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I guess my attempt at subtle sarcasm was too subtle :) Yes, lovely bike.

I mentioned in my post that I had bought my then girlfriend a tourer from Overburys. Technically, it was branded "Andy Powell". She hasn't used it a lot over the intervening 35 years, but her husband recently had it restored to be as close as the original as he could get it. Nothing particularly...

That's lovely. I wondered how easy a 650b conversion would be ... were the canti bosses in the right place, still?

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I knew very well the history of the Pioneer, having been in and out of the shop many many times over the previous couple of years. I had some other mountain bike before the Pioneer - don't recall what it was, but nothing particularly remarkable. When Andy came up...

Re: My girlfriend lived not more than a mile or so from Overburys. Bought her a custom Andy Powell touring bike in 1986. Before that, there was my: 1985 Pioneer, custom tubing mix (753 and some Columbus stuff that I don't recall). Raced on the Quantocks and at Man vs. Horse Vs. Mountain Bike...