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hippy
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Your bike is god tier functional rat, absolutely love it
I can't really explain why it is, but I use the Sunbeam a lot - I did a 4 day YHA trip on it early this year. Of course I've got 'better' bikes, but this one often seems to be the right bike to use. For the 100 I used an AM Sturmey which gave gears of (approx) 57", 67" and 76", for the YHA ride I used an AW with 47 x 24 sprockets giving 39", 52" and 69", so my top gear was my 'normal' and the other gears were for climbing, which worked ok bearing in mind I had luggage and no need to go fast.
For the V-CC ride I knew the pace would never be fast, so there was no point in taking my 'modern' (ie '70's) road bike - the 52 ring would have been pointless and antisocial!