Memorials and bikes

[biggs682]

It's not every day you see a test mule for a nuclear bomb

 

[PeteXXX]

My Boris Bike in front of the Battle of Britain memorial on the Embankment on t'other days ride.

 

[biggs682]

Coming soon a memorial to the crew and the Avro Manchester bomber that was shot down in error when returning from a raid nearly 80 years ago.

https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-679-manchester-i-wollaston-7-killed

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Well this memorial was unveiled earlier in the week so today's mission was to find it

 

[Juan Kog]

The Robertson War Memorial, Robertson Corner, Dunstable Downs . A First World War Memorial to Two Brothers.

 

[IaninSheffield]

South Elmsall and Moorthorpe war memorial

 

[Blue Hills]

Christopher Marlowe, St Nicholas church Deptford.
No one is exactly sure where the bones are but they are apparently pretty close to this plaque.

background on the murky circumstances of his deptford exit from life.

http://www.marlowe-society.org/christopher-marlowe/life/death-in-deptford/

 

[IaninSheffield]

Kirkby in Ashfield war memorial

 

[tyred]

I must admit that I hadn't heard of him.

 

[DRM]

This morning, at the mural memorial for Beryl Burton in her home town of Morley, West Yorkshire

 

[gtmet]

Crockerne Pill, whence Methodism took ship for America.

 

[gtmet]

Memorial to a confiscated pond.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Crockerne Pill, whence Methodism took ship for America.

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Off topic I know, but that's a very pretty bike.

How reliable and easy to maintain are those brakes?

 

[gtmet]

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How reliable and easy to maintain are those brakes?

A somewhat academic question, since they are the original centre pull brakes, from 1980, so not likely to be found new, and if you have such a machine, you are committed to using them; also I have not had much to do with anything else for decades so have no standard of comparison.

I find them reliable and easy to maintain.

Routine maintenance: replace brake blocks, you will notice that it now has modern long, curved mountain bike V-brake blocks, which, apart from being more effective than the original short brake blocks, look more the part.

Failures: Occasional brake cable breakages, near the levers, or at the clamp above the straddle wires, and straddle wires, probably due to over tightening the clamps on both. I have had a pivot bolt nut come loose and disappear once. They are half thickness nuts but I was able to put an ordinary full thickness nut on in place.

Main annoyance is that the adjustment usually allowed by the adjuster is not enough to consume the whole brake block wear, so you either discard part worn blocks, or unclamp and reclaim the straddle wire, which tends to break the strands.

 

[Andy in Germany]

A somewhat academic question, since they are the original centre pull brakes, from 1980, so not likely to be found new, and if you have such a machine, you are committed to using them; also I have not had much to do with anything else for decades so have no standard of comparison.

I find them reliable and easy to maintain.

Routine maintenance: replace brake blocks, you will notice that it now has modern long, curved mountain bike V-brake blocks, which, apart from being more effective than the original short brake blocks, look more the part.

Failures: Occasional brake cable breakages, near the levers, or at the clamp above the straddle wires, and straddle wires, probably due to over tightening the clamps on both. I have had a pivot bolt nut come loose and disappear once. They are half thickness nuts but I was able to put an ordinary full thickness nut on in place.

Main annoyance is that the adjustment usually allowed by the adjuster is not enough to consume the whole brake block wear, so you either discard part worn blocks, or unclamp and reclaim the straddle wire, which tends to break the strands.

Thanks. I keep getting bikes in the recycling centre like that and I've wondered about recycling one for me: bikes with bottom bar levers often get thrown out.

 

[gtmet]

Thanks. I keep getting bikes in the recycling centre like that and I've wondered about recycling one for me: bikes with bottom bar levers often get thrown out.

Perhaps I misunderstood the question, thinking to be only about the mechanical reliability of the centre pull mechanism. If bottom bar levers means old fashioned Weinmann drop bar levers, then I can also say I find those easy to use, and totally reliable. The basic hand position on the bends or hoods is said to be more natural, and is just behind the levers.