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More light tourer / audax / clubman than racer but looks nice. It doesn't seem an outrageous price to me.

Got a black LX front, very tidy. I also have a very clean 1" black threaded headset, nothing special (might be Tange Levin) but new IIRC. I'll do some photos.

Got a Mirage Triple front if any use. Say £5 plus postage.

That extra sleeve around the seat tube top is very early-90s. The cast bottom bracket shell looks nice. I'm wondering if it's an early Orange Clockwork. Knowing where you are would help - Orange would be unlikely outside the UK.

A few that haven't come up: The number Zero Insurance (the basis of all modern trade) Lenses (so many discoveries cascade from them) The Davy lamp (saved countless lives, along with sanitation and vaccination and allowed the Industrial Revolution) Radio

One other thought: Dawes Edge, a great bike to ride, massively underrated. I love my Edge 653.

And the Pot Belge.

😂 😂 😂 That being the same Fausto Coppi who when asked 'do you dope' said 'Only when the pain gets too bad.' 'How often is that?' 'Every day' People are doping in all sports even at amateur level sadly.

All dynamos are misnamed and in fact alternators, as @gilmo789 says. That DIY charger uses a linear regulator which isn't great on efficiency. I'd also want to heatsink it. The ebay modules use some kind of switch mode or flyback converter which are much more efficient. I'll report back on the...

The inside dimensions of 7,8,9 speed chain links are essentially the same so the chainring teeth are also the same dimensions.

Honestly it’s not noticeable.

Frankly I never noticed a difference. It’s less than the difference between a clean or dirty chain, or tyre pressure.

And that's the point - with so much variation in frame design, canti boss spacing etc, most people have no idea what length they need and the odds are they will get it wrong. The type with a button and a section of outer (whose length can be trimmed) are much better and they avoid the flaw of...

I've run them for more than a decade. I need to do an update on my setup in another thread. Personally when touring I always take lights - I've had several occasions when transport delays and other problems have led me to be riding in the dark unplanned. Generally this is a dynamo. The problem...

I'd go M730/735 XT, simply because long cage is easily available and you will probably need one for a triple.

Some is good, more is better, too much is about right. Enjoy, but just make sure it's not everything. The 'ano puked all over it' look isn't great - in the same way that the modern 'everything black' trend looks dreadful too.

Marin was doing purple on its bikes in 1995. So it's totally contemporary.

Have a look at the catalogues in the Archive section: drop-down tab at the top.

Typically it's 113 for a square taper Middleburn RS7. I sometimes got trouble with some front mechs - typically the Shimano low-band type - which can need a longer BB for the mech to reach the inner chainring reliably.

I can't believe nobody has yet said A Sunday in Hell...