Bruces New Toy

[Bruce]

Greetings,
At last I have won an ebay item something I wanted in my youth it is a 1967 ish Moulton Deluxe bicycle it needs a bit of works but its all there.Plan is when its up and running I will pedal (walk) up the hill into town do my shopping load all the stuff either on the front and or the back carrier park and lock it outside the pub have a few pints turn the lights on then coast downhill back to my house

[Lone-Wolf]

Wotcha.

It'll end in tears   -   mark my words :-)

[squirrelciv]

Are you going to post us a piccie of your new trusty steed?

[SteveL]

Are you going to post us piccies of the alcohol fuelled mangled heap of body and bike wreckage at the bottom of the hill, is more to the point :-)

on a more serious note, which model is it, I may have a spare set of tyres ....

[guest27]

Used to work in a pub where one of the locals would come down on his horse.  When he was suitably plastered we would load him onto the horse, who would walk back home with a drunk rider barly balanced on its back.  Never knew if the horse just went to its stable and the bloke woke in the morning telling it "I love you- hic" or wot.

Mind there was another bloke who came in one Sat - after drinking most of his dole cheque on the Fri night chortling about the strange dream he had the night before. He dreampt that he could not get in his house - lost his keys, couldnt see the keyhole etc - so he took his chainsaw and cut the door off its hinges.  Apparently the mess in the hall Sat morning suggested that this was not a dream afterall...  Sunday was spent replacing door, repairing damage etc.

Strangly both blokes lives alone...

R

[Bruce]

I would post a picture but a present I have not got a digital camera and I have not used all the film in my Rollei as and when I do get a picture I will send it up.  Its a Moulton Deluxe with 16" x 1 3/8" wheels front and back carriers 3 speed hub.I wish to change it eventually with drop handlebars and derallier gears.I am also on the look out for a dynamo if any bodies got one complete with lights.Also if anybody has any spares that they wish to sell please let me know.

Restoration alteration work will take some time as at present I,m driving all over the UK delivering your potential Christmas Dinners.(I work for a Turkey Supplier)

As an aside whilst looking in Halfords today at saddles I noticed thet they now supply both ladies and gents saddles with the ladies saddles being a lot wider than the gents

[themoudie]

Wider ladies saddles = Support for the wider pelvic girdle (Nothing to do with over basted turkeys, which aren't bootiful!)

[guest7]

Yes, women's saddles are wider because women are built differently (thank the lord).

Get yourself a nice Brooks leather saddle - they are lovely, albeit heavy compared to modern seats.

I spent years trying to get on with a 'Flite' saddle and then gave up and bought a Brooks. Fellow cyclists derided my choice of seat on weight grounds, but the ability to cycle for more than 20 miles in comfort was more important to me.

I'd have thought that Brooks saddles were easy to get second hand, they were fitted to a lot of British bikes through the 50s and 60s (afaik).

I might have a spare dynamo here somewhere. However, have you considered a hub dynamo? These days they are much better than they used to be and it's just a case of flicking a switch to get illumination. No fiddling around with adjustment etc. Mind you on a Moulton the resulting spoke length would be very  short indeed.

GC

[guest27]

Brooks saddles - I love 'em.  Was convinced by my uncle - a mad passionate cyclist - to sink my money on one but to make sure I broke it in easy (they mold to your bum) and keep it properly tensioned - else they sag and become uncomfortable.  Broke it in on the London to Brighton (not gentle) and it used to do the rounds of all my bikes (training, race, mountain etc).  Got a wide base one for The Boss - and she loves it to.  They do make a whole range from undersprung heafty things for the more traditional vicars bike through to deeply cut away jobbies with titanium frame for the - more money than sence - brigade (mind I have lusted after them).  Have to make sure that it is a proper Brooks mind and not a cheap plastic copy (some of which cost almost as much as the pukka thing).

Ladies saddles - there is a range called Venus (wonder where they got that from) that have real large cut-away middles or even more radically consist of just two hip plates.  I am told that they are really comfortable - for the ladies - and make riding the bike almost impossibly painful for a man. - Just incase you wish to add S&M to the fun of riding home drunk loaded with shopping.

R