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Smashing ride @clubman and the sunbeam looks superb.
Francis has gone all out i notice with alumniuim water bottle, paper maps and like you old school pedals.
falconvitesse-
Thanks for your comments.
I expect you are aware of this, but for Francis and me, the old school stuff is the only way we know how to do it!
The only thing Sunbeam about the Sunbeam is the frame. The Mavic 700 rims and the light tyres are far superior to anything they ever fitted. Although I would never have contemplated using it for a 12, it does make quite a comfortable machine for this sort of all day ride.
clubman
Century Ride (24th May'23)
I've just posted this under 'Tell Us about your Weekend Ride'. It may be of interest to readers of this thread since it done on old bikes.
The H.G. Shillingford was by far the most interesting of the bikes; it was pre-war and it featured a Cyclo Standard derailleur (3 speed block) with a double chainring (rod changer) which worked efficiently.
It had another interest for me, because I was lucky enough to have met Mr. Shillingford in person; even by the standards of bike shop proprietors he was eccentric. One Saturday in the early '80s I happened to ride through Leighton Buzzard and noticed his shop, which looked as though it was stuck in a time warp, not just because of the old fashioned shop front, but also because much of the stock displayed in the window was obsolete (eg Williams 1" pitch chainrings)
I went in for a nose around hoping to find something useful like Airlite cones, but he denied having any of the items I mentioned. Subsequently I heard that he was very reluctant to sell any of the old stock, and was very annoyed when his wife sold some Resilion brake blocks: "I was keeping them for my trike!" I've no idea how the business survived, but it lasted, I think, into the early 2000s. I did then manage to acquire, from the shop's stock, a pair of new 26 x 1.25" Westwood rims (think - hen's teeth).