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Cheers Oliver,
New Eastway looks a bit more technical than the old one, looking forward to it:-)
Yoav, yeah! back to rose tinted memories...
Snap my 1st bike was a Sun GT, so obviously much better than yours;-p
Had shiny steel rims and shit.
First proper road frame was 2nd hand Robert 531SL for I think £100.
Did eventually, after racing days, manage to get hold of a Colnago Master while I worked at Bike UK.
Rode it round Europe then spent a summer couriering on it while at art school!!
Handled beautifully, very fast but predictable and comfy:-)
Kingsbury Circle, yes, had forgotten the name, always thought it was a deeply inauspicious place to start a bike ride! Remember bringing an old raincoat that weighed more than the bike! and being dragged back, an absolute wreck, to Highbury by Carl Shavitz (any bells?)
Carl used to look after those of us from East London, his day job was world folk music recording and playing:-)
Whiskers! Ahh drifts off into distance again
Absolutely, had to go there to get my first schoolboy block 17-21, my first set of tubs blah blah:-)
I'm down to Folkstone next w/end for 2 days riding with Amos (he's still ridiculously fit) and will spend as much of it as I can delving into the who, what and where of PCC, I think he's still got one of the old jerseys:-).
Will let you know what I turn up.
John was mid forties when I was there in the early eighties and he was pretty fit so he could well still be around, I hope so, he's a bit of a legend, or should be...