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@veLLo
Hi guys!
Thanks Coppi for initiating that post... And thanks all for your kind words!!
Yesterday at east I was complaning to Reeen that after I had finally got rid of an ennoying noise (external BB cup not tight) that another noise had appeared... some kind of sqwiking... I don't know if it was the tube that was starting to break...
So I was riding this morning to work, quite slowly as I am tired at the moment, and as I arrived on Coldharbour lane just after Camberwell, I suddently felt that I was moving down on my bike, that my feet were coming closer to the floor... The way it felt, I knew it was the frame although it the first time that happened to me...
I tied the frame with my toe clips straps and my scarf as I had no time to get back home for another bike and managed to reach Putney, going even slowlier than before!!
Really if I had been bombing down hill, that would have been nasty, I guess this fantastic frame had the ultimate elegance to save its owners life as it was dying...
That bike is my first british road bike ever, I have been riding it since I arrived in London almost 5 years ago!! I think I want to try to save it, but have not definitely made my mind...
Szia