BobbyBriggs

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• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

  in Current Projects • 3 days, 9 hours

  

  Yeah it took me a while to figure out how best to set them up. Think I’ve cracked it though. The drum brake on the rear feels like it would stop a train so probably won’t need the two fingered approach too often.

• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

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• Tandems of the forum

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 23 hours

  

  Haha good idea! Just need to find a stoker.
  I lightheartedly mentioned to a Bumble date for this evening that I might bring the tandem along as it needed a test ride. She cancelled on me.

• Tandems of the forum

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 days

  

  Now it’s finally functional and back in business, (https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3006­47/), here’s my grandparents’ 1934 FH Grubb. And also a pic of them setting off on it on honeymoon in 1940.

  Just need to fit mudguards, get a proper rear saddle, and tension the timing chain.

• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

  in Current Projects • 4 days, 21 hours

  

  Well I’m pleased to report that it’s now built- albeit with a few temporary fixes, that gross rear saddle for example, and I’ve had to reuse the old worn out chainrings for now in the absence of suitable others- and I’ve taken it for a test ride. A few teething problems related to the gears but generally all good. Feels very smooth and responsive. My dad informs me that the last time it was used was 1980 when he and grandpa took it up to the Wayfarer memorial in the Berwyns. Grandpa had a stroke six months later and died in October 1981. Dad - himself now 74- is coming to stay in a week or so so I shall make sure we take it out for a quick spin.

  Guess I can add it to the ‘tandems of the forum’ thread now!

• Wild Camping

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 2 weeks, 2 days

  

  Up in Dartmoor the other night, on the way to Cornwall

• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

  in Current Projects • 2 weeks, 4 days

  

  Dad brought his set of old imperial sized taps and dies down to the family camping trip to Cornwall so we were able to clean out the threads on the cranks

• Better alternatives to cycling jerseys

  in General • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  Jura cycle clothing make some nice classic looking jerseys with pockets and without logos on

• Wanted: rear 45mm mudguard

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• Wanted: rear 45mm mudguard

  in Wanted Adverts • 3 weeks, 5 days

  

  Anyone got an odd rear mudguard lying around taking up space and need me to take it off their hands for cheap? Ideally black but I’ll take anything! Can collect in and around east or central.