Guinessisgoodforyou
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Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.
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Mickeyspinn
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That's quite an impressive gear jump!
Crikey. Some of these bikes are incredibly sublime. I can't even image the cost for some of these back then.
Do you not get the impression that the high end stuff really pushes the envelope - it must have been extremely competitive amongst the smaller builders.
Do you not get the impression that the high end stuff really pushes the envelope - it must have been extremely competitive amongst the smaller builders.
Mickeyspinn
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Guinessisgoodforyou
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Think they would have been very expensive, months of wages for the common man. I think the desire to build the best breeds competition. I have the bill of sale (somewhere safe
) for my Great Grandfathers Chater Lea tandem in the 20's, from memory around 28 Guineas, wages were £2 pw ish.When I was pulling to bits my own barn finds, I came across this. It's a tiny oil port / grease nipple that was in the bottom bracket shell.
The vernier calliper is set to 5 mm for scale. That little top opens and closes with a wonderful crisp click action, no slop at all. The top is stamped with the manufacturer name and the B TE SDGD is just an incredible extra step - this is watch making type precision. When you consider it's +100 years old too it actually freaked me out the lengths and trouble gone to for such an inconspicuous part that gets gunked up.
Mickeyspinn
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Didn't notice any, it was blocked with old grease when cleaned it out.
On the inside the upper part as a thin wall, then it tapers down to the smaller internal diameter where the thread is.
Had to butcher a 6mm spanner from my electronics repair kit to get the damn thing off - it's 6.5mm - which of course everyone has
Mickeyspinn
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Is it an oiler or a grease port?Didn't notice any, it was blocked with old grease when cleaned it out.
On the inside the upper part as a thin wall, then it tapers down to the smaller internal diameter where the thread is.
Had to butcher a 6mm spanner from my electronics repair kit to get the damn thing off - it's 6.5mm - which of course everyone has
Errrr - is there a difference?
It's a whickle fingy with a hole through it, needs a bugger size spanner, and a vwery whickle door on top to stop shite going in.
Have I got my technical terminology in order?
It's 2 mins to 19:00 here, so can we use the word nipple now?
