Author Topic: Members' bikes  (Read 2399091 times)

Torslanda

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1075 on: 06 February, 2009, 07:47:51 pm »
. . .  on Manchester to Blackpool?

Talking of which.. where is Torslanda? Got to get him on a genteel training ride sometime...

Torslanda's buggered off until the snow's gone! Sorry Dan, It's going to be light evenings and lots warmer weather before you see me out on two wheels again.

You're supposed to enjoy it!

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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1076 on: 06 February, 2009, 07:58:11 pm »
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Cube Elite HPC-R1. Just sex on knobblies.

From Chain Reaction?

You lucky girl, Annie! Enjoy. ;)  :-*

From my LBS. 

We will have much fun together, I am certain of that. :) :-*

Not a big fan of MTBs; but I do like this one Annie!  :P
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Fixedwheelnut

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1077 on: 06 February, 2009, 09:20:54 pm »
My new bike. Many thanks to Mr Pumpé for his building help!  :thumbsup:
I flipped my stem. Apparently!

Unlike FixedWheelNut, I didn't take my photo in a public toilet!


  ;D Thats the workshop at work  ;D   Well I suppose it is a 5h1t hole  ;)
"Don't stop pedalling"

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1078 on: 07 February, 2009, 05:23:10 pm »
Jacques, ready for the TT season.
(New Omnium track chainset, new chain and sprocket (set up as a 72'' for the medium gear early season TTs), new cables and bar tape)
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

Chris N

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1079 on: 07 February, 2009, 07:10:52 pm »
How fast can it go, mister? :thumbsup:

Torslanda

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1080 on: 07 February, 2009, 07:28:09 pm »
Is that a Falcon frame? Early 80s?
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1081 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:30:34 pm »
Custom made in the early 1990s (1993) for Orbit (but by a small Sheffield frame builder I believe); rebuilt for me by Mercian (new downtube, new headset angle for road use) 3 years ago.

How fast? On a 72'', early in the season and on our local course 27' or there about. On 81'' 25'.

My favourite bike. I just wish I had the time to ride (it) a bit more at the moment! <sigh>
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

clarion

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1082 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:42:31 pm »
Small Sheffield frambuilders = JF Wilson or (at a stretch) MB of Dronfield.

But your Orbit predates Orbit's move to Sheffield, doesn't it?  It's a Peartree like mine, surely.
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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1083 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:44:47 pm »
I approached Orbit a few years back and this is how I know it is a 1993 model and the rest; but this is all I got together with an admission that it wasn't Orbit-built. The original sticker had a "Handbuilt and brazed on in Sheffield" which was consistent with the story.

To be fair, I don't care so much, as I don't care that the tubing is on the heavy side either (although this bike feels quite light); it is just my favourite frame to ride "fast" and is simply superb.
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

clarion

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1084 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:47:56 pm »
OK, so they may have outsourced to a Sheffield builder back then (my guess would be Wilson's)
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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1085 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:49:04 pm »
Mr Wilson built very nice farmes then. Thanks for the info.  :thumbsup:
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

clarion

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1086 on: 07 February, 2009, 09:52:58 pm »
I spent a lot of time gazing through their window, and occasionally walked over to the City Road just to do so.  They had a lovely 531c in diamond pattern, but I could never have owned it.

When I was knocked off my bike, I had my dropout mended, but for a while it had looked as if that might not be possible, so I thought I might be able to get my bike rebuilt onto a Wilson 531.  Not to be, I'm afraid...

JFW was nutty as a fruitcake, mind.
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TimC

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« Reply #1087 on: 09 February, 2009, 11:50:11 am »
And here she is, in all her blinged-up glory....




clarion

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1088 on: 09 February, 2009, 11:52:41 am »
Most acceptable.  You'll have to keep us posted on it's globe-trotting :)
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Oscar's dad

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1089 on: 09 February, 2009, 11:59:02 am »
TimC, I take it the bike will fit in the suitcase that it's leaning against?  If so, that's damn clever. 

TimC

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1090 on: 09 February, 2009, 12:01:04 pm »
Yes, it does, apparently(!) - and it is. I haven't practiced yet, but there's a very good video on YouTube showing how to do it.

Links: - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Obrc22abQEk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Obrc22abQEk&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPmgChjTW98&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RPmgChjTW98&rel=1</a>

clarion

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1091 on: 09 February, 2009, 12:09:03 pm »
Most ingenious!

You gotta get practising till you've got it into a neatly choreographed manoeuvre.
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Oscar's dad

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1092 on: 09 February, 2009, 12:37:00 pm »
Yes, it does, apparently(!) - and it is. I haven't practiced yet, but there's a very good video on YouTube showing how to do it.

Links: - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Obrc22abQEk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Obrc22abQEk&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPmgChjTW98&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RPmgChjTW98&rel=1</a>

Does the case come with the bike?  Also, is the nice young lady included in the package too? 

Loved the way the video appears to be shot in a hotel room, looks like the set of a p0rn movie (or so I'm told)  ;D

TimC

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1093 on: 09 February, 2009, 01:25:13 pm »
The case comes with the frame. It doesn't look too sturdy, and there is a hard case available (for lots of £££s), but the reports I've seen suggest it holds up ok.

I have my own nice young lady, thanks! ;D

Charlotte

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1094 on: 09 February, 2009, 01:30:56 pm »
More bike filth  :D

Tim - that's a thing of beauty; you've got to post a pic of it in the box, now...
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TimC

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1095 on: 09 February, 2009, 01:41:03 pm »
Certainly, ma'am:



That's a company piccy. I'll add one of mine when I've got all the protective stuff I want to use!

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1096 on: 09 February, 2009, 01:53:28 pm »
Bah, that's no good, it takes longer than a Brompton to pack away. ;D
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Regulator

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1097 on: 09 February, 2009, 02:02:05 pm »
Lovely bike Tim - but I'm afraid the level of dismantling necessary to pack it away puts me off.
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TimC

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1098 on: 09 February, 2009, 02:10:24 pm »
As TimO says, it's not a Brompton. It's a way of getting a full-sized road bike into a smaller case than the standard bike bag - and one which is accepted by the majority of airlines as normal checked luggage. I wouldn't want to assemble/disassemble it every day, but a couple of times a month is fine. Reports suggest that it takes about 15 - 20 minutes each way. I can live with that!

Regulator

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #1099 on: 09 February, 2009, 02:18:52 pm »
As TimO says, it's not a Brompton. It's a way of getting a full-sized road bike into a smaller case than the standard bike bag - and one which is accepted by the majority of airlines as normal checked luggage. I wouldn't want to assemble/disassemble it every day, but a couple of times a month is fine. Reports suggest that it takes about 15 - 20 minutes each way. I can live with that!


Or 3 hours in Regulator mode...

I'm hopeless with such things.  :-[
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I completely agree with Reg.

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