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Very nice!

Thank you! All arrived safe and sound when I finally got home yesterday

Exactly

Re scaffolding, can you call them, tell them if they don’t take it away by X date you will assume it’s abandoned and they don’t want it, advertise it and sell it, keeping the money as storage cost / giving it to the donkey sanctuary / as you wish?

High risk approach given how scaffolders are generally described, but might work.

That £77k one -

“ There were only ever two of these bicycles made. And one of these famous ‘big wheel bikes’ is what we are offering here, no doubt that Francesco Moser was training on this bike for that prestigious record.”

Doesn’t even sound like the one he set the record on….?

I did initially buy a quill stem with an alleged 31.8mm diameter clamp and a removable faceplate, but it was so badly made the hole didn’t even look slightly cylindrical and the bars wouldn’t fit.

Precisely

SJS have suggested I need a longer ahead stem converter to fit a velo orange style stem

The website says 65mm min: https://www.geneticbikes.com/shop/products/stems/threadless/aq-road-stem/

I believe them. Apparently I’d be better off with 70mm to clamp to, most adaptors have only 50mm. Any suggestions where to get one? Anyone want able to / want to make one on a lathe for a reasonable fee? Otherwise I will ask yet another favour of my dad/brother…. :/

You bought the Gitane too?

It looks like a normal eurocylinder as far as I can see. I am not familiar with that type of door, but it looks like both of the silver metal plates on the edge of it look like they need to come off, and underneath there will be a single screw bang in the middle that lines up with close to the bottom of the eurocylinder.

Undo screw (it’s long) and hope the cylinder just slides out. If it doesn’t it’s because the lock paddle thing (don’t know the name, the bit that rotates when the key turns, that makes the door lock) is sticking out and getting in the way. You may be able to rotate it with a key in the other side, I’m not sure.

Then measure it and buy one the same - eg 50mm:50mm or 60mm:50mm, 30:60 etc - it’s the length of the cylinder, and each # of mm is either side of the centre (some doors need the cylinder to be longer in.the inside half than the outside or vice versa)

Does look great

Well, she’s the stoker, so she’s not wrong

I agree, it’s a bargain as a complete. I wouldn’t expect you to sell the frame for much less either

Big magnet?

OP - part out?

Hahaha you could even paint it blue and add some branding

Looks great! Remember the first rule of tandem club - the stoker is always right - and you’ll have a great time.

Shed looks superb. Cat looks like an imperious arsehole with the world tied around his little toe claw.

Fingers crossed. What was the solution? (and sorry again for misreading/causing confusion)

Dibs shifters please

I’ve done it many times to low value things - lacquered sash window pulls and latches etc. It depends on how they’re lacquered, and you can’t tell until you try. I have left in acetone, boiled in vinegar, cooked in oven to age, etc. and had good results, but I wasn’t looking for a particular finish, just to age them. I guess if you get markings you don’t like you can polish it again and let it tarnish naturally.

Buy lacquered and strip the lacquer?

^this, there are steps that need to be taken before she can sell.

Misread!

Sorry to hear about your dad, I hope you and your mum are doing ok.

House in UK?

IGNORE BELOW, I DIDNT READ PROPERLY :-

There are two ways of owning:

• Joint tenants
  
• Tenants in common
  
  

Most likely your parents were JTs (based on you describing the house as having gone straight to your mum). In that case the house passed immediately to your mum, outside the intestacy rules (ie not related to the will) and no inheritance tax arises (it might not have anyway, but it’s outside the scope of inheritance tax).

If so, your mum needs to fill in a form to have his name removed and then she can sell it.