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I decided to become more bike focussed with the aim of getting rid of the car, so this seemed like a good excuse to get another bike for round town duties. I enjoy fixing stuff up too, and the main bikes are fairly new so haven't needed anything doing.
Rather than doing things once I tend to repeat them and true to form, rather than buying one bike I ended up buying a few. I'll fix them all up but they won't all be keepers and you'll see some of them back for sale in the classifieds, which is where they mostly came from.
First off I bought this Pompino from @jg123:
That's now been fixed up / modded - more on this later - but I never really bonded with it so kept looking.
I then bought this Brodie from @adamdenw since I have most of the parts to go on it from an earlier project that didn't make it (Bontrager Privateer with seized seatpost that refused to come out). On the same visit to town I also picked up this no-name track frame from @Kieranthomson.
There was some problem with the trains out to Essex that day with lots of cancellations and remaining trains were packed so getting it all back home was more stressful then I expected.
Around the same time I put a speculative bid on a very large and shabby Swinnerton on eBay and no one else did, so I accidently won it:
At this point bike storage was becoming an issue so I started to crack on with fixing them up.