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I went out for a group ride yesterday, first in a long time.
My most modern working bike at the moment is from 1955 which has been fine while I have been riding alone but Of course the rest of the group had modern and practical road bikes apart from myself.
I decided on a 1951 track path frame kitted out in period equipment of course.
It had been raining the night before so I put mudguards on to keep the B47 (courtesy of @7ven) saddle dry. I also fitted a Mafac brake lever and Campagnolo Gran Sport calipers as that's all I could find in the parts bin.
We met in Bexleyheath and headed off. I should immediately have picked up on a problem with the right hand pedal feeling loose, but choose to ignore it until we were out at St Mary's Cray.
The pedal wouldn't tighten up and on closer inspection it turned out that the Chapter Lea crank thread was stripped and was getting worse the more I rode.
We managed to get to Cycle42 on the other side of Orpington and the very helpful guy tried a few things but it was not meant to be and I had to limp home leaving the rest of the party, heading out into Kent.
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