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Had a shufti in the ad-mag. I get the horrible feeling there'll be 3 bikes
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and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. -- A T (Sandy) Morton on the Bicycle Island In the Global Village http://www.millport.net |
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In message , Sandy Morton
writes and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. There is the Mark Hall Cycle Museum in Harlow Muskham Road, off First Avenue, Harlow, CM20 2LF, Tel 01279 439680 -- Chris French, Leeds |
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In message , Sandy Morton writes and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. There is the Mark Hall Cycle Museum in Harlow Muskham Road, off First Avenue, Harlow, CM20 2LF, Tel 01279 439680 There's also the National Cycle Collection in Llandrindod Wells. -- Helen D. Vecht: Edgware. |
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"Sandy Morton" wrote in message ... and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. http://www.artguide.org/uk/AG.pl?Act...is=1078954741D Simon M. |
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"Sandy Morton" wrote in message ... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum The excellent: Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry. Newhall Street, B3 1RZ. Phone [0121] 235 1661. IIRC they have (or had) a selection of bicycles. (Not been for some years). -- Regards, Pete |
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"Sandy Morton" wrote in message ... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. And Woolaton Hall, Nottingham have some bicycles in their collection IIRC. -- Regards, Pete |
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') wrote: and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Very OT - but - I seem to have a large set of workshop wall charts for Sturmey Archer products. Does anyone know of a Cycling museum which could benefit from these? Obviously at no charge. Royal Scottish Museum (if it is still separate from the Museum of Scotland - I think it is)? -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ Morning had broken, and there was nothing left for us to do but pick up the pieces. |
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Doki wrote:
Had a shufti in the ad-mag. I get the horrible feeling there'll be 3 bikes in the shed within a few weeks now that I've seen how cheap old racing bikes are, and I've found what sounds like a 3 speed town bike... Note that "old racing bikes" will often not be racing bikes at all, but what passed for racing bikes to sell to impressionable young fashion victims before cheap and nasty MTB-a-likes filled the role from the back end of the 80s. And I know this because being well into my 30s now I was one of those fashion victims (mine was a Raleigh Olympus). Though I loved my bike and did a lot of miles on it over the years there is no way I would reasonably recommend similar to anyone now (amazingly enough it was stolen, but at the back end of the 80s before MTBs had taken over). Steel wheels and Weinman brakes == no stopping power, steel frame and steel wheels built for children to abuse == high weight, plastic *THING* in lieu of saddle == no comfort. You can change stuff like the wheels and saddle but you'll have already tripled the price. Might as well just get an old frame from the local dump. This is not to say that Proper Old Racers won't be in the local ads, but they're unlikely to be basically free. Pete. -- Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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