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  1. I'll bet he never forgets where he's left it!
    4 points
  2. Never mind Nonna.......summer will come......thats when i used to grab my girl and run away.....
    4 points
  3. You need an elephant bike for when you need to ride on trunk roads.
    4 points
  4. The most stressfull move we made was of course from Notts to Australia as ten pound poms. There is a story to the journey with Qantas, thats for another day. The company that was shipping our furniture went bust and we had to pay again for it to be shipped. Not the best start to life in a new country, it turned up eventually after two years, we survived with a bed, fridge, TV and two large bean bags until we got our stuff.
    4 points
  5. Roll out those hazy crazy lazy days of summer by Nat King Cole.
    2 points
  6. The principle of hub gears being a 3 speed or one of the more multi gear hubs (Rohloff make a 14 speed) is all the same using epicyclic gears. There is no great secret or break through but the machining and engineering required is complex. Also multi gear hubs mean the drive passes through more internal cog wheels which increases drag and reduces efficiency. They are heavier too and the added complexity is expensive. The advantages of a hub gear is there is always perfect chain line, lower maintenance, protected from dust and dirt and less prone to damage. Derailleur gears are or can be cheape
    2 points
  7. I've written this before somewhere but when River Deep Mountain High came out (1966 ?) , I was helping my brother renovate an old cottage in Blidworth Bottoms. My job was to chip the mortar off a pile of old reclaimed bricks !! I remember it had been a blazing hot day and we had the radio on listening to Alan Freeman's Pick of the Pops on Sunday teatime. He said something like ..."and now a new one from Ike and Tina Turner"... River Deep started and It was so different to anything else at the time, I had to stop my chiseling and listen to this amazing song . Been a favourite eve
    1 point
  8. Your right mate. Probably my only friend, if truth be known. Edit..Just asked Mr. Google and now I know. To be honest, I've never heard of Elephant bike afore, hence my reason for asking. Told you I had a sheltered life. And I found out why they got that name !
    1 point
  9. Only reference I can see from the Nottm Evening Post 21st Sept 1951. A crisp frying range caught fire today at the Crookie Crisp Factory, Hucknall-road, Nottingham. The City Fire Brigade attended, but the fire was out on their arrival. 31 July 1951 - Nottingham Other articles called it "Crooky Crisps" (with a y). Another report , from around the same time (but not giving the factory name ) mentioned a "crisp factory at 288 Hucknall Rd" being fined for employing a 15 year old boy beyond the allowed work times. The owner was given as a James E Cru
    1 point
  10. I remember the song 'so well' and the name of Jerry Keller...........I'd just had my last summer of school.(59).....which was all Music.Dancing.... Cricket..Tennis...and of course girls........reckon it was my best summer ever... Just looked him up on Wiki'' pleased to say... though he's in his 80s he's still performing....and yes, it was a one hit wonder in the UK for him.....
    1 point
  11. I knew the song really well, straight away, but realised I couldn't name the singer. I've never heard of Jerry Keller. Obviously a one-hit wonder.
    1 point
  12. Sounds dreadful, nonna. I really hope your freak weather will soon stabilise x
    1 point
  13. Be glad when I can get back on my Elephant bike. It has a 3 sp SA with hub brake.
    1 point
  14. My brother had a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub with a twist grip gear change instead of a handlebar lever. He thought it was the bees knees.
    1 point
  15. I’ve always been a big fan of Tina, initially when she was with Ike. I bragged for many years that I’d seen them at The Dungeon in the mid 60s but then found out that it was actually Charlie and Inez Foxx I’d seen! We didn’t see her perform live until 2000. This was meant to be her Farewell concert at the soon to be demolished Wembley Stadium. She of course couldn’t give up performing and in 2008 we saw her at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, we just HAD to be there, thinking that she wouldn’t ever perform in the UK again. A brilliant night but the seats weren’t the best as we bo
    1 point
  16. A good friend of mine who worked in the R&D department at the Raleigh and had close ties to Sturmey Archer "invented" or researched and drew up plans for a new type of hub gear, he presented it to the then MD of Sturmey Archer who refused any thing to do with it saying "why should they re-tool to make something when theirs had been working and selling since day one" unfortunately for Sturmey's Shimano followed up the idea and the rest is history as they say Rog
    1 point
  17. An AW hub gives a low of -25% and a high of +33%. 2nd is just direct drive. If you’re used to multi speed large range derailleur gears that the SA hub is a let down. Just remind yourself that they were setting records of sub 3 days for Lands End to John O’Groats in the 1920’s using SA hubs.
    1 point
  18. In the Army the toilet paper in 24 hour ration packs was christened skid & grip, one side smooth the other rough. Ordinary toilet paper was comfy bum......always carried a supply
    1 point
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