Things you never see any more...
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These helmets...
Seriously. What protection did they give.0 -
Global Hypercolour t-shirts0
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ShockedSoShocked wrote:Porgy wrote:XTC playing live.
Well didn't Andy Partridge have some massive nervous breakdown on stage or something?
not sure of the details, but he certainly suffers from severe stage fright. don't know how long since they last played.
tragic, cos they were tremendous live
clackers
old jamaica0 -
Greenspot cotton cycling jackets. I've still got one tucked away somewhere - actually they were pretty good. 'Never-ready' unbelievably unreliable bike lamps - thank goodness!
GeoffOld cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster0 -
stray dogs & abandoned cars, thankfully.0
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Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:Pain is only weakness leaving the body0
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iain_j wrote:These helmets...
Seriously. What protection did they give.
Actually the lbs where i work has two of those. :P0 -
The Chingford Skinhead wrote:Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:
Front & Rear guard ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... =WDVW&rd=1I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
The Chingford Skinhead wrote:Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:
In a similar vein...
The "L" shaped chrome brackets that the front light used to clip on to the bike (as well as fly-off, whenever you hit a pot-hole, that you didn't see 'cos it was so dim).Cycling weakly0 -
Nordic safety flags, and those bristly wrap-around hub cleaners.0
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I've got friction shifters on my winter bike
Things I don't see? My feet - must lose some weight!0 -
ShockedSoShocked wrote:Porgy wrote:XTC playing live.
Well didn't Andy Partridge have some massive nervous breakdown on stage or something?
yup - and Kate Bush had terrible stage fright.0 -
UFOs seem to have gone out of fashion. Have we stopped looking at the sky or have they lost interest in us?0
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Bands I've heard of in the end of year best of lists0
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Friction shifters.
see them every day, on my bike
Other than white dog poo, I really do miss Cressers' 'we're all doomed' posts on NTW.0 -
I'm touched...
I may well throw in the occasional one here but the trouble is that I get overtaken by events...
Anyway, back on track, those double brake levers, how many people soiled their shorts when using them on a wet or dry day? And steel rims, how many peopel pledged their soul to Jesus when they used those as braking surface/0 -
they were called suicide brakes.0
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Orange crackly wrapping round glass bottles of lucozade. You only got lucozade if you were "poorly".0