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Spotted in Bath - hill rat

Mid 80's Vitus 979
Totally worth £100
Tons of info here: https://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-peugeot-px-10du-vitus-979.html

3D printed bike parts in the news today - turns out Alex Porter handlebars were made by Bastion https://www.instagram.com/p/CSGNtbhhmbn/?utm_medium=copy_link

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Nice one, I look forward to seeing what you do with it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324705875920?
57cm Columbus thron, straight fork, atlanta wheels, original flite - £100 starting price

Full Aluminium Bike!

Is it not a steel fork?
Red tape/saddle combo are great and the wheel/tyre combo is perfect

Same story here - mine's utterly hopeless - his office presumably have me on the "straight to junk" list

This looks great. Love it

Latest iteration of the stallard - more pics to follow

The final part works pretty well and has a pleasing ‘knife and forked’ look to it

I couldn’t be arsed to go hunting the internets forever so I thought I’d bodge one up.
I made a cardboard model and then rummaged for a 2mm thick penny washer in the shed.
I opened up the hole and chopped out the shape and then bent it in a vice with a hammer

I picked up a magic 851 recently on eBay for cheaps. When I went to fit it I discovered I’m missing a vital part 801034

circled thing - I'd assumed that the metal tubes poking out of the aluminum body are the heater elements I could be wrong though.

Armchair faultfinding is not a precise art and I'm certainly no expert.
That said, the part most vulnerable to earth leakage is the heater element.
The grounded boiler is typically protected from mains by ceramic powder. water dripping inside a machine where the heater element enters the boiler dampens ceramic and trips your RCD

disconnecting the element and checking resistance to ground would show a gross fault.
Another approach might be to replacing the element with a known good load (e.g. mains light pendant) if the bulb lights up then you know it's the boiler heater - if it still trips, you'll need to look elsewhere.

Repairs could perhaps include removing the boiler and sticking it in the over for a few hours at about 100degC... alternatively you'll need to find a replacement boiler

Needless to say go super-careful with mains power - also do a bit of googling, i doubt there's much difference in principle between this and more documented/discussed machines
Years ago I fixed a similar fault on a FrancisFrancis based on info from a Gaggia classic.

Quite so

I rode a foffa once
Borrowed from Babington House
I felt très sophistique

probably - I considered Arsis on a recent build, partly for the name. - Retrospec need to work on robustness and styling before I'd be able to take them seriously though.

Retrospec - If you're out there and wish to have advice and help, I'll happily offer a fixed rate for this, feel free to DM.

Foffa made mad dollar no?

Target market and customer expectation are quite different here.

£400 to look urbane/sophisticated for your once a week summer commute for a few years is reasonable value.
It's not that hard to build a reliable SS/fixeh from cheap far east components when the target market are more interested in the look than the performance and won't be pushing themselves or the kit.

Shoppers for a £1500 gravel bike will do some research and irrespective of your mechanical knowledge and enthusiasm I can't imagine anyone looking at the Sensah derailleur, zoom brakes etc and thinking they look anything other than dodgy, which would then make me wonder about the quality of the hubs/freehub, strength of the frame/handlebars etc.... and just think "I'll stick with the Genesis, Arkose, Kinesis" or whatever

Agreed. With any vintage lightweight bars it's always worth keeping an eye open for crack formation.
On this particular bike I also upgraded to the same bar in carbon and relegated the alu to a beater...

200GS Exage cranks with the dodgy steel Biopaces removed.
The chainring is an FSA Narrow Wide 110mm BCD

Oh dear, I have these bars

Thanks I was pleased with the finish, your DBAD sticker is now on my daughter's mtb and the dark arts is on my coffee canister so nothing was wasted.

Cheers. It's an Arius Gran Carrera - From what i can see it's a Spanish clone of a Cinelli Unicanitor - I doubt the leather has many miles left in it but it looks the part!

Cheers, me too, especially premium quality ones that have taken a real kicking...