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Early 50s La Gazelle - Eau-de-Nil 🛠️ The Merlot Aftermath 🍷
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New tyres - Schwalbe Road Cruiser 700x32C Nurse Ratched is not happy with me. She insisted on brown gum wall tyres, but I went ahead and bought black wall because I liked the tread pattern and can max out the width according to frame clearance and rim width. If the Michelin World Tour was a bit skinnier it would have been a no brainer choice. To make matters worse, she has now completely freaked out at me when she saw me with a sharp lethal implement cutting those bothersome little whiskers off the tyres' side walls.
She wasn't having any of it. She doesn't want to understand they are like when a butterfly flaps it's wings in New York it makes a tsunami elsewhere, the rotational forces of the wheel and thus the universe are out of whack, Not even the marginal gains spiel could appease her.
dorset boy
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It was when you made a roll up out of them and smoked it! That blew her mind.
Nurse Ratched is not happy with me. She insisted on brown gum wall tyres, but I went ahead and bought black wall because I liked the tread pattern and can max out the width according to frame clearance and rim width. If the Michelin World Tour was a bit skinnier it would have been a no brainer choice. To make matters worse, she has now completely freaked out at me when she saw me with a sharp lethal implement cutting those bothersome little whiskers off the tyres' side walls.
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She wasn't having any of it. She doesn't want to understand they are like when a butterfly flaps it's wings in New York it makes a tsunami elsewhere, the rotational forces of the wheel and thus the universe are out of whack, Not even the marginal gains spiel could appease her.
Did you remember to give the tyres a liberal dousing of Old Spice?
Nurse Ratched is not happy with me. She insisted on brown gum wall tyres, but I went ahead and bought black wall because I liked the tread pattern and can max out the width according to frame clearance and rim width. If the Michelin World Tour was a bit skinnier it would have been a no brainer choice. To make matters worse, she has now completely freaked out at me when she saw me with a sharp lethal implement cutting those bothersome little whiskers off the tyres' side walls.
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She wasn't having any of it. She doesn't want to understand they are like when a butterfly flaps it's wings in New York it makes a tsunami elsewhere, the rotational forces of the wheel and thus the universe are out of whack, Not even the marginal gains spiel could appease her.
dorset boy
Senior Retro Guru
Always had him down as a Brut!
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Men of a certain age...
dorset boy
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I always thought it stank! Good enough for Henry Cooper and Kevin Keagan if i remember?Men of a certain age...
According to Wiki Beckenbauer was an endorser, as well as Gazza, who had a tipple of it no doubt.
Doner bike #2 - 1973 / 1974 / 1975 Peugeot Ladies Bike.Spotted what appeared in fairly decent condition another vintage ladies bike from the charity shop a while ago. There were some interesting parts on it with little wear. Usual French fair for the period - Mafac, Normandy, Atom, Simplex, unknown 3 arm double crank. Nice Dural-Azur stem. Unfortunately the part I really wanted was in a dreadful rusty state - a pair of Moustache bars.
Had to haggle a bit to get the price down - pointed out the forks are bent and it's unsafe to ride, so only for parts. Odd pair of wheels and no two out of the four butterfly wing nuts the same.
The DS cotter-pin came out easy enough with a hammer and drift. The NDS was stubborn as hell.
Almighty "CRACK" is an understatement. Almighty "CLANG" too.
This is the 2nd vice I've broken this year
I knew this one was a bit under dimensioned; it really didn't like being wound up with a long steel seat-post on the handle.Oh well, at I got the cotter-pin and pedals off the cranks eventually with a blow torch.
