It’s my old faithfull with a couple of little changes( Just for Luftie)
Submitted by Alan Flint
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It’s my old faithfull with a couple of little changes( Just for Luftie)
Submitted by Alan Flint
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74 Comments Received
April 11th, 2010 @2:34 am
Stem magic!
April 11th, 2010 @3:31 am
hell, i love that crankset!
April 11th, 2010 @5:36 am
I miss that old stem. Did you refresh the brake levers also? and the Daffodils are blooming and you had a face lift ! Nice work
April 11th, 2010 @12:39 pm
Nice looking stem and you removed the outer chainring. Good for you. I dig the father and son bike photo too. Cheers Alan.
April 11th, 2010 @1:02 pm
Thanks Luftie. You’re a gent. That is me on the Morris+MJ on the Wasp in the Wasp profile. You can see that we are getting a real kick out of the bikes. Good weather be with you.
April 11th, 2010 @2:13 pm
It has!! 60 and sunny. Hoping to get some low res pictures taken and get my whip posted on here.
April 11th, 2010 @2:56 pm
I think that’s the trouble I’m having. Running the cam on 5mpix is making them deform on here. I’ll have to shut it down to 1.5 or something like. We’ve had a few good, sunny days here, but it’s on the turn again.I’d love the chance to get bored by 300 days of sun in a year. Getting very interested in Provence after watching the Russel Crowe film “A Good Year” The Greek islands are still my favorite.Great weather and laid back friendly,family orientated people. The morals seem a lot purer than here. I’m embarased to be British sometimes when I’m abroad. If I see an England football shirt I walk the other way. We are a nation of brain dead thugs.
April 11th, 2010 @5:51 pm
Well we’re fat lazy car-obsessed consumers here in the States. And I hope you know I don’t live in Phoenix I was just wishing for some sunshine. I read there are 110 days per year there where the temp’s over 100. Not so fun sounding. I’m looking into the East Coast to find a mild sunny area but who am I kidding I probably won’t leave Portland.
As per the camera I used my wife’s 8mpx camera hoping for some great detailed pictures and I get bitched out by John Thompson for not knowing how to submit pictures. So I think I’ll just use my camera phone which I think is 3mpx. Cheers
April 12th, 2010 @5:14 pm
Pick me up off the floor!! I just noticed I’m in the top ten. Thanks guys. I am touched. (I’ll make an appointment to see the shrink tomorrow.) Feel I need to strip the bike and clean it to be worthy. Damn, I’m blushing now. See what you did? Stoppit! Ha,ha. HeY! THIS CLARET IS GOOD.
April 12th, 2010 @5:28 pm
It is also your love for the bike and your Sterling Character that comes thru and we all vote favorably it seems. Cheers and eat something or you will have a headache tomorrow.
April 12th, 2010 @5:37 pm
Nah, don’t do hangovers(much to my wifes annoyance) I’m still waiting for my 4 hr build on the Claud Buttler ATB to come up on here. It was a real rush job just to see what the frame felt like. Sort of throw any wheels, bars ,saddle on and ride job. Haven’t even wiped the grease off. It’s tatty, to say the least. Rides real good though. Probably worth doing a propper job when I have the time and parts. Thanks WSB. I appreciate all the remarks. Dig the humour. I got a bit of that too. Ha,ha.
April 12th, 2010 @5:49 pm
I saw someone riding a Dursley Pederson today. Really interesting design of bike. Got a sort of hammock arrangement for a saddle. I’ve seen them as fixies too. Anyone got any experience of them?
April 12th, 2010 @9:15 pm
With a name like Dursley Pederson it won’t sell on this side of the pond. Seems like the Italian bikes sell with 3 inch labels and no brakes. Mussolini’s Revenge !
April 12th, 2010 @11:25 pm
That would be an insane fixed gear. Good luck getting your balance on that thing with the strange saddle. Hammock was an accurate description.
Speaking of insane fixed gears, I was googling trike fixed gears and came upon this awesome one from 1919.
http://oldbike.wordpress.com/1919-james-gents-tricycle/
April 13th, 2010 @11:36 am
WSB. My Morris is one of his plain jane bikes he built when someone just wanted something to get to work on. If you would like to see something that more typifies his work have a look at the 64 track bike at http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/bikes/hrmorris-rb.html
Pretty lugs!
April 13th, 2010 @12:03 pm
WOW quite a BIKE Morris made in 1964. He worked cheap in 1964. thanks We are all barbarians compared to this builder.
April 13th, 2010 @2:29 pm
This guy is a joke like his bikes & he wears purple socks!!! Haha..
April 15th, 2010 @4:15 am
So all you did was but a single speed cog? Great! Looks the same as any reg 10speed bike, nothing special at all.. 1 star for you.
April 15th, 2010 @4:33 am
DeepV: try looking at the other Morris posts and have a good read of the comments. This bike has had various guises over the last 20-odd years, is a fantastic frame with lots of great history. Google H R Morris and you’ll find out for yourself.
It may be nothing special but it’s a great ride (and I should know cos it’s my stepdad’s and it got me into doing my own build)
April 15th, 2010 @2:00 pm
I love it when your kids stick up for you. Reminds me of a line in a song by Richard Digence about graffitti. ” Stick up for your Dad, coz he stuck up for you! Also liked “Preserve wildlife. Pickle a squirrel.!
April 15th, 2010 @3:10 pm
Good lines Alan. Mike forget the step and make it DAD. My 2nd time around it’s dad , and I like it very much.
April 15th, 2010 @4:52 pm
Mine usually call me Evil Bastard or some such. But they know I’m here for them and all thier mates are polite when they come round despite being at least half a foot taller and a couple of stone of solid muscle heavier. I got a rep a few years ago that has saved me SO much grief. Ha,ha. Sometimes you have to step in. I chose the right time and the right ass hole to do it with. Peace in Dodg was restored. Yay!
April 15th, 2010 @4:53 pm
Shoulda been an e on the end of Dodge. Thats what you get for typing in the dark.
April 15th, 2010 @5:20 pm
English measure, is a stone 14 lbs. ? I have a pewter measure from Dover and it is a gill. Cheers mate .
April 15th, 2010 @5:49 pm
Wow DeepV, you wouldn’t at all possess a bias toward trendy bikes now would you? This bike is coming along, part by part.
April 19th, 2010 @2:57 pm
WBS. Yep a stone is 14 pounds. I’m 5foot 6 and a half inches tall and about 10 stone 10 pounds. I’m no taller than when I was 8 and a half stone.Working on that now. Slowly, oh SO slowly. Ha,ha. Trouble is I’m working the wrong way again and the glass is full. Oh ,sorry empty again. How do they do that? I barely looked at it. Tsk.
April 19th, 2010 @3:19 pm
Alan you and I are the same weight (148) I am 6 feet and older, as we age the muscle mass is hard to maintain. I weighed 162 for decades. Lost 10 and the first wife and now steady at 146 to 150 depending on intake. Salud !
April 19th, 2010 @3:32 pm
You are loosing it and I’m gaining. Maybe we’ll meet in the middle and make one big sarky biker with a huge thirst. ha,ha.
WSB. I keep looking through the archive and I don’t think I can find your bikes, or I’ve focussed on the horrible stuff too much. Want to throw a ten your way for the wit and wisdom, who cares what the bike is like. haha.
April 19th, 2010 @3:51 pm
Camera work is not yet mastered and need the cord or chip and my laptop is used and missing something. I used to drink two beers daily and found the 2nd too much. Now usually one a day a strong brew and add a little water and its satisfying. Any weight gain lately is not muscle but fat which is not pretty. Time for a beer now, Cheers.
April 19th, 2010 @4:06 pm
Got a nice little white Cotes du Luberon getting warm on the table.Day off tomorrow. Plan to take as bad as it looks for a spin to try the new gearing and see what shakes loose.Got new bar tape to put on the Morris. Black with cork bits. I will probably keep the white sponge grips. Done a lot of miles on them and I’ve become unnaturally attatched to them. I know they look wrong, but it’s like Linus and his comfort blanket.
April 27th, 2010 @5:20 pm
The white grips died. Black cork tape more than makes up for it though. Hope to have a decent ride tomorrow. Day off pending diciplinary for leaving the van running during deliveries due to a flat battery. You do what you think is right for the customers and the bosses kick you in the teeth. It’s a shitty world some people make for us. Night all.
April 27th, 2010 @5:59 pm
The white grips looked pretty nasty. Is cork durable? Take the boss out for a couple beers and he/she may lighten up a bit. Have any trucks been stolen lately? Good luck.
June 1st, 2010 @7:07 pm
This got an outing today. 25 miles in the pissing rain. I loved every yard of it. Ha,ha.Still got 12 days off work, so I’m planning on upping my daily mileage steadily and getting my fitness near where I’d like it. Fixed is good for that. Not sure if it is better than riding free, but the constant peddaling, even when you are not under load, such as on decents must be beneficial in some sort of aerobic way. Anyone with a degree out there know for sure?
June 5th, 2010 @4:39 pm
Stuck my 34 tooth inner ring back on here the other day and put a wheel with a 16 tooth freewheel on to give me a 55 inch gear just to try out on several of the hills round here. The lower gear means I can spin up a bit easier(being unfit and heavier than several years ago)The freewheel means I can take advantage of the downs without my knees blowing up. Got 31.9mph just rolling down 1 hill. Have managed to sprint up to 28mph. Trying to get my average up over 10 miles. Need much more road time though. Wes+CS;enjoy being young and take care of your knees. Keeping fit with dodgy knees is a real chore when you pass 40 and beyond. I don’t THINK I’m any older, but my body is trying to overrule my brain. I wonder if they do stem cell reserch for new knees?
June 8th, 2010 @7:32 am
Did 52 miles on this yesterday running a 75 inch gear on single speed. Abit tough going up the hills, but exhillerating going down.
June 8th, 2010 @7:48 am
Here are a few pics of recent rides with scenery and bikes.
Bike rides
June 8th, 2010 @8:37 am
Good for you, Alan. There’s no feeling like maxing out a high gear single speed down a nice long hill.
June 8th, 2010 @8:52 am
except maxing hi gear on a geared ride.ditto congrates AF!Be careful out there!
June 8th, 2010 @2:54 pm
Topped out at 37 mph on the 75 inch on a good hill. I’ve had 52mph in the Yorkshire Dales pushing 86 inches and slipstreaming behind my ex wife(she was a big girl then) I’ve broke the 50 barrier a few times, but even on a big steep hill I’ve had to spin like a hamster on amphetamines. Amazing feeling at those speeds on 20 mm tyres. Everything is lively.
June 8th, 2010 @3:08 pm
It was a pretty good long ride- here’s the details if anyone is interested: http://www.veloxgps.de/velox/index.html#track.details
I was running a slightly smaller gear at 70inches (48/18) freewheel, but my god it was brilliant for the hills
June 8th, 2010 @3:11 pm
Damn, i just tried the link but it doesn’t work. Browse for “50 mile trip” by Mikeywolf for the actual ride
June 8th, 2010 @5:08 pm
Looks like you two had a good time on the ride. It’s a good thing you wear yellow as Morris is almost vegetation colored. Nice to see you in the creek up to the bikes chainwheel cooling off . Thanks
June 8th, 2010 @6:45 pm
I just can’t resist getting messy sometimes. Cheers.
June 15th, 2010 @1:28 am
Hi guys. Got a new 18 freewheel for this the other day. Gives me a 67 inch gear, which I can live with up the hills a bit easier. Taking it out today as It’s my day off. I became a grandad at the weekend. 46 and ready for my pipe and slippers, Sheesh! Ha,ha,ha. Still looking out for some ally north road bars to put on Morris. I think they will be in character with the frame and my senior status now. It’ll be tweed plus fours and touring brogues from now on, and maybe a deerstalker hat. Sartorial elegance for the old fart I really am.
June 15th, 2010 @5:29 am
AF,were you the one contemplateing getting a System drop bar?If so do you like it?Mine feel stupid light,flexes over big bumps.Might go back to steel heavyweights.
June 15th, 2010 @6:10 am
oh.and congrates.
June 15th, 2010 @11:44 am
Congratulations Alan!
June 15th, 2010 @2:44 pm
Cheers guys. Think it was Mikey looking at the system bars. They are probably a bit pricey for me. I am an underpaid tightwad after all.
June 15th, 2010 @5:25 pm
Alan, I real biker, first you talk about the new 18 freewheel and later mention you are a granddad for the first time. ! Congrats. What did they name the boy Morris Alan Flint or Raleigh Threespeed ? Your son or daughter ? Hopefully everyone is healthy and happy and married.
July 3rd, 2010 @11:28 am
Daughter had a 7lb 13 oz boy called William Isaac. I’ve seen bike frames lighter than that! His Dad wants him to be a footballer(soccer player to you over the pond) I’m gonna save up for a trike for when he’s older. Mikey did his 1st tt on Tues. 32 mins 08 for 10 miles on a 70 inch gear. Freewheel as it’s a hilly course. Plan to try myself this week. Only running 49 inches so could be 45 mins plus.
July 3rd, 2010 @4:54 pm
The plan is to get my nephew into cycling too, as soon as he’s old enough. I want to crack the 30min mark for the tt asap, but it may mean having to go geared. I’m hoping that the new bars make enough of a difference (I got the system track drops finally and love them) to manage it without having gears- weight saving=speed blah blah. New pics should be up soon
July 3rd, 2010 @8:23 pm
Sounds quite dignified, William Isaac , congratulations. Mj is moving right along at nearly 20 miles per hour. Not sure what the new bars look like, pursuit looking?
July 3rd, 2010 @11:41 pm
Mikes new bars are a smooth curved track style.Hardly any flat section on the top. Designed to reduce the chance of banging your wrist with the bend when sprinting on the drops. They do look very smooth on the bike. He’s mainly using his peugeot for work now and saving Wasp for training and racing. I think he’s getting serious about this cycling game. His time on Tuesday was quite good for a first tt given the limitations of the single speed. Some of the guys with shop bought carbon fiber crotch rockets were taken aback. Out of 36 riders Mike came 23rd.
July 4th, 2010 @7:56 pm
Alan, use MJ’s bike. your 49 inches will spin you apart. How much time between Numero uno and 23rd ? I’d like to try 10 miles sometime sounds manageable.
July 4th, 2010 @9:44 pm
WSB, I’ll be racing too- both of us out on the track. On that day the quickest time was around 22mins. I reckon I can do sub- 30mins on the single speed but need a bigger gear to increase my top speed and therefore my average. On the plus side, I managed to sprint my 5mile commute in 13mins over the weekend using fixed. I want to try velo racing sometime too
July 5th, 2010 @9:24 am
Wow that guy at 22 minutes was flying. I’d like to know his/her weight and bike composition and how many times it was shifted. Seems shifting would take some time too. good luck racing.
July 5th, 2010 @4:07 pm
Will get pics of some of the bikes and put them on piccassa with a link from here.
July 6th, 2010 @11:16 pm
Got a link to my picasa album here with a few pics of the sort of bikes club cyclists are riding in time trials these days/ Me and Mikey both went out on our single speeds. He was quicker than me, but I did the 10 miles in 38 mins 28 seconds on a 59 inch gear.I was pleased as it’s my 1st tt in 20 odd years, and my 1st on single speed. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/108899035575264344661
Hopefully this link should work. Cheers.
July 11th, 2010 @5:38 pm
This has gears on it now for Tuesdays 10 mile time trial. I want to get nearer the half hour mark and I can’t do it on a single speed on the course we’re using. Yeah, I know I’m a puss. MJ has “aquired” a new bike. A Raleigh bananna team replica circa mid 80s. Nothing special steel frame. He’s hoping to put some drops on it and his spds and lighter wheels and race it on Tuesday to save putting gears on Wasp. It’s all kicking off here in Comberton, I can tell you. I’m awaiting delivery of a vitus fork and stem with a Cane Creek 1 1/8 headset to get the globe up and running as a racer. Could be light and fun,,, or a complete bish. More later.
July 11th, 2010 @6:00 pm
got caught up by the base’s velo club this morning.They slowed down enough to let me tag onto their paceline.Lasted about 10 minutes(never got to point though)then they took off down the road.I turn around and went home to collapse.Been years.They’re probably still chuckeling about the old guy in his baggys,t-shirt and sneaks.I’ll laugh too if I ever catch my breath!luck to ya Alan!
July 11th, 2010 @6:14 pm
Cheers Slo. That is exactly how I feel. Maybe if I gave up smoking it wouldn’t hurt so much? Some of the guys racing on the Tuesday 10s made the hill look as though it wasn’t there. Fit buggers! It was good to take part though.
July 25th, 2010 @8:29 pm
Alan, what’s the word on the two speed Torpedo hub MJ tore up for his friend ? Did you put frt. and rear derailers back on Morris ? I had a thought to put a frt. only on one of my bikes .
July 27th, 2010 @3:41 am
Hi Woody. I had front and rear on Morris for my 2nd attempt at the 10 mile. Back on single free with 35mm tyres now. Comfy ride. Put gears on the Aluminium Globe now I have the Vitus forks on it. Just found a way to convert a pair of the old brake levers with the sissy top bar extension lever into brake/gear levers. Took the sissy bar off and addapted some old friction gear levers so I can change gear from the hoods. Taking it out for a test soon. Me and Mike have been toying with the idea of double chainring/single free or fixed. May need a rear deralieur locked off with the adjustment screws just to handle the change of chain length though. Maybe we could knock up some kind of chain tensioner to do the job if the chainrings were close in size. Full report+maybe pics later. Cheers.
July 27th, 2010 @6:21 am
Middle name Shimano ? No backpedaling with dou ble chainring. Sounds hazardous. Shifting also sounds shakey with friction type and adapting levers. No longer simple . I went over the bars recerntly at nite on my V brake and locking it up and forgetting to backpedal and hitting a speed bump. Nothing broken, but not cool feeling with blood running down the rt. elbow and finishing the ride. Rash on rt. knee and elbow. Distracted with anger etc. and not used to super brakes on the V type as opposed to small pads on chromed steel. Did the 2nd time trail further humble you ?
July 28th, 2010 @3:49 pm
Hi Woody. Hope the grazes are healing ok. Mikey keeps locking his bike up with the Tektros he’s got on there. Very solid brakes. Time trials…Did 37.26 on 2nd 10 miler. My younger bro is humbling me still. He did 24.53 for the 10 this Sunday. The little shit! Ha,ha.Re double chainring/single speed.Found the set up will work with our 18 tooth freewheels, but not the 16. The 16 is a bmx job so it’s 1/8 not 3/32 or whatever.We have a 14 and a 16 fixed in 3/32. May try it out at the weekend. The gear levers work fine too. Hell, it almost looks like they were made that way+not cobbled together by a retard in a garage. He,he. I still like friction levers. You get used to listening to the sound the gears make and knowing by the tone whether you need to trim the lever up or down. Not knocking sis at all. There is something almost magical about doing 1 click and having the machine swap precisely into the next gear. Got sis on my hardrock and it still makes me go wow.
I will post the Globe on here after the weekend With a single or fixed on it just to spark debate. I’ll probably call it Igorina, as it’s a ladies frame and it’s made mostly from spare parts. Cost so far,,,brace yourself,,,£29.99. Thank god for sites like Chain reaction cycles.
July 28th, 2010 @4:27 pm
Sounds interesting Alan. I have my camera set up and have sold some extra parts on E bay. Need to post some on fixed. Have a single speed which should generate some roasting. Your brother must be lightweight and runs a higher octane Brew. Switch from Guiness to White Horse.
July 28th, 2010 @5:15 pm
My brother has never had knee injuries. He wasn’t stupid enough to take up running or weightlifting. Think I’ll have a pint of brandy before next racing. It won’t hurt so much then.
Looking forward to seeing your pics on here soon then. Cheers.
p.s. Visited Dick Morris(the frame builder)at the care home on Tuesday. He is 97, not 94 as I thought. No improvement with the paralysis down his right side. He is pretty pissed off with not being able to walk or do stuff for himself. I doubt there will be any change til he goes out in a box. Sad but realistic.
August 12th, 2010 @4:21 pm
I will have to get this resprayed and update it soon. I’m thinking sky blue.
August 12th, 2010 @4:37 pm
Stay with the same color, that way if you scratch it , it will not show as much ? Too bad about Morris, but his brain and speech are there it sounds like. Pedal Junction does not cut it with me, hard to log in and no action yet to speak of. We need a 2nd My Fixed Gear site somehow with same format. Go easy on the Brandy. Beer is better.
September 10th, 2010 @5:43 pm
Allan, what about Ford ink jet blue ? I think that was the color of a Raleigh Twenty resray on the Raleigh Twenty site, nice color. I was tired of your comment number stuck on 69 since you must be a proper Brit ! ?
September 13th, 2010 @3:57 pm
I found that number slightly amusing myself. Have you ever been to Scotland? It’s nice.
September 13th, 2010 @5:18 pm
Scotland in 1970 yes it was nice as was Dover, Canterbury was one of my favorites. We did not spend too much time in Scotland, more action across the Channel in Holland and Germany. ( I was single then )
December 12th, 2010 @1:50 am
I so need to spend some money on this. There are so many good looking bikes on here now that this has a lot to do to catch up. Respray planned for the new year. Want to take it to France before I’m 50, and want it to look good in Provence.
Any one else seen the film A Good Year? I plan to find the Chateau and buy some of the wine they make there. It does exist. Iv’e googled it ect. Hell, it’s only 730 miles from here. How hard can it be? (I know only too well the answer to that. Ha,ha.)
March 21st, 2011 @8:47 am
Damn, it takes ages to find this 1 now. Trying to put a new bike on here but my net keeps letting go. Got a slightly broken Evans 531st frame from the tip for 3 pounds. Threw it together today. About to see how it rides.
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