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I've always found that Italian bikes tend to be a bit shorter in the top tube than say British bikes, so if I was looking to buy something for me with a 56 top tube, I'd have to buy something like a 57

Under bracket cable routing and plastic cable tunnel suggests something from the mid 80s

They're a lot more special than us. Every bolt has to be anodised in the exact shade. The road section will show something 80% retro with shed parts making up the rest. And the road bikes are ridden, not just wall hangers.

Someone else did an exact copy of the Look Ergopost. Maybe they made them for Look. Can't quite remember, but it may have been Selcoff

Concealed brake cables and clipless pedals mean as it stands, it's not suitable for Eroica. Note - I hate criticising ads, I usually leave it to any potential buyer and the seller, but wouldn't like someone to buy it on the basis of the Eroica claim, to find it's not compliant

"Damn, I've forgotten the spare underpants"

That's the jobby. Nothing overstated or crazy, just perfect 👍

When I fitted shifters to my titanium frame, the tube has an ovalised profile, so the probable fit best would have been the large radius ones, I didn't know you could get different fittings. I thought it's a remnant from history and you either fit what you have or buy something completely...

The thing with ovens is, you don't need to know anything and they have loads of gas-safe built-in safety devices. Plus you can't just buy a cheapy and connect it yourself, you can't even get the fittings. Any legitimate qualified engineer wouldn't even fit something he thought might be...

The titanium Marin was a cracking bike and the one I would want to ride

Cheaper and less effort to get an unused gumtree special for £40

Remove the pin, wind it back beyond the stop and screw the stop back in. Better if one can hold and wind the mech and a friend replaces the stop

If the garden allows it, I got a sectional concrete garage erected in the back garden ,but with a passenger door instead of a conventional garage door. I did all the base work myself.

Never seen this idea before, so thanks A record vice across the flats and turning the frame has never failed me so far, but there is a risk it could slip

I've concluded that everyone who has contributed to this thread is a bit special 😉

Agreed, they owned it in terms of aspirations, but in what was out there for off the peg bikes it was Shimano, Huret, simplex and good ol' sturmey archer

My interpretation is ... Remember the big maillard sprocket boards where you could buy individual sprockets to fit onto your freewheel body? Very useful if you wore out one cog before the others. Or you wanted a specific ratio. Well, now you can't do that, the industry just sells you a whole...

With or without the crank failures?

Maybe worth confirming if they are Delta or Keo fitting

I wondered that, as it's a weird description, but they look like brifter hoods