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Post by triitout on Nov 12, 2014 0:25:21 GMT
First time I've ever seen a pair of no less , what else, blue /white GP's set up with touring handlebars in very nice original condition. Alas, enough with this GP combo for me and they're way out on the west coast in Oregon. medford.craigslist.org/bid/4751024952.html |
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Post by Jem on Nov 12, 2014 6:04:29 GMT
Well, that is a rare site isn't it?
I love the fact they have the original reflectors; always a good sign.
I guess that they asked for the commuter bars when they bought them and the shop obliged? Or this is a variation on the 'Allrounder', minus the Bluemels mudguards?
I'd like to know the story behind them. Where there is a void, my mind makes up a back story just for the fun of it.
Not a bad price too.
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Post by velocipete on Nov 12, 2014 7:23:37 GMT
Doesn't look like they have seen much use.Hope they go to a good home
and stay together.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Post by triitout on Nov 12, 2014 13:16:59 GMT
It's always got me wondering how much good those side reflectors do other than being seen at an intersection. Overkill me thinks from CPSC safety rules in the 70's. I'm sure that the "tourist" bars and shifters were an add-on. I don't think the All-Rounder was ever offered in the states. It's funny how fenders for the most part were not desirable during the bike boom 70's when racy and lightweight were the way to go. In fact I remember ridding my red coaster brake English racer of them when I was about 12 yrs old. Stay tuned for details about my soon to be Anglo-French conversion on my too small (20 1/2" c-c) GP. Hopefully it will be rideable by the time I'm done.
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Post by Jem on Nov 12, 2014 16:13:00 GMT
It's always got me wondering how much good those side reflectors do other than being seen at an intersection. Overkill me thinks from CPSC safety rules in the 70's. I like to see those reflectors because we know they are original and came with a new bike- but without doubt, for most boy racers, they will have been pulled off and binned before they even got home due to their uncool-ness. Hence, they become interesting due to their scarcity. I nearly bought a set a while back for £15 but decided it was a bit stupid and changed my mind (stupid in the same way that I bought a Viscount pump  ) I have an original collection of 1968 Beatles Yellow Submarine bubble gum cards, and they have become quite a collectors item, with a full set fetching well into the £100's - but you know what fetches even more...? The 4 different Beatle themed wrappers they came in , that went straight into the bin...  |
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Post by Stella on Nov 12, 2014 16:40:29 GMT
I love that listing. If I had lots of money and lived in that area ... they'd be mine.
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Post by Jem on Nov 12, 2014 18:23:52 GMT
£180 seems more than fair for them.
What a great wedding present they'd make for a cycling couple.
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Post by velocipete on Nov 12, 2014 19:05:08 GMT
Did you know that the Yellow Submarine idea didn't come from a drug trip?
Actually a sighting of nuclear submarines being built at Cammell Laird
ship building yard in Birkenhead.The hulls were covered in yellow lead
phosphate paint before the finishing sneaky black,sonar absorbing finish.
They were most obvious from the Liverpool side of the Mersey!
Cheers,
Pete.
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Post by Jem on Nov 12, 2014 21:03:52 GMT
Did you know that the Yellow Submarine idea didn't come from a drug trip? Actually a sighting of nuclear submarines being built at Cammell Laird ship building yard in Birkenhead.The hulls were covered in yellow lead phosphate paint before the finishing sneaky black,sonar absorbing finish. They were most obvious from the Liverpool side of the Mersey! Cheers, Pete. I'm a bit of a Beatles 'train spotter' but I didn't know that Pete....I had the commonly held belief that it was a drugs reference |
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Post by velocipete on Nov 12, 2014 21:30:30 GMT
Fairly sure it was HMS Conqueror,famous as the only nuclear powered submarine to actually
sink a ship,at least that any governments admitted to.The Bellgrano, but you'll be to
young to remember that!It was 32 years ago!
Where does time go?
Cheers,
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Post by Jem on Nov 12, 2014 22:09:38 GMT
Fairly sure it was HMS Conqueror,famous as the only nuclear powered submarine to actually sink a ship,at least that any governments admitted to.The Bellgrano, but you'll be to young to remember that!It was 32 years ago! Where does time go? Cheers, Pete. I was aged 16 and in the final days of my most distinguished school 'career' when the Belgrano was sunk. I left a few days later and I still recall the departing words from my Head Teacher - he shouted "piss off the school field or I'll phone the police". Trivia on the Belgrano - It was previously a US boat with the name USS Pheonix and sold to Argentina in 1951 I think. It was the only vessel which didn't suffer any damage when docked at Pearl Harbour during the aerial attack from Japanese. I now suspect I may have mentioned this before in another thread.... |
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Post by velocipete on Nov 13, 2014 7:40:45 GMT
I take it you're not in the "old boys" association!
I was the first 6th former in my schools history to get the cane.
Purely on a matter of principal.
Jem,I've just noticed we're at it again and wandering off topic.
Feel free to move my bletherings to somewhere more suitable.
Cheers,
Pete.
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