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Date: 09 Sep 2006 17:05:11
From: landotter
Subject: Been a while since I found a barn fresh Raleigh Sports
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But it sure is satisfying when you do, especially here in Nashville
where decent thrift and yardsale bikes are very rare. I saw it covered
in that type of light rust and muck that just slides off of that good
Brit chrome. $25. Fair enough.
Candy apple red with full lugs, with the self adjusting brakes, and a
S/A hub that dates it to 1976. 27" wheels on this one, so easy to
convert to 700c to get real braking, might not even bother though.
Ponderous deceleration is part of the nostalgia. It'll stop if you
really want it too. Has those bizarre textured rims with the partial
grooves. May try a modern pad on them, but I did shave the originals
down with a box plane.
Cleaned her up, took off the horrid plastic Brooks from the 70s,
replaced with a well broken in Flyer (though I hate Brooks on road
bikes, I've been saving this one for a genteel ride), got the wheels
round, and added a few drops of gear oil to the thirsty hub.
Only 90 minutes in and test ride time! Shiny enough, but will need the
real overhaul tomorrow, still looks gorgeous! Hub was perfectly
adjusted. Nothing to see, move along. It impresses me every time I find
one of these guys, and in my experience, all they've wanted is a bit of
oil thankyouverymuch. The ride, that stately 12mph ride--that's the
right pace on one of these. Been a while.
I'm smitten, and may have to take in another stray. Yeah, it's a lady's
bike, but pschaw, I'm man enough to handle it. :P
Pictures to come.
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Date: 12 Sep 2006 14:48:04
From: landotter
Subject: Re: Been a while since I found a barn fresh Raleigh Sports
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Here's a bad picture:
http://tinyurl.com/kysf7
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Date: 10 Sep 2006 08:12:36
From: landotter
Subject: Re: Been a while since I found a barn fresh Raleigh Sports
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Andrew Price wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2006 17:05:11 -0700, "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >a well broken in Flyer (though I hate Brooks on road
> >bikes
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> All Brooks saddles, or just the sprung models like the Flyer? I don't
> like those much, either, or any other of those "tractor seats", but I
> find the B17 Narrow or Team Pro to be fine on a road bike.
I find the b17 to be too narrow w/o even trying the "narrow" version.
Funny as I can find comfort in classic plastic/leather combos like
Unicanitor clones. Thing is, if you remove the back 1" of the saddle
that's got rivets, it's a rather narrow saddle to begin with. Then you
have the issue of how you slide down the saddle as it breaks in. You
can raise the front to deal with it, but that opens up a whole other
bag of issues. Brooks saddles are mainly myth when it comes to any sort
of cycling where your bars are lower than the saddle. Are modern gel
split seated love channeled ergonomic mens specific prostate tea party
saddles any better? Nope. In my opinion, we never really got better
than the firm basic shapes of the Unicanitor, Turbo, and Rolls. That's
for road bikes of course, and it's just my opinion.
Brooks are just fine for upright stately riding with a low cadence, but
I kick myself for suffering on them for the few years I kept fooling
myself that they're good saddles for performance riding. In my case at
least, they're not.
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Date: 10 Sep 2006 09:57:02
From: Andrew Price
Subject: Re: Been a while since I found a barn fresh Raleigh Sports
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On 9 Sep 2006 17:05:11 -0700, "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com > wrote:
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>a well broken in Flyer (though I hate Brooks on road
>bikes
All Brooks saddles, or just the sprung models like the Flyer? I don't
like those much, either, or any other of those "tractor seats", but I
find the B17 Narrow or Team Pro to be fine on a road bike.
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