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Ditto. I don't know why not, as I had buggerloads more free time than I do now.
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I wouldn't worry about fitness; mine is negligible. My fiancée may also be coming.
Perhaps I should do it twice - one slower trip with her and one fast trip with you guys.
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I know some of you use 'em. I'm after the ones with relatively stubby bar-ends rather than the long cow-horns. Used and cheap preferably - I live in horrible Coventry so they'll need posting.
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Have you tried using an English axle in French cups? An English cottered axle is very slightly smaller diameter (15.875mm instead of 16mm) and is cut to fit 9.5mm pins instead of 9mm, but it might work. I'm sure I have an old axle you can have for nowt if you want to try it.
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Around the end of May, I'm planning on giving my touring-MTB a shakedown run by doing the South Downs Double (not in 24 hours though) if that appeals to you (and depending on what kind of bike you're planning on using - apparently a CX bike will do it easily). Otherwise I'm still up for bikepacking on my road bike, too.
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Lauterwasser bars - you know you want to.
That stem is absolutely bloody gorgeous.
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31.8 is the clamp size, not the grip size. The grip size on oversize bars is 23.8 which is only 1.6mm larger than 22.2 (old steel bar grip size) so... possibly. Depends on what shifter you want, too; I would imagine that new shifters are designed to fit 23.8 bars.
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Some Household Recycling Centres (aka the dump) will recycle tyres for nowt. Google is your friend.
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One day I will scan in all the interesting pages from the Cyclepedia book.
(I wouldn't recommend buying it; really poorly edited, full of technical errors, and too many dull run-of-the-mill bikes. edit - oh, you can get it for £12 now. Well, perhaps you should buy it then - it's a nice coffee-table book at least)
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Two of my friends are yacht designers. Trufax. Don't know anything about them, though (he says ashamedly).
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Westwood is a style of rim rather than a manufacturer:
Rod/stirrup brakes work on Westwood rims, but your frame mightn't be able to accommodate them. An alternative is a front drum brake (some people say this will over-stress the fork, others say it won't... all the Dutch bikes I've seen have been so massively over-engineered that I'd say a front drum brake is fine (especially with a long torque-arm very securely bolted to the fork several times)).
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Hmm, without the indicator chain it should just run in high gear... shouldn't it? Perhaps the hub is all gummed up inside.
Anyway, the chains are cheap and available on ebay as oller says.
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Would a moderator be able to change the title of my 'For Sale' thread? It was initially just a small clearout of selected bits, but has now turned into a 'sell almost everything I own' type-thread. Here it is:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread97804.html
I'd like to change it to "Constantly Updating Emigration Clearout - various bike parts and OT stuff" if that's okay.
Or should I delete the thread and start a new one with a new title?
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http://www.lfgss.com/thread97804.html
discount for Cov people
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Ah, rack stand, I see - I don't like them either.
Pletscher do a folding double kickstand which you might be interested in.
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Linseed/flaxseed oil over surface rust, if you really don't care what it looks like. It dries to a hard gummy finish and won't rub off all over your clothes, and you can re-apply it as necessary (about once every three months or so). Cheaper, easier and more effective than sanding/repainting (which, unless done very thoroughly and properly, just results in the steel rusting underneath the paint, causing the paint to flake off again). Just make sure you plop the oily rag into a bucket of water afterwards, else it might spontaneously combust.
Fitting a front brake is always advisable, if your frame can take one. However, being slow and with all the weight over the rear wheel means that rear-skids stop the bike pretty quickly (if I remember my time in Amsterdam correctly, which I almost certainly don't).
Personally I'd keep the stand, because they're both useful (when loading the proposed front basket) and cool (it'll make you stand out).
Got any photos?
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Just bought this, unseen. Made a cheeky offer and it got accepted.
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/531-f-w-evans-touring-frame-with-ta-chainset-/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16ZHJGQE9noMb,LuBQJ3Dj!HmQ~~60_35.JPG25" FW Evans touring frame. I'm trying not to get over-excited, but hopefully I've finally found the frame I've been after for years - a handsome steel light touring frame in XL size, with a relatively short top tube, and for a reasonable price. And (whisper it) being a touring frame might mean it has large enough clearances to take 650x42 tyres and guards (if brake drop isn't too much, that is... I'll go plain old 700c otherwise).
Let's hope that when it arrives, it doesn't turn out to be a shitheap.
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I would also be interested in this as I have some bikepack.pl stuff, I'm free from mid-May to mid-July-ish. Road bikes and camping?
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Why did you pay £20 when they're on ebay for £2?
What makes you think it'll be worth thousands when an Olympic coin from 1900 is only worth about £100?
You'd need to keep it for many, many generations before you see any kind of return on £100, especially considering that these are mass-produced items that literally thousands of people own.
Must be a troll.
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Price dropped to £31.50 = getting there, but not quite. My serious offer of £3 still stands.
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I'm thinking of selling my Olympus om-20. It's a great camera but I'm moving away for a while and won't be taking it with me:
Olympus OM-20 body
Olympus-Zuiko 50mm prime lens
Sigma 24mm prime lens
Sturdy 1970s black leather case (Zenit)
Flash
I'm thinking about £80 posted. It's all in pretty good nick - pm for details.