Cyclopathic
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Can you still get these? Does anybody here still have one? I'm doing up an old Raleigh 20 shopper and I think one of thoe would look just fab on it.
Old analogue speedometers.
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
This is a bit much but how's about an old motorbike shop type thingy?
Our kid had a speedo on his 'Iron Horse' road bike in about 1983. Did myself some damage seeing how fast i could go on that one i'll tell thee...... it was about 6 inches too big for me for a start..... and it had really poor brakes
Our kid had a speedo on his 'Iron Horse' road bike in about 1983. Did myself some damage seeing how fast i could go on that one i'll tell thee...... it was about 6 inches too big for me for a start..... and it had really poor brakes
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Cyclopathic
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This is a bit much but how's about an old motorbike shop type thingy?
Our kid had a speedo on his 'Iron Horse' road bike in about 1983. Did myself some damage seeing how fast i could go on that one i'll tell thee...... it was about 6 inches too big for me for a start..... and it had really poor brakes
I googled analog bike speedos and found that they are still available. My swmbo hasn't shown me how to do links yet so I'll tell you that they arfen't the ones I had in the 80s. These ones I rthink are American and look a bit more cool and as such not quite the completely kitch look that I'm after. It sounds like you might have had the sort I had. It was a bit squarish and bloody huge by todays standard of handlebar accessories. Great fun though at the time.
zoxed
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You could just gaffer tape your brakes in the "on" position for a similar effect ;-)
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Cyclopathic
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Perhaps one of those dynamos that run off friction with the wheel as well just to make sure.
Out with the art should be. Just in case anyone is wondering these has a cable with an outer and inner wire that attached to the main unit (on the handlebars) and ran to a "mechanical spinning device" - magnets hadn't been invented :-) attached to the tyre. When the wheel turn the inner wire revolved and overcame a spring resistance in the main unit to drive the needle and indicate the speed. They gave you the speed and the distance down to a tenth of a mile - and that was it. No fancy cadence, heart-rate monitor or anything like that. You really don't want to go back to those - seriously.