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Assuming the wheels are original, you can date it quite accurately: Maillard hubs use a plain date code.

There will be two pairs of numbers: the first two are the week of manufacture and the second, the year.

You'd do well to get £100 for it and there are enough in circulation that no-one will pay to ship it here I'm afraid.

A pointless third dibs on the wheels.

I lie to taxi drivers, creating a whole new identity and life each time.

I am a taxi driver and have multiple identities too.

I also have a whip and Chloroform in the glove box.

£6 please.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290748611795?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Just bought an Orbit America f&f: 531c and nicely built.

It's all a bit tongue in cheek, but there is usually more than a little sense at the heart of the Velominati rules.

...the lotus looks funny. you should ask the seller how much it weighs.

Out of curiosity I sent the following message:
"More information please:

• what is the groupset?
  
• who built it and for which museum?
  
• what does it weigh?
  
• what is the provenance?"
  
  

And got this reply:
"not a groupset
came from small museum in suffolk which closed down
weight about 22lbs or 10kg
provenance unknown"

I can't decide if he's thick or cagey...

Dawes 531 for £60 BIN.

Interested in the camera:

• will you post?
  
• does it work ok?
  
• is a memory card included? What size/type?
  
  

Thanks.

Don't know what to make of this: not much info for a museum piece, the seller looks to be a dealer rather than a cyclist; even so you'd expect a bit more provenance.

Mighty stoked! Being interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk before catching the 16:09 into town; weather is set fair and I'm pretty sober now: see you soon!

Undibs bars & stem (fyi 66-42, no grooves)

3rd dibs bars and 2nd stem subject to size, model and grooves.

Bar-end shifters now £40 posted.

Ergos paid for and sold.

Just swapped e-mail with the guy and he's will be paying me on Wednesday evening: if for any reason that falls through, you have second dibs.

This is what I have. Are they of use?

Yes, they look great: how much do you want for them, posted?

If it's for a L'Eroica build than they wouldn't look right.

Whether they'll let you ride L'Eroica with ten speeds is another question altogether...

Link?
This I guess. #nocomment

No problem, I'm actually after friction as I've got 6 speed shifters at the moment and thought yours were Super LJ.

Nice looking build BTW.

Which seatpost did you use? Is a 24mm one with micro-metric adjust? Where can I find one of those?

Cheers
They go for good money when they ,very rarely, crop up on eBay.

Magic Bike Mike is your best bet: either one of his custom made posts or a shim for 22.2mm posts.

Thanks guys. Even on the middle chainring? I was under the impression cross chaining only applies to the inner and outer chainring on a tripple FD
No, the available chain ring/sprocket combinations are dependent on two things: chainline and chainrub.

Chainline refers to having such extreme combinations (big/big or small/small) that the chain runs at an angle that causes excessive wear of itself and the cassette and chain ring.

The wider the cassette the greater the problem: a 1x5 set-up will happily run all options.

Chainrub is more apparent when using the smaller rings, because the bigger rings overlap them: you might get rub in the two highest gears and the small ring, but none from the lowest and the big ring (but chainline could then be the issue).

With a triple, I would set it up so that the available gears are evenly in the centre, ie lose one gear from either end.

1 of 4! shite!

cheers rive gauche

so are these still available new?

You know you need an Italian BB, so that narrows it down to two: pre-'78 is 113mm and post-'78 is 115.5mm.

Which one you need is dependent on the front derailleur: post-'78 the derailleur was wider, hence the wider BB.

These do crop up on eBay quite regularly (there are a couple on there at the moment), failing which 115.5mm is the current triple BB so they are available as cassettes.

I'm not sure that 113mm has been used for other groupsets, so I don't know what alternatives are available

The shape of the Criterium is intended for track/TT/sprinting; Giro D'Italia or Campione Del Mondo would be better suited to regular road use, as they both have full width tops.

Depending on their width I'd be interested in the bars as well as your shifters: do they have cable grooves?

The shifter for the front derailleur is, but the shifter for the rear is 9 speed indexed without a friction option (you can get different wheels to change the number of gears it is indexed for).

I suppose you could remove the springs which engage the toothed wheel.

How many gears do you want it to work with, or do specifically want friction?

Ergo shifters sold pending payment.