Is this anything?
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Wood
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From: Beaumont, Tx
Bikes: Raleigh Sports: hers. Vianelli Professional & Bridgestone 300: mine
Is this anything?
I know what it is, but is it anything?
Is it worth trading, or does everyone who knows what it is, already have one?
If you want it, let me know.
Is it worth trading, or does everyone who knows what it is, already have one?
If you want it, let me know.
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From: NJ, NYC, LI
Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...
That's the tin from a Velox patch kit for sewup tires. We sold those in the shop I worked in in in the early 1980's; your specimen may be earlier or later but I don't know by how much. It came with glue, patches, needle, stout linen thread wrapped on a cardboard bobbin, a little chromed steel cheese grater and a yellow plastic thimble.
I think I have one, and there may even be something in it. Can't speak for the glue, though.
I think I have one, and there may even be something in it. Can't speak for the glue, though.
#4
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Wood
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From: Beaumont, Tx
Bikes: Raleigh Sports: hers. Vianelli Professional & Bridgestone 300: mine
I bought it new with my '73 Raleigh International, it had sew-up tires.
So there's probably a million of these around?
Thought it might go into someone's collection, I already have plenty of guitar pick boxes.
So there's probably a million of these around?
Thought it might go into someone's collection, I already have plenty of guitar pick boxes.
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
I used that box to keep my unmentionable supplies when I was a freshman in college.
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From: Chattanooga
Bikes: '93 Bridgestone RB-1, '91 Specialized Allez Epic, '85 Raleigh Team Pro, '78 Andre Bertin, early '90s F. Moser Leader AX , '85 Centurion Equipe, '98 Litespeed Tuscany, '89 Klein Quantum, '80 Nishiki Superbe, '83 Peckham, '84 Fuji Opus III
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Yeah, but he's so old they were made from bark. Hee hee. (credit Gilbert Godfried at Hugh Hefner's Roast).
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Yeah, but he's so old they were made from bark. Hee hee. (credit Gilbert Godfried at Hugh Hefner's Roast).
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Well, it is definitely something. I don't think it is just anything. But, it's also not nothing. Therefore, it has to be something but not just anything. It is quite a particular something, I suspect.
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From: South Jersey
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I have a bunch of NOS Velox kits from the late 70's or early 80's that were with all the parts a friend gave me from his closed bike repair shop, some of the tins are in poor shape from the way they were stored others look good. When I checked them out a few feel like the glue might have survived others are dry but everything else in the kits are like new still. When I get the chance I will check them out some more and add them to my pay it forward pile I have going, I'll never use them clinchers only for me.
Plus I have enough containers for my unmentionable supplies
Plus I have enough containers for my unmentionable supplies
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With all this mention of unmentionables, pardon me for mentioning this, but you're not supposed to mention them.
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You can fit underpants into that little box?
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#20
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