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Bike Market At Abbotsford Cycles today |
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Free Stuff! |
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The market. I didn't wait for the train to go past. It was just there. |
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Ross Harrup Checks my bike |
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Book 1 from free stuff, formicone manual |
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Book 2 from free stuff, Raleigh "A Shortened Illustrated History of the Bicycle" |
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Book 3 from free stuff, "How to be a good bike rider and a safe one!" |
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Formicone Detail 1 |
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Formicone 2 |
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Formicone 3 |
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Images 1 from "How to....." |
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Images 2 |
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Hi
I spent some of today reassembling and storing trikes, but managed to find an hour or so late in the morning to slip down to Abbotsford Cycles where a bike market was taking place. And it was a good move. I bought a t-shirt and spoke to a few people I knew. The market was ending and a few stallholders were giving away stuff they didn't want to take home with them, and I grabbed a few books and pamphlets. A pair of wide handlebars I had wanted had gone from the stall they were on and I panicked a bit but they had wound up on the free stuff pile. Over the next few weeks I hope to be building a new trike, and I plan to blog about all of it. The handlebars should work well on the trike. Woohoo!
One of the pamphlets is a 70 page Formicone bike manual. The formicone is an Italian modular bike and has various strange tech like extendable forks built into it. At one stage I owned a Formicone Tandem and wrote a
web page about it, so was quite pleased to get this.
Another item is a bike safety pamphlet, printed entirely in red and yellow ink. I am sure Scott Adams who writes the Dilbert comics got a good long look at these characters before he started his career. The last pamphlet is a Raleigh short History of the bicycle.
Anyway, it was a nice outing and I was glad to catch up with Ross, Adrian and John Harland.
Till next time
Steve Nurse