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Ratty but functional (I.e. ‘budget’) Earlier the better All the bolts and springs present and turning With a hanger, with the tensioning nut and bolt Before I head to eb*y Anyone have anything? Oh, and the moon On a stick Thank you ;)

Mansfield or equivalent saddle required Looking for something that would sit well, that I could use to sit well, while sitting, well, on my ‘39 Stokes of London The original Mansfield, well, I think it’d best sit well on the shelf as a fitting souvenir, it’s sitting-on days are well passed So...

Thread-on, not too concerned about the ratio’s, for ‘50’s hub (can’t say which brand. Not because it’s a secret. Simply because no-one seems to be able to identify it.) Needed as the original had a meeting behind the bike shop with Mr AngleGrinder, after a frankly disagreeable exchange of views...

Anyone have one of these in the parts bin please?

Deserves a build thread - well, a restrained restoration thread more like - this lovely c1950’s (date pending) Stokes of London (Walthamstow I gather.) First picture is from the seller’s thread, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing a little of the story behind this. The bike is completely...

Starting soon :)

Have managed to remove (without caustic, amazingly) a BB named ‘YST Corp’ which appears to have the same chamfered inner faces to the locknuts The inside faces of the frame’s bb also appear gently chamfered as well Does anyone know if a Mavic bb replacement would work, or, given the threads look...

Evening all Tyre popping off the rim question here Happened twice now First time I thought it was the cheapo tyre, so binned that and changed to Schwalbe ones, new tube, new rim tape Happened again, tube and tyre seem fine No apparent distortion to the rim wall, clincher edge seems uniform...

Ha ha, of course the brake doesn’t return properly because after an hour of f*ckjng around adjusting everything, replacing the cable, re-taping the bars and all the things, turns out the spring split in the hidy place behind the bolts etc Does anyone have one of these?

Looking for set, clincher, 700c, grey if possible, anodised like Mavic MA40 or suchlike, am in Oxfordshire so will need posting probably

For A&P tubed ‘49 Hobbs please thank you

Anyone have the following? - Campagnolo Chorus Alu headset top nut (British thread) - Campagnolo 10 speed centaur carbon grey chain ring

Anyone have something? Simple polished version from 90’s ish please. Have to resort to caustic to remove my poorly maintained one

@Theeb seems to have dropped off the radar, anyone heard from him? Hope all’s well :(

Well, was all set to give the Rotrax a shakedown wobbleCycle and prior to, checking I’d done all the nuts and bolts up properly… swing a leg over the top tube. Hmm. Stem’s out of line. Step off, loosen the bolt, shimmy thing around. Hang on. Somethings not right. Is the wheel buckled? Umm, not...

Hello Retrobike hiveMind Have this early Benelux mech (from eBay. I know) and am wondered if it’s dead, due the rather non-parallel nature of the parallelogram parts. As you can see from the annotation, the part that bolts to the drop-out and the bits that carry the jockeys are travelling on...

Morning all Anyone have a set (including straddles and rear cable guide?

Right, in order to do things properly - and most importantly to stop me turning the ‘49 Hobbs into a 2008 puppy-killer f*xie (as I have the parts. But we don’t want that. No-one wants that), can anyone help with; - a chainset, single, 40-ish teeth, cottered, 170mm or thereabouts arms, English...

I mean, if I was there, it’d be mine already https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/mercian-vintage-custom-colour-bike-frame/1473324325

Evening all Right, need a few bits for this, including for starters; - seat post, 27mm or slightly narrower (need to get a new set of Verniers to check, mine are rubbish) - seat collar - bottom bearing cup as foolishly have lost mine from the Lytaloy one blast it :(