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03-23-23, 07:42 AM
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Lots of Raleigh 20 love in our Classic & Vintage forum.
https://www.bikeforums.net/folding-b...eigh-20-a.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/folding-b...eigh-20-a.html
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Fenders protect you from tire splatter. Mudguards protect you from tyre splatter.
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03-23-23, 09:14 AM
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Thank you, cb400bill
It seems to me that the '20's are so different in layout to 'regular' cycles both here and the US that folk have trouble identifying what is in practice a well designed, sturdy 'do-it-all' bicycle.
As we all know, a real MAN cherishes size in all things and would be embarrassed admitting he has a small......of anything.
(not sure what the ladies think, though if they should behave like a man, why not behave like a nice man?)
The '20' is a remarkable utility machine which can be adjusted to fit almost any rider.
The modern view of anything 'utility' is to regard it as cheap and disposable.
In truth it means an item is eminently usable.
As is the '20', in all it's guises.
A great survivor in many numbers, I regard this machine and the growing number of appreciative owners/collectors, is a mature, rounded 'gentleman's' cycle, with qualities anyone with a modicum of discernment, will thoughtfully recognize.
A true gentleman has no truck with feeble snobbery, and strives to encourage and educate the ignorant.
Which is why they are such rare individuals.
It would seem I'm now entitled to post photographs, which I intend to do, once the sun comes out and the rain abates here in 'good old 'blighty' and I can venture out to flick a duster over my machine.
It seems to me that the '20's are so different in layout to 'regular' cycles both here and the US that folk have trouble identifying what is in practice a well designed, sturdy 'do-it-all' bicycle.
As we all know, a real MAN cherishes size in all things and would be embarrassed admitting he has a small......of anything.
(not sure what the ladies think, though if they should behave like a man, why not behave like a nice man?)
The '20' is a remarkable utility machine which can be adjusted to fit almost any rider.
The modern view of anything 'utility' is to regard it as cheap and disposable.
In truth it means an item is eminently usable.
As is the '20', in all it's guises.
A great survivor in many numbers, I regard this machine and the growing number of appreciative owners/collectors, is a mature, rounded 'gentleman's' cycle, with qualities anyone with a modicum of discernment, will thoughtfully recognize.
A true gentleman has no truck with feeble snobbery, and strives to encourage and educate the ignorant.
Which is why they are such rare individuals.
It would seem I'm now entitled to post photographs, which I intend to do, once the sun comes out and the rain abates here in 'good old 'blighty' and I can venture out to flick a duster over my machine.
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03-23-23, 09:48 AM
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As a Yank, what little I know about cricket I gleaned from a Kinks song, sung in the person of a vicar warning his flock against the blandishments of the Demon Bowler. The song is named, aptly, Cricket. "He'll baffle you with googlies, with leg breaks and off-spins!"
(Impressive: the Bike Forum spell-checker didn't balk at "googlies.")
(Impressive: the Bike Forum spell-checker didn't balk at "googlies.")
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