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Old 05-31-19, 08:44 PM
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Happy 531 indeed x 3. Here's mine.

'73 Super Course (repaint).

'78 Super Course, needs a new sticker.

'78 Peugeot PR10.
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This thing is 10 years old and I believe @sykerocker is still making good use of it. The original thread is a good laugh, if you enjoy bad puns.

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Originally Posted by noglider
Today is my wedding anniversary. 16 years with my Lovely.
Congrats! 👍 Now you'll have to change both your names to Reynolds. 😁🙄😉
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Originally Posted by Wildwood
When can I celebrate my Ishi 022?

Riding on the 22nd day of the year would be too cold; Euro day/mo/yr format only pushes it to Feb 2nd. HTFU for Ishiwata?
Nah, it's the 22nd of EVERY month.

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Today is my wedding anniversary. 16 years with my Lovely.
Congratulations! May there be many more.
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Hope I'm not too late with this "Reynolds 531 Frame Tubing" decal. Found it on my Jacques Anquetil.

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I worked at a Peugeot-Nishiki dealership, and those 531 stickers at the top of the PX-10 and PR-10 seat tubes were extremely vulnerable to destruction in shop stands. We made it store policy to clamp these bikes from the top tube, even though this positioned some of the larger framed ones much lower than even the shortest mechanics would prefer.

My Siegers are full double-butted 531, but one is a repaint and the other has the Reynolds decal covered by a bike license, which I somehow suspect was put there by a bike shop to conceal Reynolds 531 decal mayhem.
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Originally Posted by noglider
Today is my wedding anniversary. 16 years with my Lovely.
Ha! Thanks to this thread I just realized that I too was married on 531. Just celebrated our 5th.

Hope you had a good one too.
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Originally Posted by John E
I worked at a Peugeot-Nishiki dealership, and those 531 stickers at the top of the PX-10 and PR-10 seat tubes were extremely vulnerable to destruction in shop stands. We made it store policy to clamp these bikes from the top tube, even though this positioned some of the larger framed ones much lower than even the shortest mechanics would prefer.

My Siegers are full double-butted 531, but one is a repaint and the other has the Reynolds decal covered by a bike license, which I somehow suspect was put there by a bike shop to conceal Reynolds 531 decal mayhem.
Good to know, someone really mutilated my PR10's decal. The rest of the bike looks decent, but the 531 decal took a beating. Wait, my 531 decal is on the downtube above the shifters, not usual for a work stand clamp. My gold '78 Super Course has the scraped up decal on the seat tube, same reason?

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Originally Posted by John E
I worked at a Peugeot-Nishiki dealership, and those 531 stickers at the top of the PX-10 and PR-10 seat tubes were extremely vulnerable to destruction in shop stands.
Reynolds deliberately made them using a fragile, multi-layer transfer to prevent people from easily removing them to apply to non-Reynolds frames.

I have a number of original multi-layer Reynolds transfers, but unfortunately not the French language version.



We made it store policy to clamp these bikes from the top tube, even though this positioned some of the larger framed ones much lower than even the shortest mechanics would prefer.
Our policy was to clamp on the seat post, or Park ISC-1 internal seat tube clamp. The ISC-1 allows the frame to be positioned at the same height as a frame clamped directly on the seat tube.
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Originally Posted by cudak888

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This thing is 10 years old and I believe @sykerocker is still making good use of it. The original thread is a good laugh, if you enjoy bad puns.

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Yep, mainly because long ago I forgot the procedure for changing it, and now I'm just as happy to let it stay.
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Originally Posted by sykerocker
Yep, mainly because long ago I forgot the procedure for changing it, and now I'm just as happy to let it stay.


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Originally Posted by sykerocker
Yep, mainly because long ago I forgot the procedure for changing it, and now I'm just as happy to let it stay.
Shouldn't that include sporks? A good spork is essential on a touring frame. 😁
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Shouldn't that include sporks? A good spork is essential on a touring frame. 😁
Not as much as the leftovers...when you get hungry.



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531 by BJ Stevens, on Flickr

Bikes by BJ Stevens, on Flickr

Here's the full bike SurferRosa.

Nearly 8 years to get to 531 posts. A very small fraction of the thousands of posts I've read and learned from. Thanks to all who contribute.

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531 posts... Cheers.
Cheers. And where can I see pics of your 531SL bike?

​​​​​​​We need a 531SL thread. (Just wish I had one.)
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531SL Bike

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Cheers. And where can I see pics of your 531SL bike?

​​​​​​​We need a 531SL thread. (Just wish I had one.)



1982 Bertin C79-SSC. I'm going to be parting with this frame or bike... Getting rid of bike that I don't ride regularly.

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here is one in french !
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and one more french .
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When we were at school in the eaarly 1980s, the Reynolds decal and the numbers 5 3 1 were something magical.
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