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Went to the shops for our evening meal (basic tomato sauce with red peppers and bow tie pasta). Perfect cool autumn windless day (breaking in new saddle.😫 Not a dent yet ….)

The right shape with tall head tubes, and come in different flavours of steel: I had a Cromor one and found it a bit leaden. Lots of folk love ‘em. (Cough, 80s Cannondale) 😀

Thanks @hamster, that’s useful real world insight. Other commentators I’ve been coming across also highlight the merits of the charge a powerbank approach. I’ve been looking at drag data (🤦‍♂️) but it’s all relatives: how noticeable is Dynamo drag in day today riding?

Deffo beware of sandal folk 😁 But, this has a great saddle and looks to be inexternally brazed (a thing Peugeot/MBK did where the braze “glue” is on the inside of the tubes giving an almost magical join when looked at from the outside). The tubing is prolly hi ten, but the rims look alloy. If it...

The hangers are your problem not the cantilever brakes. You need some hangers which allow the straddle wire to self centre.

Phew. And I haven’t read any posts above yet, so this might end up sounding late … But … 1. Most important : the straddle wire needs to be different to the wire attached to your brake lever. Those shimano pills are hideous. Awful, etc … is there any more to say? OK, maybe just that it is...

Very true; 980s are great (I run them on my Stumpjumper) and are arguably prettier and more fitting for classic builds.

Best combo I have found is shimano 105 levers (SLR, sprung) with Dia Compe barrel caps mated to Tektro CR 720s which are a doddle to set up. If you have trouble removing wide tyres it's usually down to the pad holder hitting the fork. If you cut off the rear section of the holder and pad -...

Thanks that’s a useful link; & see what you mean about the SL - a massive bargain if you can figure out the connection (looks like the ‘face plates’ could be glued onto the inside of standard dropouts?)

Love that: “beausage”. 😎 How do you rate your Dynamo setup - is it a Son? I’m looking at getting something set up for mine.

Go for a nice frameset and put your own choice of stuff on it (you might even be able to avoid discs). As an experienced tinkerer you know what the correct touch points are on a bike to make you comfortable, so can prolly figure out the frame shape/geometery, stem bar saddle combo that hits the...

Have a look at the 708 Randonneur thread in my signature for some build ideas including how the last run out models were equipped with hydraulic brakes. Nitto and Brooks feature high on my list of go to options. Shimano 9 speed is excellent and bomb proof. With a 135mm rear end, 27.2 post and...

Sweet. These are much underrated frames that handle very well. Love the direction you’re taking with this one.

Spokeholders on the chainstay are sign that you can take your steed the extra mile (prolly a marketing gimmick, but having carried spare spokes bouncing in a pannier in the wilds, a few on the stay doesn’t seem a bad place to keep ‘em). And so Raleigh put the spokes on stays on high end 531...

Build it up with any old tat, ride it to your nearest neighbouring retrobiker who ads a component or two and does the same. I bet in a year we could rack up 10k miles and have it dripping with XTR and Grafton! 🤣 (Would make a great strava map too ….)

Modern cycling is so diverse that there’s no such category - just people doing all sorts of bike stuff. A bit like after the 90s, trends stopped falling neatly into decades and people listened to and wore any thing they fancied. Bike enthusiasts of all stripes have never had it so good: cheap...

That’s modern for you…..

“Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel….” (Rather like it actually ….) Link to Ron’s

Yes: put a chain guard on instead of the outer and run a middle and inner that suit. Or Sugino Maxy or GT which are 110 bcd, or Campag Victory or Gran Sport at 116bcd? (less choice there though)

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