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Thanks, staggy. I'll look into it.

Here's a bad phone pic of the bike in its current state. The fluted Kalloy seatpost and Fuji Track bars came from the forum. The SR stem and Elite bottle cage were found by rummaging in the parts boxes at the excellent Broken Spoke bike workshop in Oxford. A great place if you like budget bike tinkering.

Thanks for the tip off, Ian. Researching into Geoffrey Butler I've seen people mention that the shop had various people build frames for them which were then all stickered up by the shop as GBs. I guess there's a chance it could have come from one of those frame builders.

The frame has a few bits attatched to it now. I really should put up another picture.

Years ago a friend of mine went to Mauritius and reported back that they had "Spaderman" action figures, which led to in-jokes about a shovel-handed superhero that comes round and helps you dig the garden.

Too big a bar drop for me. Thanks anyway.

Do you have an idea on the width/reach/drop of the 2 pairs of drop bars please? I'm looking for something suite shallow in reach/drop.

Badoom-tish!
Wish I'd thought of something like that at the time, however I doubt he would have got the joke and probably wouldn't have appreciated me butting into his "conversation".

Not too impressed with the winter gloves, the linings in mine slide around alot inside the gloves when I brake/change gear which actually feels really sketchy and gives me less control.

People who say things like this, overheard in the 2 months premature xmas toys aisle of a supermarket:

" I don't think a hoover is the sort of toy you'd want to give a boy is it, mind you most boys nowadays are f**king queer anyways, they don't make them like they used to"

The letters W, A and C spring to mind.

26.0 or 26.4 quill stem wanted. Around 60/65mm length. I'm in Oxfordshire so might need to post it.
Thanks
Dave

The wind's started coming through the mesh bits in my shoes these last few nights. Are lycra overshoes any good for preventing cold toes? My endura neoprenes feel a bit ott for this time of year.

How not to lock your bike ;-)

Not sure if it helps but there's at least one cassette supplier in the UK who sells off "seconds" for use by artists/craftspeople etc. They won't be mixtapes but will probably be an interesting mix of colours and random music.

Dou Dou near Camden Town Station?

I think there may be a r/c thread in the miscellaneous and meaningless section. I race 1/12 mardaves at wycombe radio car club and travel around a bit. I also have a 1/10 scale land rover that I occasionally do scale trail comps with.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12540665/

Yeah hopefully it will help someone identify the frame.

Bikes and hatchets. Do you play real life Road Rash?

But I hope the thought
of your bike ride home again
gets you through the day

Broken Spoke have a bike sale coming up soon.
http:// http://bsbcoop.org/looking-for-a-secondhand-bike/

Having spent the last few years using one bike, the time has come to build another. The plan is to keep my current Steve Goff 531c as a summer bike and to build this mysterious orange beast that I purchased off the forum with mudguards to use for winter club rides, commuting and as a general workhorse. It'll be a bit of a rat bike as it may have to spend time locked outside shops and work in all weathers.

No idea what make it is although we suspect it may be Columbus tubing as it has Columbus droputs and at some point it has been repainted and a Columbus SL sticker added. The original paint seems to have been a metallic blue. If anyone has any ideas on the manufacturer then please let me know.

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Can anyone help identify this frame that I bought off the forum? It's been resprayed and stickered as Columbus SL tubing which may or may not be accurate. It does have Columbus dropouts though. There is metallic blue paint showing in places which may be the original paint. No number on BB. The seller has had 2 LBSs suggest it may have been custom built because of the geometry. I suspect that the forks aren't original to the frame.

Has anyone tried the tool kits? I'm interested in them for the cycle specific bits (I have enough scredrivers and allen keys) but know some cheap tools can be as soft as cheese and get chewed up after a few uses.

Update. It now looks like it's turned into Regents Park - Canonbury - Hampstead Heath possibly with a pub stop on the way.

Tomorrow (saturday) morning an Oxford rider who doesn't know London very well (me) plans to ride from Marylebone station to Canonbury area and back to pick up some handlebars. Anyone fancy joining me for a short spin?

This thread brings back memories of bikes in MBUK that I could never afford as a teenager. Flouro Marins and orange Oranges (Yo dawg!), The square tubed Pace frames like the one Dammit posted. I always quite fancied a Kona Humuhumunukunukuapua'a too.