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indeed - I enjoyed a gentle chuckle as I rolled past

There are some excellent routes out that way - I was there last week and returned via Christmas common, ibstone and skirmett, over hambledon lock and home via velolife, a rather pleasant route, espcially the bit around fingest, a lovely section of road

Maharajah’s well ?

90's Merckx in motorola colours riding from Kingston bridge toward Hampton Court yesterday morning. Great bike
On here?

^ what he said
https://recent-beans.com/products/bodum-travel-press-12oz-coffee-maker-with-extra-non-press-lid-stainless-steel?

I see from the wikipedia link that footie-hero John Terry lives there.
He once rented my house for the day to pass it off as his own. #csb

(his wife's publisher said their interiors were too footballer's wife-esque for her wholesome image so she and her people decamped to RVL Towers to shoot her cookbook or whatever it was)

Sales spam - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/367539/#comment16167905
(selling my conquest)

pics aren't working for me but I'd love to see the finished article

I've enjoyed riding this bike, it's all sorts of fun on towpaths, comfy on long rides and good for schlepping all your schizz around with you

It’s quite a handy bike if you’re planning to ride up Mount Kilimanjaro
Also quite good for riding down to Waitrose
Or if you quite fancy a Stanforth Kibo but want to be one of the cool kids

Paintwork is a bit battered, fork crown is ace, stickers are clearly reapplied after the addition of hub brake cable routing and the subsequent respray.

Comes with period correct Bluemels City mudguards, rack and michelin tyres
The rack is not a blackburn but one of the knock-offs typical at the time.
Rims are Rigida an being hub-braked are in pretty mint condition (a bit of rust on the eyelets and some light scratches that you'd expect on a 40 year old clunker)

Contact points:
Brooks B72 has a few scuffs .
Fitted to a 26.4mm Strong fluted seatpost with a double-rail clamp.

I'm not 100% convinced that this is original
26.4 mm is for unbutted 531 but the sticker says butted.
Also you really have to tighten up the bolt to clamp it so I'm wondering whether a 26.6mm might be better (I don't have one but can confirm 26.8 won't work)

The bars are chromed steel original and very wide! The stem looks like a Nitto BMX job

Grips are original and rather hard plastic - pretty painful after 100 miles off road!

Brake levers are also original - I think they might be Lee Chi, not 100% sure

Drive train deets:
Suntour ARX front and rear mechs.
Rear hub is screw-on with a 5-speed block
Chainset is the Allez triple by Takagi - If I remember rightly this was later rebadged Shimano for the deerhead groupset.
Shifters are the legendary Suntour Mountech Power - the best friction thumbie ever

Frame size is 21" (53cm) ST x 23" (58cm) TT
I’m quite partial to the hazy Jane (and also a fan of the song(s) on bryter later too!)

The hub brakes are standard Sturmey Archer of the type used on post office bikes so spares are easy to come by - I recently fitted a new rear brake pad and the front still has plenty of life left on it.

In terms of spec, it's fantastically original even down to the original Michelin tyres
I've never used the Brooks saddle as the seatpost is quite short and I don't have a long one that takes a microadjust so it's in excellent condition and the tyres are original Michelins from the 80s

I've never seen one of these with hub brakes as they usually came with cantis

Hub brakes were quite common in early 80s UK MTB (Dave Wrath Sharman / Highpath etc) so I think the mod was made quite early in this bike’s life and there's a sticker to say refurbished by Arthur Caygill up in Yorkshire so I guess he'd have cut off the canti bosses and soldered on the cable guides

Probably going to regret this....

Lugged 531 ST frame, everything on this is original from the early 80's except the pedals.
SOLD

I looked at this a year or so ago here are the links that were in my folder
http://www.titancycles.com/#section-pricing

XACD - http://www.xacd.com.cn/product.asp?rootcl=1&cls=1
Alternative website - https://www.ti-bikes.com/titanium-bike-frame/titanium-road-bike-frame/titanium-road-bike-frames-700c.html

Hi-Light http://www.tibicycle.com/ - these guys build for Van Nicholas, on-one, ragley etc but don't deal direct with the public

https://www.oraeng-tw.com/15-ra-301-3al-2-5v-ti-road-bike-frame.html Not only do they do titanium, they also do stainless steel but only in bulk, no one-offs

https://www.marinobike.com/

I'll take the bottle cage - will PM shortly

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lot-MTB-Bicycle-Frames-x-6-Muddy-Fox-Tuff-Trax-Used-Spares-Parts-/124873398659? Job lot of early-mid 90s mtb frames

Is this a map of all Schwarzwaldeapfelweinpressen ?
If so that’s splendid!

Austrians make cider i believe.
I always assumed the German Bodensee area apples end up in pastries, strudels etc

Getting there.
Quite excite