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• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 day, 4 hours

  

  Tioga? Possibly label-engineered?

• LEL 2021 / London - Edinburgh - London Audax

  in Rides & Races • 2 weeks, 1 day

  

  So far, I’ve done 3 x LEL and my partner, 4 x LEL. We are marginal on doing LEL again next year as the planned additional gratuitous climbing doesn’t hugely appeal.

  Originally the LEL dates appeared to overlap HBKH, which made things easy. We enjoyed the previous HBKH and we are definitely going back to that one. Now I just have to decide whether to line up for another LEL between PBP Audax and HBKH next year.

• Shimano 100 Works Anniversary book

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks

  

  It is a real coffee table book, in size, weight and content. Lots of well-shot photos, lots of white space and no words.

• Shimano 100 Works Anniversary book

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 month

  

  Glad you gave the email address. I would have ignored the email otherwise. They aren’t making things easy for folk.

• Curious Components - Engineering Extravaganza

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 month

  

  The freewheel could still freewheel but had greater drag than the crank freewheel. If the chain started to jam up (e.g. fell between the crank and chainring), the rear freewheel started working. I only ever worked on a bike with this system once. ‘Designed to a price’.

• Shimano 100 Works Anniversary book

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months, 1 week

  

  “ Please be informed that your shipping registration has been completed to purchase "SHIMANO 100 WORKS". The shipment will start in September.”

  A little while to wait yet.

• Shimano 100 Works Anniversary book

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months, 2 weeks

  

  Quite a few folk must have bailed on the first draw. The second chance saloon has come through for me.

• PBP 2015 / Paris - Brest - Paris Audax

  in Rides & Races • 6 years, 8 months

  

  A support crew is not essential for a fast PBP time. Henry Kingman went sub-50 hours unsupported at PBP99. Have a look on the Wayback Machine for his story.

• 2014-03-09 - Steam Ride (London-Oxford-London) LOL Audax 200k, 100k, 50km

  in Rides & Races • 7 years, 6 months

  

  Look forward to doing it again, hopefully with a slightly less complicated and proofread routesheet ;)

  Amen to that

• PBP 2015 / Paris - Brest - Paris Audax

  in Rides & Races • 7 years, 8 months

  

  Just choose the sub-80 hr vedette time limit when you enter PBP, rather than the sub-84 hr randonneur or sub-90 hr touriste options.