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    Brake cables ..... left or right ?

    I have left front, right rear. Only because it gives a nicer cable routing crossing over my bars, with non-aero levers and Campagnolo brakes that is.
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    What's the Least Bad Helmet?

    I think the only acceptable one is the hairnet crash hat type.
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    Bikes seen out and about

    Green Bob Jackson, maybe 60s/70s frame.
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    Bob Jackson Prices

    I wouldn't think any framebuilder do their own plating, except for the very large volume producers, eg Peugeot etc, but they're not usually callled a framebuilder. A lot of framebuilder don't or didn't even do their own painting.
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    80's groupsets

    The pros definitely only first had C-Rec in 1986. In 1985 they were still on Super/Nuovo Record. I surprised there's a C-Rec brochure dated 1984, I think Victory and Triomph did come out before C-Rec. I think C-Rec was available to buy first in 1986, but obviously Campagnolo's been getting it...
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    Return of 'The Polish Panto Butcher'

    I agree it should lower the desirability, I always go for original condition, the only exception is as you say where the bike company originally fitted their bikes with the stuff. I suspect a lot, if not most, of the engraved parts on Ebay etc are "fake" ie newly done. I think most of the...
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    Argghhh!! The Polish panto butcher has bought a DRILL

    Even when well done, taking old parts and putting on new engravings and drilling new holes is fake, IMO. I suspect a lot of these parts have their anodising removed to hide faults.
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    Campagnolo Pedal Toe Clip Fixing Shoe Plates & Screws

    That's the right place to fit them, the back of the front plate. The idea is it helps to get your foot into the pedal as there's no chance of the front of your shoe hitting the back of the front plate. Campagnolo toeclips had them already built-in but Christophe and others didn't. They wouldn't...
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    Any one heard of Carless?

    It looks like it has the type of wrapover stays used on Brian Rourke frames. There's apparently a Carless bike shop in Crewe: Carless, 15 Hightown, (Crewe CW1 3BP) http://www.zettai.net/find/staffordshire/cycle-shops/ which is not too far from Brian Rourke in Stoke.
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    New Guerciotti project and help identifying the frame

    That's just fancy marketing speak for Guerciotti alloy and carbon bonded frames are Alan frames with "Guerciotti" transfers, ie they are just rebranded/rebadged Alan frames.
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    help with a "Brian Rourke" frame?

    But this particular style of wrapover stays, where the stays join the back of the seat tube instead of the sides and the wrapover bit is wide and flat, is not used by other makers, at least I haven't seen any.
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    fignon's handlebars

    Marie, Thierry?
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    Amber Wall Tyres

    Michelin Dynamic Classic, replacement for the Michelin Axial Sport which is what I have on my bike at the moment, although they're 700x25 with actual width of 24mm on 20mm wide rims. That's handy as there's a store near me but shame they don't have the 25mm width. They're basic tyres though.
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    fignon's handlebars

    The bars do look like they're pointing down, therefore "wrong". I find it that if you set the drops parallel to the ground then the ends of the drops look pointing up。 This is why the usual recommendation is to set the bar ends pointing down very slightly.
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    fignon's handlebars

    It's only from looking at pictures but I think he used Cinelli 66 on the blue Gitane when he was in the Renault team. In 1989 he used ITM stems, as mentioned in a Cycling Weekly article, so he probably used the ITM version of the 66, ie a deep drop bars.
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    Bikes seen out and about

    John Spooner.
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    Bikes seen out and about

    Huge Vanheste, Ishiwata 22 tubing and Shimano EX parts.
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    Crazy talk

    To me, that's a modern bike. Any steel frame (even if it's old and/or has a horizontal top tube) fitted with all modern parts is a modern bike.
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    Mystery Frame 1989 753

    I'd leave the original finish as it is. It's not as if you're trying to create a team replica from random bits, this is the real thing. The only "wrong" parts I can see are the bar tape and black hoods, it would have been white hoods and yellow tape. All the rest of the parts seems to be...
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    Crazy talk

    Why bother with old bikes at all? A bike is not just the frame and forks. 52/42 or 53/39 chainsets are for racing not general pootling around. I mean what did people do in the old days before "compact" chainsets if they wanted lower gears? That's right, they fitted touring chainsets with...
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