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100ish mile update; It's great, good to be back in the saddle. Now sporting some black wall white tread blizzards and minus a bit of leccy tape but otherwise cosmetically unchanged. Riding has bought to light some issues which have been addressed as found, oh the joy of buying a ebay pre...

No pro by any stretch :lol: I'm new to skinny wheeled bikes and just thought it would be taller geared, granted I only feel this when descending and thinking about it by love of motorcycles and previous single track bashing probably has a large bearing on the speed factor. It is a 52 14 and...

Thanks peoples, some great info there. My comute to work always starts with a stonking big down hill which I guess is why I felt the need for taller gearing. Happy with the ratios on the 12 spd other than that so if I have the space to squeeze a 7 block with a 13 I may do that. Think the...

So... I have a 12spd and would like to go faster, what's my best option? I was thinking a new freewheel with a smaller small cog though can't seem to find nowt smaller than the 14 that I'm already pushing, do such things exist or should I be looking at a biggerer front? If I was to go down...

Thanks for the comment. Cable 'mod' was done with leccy tape in an idle 5 mins late and drunk last night, don't think it will stay that way as it just heightens the fact that cables look fugly :!: Found a load of grey decent quality outer and some inners in the lock up today so I reckon that...

Green and green sprang to mind first. Not feeling the white or black but hey, it's not my bike :wink:

Been after a road bike for a while and managed to persuade Mrs wackywacerwill than none of the other 15 or so bikes would fit the bill. Being a kindly soul she gifted me this as an early B day presant :D Auction site pic So had it home since friday and have given it a (half arsed) clean...

Great tip off, sadly to late. Couple of pairs of yellows floating about at that price but I feel the need for white on this one.

Right yous are. Picked it up tonight from Kings Cross and a Criterium it certainly is. To my largely uneducated eye it looks largely standard apart from a chrome (heavy) front wheel and a tasty white saddle. V happy, you bet :D

I have recently 'won' this Raleigh. It's 501 tubing so not top spec, does anyone know owt about it? Not a great pic I know, it's all I have till I pick up the bike, hopefully tomorrow :D

Hi folks, new here. I got this Muddy fox Explorer Mega many moons ago from a workmate, it belonged to his then girlfriend who never really used it and so it sat out in all weathers on a fire escape in Deptford gaining it's rather fetching patina. I'd always had my eye on it (bike, not...

A Raleigh Griffter in the back of the garage, it's been there some time.

Yep, keep them nips lubed. It stops them cracking.

Suspension forks were a great step forward from flex stems IMHO.

How do, just found this place while looking for info on my latest cycle purchase and thought I'd join in. Got a fair few old bikes about the place including 2 90's mtb's, a Muddy Fox Explorer and a 99 Orange Patriot which is not that retro really. Jumped straight in to do a post on the Muddy...

Just rediscovered one in the garage only yesterday. I vote cool though in truth they were pretty pony.