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Did Raleigh have an arrangement with Lotus? That catalogue includes an Elan, Eclat and Excel, I got an Esprit in 1981 and I think there was a Raleigh Europa at one time too.

What arse is it? I knew it wasn't Ted Mould but I still can't put a name to him.

You should be able to helicoil the thread on the derailleur. M4 (if that's the size) kits start at about £20 on eBay so it's probably best to find somebody who already has the kit unless you're in the habit of stripping M4 threads. The coils themselves are cheap and it only takes a few minutes...

Pre-1960 vehicles are now exempt from the MOT test, but I don't think it would count as pre-'60 if you bolted a motor on now. It does simplify matters a bit if you buy an existing machine though- all you need to pay for is insurance (assuming you already have a car or bike licence), which...

You can but you'll have to replace the front brake to get the extra 4mm of drop you'll need. A Weinmann 750 will do the job and look the part.

I bet none of them are over 35.

Can I add a related question, now that this one has been answered? I know what a quill stem is but why is it called a quill?

I think anybody who wants to drive should serve their time on a bicycle, for two reasons. Firstly it would give them a good grounding in road sense, when I was 17 most learner drivers had a decade's worth of road use behind them, and secondly it would make them more aware of cyclists when they...

When I was looking for information about the Cellnet hack I came across this on another forum... :shock: When I was a kid inn the 70s a guy in the next street had a phone in his car, I dread to think what it cost then.

BT Cellnet, they became O2. It's starting to come back to me now. The credit balance was stored on the phone rather than at the phone company as you would expect. There was a modification you could have done that would reset the credit to £10 when you switched the phone off and switched it on...

I was similarly disappointed when I saw the film Snatch.

Did anybody take advantage of Cellnet's everlasting credit glitch?

More than that, she was driving the car.

Re: How to ask a question on e-bay so people can see it... S A more pressing question for me would be to ask what you're actually getting. It's not really clear whether you are bidding on the complete bike in the pictures or just the frame and forks.

Isn't "restructuring" another word for "about to close"?

Vodafone/Maxon MN1, I think it was a blue one. I paid £15 for it. The tariff was something odd, I think it was £10 of a £15 top up went to line rental, which lasted two months, and you could do smaller top ups for airtime only. Calls were quite cheap within the network and to landlines but very...

The derailleur is a modern one. It's hard to tell from the pictures but I think that's a Huret shifter, which probably means it originally had a Huret Eco derailleur. I think the chain is recent too, I can see a joining link in it. The wheels might be 26 x 1 1/4, which is a difficult size to get...

Does the school have anything to do with this other than providing the venue?

If it's going into the shop anyway I would just get them to do it. I posted a similar thread a couple of weeks ago and was advised to let the LBS do it because some of the nipples might be seized. I was too lazy to take it to a shop so I tackled it myself and broke some spokes, as predicted. A...

I believe the reason we have the front brake on the right is exactly the opposite- to allow you to use the back brake when signalling right.