dorset boy
Senior Retro Guru
Very windy day thanks to Storm Kathleen. Six miles of road and track,these bikes are not good in a head wind !
Today's Ride
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Belated pic from last Monday when a small window opened up for a ride. Since then... forget it!
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Deleted member 69416
Fairly quick spin due to puncture and stropping , fun none the less .
A bit damp underneath.
A bit damp underneath.
CassidyAce
Senior Retro Guru
At last, we have had a day that felt like spring. After seeing the ride photos from continental Europe while seeing the grey, wet and windy weather here, I was starting to wonder if spring itself was being held up by some bizarre new post-Brexit bureaucracy! Anyway, it must finally have completed its paperwork satisfactorily because, today, the grey and the wet were gone—so I got on the Stinson and got riding... Through fields of gold that were so bright they almost appeared fluorescent at times.
moonlite
Kona Fan
Bit of a different one today -- my sister-in-law has expressed a wish to do some longer rides with me and turned up recently with a Scott Atacama hybrid as her preferred mount. It was in terrible shape -- neglected, rusty chain, seized fork, seized suspension seatpost, huge heavy rear rack.
I found a nice 700C Kona P2 fork for it, but it was disc-only, which meant a new front wheel and a new BB7 cable brake. Headset also needed replacing, so it was effectively a whole new front end. I replaced the hard, heavy tyres with some Pirelli Cinturato 35mms and a 'new' 26.8mm seatpost with a WTB saddle.
Today I spent rather a lot of time mucking about with the gears and brakes, so decided to give it a test ride on my usual dirt road outside town. It rode quite well, but the tyres needed less air, the BB7 took a while to dial in, and I just can't get the front derailleur to stop scraping on the chainrings in one gear or another. But it's close, so will have a fresh look before handing it back to the SIL.
16km, 211m climbing, nice sunny 20C weather.
I found a nice 700C Kona P2 fork for it, but it was disc-only, which meant a new front wheel and a new BB7 cable brake. Headset also needed replacing, so it was effectively a whole new front end. I replaced the hard, heavy tyres with some Pirelli Cinturato 35mms and a 'new' 26.8mm seatpost with a WTB saddle.
Today I spent rather a lot of time mucking about with the gears and brakes, so decided to give it a test ride on my usual dirt road outside town. It rode quite well, but the tyres needed less air, the BB7 took a while to dial in, and I just can't get the front derailleur to stop scraping on the chainrings in one gear or another. But it's close, so will have a fresh look before handing it back to the SIL.
16km, 211m climbing, nice sunny 20C weather.
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Deleted member 69416
Bit of a shake down ride . Not too bad , possibly a little more back than necessary. 
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Belated shot from Saturday morning when the weather gods showed some mercy. Drift has been full for months now 
