Nottingham show.

Mickle
Mickle Posts: 995
edited January 2008 in The bottom bracket
Just found this, anyone planning to attend?


www.getcyclingshow.com
Elephants, schmeliphants.

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  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    :wink:
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...wow this sounds good...just checked out the company of cyclists website, fantastic...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Two miles away and downhill, so I might!
    Could get the almost-vintage LWB 'bent THAT far and hire it out!
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • Mickle
    Mickle Posts: 995
    meagain wrote:
    Two miles away and downhill, so I might!
    Could get the almost-vintage LWB 'bent THAT far and hire it out!

    What make is it?
    Elephants, schmeliphants.
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    I might well go to this myself, not far for me either.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Mickle wrote:
    meagain wrote:
    Two miles away and downhill, so I might!
    Could get the almost-vintage LWB 'bent THAT far and hire it out!

    What make is it?

    Roulandt. Dutch. '80s, I think and apparently one of the first "production" 'bents in Europe. There's a page or two on thweb - or there used to be.

    Wanna buy it???
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • Mickle
    Mickle Posts: 995
    They're hosting a Concours D'elegance, maybe there's a category for ancient recumbents!
    Elephants, schmeliphants.
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    It would win!
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • Mickle
    Mickle Posts: 995
    Oh my God I've ridden one of those! Rasta T used to despatch on one C1987. Lovely little bike. Ive a copy somewhere of Moving Target featuring the rasta man riding his Roulandt on the cover. I didn't know what bike you were on about till I googled it.
    Elephants, schmeliphants.
  • Mickle
    Mickle Posts: 995
    How much you are wanting for the bike compadre?
    Elephants, schmeliphants.
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Just to be sure we are on common understanding and before I try and think of a price, this one yes?

    http://www.ihpva.org/people/ianf/bm92/R ... /index.htm

    Mine's not quite original: the rear hub brake locked up solid on me once and twisted the torque arm, so I fitted a caliper mounted to the chain stay bridge.
    It's done maybe 500 miles in it's whole life: was a demo at a local shop and then in the owners garage for 10-15 years before I bought it about 10 years ago.

    Whatever the price, it will only go to "a good home". It should not be "chopped" IMHO.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • Mickle
    Mickle Posts: 995
    The very one. I was a member of an HPV racing team in the eighties and we used a LWB bike based on an American Avatar. The Roulandt was like a cartoon version of the chassis we broke British and European records with. Shorter and more upright. I wouldn't chop it or hot-rod it. If I bought it, it would hang in the rafters alongside an A-Bike, an early Windcheeta, an Itera plastic bike, a Burrows Amsterdam prototype and an early Strida. Serviced, ready to ride a few times a year but out of harms way.
    Elephants, schmeliphants.

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