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Quite possibly, but I guess I’ll see!

I’m pretty sure it’s the latter.

The frame will be on its way to me on the 11th, which is exciting news. It came to £310 including the cost to post it back to me, which I think is pretty decent. Fingers crossed it looks as good as I'm hoping it will. I have nearly all the parts now, apart from the fact that I keep changing my...

Yes, it did happen: https://www.woodrupcycles.com/bob-jackson/

I've just taken apart a chainset that had a Shimano Biopace chainring bolted onto a Campagnolo crankarm. Unsurprisingly this was presumably a bit loose, so they wrapped bits of string and those wire and plastic twisty things used to tie sandwich bags around the chainring nuts.

A Neil Orrell tourer. In this case spotted on my actual street outside the house next door. A first for me is the fact that it has cross top brake levers and one regular brake lever that is still there but not used, apart from as something useful to hang your helmet on.

Revolution Continental small 48cm aluminium road bike from Edinburgh Bicycle Coop. It is fitted with cross top brake levers, so perfect for commuting or just people who are not so confident with the longer reach of road levers. Size-wise it would be good for teenage kids or just smaller adults...

The groupset parts that include the chainset is a bit of a mix, from around 93, so later than C-Record. The brakes are not Chorus because they're not monoplaner - I think those are Athena. The chainset could be Chorus or Athena as they are really hard to distinguish from each other (especially...

He certainly did. I will resist the obvious answer to that 😆.

Yup. I guess it's proof there's no accounting for taste. Maybe the previous owner was Irish or something 😄☘️

Thanks all. I've had a go with some isopropyl alcohol on a cotton bud, alternating with a bit of light scraping away the softened paint with a very small flathead screwdriver. It's worked well on some areas so far: Here's the full glory of the headtube: Hopefully removing the green paint...

I'd be interested in the 3TTT 100mm stem, please (I presume it's a 26mm clamp size?). Is it £10 plus postage? Thanks

Thanks both - I guess slow and steady is the key. I'll try some white spirit or acetone first and see if that softens it all. I'm not sure I have a small enough attachment to get into the cut-outs well enough, but I'll take a look if I run out of patience... Green and purple is not a...

The previous owner of a bike I just picked up has filled in the lug cut-outs with enamel and I’d like to remove it if possible, but obviously I’m wary of damaging the original paint underneath. I guess I would try acetone first of all, but does anyone have experience trying this? Any tips...

The Velox is the RD specced on some models around this time (1972 seems most likely), so I would guess it’s original. Great to see everything coming out nice and shiny so far.