the answer ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_tyre
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#8938 Re: Nothing In Particular
Spot-on there young Philip. Part of the scene when I started, and of course 'fixed' in winter.
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#8939 Re: Nothing In Particular
buts = bits...too, sorry.
'Parently tubs are making a come back with the pros and of course sime people never gave up. I got rid of my 'sprints' and tubs sometime late 1980s. Modern tyres are so much better and lighter than they ysed to be.
'Parently tubs are making a come back with the pros and of course sime people never gave up. I got rid of my 'sprints' and tubs sometime late 1980s. Modern tyres are so much better and lighter than they ysed to be.
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#8940 Re: Nothing In Particular
Oops! Ysed = used. Needca p.c. don't I.
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