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Thank you hugo7, not immediately, but will consult as I think she wants to start cycling sooner rather than later.

Chapeau - a report please. Have done this before and reported on a previous thread. Always like to read riders experiences. My memories are of random houses in outlying villages with miniature goats in the garden, the smell of shit from the fields and wondering why the dual carriageway into Oudenaarde went on forever and into a headwind.

f**k me that's ugly.

Had a similar accident, circa 1986. Cycled back to Camberley from Sounds (?) in Soho, only to allow my Kreator album to swing into the front wheel. Face plant and broken vinyl.

Mother in law needs a hip operation and has given up tennis, netball and swimming. She wants to take up cycling to get some exercise and is looking for a ladies hybrid type bike, up to £200. She is quite tall, so I suspect an 18 inch frame would be about the right size. Cheers.

That is very pretty and bargainous indeed!

Using the Google launcher for the Nexus 5, obtained from here:

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/05/the-google-now-launcher-is-coming-it-will-even-import-from-your-old-launcher/

Seems fine on Note 2 and Nexus 7

With the 100th anniversary of World War I, I did a bit of research on my great-grandad. He died in 1989, so I remember him reasonably well - not least as he put the phone down on me at Christmas one year (he was about 90 at the time) on the basis that he was 'chatting up a bird'.

So I did one of those 14 day trials on Ancestry.co.uk (other sites are available), and found that he joined the army in 1910 and was immediately posted to India. He made a leisurely way back via Sudan and Egypt, before finding himself in Gallipoli as a member of the Army Cycilng Corps. This campaign started on the 25th April (he arrived on the 5 May 1915) and ended on the 9 January 1916 (the day he was evacuated). Having thought he had a lucky escape, he was posted to France and joined the Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Section). This became the Tank Regiment and I think it's likely that he saw action at Cambrai. He was allowed to leave the army in September 1918, having suffered shell-shock when his tank was hit killing 4 and wounding 3 (he was unwounded). He was awarded the Military Medal - the Military Cross for non-commissioned servicemen.

100 years have nearly elapsed since the start of the war, and my great-grandad was just an ordinary working-class man. So I wondered...

1) Any World War 1 history on here?

2) An interest in FGSS participation http://www.ctc-heartofengland.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=471&Itemid=248

Sitting on the sofa, enjoying a beer and suddenly thought of Paul. Can't explain why. Music, alcohol, thinking of my bikes down in the shed as it pisses down with rain. You're still missed...

In which case merge away, or create a close air support for ground forces thread...

Couldn't find any fighter thread....

When I was a lad, these used to fly over my grandads house in Suffolk. So favourite fighters please...

Just got married and my father-in-law knows that I love cycling. As a surprise he created this...

Ed Scoble, dressed like an extra from a Black Magic advert cycling through Walton on Thames. I was driving and passed him once, and then again after I fillled-up at a local service station. He looked at me slightly strangely as I accorded him full respect on his approach to Hampton Court bridge.

Lolo, the bottle did have a little o written on the top in permanent marker. The drink smelt vaguely of lemon, and given the sponsors, I wondered if it might contain oestrogen for a positive reading.

Spit collected from a teenage girls head? Gel and bar retail for £3 to £4 I guess, postage paid by me, in return for donation to forum. No interest, no problem. Were I looking to make money on this... As mentioned, they came from the musette, and I have no interest in them.

The musette is, I hope, semen free...

So a strange offer, I went to the Tour of Britain and stood at the end of the feed zone. A musette sailed close to me, and upon retrieval saw that it had been hurled by a Team Sky rider. Photographic evidence of my being there can be provided if one wishes. Said musette was retrieved along with an Omega Pharma bottle. I am keeping the bottle and musette, but the CNP gel and energy bar are up for grabs. They are good for consumption or simply keeping as a rather odd souvenir of the tour. A £5 donation to the forum secures postage of the items to you.

I'm assuming that this wasn't one of the Sky wags tweeting under a pseudonym?

Lives in West Wickham, BR4 according to that 192 website. Must be easy to get a postal address to send supportive letters etc...

Not sure if this belongs in Bikes and Bits, General or Travel - it'll get moved if it needs to be I'm sure...

Travel to Berlin quite often, and always fascinated to by the bike culture there. Having said that I always stay at a friends flat in Kreuzberg, so this may be geographically limited. For the most part it seems to be a combo of Dutch bikes, cargo bikes and beaten up old Peugeots. There doesn't seem to be much of the Richmond Park mentality about i.e. middle aged men (such as me) on £9K bikes. However, the bikes that make you look tend to be fairly interesting. Some of my spots this holiday were what appeared to be a Bianchi with wolf ear lugs, a Puch with full C-Record groupset and panto'd stem etc, a 753 team Raleigh and a lovely (not beaten up) Peugeot. There were plenty more, a lovely steel Viner etc, but couldn't take photos of them all.

In addition to the bikes, I try to fit in a visit to some of the shops such as Devil's Child etc. On this occasion I missed out, but did visit a cafe A Horn, which has a bicycle shop attached to it, which you look into from the cafe. The owner had a Raleigh Record for sale (58/59cm, 531 and Shimano Arabesque) for 450 Euros - he's willing to ship if anyone was interested. Interestingly, he told me that secondhand bikes were hugely expensive in Berlin and (slight exaggeration on his part), something costing 50 Euros in another city would be 500 in Berlin. In part this appeared to be true, alongside the Raleigh he had a fairly mediocre secondhand steel Giant for sale at 690 Euros.

Anyway, if anyone goes to Berlin and wants to share anything Bike related...

About a month ago I purchased a Merckx. It was sold as a Lotto Emerxil from 1986. This seems to be on the basis of a sticker on the top tube. However, a bit of research seems to show that in 1986 the Lotto team were riding all red Merckx's. This particular paint scheme was being ridden by TeVe Blad in 1986, before being adopted by Lotto in 1987 (although they don't appear to have been sponsored by Emerxil that year). Much as I'd like to think it was a team frame, I have to accept that it probably isn't. This hasn't diminished my pleasure at owning it however.

In addition, the frame came with a combo of parts. A C Record chainset, seat post, front derailleur and 1st gen Syncro levers. The brakes were Dura Ace calipers and levers. Since purchasing the frame I have managed to swap a 4 hole Nuovo Record front mech for a set of C Record levers. In addition, I have a set of Delta brakes that were bought a year ago as an object of lust and a NOS Biodynamic waterbottle and cage that was foung in Berlin 2 years ago. So all in all this looks like a C Record build to me.

The questions and dilemmas...

I'm assuming that 1st gen Syncro levers are 6 speed? If so, only compatible with a 1st gen fully shrouded rear derailleur?

Given that this looks like a C Record build, it will be a slow one from here on in given the price of parts (even 2nd hand).

The main source of confusion is the frame. Do I restore or not? I can't afford NOS parts, so aside from polishing they will still look slightly scuffed etc. However, seeing LN74's Peugeot and Colin the Bald's Gios, I'm minded to got down this route...

In Berlin at present...

Another price drop to £300, can supply a non-matching Planet X front wheel as well.

Price drop to £310