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Ill take these. Pm i/c.

Dibs the C24’s. Pm I/c

Dizzy has hurt her paw or leg again, we noticed she was limping so I put some fresh food out for her and my wife held her back so we could watch her trot. It doesn’t look too bad but we’ll keep an eye on it.

Probably best take a towel along. Or a straw.

I did that one on the day too. Got less lols than I was hoping for, tbh.

So what happened was undoubtedly tragic, but what sort of families would instruct a lawyer to pursue a legal action before they’ve even got the funerals arranged? Jesus wept

Astroworld: Travis Scott and Drake sued over deadly US festival crush https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59205570

Not just colouring, flavour too. Macallan whisky, my favourite, is matured in used Jerez sherry barrels, and it’s bloody great.

Yup, I’d certainly trust Sports Direct mechanics. Their experience on Pinnacles and Dunlop full-sus bikes will be invaluable.

Heh. Of course. The Floof Monster is hiding under the bed as I write.

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Thanks for the interest, all. A few replies to points rises above.

The plan is to get it down HH when it’s running again. I’ve ridden it there before, but that was before the Lotus thing kicked off and no-one knew what it was back then. I did ride it at the old Eastway too, which wasn’t much fun on a fixie, and in a few ECCA time trials.

It’s got an eccentric bottom bracket - the rear axle is affixed through the frame. I’ll need to strip the BB out and hope it moves again, Mike came up with a toothed edge to the BB shell and a plate over the top to lock it in place - probably not the best method but it was a prototype.

I’ll need to source some more Mylar or some other fabric to cover the rear wheel - it’s what’s used on light aircraft, glued on to the rim and hub, heated with a heat gun to shrink it and then doped with cellulose and painted, all because I couldn’t afford a disc wheel at the time, although I’ll be looking for a Mavic disc wheel that I can modify. If anyone knows of one….

Anyway, I put it together quickly over the weekend to see what looked like again, and it all looks promising, so I’ll strip it down again and clean and reassemble it properly and take some pics as I go along. I’ve finally sold three of my four motorbikes so I have room in my garage to do some work, seeing as lockdown and my wife WFH has meant my basement workshop is now her office.

I met Mike B in the mid 80’s when I got involved with recumbents and we’ve been friends ever since. I’ve got lots of tales about the development of the bike, how Lotus got involved and how it all went sour and Mike got totally stiffed by Lotus (he never received a penny from them) but I’ll save those for a bit later. But yeah, it really did happen like that, we had no idea what would happen with the design and I think I paid Mike about £400 for it. After the Barcelona Olympics, a Lotus dealer offered me £25,000 for it. I declined….

I got this probably 30 years ago from Mike Burrows before the whole Boardman olympics things with Lotus took off. I’d crashed my fixie TT bike and was looking for a new frame and knowing Mike pretty well I had a chat with him, and he told me his latest project had just come out of the oven and was looking promising, would I like one? And so here it is, the second of two prototypes.

It’s been sat in the garage for around 20 years now, and it’s looking a bit sorry for itself, much to my shame. The mylar cover for the rear wheel disintegrated long ago, and the wing handlebar was taken for another bike, and then broken in a crash. So my old TT set-up will have to do for now. It should really be an easy fix - I have to modify the stem as the Monoblade steerer is very short and is plugged so the quill won’t insert much at all. I should maybe fit an Aheadset but I’ve got a lovely 1” threaded Record headset I want to use, so quill stem it is.

Mike Burrows hasn’t been too well of late, so I plan to pop the bike into my little noddy car and go visit him in Norwich and he can help me fettle a few details , and maybe I can hunt around his workshop and find some better bars laying around in exchange for a few beers at the Fat Cat.

Hopefully it’ll be sorted reasonably soon and ready for a few unfeasibly slow laps around HH…

GMT. 5pm last night and it was pitch dark. We’ve got 5 months of this miserable shit now and I find it thoroughly depressing.

Pleasure to meet you @swmlon, glad it’s gone to a good home!

Interesting brake lever set-up

Sold to @swmlon, nice to meet you and glad the bike is off to a good home 🙂

I still have a set of early tungsten competition darts somewhere in my lock-up. Can’t recall offhand what weight they are, but they’re tiny. Darts were usually made of brass but the heavier ones would still be quite large. Tungsten darts could be the same weight but half the size and much easier to throw.

Can’t they just use the infamous wormhole/kink in the space-time continuum that exists down there and get the parts made six months ago and get them fitted yesterday?

“My gears are playing up a little….”

Fuck the parts washer, this one’s going to need sandblasting.

Have sent you a pm - no reply as yet?

Fuck’s sake, just seen this and I’ve literally, as in the last 15 minutes, just bought tickets for Talons on Friday night at Bush Hall.

PM’d you.

Ooh….doubt these would fit in the back of a Pug 206 but I can ask a favour from a neighbour. Let me check and I’ll get back to you.