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They eat loads of jelly and cake, blindfold themselves, pocket in each hand pierced with a drawing pin, spin around 3 times and see how close they can get them....

They do it with their eyes shut?

Same.. most of the vintage bikes i see in the wild are either Italian or French.. anyhow, a few photos from Eroica Britannia over the last few years..

Aye, there are still a few flying the classic road bike flag.. we had a golden age of British road racing bikes which ran from after the war to the 70's at wich point we got overtaken by the Japanese and Italians, most of these manufacturers are now forgotten but there's some oldtimer who was documenting the period via a monthly newsletter, he transferred it to the webz with zero internet skills and more recently the guys behing the Chater-Lea revival have taken it under their wing. It might be a bit early for your bike tastes but, it's a good way of spending an hour. https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/ click the 'Classic Lightweights' header and it opens up the site.

Pfft! check this shit out... 'Brooks England' despite claiming to be based in England since 1866 will no longer ship products to England from their base in Italy unless you pay £135 premium. What the fuck!

My Mid-School, Rocket FAB-Stage 1 Azonics, Hope, Race Face, ODI, Middleburn, Kore, Rock Shox, Atomic Lab's, Easton ect, ect... all 2001 era I saved every receipt and every write up/review from MBUK

Yep, those are nice, i'm running 'Brick Lane Bikes' home brand on my daily, they're just poor man's MKS These are pretty quirky, single step Dixna ..to save weight they've removed the double step and replaced it with a small balance weight so they're always self leveling, I got them from Hakkle I can't be clipped in, the roads are just too damn hazardous..

If anyone's interested, ive been waiting for ages for EMS shipping to the UK to come back online, i got a notification from Zen saying it's good to go but expect delays.. even EMS Tracking noted delays and you would expect a massive backlog, i was anticipating 2 to 3 weeks at best but my package left JP on June the 15th and arrived on my doorstep today after 6 days. Pretty damn good! ..although i did notice that JP domestic shipping was a bit more slugish than usual

Very nice cheap! Ive been waiting for what seems like an age for EMS to come back online so i can order a steel stem Finally got rid of this thick aluminium Deda stem on my daily beater Got this from SimWorks Had to machine a bit off the spacers to get rid of the lip where it meets the headset There we go, much more in keeping Just need to replace the crank with something a bit more elegant which i'll probably do next year.

^^Added Lone Wolf Mechanic's To The Listing^^

Toyo made matching sneakers a few years ago

I wish more folks would contribute here..

Did you try 'The Internet' First pg Buying Guitars Directly From Japan https://www.tcgakki.com/eng/#googtrans(en) https://www.ishibashi-music.jp/ https://www.ikebe-gakki.com/ https://www.guitarplanet.co.jp/product/?new=1 ect.. ect There's shit loads of them, they all seem to ship international, accept PP and wot-not

Try and be specific, give them a list of 5 or 6 guitars, inc. make model ect and see what they dig up, also state that you're interested in alternatives.

I like many here have been buying through Zen for close to a decade, my experiences have always been faultless. ...but you don't have to buy through them, if their 'Find it For Me' facility works as i suspect it does, they will hook you up with the guitar retailers (which is what you're wanting) then it's up to you how you choose to make the purchse.