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I noticed some one getting a fixed penalty in Shern Hall street in Walthamstow yesterday

So beware

We went down Mott Street!

Even better !

I am off to collect a Claude Butler Majestic mixte frame tomorrow. No idea of the size but I ll let you know when I ve got it home

There are pictures, its one of a pair on the ebay thread.

Any pictures of you lot going up Mott Street. I note the only one is at the top. It must have been quite a feat getting every one up there. I did it that morning and discovered quite how unfit I am .

It depends on your position. Personally, I find hanging the bag from the saddle alone means the bag hits my thighs. Using one of the carrier attachments clears the bag away from your legs and stops the swinging; and of course you need a Brooks with saddle bag loops

Get the biggest bag Carradice do, which is I think still the double flap camper.

And here is the link
http://www.carradice.co.uk/

No

You can get good quality 20" wheels as Moulton use them , but you need to get the right diameter 20". Sheldon Brown has loads on this .

In small wheels bikes I believe that 20" is the optimum size.

Any of you been up Mott Street before?

Congratulations on a devious yet scenic route.

My advice , based on my experience as a tourist , would be

If you are not using pannoers -then use a Carradice Super Camper Saddlebag. that's their biggest one
Fit a rack or use one of the Carracdice supports for the saddle bag . Don't just hang it off the saddle. You can can also strap items to the saddle bag, usually stuff like a waterproof. The

A bar bag at the front - Carradice to match- this can be used for maps, valuable etc

Might be worth using a camel back for drinks- if you don't have bottle cages.

Lights- either battery ones or a hub powered dynamo.

Mudguards, full or otherwise

If you are going to take a tent, then you will really need panniers and then perhaps a different bike.

as i mentioned

Suggestion

We get off the forum and onto the streets by running a campaign to educate our fellow cyclists , its called peer education.

It might involve designing a good clear leaflet and other media, e g cakes based on the message " don't go up the inside " or some thing similar. But it must be simple

We , and any one else from LCC, CTC , etc who wants to join in, spend 1/2 an hour one morning at one of the junctions in London ( eg Dalston Lane and the Balls Pond Road ) and use the leaflet and cakes to get the message a cross .

Oh and build in some before and after data collection in to see if it made any difference to the knowledge of the risks .

Suggestion

We get off the forum and onto the streets by running a campaign to educate our fellow cyclists , its called peer education.

It might involve designing a good clear leaflet and other media, e g cakes based on the message " don't go up the inside " or some thing similar. But it must be simple

We , and any one else from LCC, CTC , etc who wants to join in, spend 1/2 an hour one morning at one of the junctions in London ( eg Dalston Lane and the Balls Pond Road ) and use the leaflet and cakes to get the message a cross .

Oh and build in some before and after data collection in to see if it made any difference to the knowledge of the risks .

Yes , next door to the Kitchen

Did you ever know Peter from La Ruga?

I was thinking of there or in the Village square

Thanks Bill

I need to have an initail discussion with cake makers and fellow mortagee

1st or 2nd saturday in May looks possible

If I can't hold it at home I ll see if there is any other suitable space I can use in Walthamstow...

i am off to the cellar.....

Dear all

Its sold to to Shoot the breeze

Thanks for your interest

Brakes still available

I will have one tomorrow. Its one of the Claude Butler Majestics as featured on E bay

PM if interested .

Ok this sounds like I have a project mandate

Now for the PID and a discussion with my Wife and Daughters- (11 & 14 ).

I saw an identical one for £60 in Provence last summer. A daughter was selling her fathers bike. "he always looked after it" , she said.

I was too scared of french threads , and also what the GLW would say, to buy it

Thats true

These Majestics were equivalent to a Dawes Galaxy and Tourists either rode them or went up to hand built/ own brand models. The next model down would have been a Falcon Black Diamond. I am talking about 1980 -84 here. These and one or two later models are the last of the "good " claude butlers. I think the Dalesman is a not bad tourer.

The standard rig for a Majectic would be with a Karrimor frame and Green Karrimor bags . I took one to Brittany on camping tour.

Holdsworth bikes were the next model up in the then Holdsworth range. Holdsworth disapeaered in the mid 80s and became part of the Falcon empire .

The Majestics were not bad touring 531 frames, but with no brazes ons at all . Brazes on fitting were what you paid frame builders to do .

Thats why when Mountain Bikes appeared in 84, with cantlivers, better equipment, and lots of braze on fittings for a hundred quid more , then traditional touring bikes took a nose dive. It also spelt the dealth knell for centre pulls

Originally Posted by Khornight2
By the way peter carter, what's with the matching claud butlers having made by holdsworth stickers on them?!

when Claud Butler went bankrupt in the late 50's Holdsworth bought the name and used it on a range of cheaper models that were sold (.....trading on the pedigree of this well established marque!) the Claud Butler & Holdsworth name were acquired by Falcon Cycles in the late 80's,
original Claud's prior to 1957 are the ones that are real deal!

Thanks

Peter Carter is a character in the film " A Matter of Life and Death "
Lots of bikes in the early parts of the film and a 1940s club run

Why am I doing this ?

1 ) I don't have the time to do ebay properly.

2 ) Jumbles I can get to are few and far between

3 ) This is some thing different and more sociable

4) The parts need a " good home "

5) This is a more sociable way of doing it

6 ) Hilary Stone is not invited

Here 's the idea. I have a cellar load of stuff that I will never use and that some else could . I can't face ebay .

The items on sale ranges from stems(7 ) to pedals, from frames (3 ) to rear mechs

There are also 3 - 4 bikes.

So I am considering holding a saturday morning cycle jumble in my garden , entrance by invitation only.

There would do an inventory , so you need not waste a journey. There will be coffee and my daughters will sell you their excellent cakes . Money from the Cakes and Coffee will go to a Charity and my daughters.

I confess that I am slightly worried about having a horde of unknowns entering my house , hence I need to think through the invite process.

So if you would be interested in coming over one Sauturday moring in May to Walthamstow then please let me know. If there are enough of you I ll work up the project and announce a date ..

I won these. Expect at least the mixte frame in the for sale thread at some stage. Off to collect from lougton @ the weekend.

hers and his matching claud butlers ....................

I can confirm that it' s now back on the market.

Shoot the breeze a pm is on its way to you

I let the rest of you know the outcome. I think Elmo you have the next refusual.

Thanks for your interest .

Oops

Did 'nt see that this has been bumped up, I thought it had been forgotten.

Yes, its under offer to another at present. I will check with that party that they still they want to complete.

If not its on offer to shoot the breeze. Other parts still on offer, though Mr Breeze may have dibs on the brakes.

Not sure what Coloumbus it is-but the drop outs are campag .