Recent content by Rapparee87

And a high speed mountain ace

A strongly worded letter to the editor surely followed 😁

As the Giro is on I'll take a stab in the dark. Bottechia?

The current trend for fat tyres is due to one thing in my opinion, modern carbon fibre being so uncomfortable to ride. Back in the day anyone turning up with fat tyres would be laughed at. Anything more than 25 just looks awful.

Somebody's got a copy of My Road To Victory! Great shots, bikes to die for.

Il Diablo..

Has anyone here ever used cranks longer than 170mm? Maybe some of the testers here? If so what was your experience of them? Indurain used 180's I think. I've seen pics here of some with the L shaped cranks, what were they like to ride? I'm just curious.

Conv The roads here are bad now.. God knows what they were like then..

Miss Wilson was quite a hottie! 😍

Eddy Merckx... A man who loved cycling so much he named his son after a bicycle part.,. 😄

Frame pumps.. many a vicious dog got a whack on the head from me back in the day. They usually stayed inside their gates from then on... Cruel maybe, but it was them or me... 😎

From back before colour was banned in cycling and everything became black ..

Take me to your leader...

Surely it stands against all the rules of common sense engineering.. Progress can hardly be defined as taking a machine that was easy to maintain, inexpensive relative to other forms of transport and at it's finest incredibly beautiful to behold, and turning it into precisely the opposite. So...

The very last rider to win a Monument with toe clips and straps.