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Re: The Shogun was quite a nice frame, quite light and stiff but the alloy forks made it quite harsh. I was given a frame and built it up with 9 speed Tiagra and used it for a while as a winter bike for club runs.

BBB is the b llocks

SRAM eTap?

If you ever get the chance to hear Alf talk about his cycling career (and clashes with the authorities) grab it, very entertaining man!

Keep a bullet for me.

Good article but of course the Mondrian - esque design was already common currency by that time, Yves saint Laurent dress designs in the 60s and then the famous l' oreal studio line packaging from a few years before.

Badly done bosses for a bottle cage? Or to hang something else, more likely as it's a tourer... Difficult to tell from the picture. Shouldn't affect the strength of the tube though. Btw it would help a lot in future if you spell check or read over posts as it would make it much easier to...

In case anyone's confused road king is being a prat

Good old Italian rustproofing!

My dad once straightened the bent top and down tubes on my Raleigh equipe after I'd stacked it into the back of a parked Triumph TR7 on Cleethorpes sea front.....he used to run the department that tested the safety and tolerances of all the metals used on a big oil refinery so knew his stuff...

Re: Re: Is there a build thread on your Kirk anywhere? Fascinating bike and story

Old thread I know but for future reference for this kind of thing I'd recommend HQ fibre repair near Norwich. 01603 713972. Amazing what they can do, I visited them with a friend a couple of years back who was getting the integrated seatpost on his Time fixed, the guy there has experience going...

There a big place on lea bridge road in Leyton, not far from the bakers arms

Thanks, second x ray Monday to establish if pinning needed, as this is retro bike I should mention I was on my modern race bike and no classics were damaged

Crashed on Wednesday, 25 mph, broken collarbone plenty of road rash, bruised forehead and temple. Didn't go over the handlebars incidentally. If I hadn't been wearing my (now cracked) helmet I would be in a much worse state. I doubt this will convince the sceptics though because they only have...

Reckon you've nailed it

Nonsense :-) What about that oyster white Benotto tape they used to be use on Raleigh's?

When did Merckx ever admit to doing? Or Sean Kelly?

I usually prefer Eurosport although i sometime flick between the two to avoid the adverts. David Millar has some brilliant insights on itv4, he called the finale yesterday and also the way Froome got away on that final descent after making his rivals think he was just bashing mountains points.

Daniel guy is Daniel Friebe, very well known cycling writer / journalist, wrote biography of Merckx, edits procycling etc etc