Members' bikes

[Blodwyn Pig]

'Olive' in its latest re-incarnation ,back as 700c, on a little 'ruff stuff' excursion on the way home.

[Jurek]

'Olive' in its latest re-incarnation ,back as 700c, on a little 'ruff stuff' excursion on the way home.

Kemsley paper mill in the background. You on the creek on NCN1?
Yes, I know - its not "Guess the Place"..... 

[Blodwyn Pig]

Not quite, its on the marshes at Cliffe / Cooling, could be Grain opposite.

[ijsbrand]

My Koga Miyata Gents Touring. From 1980, originally. When the Dutch firm Koga still wanted its touring bikes made from the same tubing Miyata used for its racing bike frames.

Modernised currently, a bit, by adding a hub dynamo and LED lights. Even when this meant the old bottle dynamo had to disappear, leaving a cut out in the rear mudguard made by Koga to accommodate that originally.

[Samuel D]

A lovely bicycle. But those chainrings for touring? Tourists must have been made of sterner stuff in the eighties!

[ijsbrand]

52-44 up front indeed. Which is not a real problem in the Low Countries.

Mind you, if you read Tim Krabbé's The Rider, his climbing gear of choice was a 43 x 19 then. People rode really big gears in the 1970s.

[Samuel D]

Even in 1990, Jobst Brandt used a 47T/24T low gear for his tour of the Alps. Of course he was a contrarian and occasionally old-fashioned.

The Rider is a great read. But low gears existed while racers rejected them. Vélocio advised a range of 35–85 gear inches for touring.

[zigzag]

cyclists wore normal shoes without cleats and didn't mind walking up steeper hills; given the choice i'd rather ride

[Cudzoziemiec]

Fresh out of the LBS. Saddle needs to go up. In fact they were going to put it up a bit more but I was so impatient to be out on it, I told them not to bother!


After a little bit of time with the allen keys. Rack, different saddle, different pedals, and just back from a short test ride. Needs mudguards, a dynamo and probably some other stuff yet but it's ready to ride.

[Kim]

I like the colour   

[Cudzoziemiec]

I like the colour   

It's Portland stone. Or do you mean the bronze (it's William III)? Oh, the bike! Yes, it's quite a black sort of black; actually makes the rack look almost grey.

[Oscar's dad]

A very purposeful machine!

[slope]

[Cudzoziemiec]

So it was your bike that Blodwyn Pig found recently! https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53164.msg2092045#msg2092045
 

[madcow]

Is yours the one on the left or the right of the shop door?

[fuzzy]

I like the colour   

It's Portland stone. Or do you mean the bronze (it's William III)? Oh, the bike! Yes, it's quite a black sort of black; actually makes the rack look almost grey.

Hotblack Desiato's Disaster Area tour bike?

[Torslanda]

Only if he's spending a year dead, for tax reasons . 

[Cudzoziemiec]

IanN has told me it looks "Goth". He's wrong though. 

[phantasmagoriana]

IanN has told me it looks "Goth". He's wrong though. 

It looks remarkably similar to my Pinnacle; I'm not allowing myself to put any splashes of colour on it, depsite the overwhelming urge to bling it up with purple bits. It shall be the blackest bike of blackness.

[fuzzy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7aDyJPn3c

[Oaky]

IanN has told me it looks "Goth". He's wrong though. 

It looks remarkably similar to my Pinnacle; I'm not allowing myself to put any splashes of colour on it, depsite the overwhelming urge to bling it up with purple bits. It shall be the blackest bike of blackness.

Black is the new black!

[Oscar's dad]

IanN has told me it looks "Goth". He's wrong though. 

It looks remarkably similar to my Pinnacle; I'm not allowing myself to put any splashes of colour on it, depsite the overwhelming urge to bling it up with purple bits. It shall be the blackest bike of blackness.

Black is the new black!

I shall be adding a single shade of grey shortly. 

[Cudzoziemiec]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7aDyJPn3c

Are you suggesting that black bicycular blackness would be enhanced by sequins and gold lamé? 

[Torslanda]

I shall be adding a single shade of grey shortly.

...and I'm just eating your Haribo! 

[Oscar's dad]

I shall be adding a single shade of grey shortly.

...and I'm just eating your Haribo! 

They are the least you deserve!