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Excellent bloke and great service. The sticker was well protected in the post.

Good Idea. PM on the way.

Hiya I've finished the bike. There's some pics on my blog if you want to see how it turned out. I presume it's ok to link to my blog as it's not a business and I'm not selling anything. I did look for any rules about doing this but couldn't find any. My apologies if I've done the wrong thing...

Ah, these technical terms! Will I ever master them?! A wedge, that's the thingummy. Two of those.

You know the long bolt that goes down into the head tube which if you undo it you can remove the stem. The stem is cut at an angle and screwed onto the long bolt beneath it is a tubular piece of metal also cut at an angle that matches to the stem angle, only it's slightly wider and overlaps the...

Thanks fixies.

Ah. Now here's where my profound ignorance of bikes will no doubt shine through. I'm not restoring it to its original glory but nor am I going all modern either. It's a repaint, some personal decals and a bunch of replacement parts for the things that were past it like the rear derailleur ...

Thanks stuflyer and Skeelsie. Silver and purple is the one I have, or had, now it's British Racing Green.

Thanks Skeelsie, that's brilliant. Any idea when they were in production?

Hi All Just joined as I'm doing up an old bike I found abandoned some years ago. I know it's a Carrera Flex from the decals but only just as they were almost all scratched off. I'm doing a blog about the bike and wanted background information such as the age, type of steel (I know it's...