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Use is way down post TDF n now Zika spraying while new n longer boat is way up
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Frank Krygowski wrote in
news On 11/19/2016 2:19 PM, wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:28:20 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote: By the way, my current steel bike is marching on for ten years and I expect it to see me out. It wasn't built stupid-light, though. Andre Jute Not a fashion victim My Eddy Merckx and Basso are 30 years old and I expect them to last long after I'm dead and gone. And no jokes about them killing me....... OK, who here has the oldest bike they ride regularly? What is it? Mine's a 1972 Raleigh Super Course. It was my first decent 10 speed, and for years my only bike. It was used for recreation, commuting and touring. It's now my utility and night riding bike. (It was once on the cover of Bicycling! magazine.) I still have a Raleigh Lenton Sports which came in five and 10-speed guises. I got it in 1972 for a tour of England and Wales. It came with crap Huret derailleurs. I ditched everything Sturmey-Archer. The only original part of it I miss is its Wright saddle, which was quite comfortable. It's still my fixed-gear "hack" for crappy weather, and I run on 700C tubs rather than 26". It was never good enough to find its way onto the cover of a cycling magazine. My other is a 1972 Torpado Corsa, which was a decent club bike in its day, and still a treat to ride, hence my query the other day about NR cones. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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On 11/20/2016 8:12 AM, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote in news On 11/19/2016 2:19 PM, wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:28:20 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote: By the way, my current steel bike is marching on for ten years and I expect it to see me out. It wasn't built stupid-light, though. Andre Jute Not a fashion victim My Eddy Merckx and Basso are 30 years old and I expect them to last long after I'm dead and gone. And no jokes about them killing me....... OK, who here has the oldest bike they ride regularly? What is it? Mine's a 1972 Raleigh Super Course. It was my first decent 10 speed, and for years my only bike. It was used for recreation, commuting and touring. It's now my utility and night riding bike. (It was once on the cover of Bicycling! magazine.) I still have a Raleigh Lenton Sports which came in five and 10-speed guises. I got it in 1972 for a tour of England and Wales. It came with crap Huret derailleurs. I ditched everything Sturmey-Archer. The only original part of it I miss is its Wright saddle, which was quite comfortable. It's still my fixed-gear "hack" for crappy weather, and I run on 700C tubs rather than 26". It was never good enough to find its way onto the cover of a cycling magazine. The bike's pedigree wasn't a qualification for the cover shot. My son was riding a Huffy with 24" wheels on that trip. Huffy bikes were nothing to brag about. It was an atmospheric shot of our three loaded bikes leaning against a stone wall in the Lake District. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:02:54 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: OK, who here has the oldest bike they ride regularly? What is it? Mine's a 1972 Raleigh Super Course. It was my first decent 10 speed, and for years my only bike. It was used for recreation, commuting and touring. It's now my utility and night riding bike. I don't know just how old my only bike is. (The Trek Pure doesn't count -- it's a pedal-powered wheelchair/granny walker.) I ride a Fuji Grand Tourer my spouse bought after I stole his Raleigh Carleton. This had to have been after 1969 and before 1980. He'd given up riding by the time the bushing in the brake bridge on the Carleton pulled out, or he may have been riding his Raleigh Pro at the time, so we transferred all my components. (Chronic amnesia is often a pain. I had a department-store bike when we lived in the duplex on Nimitz, but don't recall how I acquired it, why it is no longer around, or where we kept it. I have a clear picture of the special laundry bag I made for riding to the laundromat, but don't remember how it worked.) -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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