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@plurabelle
I've got a blue Flying Scot conversion and a red and white track bike. My parents live in south norfolk (where I'm from) and I've been staying with them for a couple of weeks, so I've been cycling in to Norwich and back most days to do my work while sitting in cafes. It's a 30 mile round trip but after being in Scotland for a few years the flatness makes it seem much less... :-) Nice smooth roads and fuck all traffic, too. I've been loving it, unlike when I was a teenager here and only used to ride as far as the pub and the fag shop.
Actually just picked up a lovely Holdsworth road bike for not much, from a guy on the Norwich road who has a massive garage full of old bikes. It has a decent condition Shimano 600 groupset, perfect paintwork, etc. I was just riding past and saw a load of bikes piled on top of each other. He reckoned he'd just sold a Pinarello for a hundred quid or something. Hmmm...