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[ajm]

Decided it was time to put the mountain into mountainbiking

Looks like more mountain than biking from the photos! I must get up Ben Wyvis at some point, having spent a ridiculous number of decades looking at it... I was up Morven two weeks ago myself and was dying for a bike during the long trudge in - certainly couldn't have got it anywhere near the summit though and going on past experience of leaving a bike in an "obvious" place when hillwalking I'd probably have wasted an hour looking for it on the way back!

What drivetrain do you have on that bike?

 

[velofrog]

What drivetrain do you have on that bike?

whatever you do, don't mention the word (hand over mouth making loud coughing sound) d*raill*ur... :facepalm:

Brian is proper hardcore, like Jamie, but older... so it'll be single speed I'd imagine!

 

[epicyclo]

...What drivetrain do you have on that bike?

Single speed. Middleburn cranks and Surly rear cog.

 

[ajm]

whatever you do, don't mention the word (hand over mouth making loud coughing sound) d*raill*ur... :facepalm:

I was fairly confident there wouldn't be one of those involved! However...

Single speed. Middleburn cranks and Surly rear cog.

I thought it looked like there were two rear cogs on there but couldn't see any means of switching between them, which is why I was asking. Did my eyes deceive me or is the other there but just unused?

Either way I'm not sure how you're still walking, three speeds are mostly enough but one is definitely madness! Mind you, with only one speed I think I'd spend more time walking than riding anyway...

 

[epicyclo]

There could very well be 2 cogs on there. That wheel was on another bike not so long ago and it was set up as a dingle speed.

If there's room on the hub that's what I do, then if I want to change ratios I don't have to go looking for where I left the other cog.

But I am getting old and frail now, so I had to use 3 speeds to ride up to Thurso with Jamie a couple of months back. And just as well I did because Jamie attracts headwinds.

S-A 3 speeds are good, they'll get you anywhere worth going - like this

 

[Jamiedyer]

But I am getting old and frail now, so I had to use 3 speeds to ride up to Thurso with Jamie a couple of months back. And just as well I did because Jamie attracts headwinds.

It could be worse, you could be riding with a guy like Thorn boy

Jamie

 

[Mr Panda]

Re:

3sp Sturmey Archer hub was on the first proper bike I had - BSA Wayfarer for my 7th birthday

Bought in a 2nd hand shop in Dundee when visiting rellys at end of summer and shipped to Glasgow courtesy of BR as it wouldn't fit in the ol' man's car

Kept me mobile into teenage years, with the normal customising, which included respraying it Ford Pacific Blue Metallic in the spare room. SA hub was faultless during that time - still have one in me loft looking for a suitable bike.........

 

[ajm]

Finally got out on a bike again, busy week with work. Rather a stiff headwind most of the way - that kind of wind that is so strong that even as a sidewind it's quite hard going, but otherwise a nice bright and sunny ride loop to see how the turbines are coming along...

These are destined to replace the oil platforms of the now abandoned Beatrice field, not too far away... they're certainly an impressive size, though I'm glad I won't have to see much of them once installed.

Oh - and I arranged to buy a ladies' bike. I really don't need a ladies bike, I've not seen it in person and hence am not even 100% sure what it is - but it has hub brakes, oil bath chaincase and a very elegant frame; got to be worth a fiver including delivery!

 

[ajm]

Haven't been out on a bike since last post but did snatch five minutes today to see my latest addition in daylight for the first time...

It turns out to be a 1934 Humber ladies All-Weather Standard Roadster, amazingly complete (the missing mudguard and chaincase parts came with it) and pretty decent condition considering the 84 years since it was built, which is pretty nice for a fiver.

When I happened to mention it to my dad, it got even better... it was not only almost certainly sold by my great-grandfather whose garage was the local Humber dealer (no idea why I didn't know that before) - it's almost beyond doubt my own grandmother's bike!

 

[Jamiedyer]

Wow how fortuitous is that! That is some connection to your bikes history.
Definitely something quite special, somethings are meant to be

Jamie