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Now that you mention it, yes, no obvious reason why. Although the countryside has got a bit noisier (Traffic, farm vehicles etc.) towns have certainly got quieter since the end of iron tyres on horse drawn vehicles. What fascinates me is just how high the saddles are set and the general large...

If you look at old photos of bikes, they all have impressive springing. The modern fad for small, narrow, hard as iron saddles is all down to the Lycra brigade who don't actually put much weight on the saddle because of the force that they pedal with. Besides which, modern saddles can actually...

More of Flecc as a young man (Eons ago!!)

Unfortunately spokes can bed in and get loose. It is essential to regularly ping them every week or so.

I thought that all Southern Italian Males carried short barrelled shotguns, I saw it in 'The Godfather' so it must be true.

Those men look quite small and in that era probably were, so it is surprising just how large their bike frames were and how high their saddles.

If the spoke is the correct length, I still don't see how this is possible. The spoke, to be properly fitted must reach the top of the nipple and if it can do that it will be slightly longer than the distance from the hub to the spoke hole in the rim. Also, most wheels these days are twin wall...

Flecc is the Italian looking man on the left

Not sure about Gorilla glue, it is a polyurethane glue and foams as it goes off.

I went to repair a puncture, and as usual the glue which had been used before was a solid lump. This means that in practice, there is little need for more than a few patches in a kit unless it comes with an equal number of tubes of glue. I see that glue less (pre-glued) patches are available...

Where on earth in South London can you legally ride it? Even where I live in Gower, unless I can get permission from a farmer to use his fields there is nowhere I could use it. It is illegal to use a motor vehicle on common land or bridle paths. Use on footpaths is questionable even for non...

For those interested in old bikes, there is the Online bike museum. https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/ I was interested at that picture of the 5 riders Flecc, I see from contemporary drawings of that era, many riders were pictured as leaning back rather than bolt upright. I suppose this was...

Well, I suppose if she was still around, Mrs Bloomer herself would feel peeved at my not giving her a mention, after all she did invent and popularise the things.

Well, Knickerbockers, Breeches, Britches, Jodhpurs, Plus twos, fours and sixes, but most emphatically NOT trousers!

I think that they must have been knickerbockers. Plus fours (ie Knickerbocker plus 4 extra inches ) came about in the 1920s

Bloomers Flecc, Bloomers!

Well, if you lived where I do you would need plenty of gears. The thought of a bike without any at all is alarming. That I suppose is why I have never seen a Gtech bike.

Yet many people handle smart phones perfectly well.

Reading the Gtech adverts, I was struck by two phrases, a 'No confusing gears' b. 'No more oily chains' They boast about these features supplied on their bikes. Of course this might be to 'cover up' the fact that their bike is poorly specced., and they try to suggest that the paring away of...

Seems you are wrong, this leads to broken nipple heads.