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Re: I would like the bars and Suntour cyclone front mech. Cheers. Gavin

more up Glen Esk All taken at the Retreat museum and all round excellent pitstop, the last pic is a copper still found up the glen from the earlier days of independent Scotland.

A blast from the past up the angus glens

more pics I had a lot of bother trying to squeeze 1.25 inch tyres under the mudguards, the front ended up as a 1.125 and clears OK. The Mafacs are fitted with Kool stop salmon pads and stop very well, best brakes Ive got . The paint is poor , not original , I may strip and brush enamel as a...

Trying a new photobucket account, should be a pic of a carlton I bought from this site, I have fitted disgusting temporary bar tape , new power train with a stronglight triple and a Sunttour VX gt RD After a couple of trial runs I upgraded the bar tape and saddle to a Scapa B17 replica ( V...

@ paulincoln to take up the slack as the cable beds in from new

Yup it is a wacky groupset, I have a similar feeling towards my tsunoda, it works OK when you get used to it, but an adjuster would have been handy, biggest problem with the rear DR is that the pulleys are not standard. My pedals were replaced with NOS spares at a reasonable price from...

I run a 600 ax set up on an 80s tsunoda, it is what it is , indexes vaguely with 6 speeds, no danger of it working with 10. IMO period suntour gear is far superior, something like a cyclone DR with a cable stop fitted to the chainstay will give far superior operation. Disraeli gears has a very...

Just bought a carlton from retrotrack. All good, box was a bit undone on delivery though nothing was missing.

Check your pm , I thought I had paypalled you the agreed sum.

Im interested, but I dont see any rear sprockets?

You need to know the brake "drop" , ie the distance in mm from the brake caliper mounting hole to the brake track on the rim, say 570 mm for example, this will allow you to buy a caliper that fits OK.

Motorbikes RHS front brake since 50 years ago as a standard that lives on, get used to it, any non cage drivers will agree , push bikes followed suit , unless you were limited by the poorly constructed lhs sidepull brakes which benefited from a wide sweeping curve of the the sloppy brake...

26 m 17 secs, great time that I can only dream of, for my 3 rd loch creran 10 mile time trial I put in a few more training miles up the glen on the Carlton criterium, got a good nights sleep, left out the wine and mixed a strong flask of coffee, on the night there was a gusty SE wind and the...

Ahhh, thank you

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I am looking for spare parts for Suntour barcon shifters, specifically the Chrome plated outer lock nut that has a screwdriver slot. mine fell off on a ride. Whole shifters or parts .Thanks . Cash or paypal to the supplier.

Front right Left rear If you ever get on a powered cycle this will save hospital time

Ive done two TTs this year , 10 miles round loch Creran organised by the North Argyll cycle Club, first Thursday of the month. The machine is a 1980 Worksop Carlton criterium with a mix of Suntour Cyclone GT rear DR, and VX ( i think ) front dr, 14-28 fw and 39- 53 Dura ace Chainrings...

One tooth at the front is worth 3 off the back. As a crude rule of thumb.