Joe_Rides
Senior Retro Guru
Dawes One-down
Year 1999, 2000ish? (Anyone know?)
Owned this for around 8 months but only now managing to make it my own, with some of my preferred parts.
Got it for touring (eventually) but it's being used to tow the kids about in their trailer, as well as various other stuff with my bob yak etc. Lots of fun.
I was doing this with my old cannondale (which did a brill job in fairness), but the Dawes is just an absolute tank by comparison. Heavier (steel), nice long seat stays, it's a bruiser.
Bought locally, I quickly realised that it was short in the top tube for me, hence the wonderfully phallic 140mm stem added, and some riser bars, but generally I've been running it on the 'as bought' set up for months.
Shopping / wine run with kids in trailer:
Picking up a Guitar amp - this was fairly heavy (Orange CR60 for anyone interested):
Dropping a full bike off for my brother:
Today I finally had a little time to tinker with it a bit more.
New chain, cassette and swanky TA specialities middle chainring (ebay cheapness). Shifters changed to my favourite sachs huret friction shifters, fancy m950 "gold" edition brake levers that i got from a recent bike jumble for £2. Tyres swapped from 1.75 schwalbe jobs to 2.2 holy rollers (mudguards have had to come off as clearance on the rear was too close for comfort).
It'll be an ongoing evolution but I'm really starting to like this bike as it becomes more and more dependable, useful and fun.
Joe
Year 1999, 2000ish? (Anyone know?)
Owned this for around 8 months but only now managing to make it my own, with some of my preferred parts.
Got it for touring (eventually) but it's being used to tow the kids about in their trailer, as well as various other stuff with my bob yak etc. Lots of fun.
I was doing this with my old cannondale (which did a brill job in fairness), but the Dawes is just an absolute tank by comparison. Heavier (steel), nice long seat stays, it's a bruiser.
Bought locally, I quickly realised that it was short in the top tube for me, hence the wonderfully phallic 140mm stem added, and some riser bars, but generally I've been running it on the 'as bought' set up for months.
Shopping / wine run with kids in trailer:
Picking up a Guitar amp - this was fairly heavy (Orange CR60 for anyone interested):
Dropping a full bike off for my brother:
Today I finally had a little time to tinker with it a bit more.
New chain, cassette and swanky TA specialities middle chainring (ebay cheapness). Shifters changed to my favourite sachs huret friction shifters, fancy m950 "gold" edition brake levers that i got from a recent bike jumble for £2. Tyres swapped from 1.75 schwalbe jobs to 2.2 holy rollers (mudguards have had to come off as clearance on the rear was too close for comfort).
It'll be an ongoing evolution but I'm really starting to like this bike as it becomes more and more dependable, useful and fun.
Joe
