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:LOL: .... it's about the only silver object the right size. Sorry @MattiThundrrr :p

Agree. Twin laterals too. I think the rear wheel is too big and making the angles too steep for the period. Hey oh. What to say. Part of me is surprised there is no BMX pegs on the rear for someone to be a standing pillion to balance the front passenger in the drunk man basket. For something...

Nice find. Would be curious to see the serial number - Sandvik typically stamped the frame size too under the bottom bracket. The parts on it are a bit of mish-mash but nothing wrong with the XT M750/1 and LX M570.

Education.

Been a while. Time for a selection of some vintage butchers bikes.

Was looking for something nice and sensible to post on a sensible thread full of sensible bicycles. It went to hell. Got stopped dead looking at this; it's part criminal, part interesting, part useful, part useless but it is undeniably well built and that goes a long way and puts me on the...

Only @Guinessisgoodforyou can come out with the best ride review ever in the history of cycling "fairly neutral and inoffensive road manners" There's like a weeks worth to think about right there. GCN eat your heart out with nimble, stiff, vertical compliant, responsive garbage. 😍 Cracking...

Haven't ridden it in a long time now :( Loved every moment riding it for what it was built for. The segmented stays a la De Kerf and the massively over built horizontal track ends and V-brake make it a special place for me. I did tone down the decals by removing some. Interestingly, to keep...

I'll agree and disagree with this to point. Steel to steel, just use anything in that old tub. Same for Steel to AL. Steel to Ti or AL to Ti or Ti to Ti, get the copper paste out if you can. If you can't thin normal grease with some thick motor oil. There's unwanted bonding during assembly...

Thank you. A lot here have seen this before, but for own pleasure - no remorse SS Ti Hag. One of my favourite builds and frame still with me:

A little addition to something that remained a bit of a mystery - at least to me. Without going back too much, I chose a 50s Solida steel cotter pin crank for this. Originally found on Motobecanes: A lot of us here probably remember Solida on the droves and droves of 10 speed mass produced...

Thought the title was more of a medical type question TBH. :p Anyhow, if you want the root out easy and dead you can play the long game. Drill about four or five 14mm holes in it about 15cm - 20cm deep and hammer in some 14mm copper pipe in the holes. Let nature then take it's accelerated...

👍 What I find interesting, it's like the mudguard is supporting the weight of the (little) load. It almost feels like a distribution of load and weight where those skinny stays could only support a rider weight properly and no more. BTW: On the above example, they are rare Mavic mudguards. 😍 I...

Have vague memories when the Columbians entered the racing scene in the 80s. I'm sure I've seen a whippet like Luis Herrera who probably lived off coffee and fags like a ballet dancer (big front dinner plate man still) actually undo is rear brake quick release when climbing to stop the brake...

I'm sure in the rain downhill with those chrome rims it will feel positively a fast tank. :p

🤔 Personally think the weights from around the 50s are surprisingly daft light. Actual weight (what it includes / excludes) and published weights of complete bikes will be down to a bit of debate. Wished I weighed my own frame set to get a concrete number. Back on the earlier posted Alex Singer...

Did a quick search, and don't think this was posted before. 1947 Cycle de France. Very very very nice and well presented. 😍 https://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic.php?t=53527

After about 40 years, yeah ..... the old spring and burning rubber smell isn't like it was. Natural decay at work. Hell I would need more than a torch to see my way about, would need reflective sign posts and proximity alarms today :rolleyes: ;)

Ahhhhhh the urine yellow. The taste of going to the continent BITD and painting the headlamps with some RAC issued yellow paint on the ferry to Calais. 😍 Noticed a few photos back, if you put the dynamo more inboard to the tyre on the braze would that help? Perhaps you tried this already...

Crikey. Rags to riches from the @Guinessisgoodforyou workshop again. I bet this is just going to purrrrrrrrrrrrrr along.