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An uncle had a guy in his unit whose house and family had been blown up during the blitz. That guy killed every German he could.
He definitely did not lose the will to fight.

I’m thinking it would be very hard for me if I was a Ukrainian, not to kill every Russian I could if my wife had been raped and murdered, and the rest of my family killed.
Imagine being from Bucha and half the people you knew were killed and dumped in a hole. You wouldn’t be worrying about what happened in 1941.

Serotta is super clean for a 40 year old bike.
Plus it has Portacatena dropouts!
This must be one of the oldest Serottas around. I think he started in the early 70s.

Ive seen a blue one and a red one that looked okay but that gold looks terrible. The bar tape might be worse than the paint.
I wonder if the owner bought it without seeing one beforehand.

Well Giant builds frames for Colnago eh?

Bono? Who?

We have a covid vax mandate at work.
3 people are indefinitely suspended because they won’t get vaccinated. No pay no benefits no welfare no sick leave. Nobody misses them.
2 are just stubborn Q conspiracy idiots. The other is a religious nut.

Interesting Benotto/De Rosa.
De Rosa trained a couple of Benotto workers, hence the similarities. De Rosa also built frames for a few riders sponsored by Benotto.

East Germans started kicking up a fuss when they saw West German tv and realised their “Worker’s Paradise” was anything but.
Putin can't have his serfs getting uppity.

Portacatena lever.
Around 1979 Campagnolo designed a system to speed up wheel changes. Pressing that dingus let rear derailleur shift past the smallest cog and onto a crescent shaped chain rest bolted to the inside of the dropout.
Many frames can be dated by looking for the two mounting holes on the dropout.
Portacatena never gained much use and disappeared by the early 1980s.

Avid brakes with Avid Tri Dangle cable holders, these were very fashionable!

A lot of that drilling was at the cost of durability. It didn’t matter because bikes were a lot cheaper in relative terms in those days. My first real race bike was a Gios Torino I got from a guy who got a new bike every year.

We visited the old Colnago factory in the mid 70s and they had a brazing carousel with stations for each operation…poor ventilation and stinky fumes. No wonder a lot of them got cancer. (Pegoretti and Pellizoli for example)
Colnago did a lot of beautiful panto work. I regret not getting one, they offered to panto my name on a Colnago stem for $10! You sometimes see those Cinelli stems on Ebay with a clover on the front and five diamonds on top with owner’s names on them.

Yes you will find them in 17a catalogue.

The seller has lots of similar overpriced “classics” and “rare collector’s items” listed.
He’s like the Polish Panto Butcher on Retrobike. He takes older nice stuff and ruins it.

I keep hearing this excuse, it makes no sense. Joining NATO poses a threat?

Some of my swag from our supplier.
Milwaukee Packout is nice and durable
Their backpack ( not Packout version) is nice but very heavy. Extremely solid construction though.

Seat post quick releases were common on team spare bikes.
Now they are hot on EBay.

Not a drone, just a normal Australian spider?

Putin poisoned his superiors to get ahead.
It’s easy to imagine officers leaking the locations of their superiors to get them killed and create vacancies.
Also easy to imagine rivals sabotaging each other’s work.

They look neat. Do they work?

Being inside a car with the blast would deafen you, and the shrapnel would slice you up real good.
I was inside a vehicle when there was an accidental 5.56 discharge…

Tough luck Ivan.
These guys have no problem firing missiles into apartment buildings.

There was another Russian video on twitter yesterday.
Russian conscripts in a firefight. They didn’t even try to recover their wounded when retreating. Only when their company commander yelled at them did they go back for one of their wounded.

Disturbing Russian tv panel saying nuclear war wouldn’t be so bad because the Russian dead would go to heaven and westerners would just croak.
Normalising nuclear war now. Jesus weeps.

Ebay billet brakes.

So I tried front squats, zombie squat seems to work the best with my limited mobility. Using empty bar for now.
Thanks zooey!