Category Bikes

A “decent-enough” setup for riding an hour or two into the dark.

I find a way to raise a Bagman by about 1 cm.

The Brooks Flyer (with springs) and B17 (without springs) have the same leather. So of course I couldn’t resist messing with them.

Are threaded freewheels still a viable thing?

They don’t make ’em like they used to: solid threaded axles, threaded freewheel, cartridge bearings.

Old Bike, which is about 2 years younger than New Old Bike

Finally, the bike setup seems to be settling down. Fingers crossed! And I learned some things.

In which stuff begins to make a bit more sense. To me anyway.

An awful lot of arsing around with little bits of metal. This is a long one, and it isn’t the half of it.

I ride the bike a bit, but fretfully, make some not very logical changes, and get increasingly frustrated.

Trickier than you might think!

In which I decide I need a new bike, and order an old frame

A handy and cheap tool to keep track of whether your rims are about to turn murderous.

New Old Bike needs the kind of work that can only be done on a good solid workbench.