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Heathy´s kili is a real time machine, I remember Steve from Elmy´s in Ipswich had one, a real no nonsense race bike from BITD.

Never seen that model with that tubing. I know the Benotto family, sadly they didn´t make nice bikes anymore after Giancinto Benotto died. I was talking to Teresa, one of his 2 daughters, they used to be great friends with Tullio Campagnolo, some fascinating stories. She was Francesco Moser´s...

I´m being boring and voting for the C-26, it is cool, the way it was "sourced" was creative, those forks look scary though.

That photo reminds me of Delft art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2 ... lco_thesis Nice snow (and bike) BTW!

Nah, don't like it, not chav enough. Neon accents maybe?

Looks sweet, but tell him to put something in the bottle cage bosses and spray the inside of the frame with jp weigle framesaver before it´s too late!

That is probably a benchmark for a collection of any kind, and a well chosen one at that, incredible is the only word I can think of.

Given the frame design, I would do it more as an expedition touring bike than the racier setup that is going on at present.

Talking of which, the temperature just dropped to about 5 degrees, and now it´s raining! Time to go to the beach maybe.

The coldest I remember in the UK was -30 with the windchill in Suffolk, I had to ride everyday to school, and when the register was called was only able to make a semi comprehensible noise. Last year was pretty cold though, -15 at times, though as it has been pointed out, better be dry at -20...

Wow, Quality Street arrived and it´s not even Xmas yet! For some reason I couldn´t see all of them until I voted, but I went for the 10th Anniversary, not super rad, but super nice. I had a Fuquay like the brown'un, except it was before the monostay, with Columbus Nivachrome tubing, very...

The Fuji Ltd got my vote, looks good for goin duown farm.

That is a very iconic frameset, no question. I am intrigued by the fork blades, I thought the c26's used an all steel accutrax style (the one before the Answer version) fork?

That is such a great find, Tim Gould is one of the greatest cyclists ever IMO.

The odds of finding a close to original spec mid range bike are pretty low, because the people that buy mid-range are either in the "low-budget and going for upgrades over time and probably killing it in the process" or "have money but don't want to commit to what is at the end of the day a...

I remember a bike like that at the show, incredible. You cant be riding it much at the moment with the saddle and brake lever angle, right? Re the brakes, scissor action brakes like the campagnolo delta's I have experience of are very sensitive to rim width, if you run too narrow rim...

That´s given me a bit of deja vu. I went out to see my old man in Vinkeveen, near Amsterdam, and couldn´t help noticing the amount of Muddy Foxes for sale in Amsterjam, at what seemed like a better price than in the UK, I think they were selling that very same model, the year was 1988. I had...

I see you´re in Colchester, I did my art and design foundation course there, I can just imagine riding that up the hill from the college to the h¡gh street! Talking of which, that was where my first good mtb got nicked, A Diamond Back Ascent EX, I was well gutted, I remember riding all around...

I had the 15 speed one, I was an absolute nightmare for Raleigh, went through 3 wheelsets in about 6 months, not bad considering I weighed less than 10 stone. In the end I put in some Fat-tec grease-eeze axles and no more problems, two of my mates had the bike after me, until it was knicked in...

You probably know this, but the black HO´s arte prone to cracking, you have to go very easy on the pinch clamps. Great frame BTW!