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@hael
I know i shouldn’t tell you all this but I almost cried when I was told.. So you can all share the pain;
My girlfriend told me how her boss came into work one day saying how he had spend days clearing his dad's house of all the "shit" he had collected over the years, saying that he had to hire two skips for it all and that you wouldn’t have believed how many old bikes he had.. My girlfriend knowing of my like for tinkering with old bikes said oh Mike may be interested in those ..to which the boss replied "Oh no he wouldn’t have wanted these old things ...they didn’t even have any gears!! We just chucked them." ...Turns out his old man was an Olympic cyclist in his day.
Breaks my heart to think of those bikes lying rusting away, hopefully someone will find them and put them back on the road. I will find out what his name was, could be interesting.