http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Common Wheel calendar en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:38:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346930 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:01:54 +0000 crowriver 346930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gave my daughter a Kingpin, a bit rustier than that example but she loves it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346909 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:17:03 +0000 wee folding bike 346909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's number 4 son's Kingpin on the May page. It really is gorgeous.</p> <p>Number 4 is 14 and loves the Kingpin lots. The weather has been a bit iffy this week so he used my more grubby looking red Kingpin except on Thursday when I went to school on it.</p> <p>I have two M Steel Scots and they're both black. When one of my black Bromptons was in the Common Wheel it was besmirched with colourful stickers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346903 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:12:57 +0000 chdot 346903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Think I’ll refine Rule 1 to ‘and no personal questions’. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346902 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:50:20 +0000 gembo 346902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot, 52R how does that relate to your inside leg measurement? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346895 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:42:22 +0000 crowriver 346895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Always fancied an Ellis Briggs touring bicycle, but the frame maker went bust a couple of years ago, and seem to be back but with a reduced range of hand-built frames, no fully built bikes and no tourers part from the Randonneur Special. </p> <p>Happy enough with my handful of Dawes, a Thorn and the old Raleigh TBH. None custom built, all bought second hand. Will I ever have enough time to ride them all? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346740 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:18:03 +0000 chdot 346740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I once had a Scot made for me. </p> <p>Very pleased with it. </p> <p>Stolen eventually. (52R if anyone finds it...)</p> <p>A few years later I was in the <em>very</em> messy workshop behind the shop. Expected to find a frame jig, but no, just a steel bench covered in stuff - no framebuilding going on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346707 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:01:23 +0000 LaidBack 346707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>This is a Flying Scot made by M Steel for Dales Cycles. These are sometimes called “Flying Englishmen”. They are better than the Glasgow made Scots.</blockquote></p> <p>Love it...<br /> Some say Dawes models weren't as good when they moved production to Cambodia (from China). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346704 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:00:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 346704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shame @sallhinch's bike features not. It is famous. I like their workshop banter a great deal. All bicycles should be fitted with recording devices when they go for service. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346702 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:49:45 +0000 ejstubbs 346702@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That 1989 Rockhopper looks indistinguishable from the one I bought in 1998, bar the colours and a few minor details. Kind of wish I still had that bike: I think you'd have to pay a lot more for a decent steel framed MTB/gravel bike these days. (I probably wouldn't want V-brakes these days, though.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346695 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:22:48 +0000 gembo 346695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes as the year progresses gets quite cheeky, this bike was made with only one purpose to annoy men from the west of Scotland</p> <p>Then they have the temerity to diss Flying Scots. </p> <p>Pink, one of my favourite colours also appears throughout. And a wee dug. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20499#post-346686 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:55:56 +0000 SRD 346686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Commentary even better than the pictures<br /> <a href="https://www.commonwheel.org.uk/uploads/1/8/7/3/18735540/commonwheelcalendar_2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.commonwheel.org.uk/uploads/1/8/7/3/18735540/commonwheelcalendar_2021.pdf</a> </p>