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Andy Chequer
Guest
That sometimes something you've held dear for so long is actually a load of old bollocks.
My Orange Clockwork. A nice old school steed. Old school geometry. Old school XT. Real feel of
steel, yadayada etc.
Great beastie for those unchallenging road/smooth track bimbles.
In the cut and thrust of town riding, it goes to pieces. The slack head angle and short fork mean
that it reacts to violent "oh monkeyfarts, that bus is coming right at me" manoevres like a D-reg
Scorpio on dead shocks. In the "must get a sprint on to get in that lane" out of the saddle
situation, the steering wibbles horribly in a manner that I can't recall in a bicycle since my POS
Falcon Cheetah.
It's a shame. There be touring bike in that there DNA.
But it goes to show that "horses for courses" goes for bicycles as well as, um, horses.
It also goes to show that MTBs have evolved. And some.
Still a cool bike though.
Andy Chequer, off to get the Ribble 653 roadworthy again.........
(kill the heretic and whatnot)
My Orange Clockwork. A nice old school steed. Old school geometry. Old school XT. Real feel of
steel, yadayada etc.
Great beastie for those unchallenging road/smooth track bimbles.
In the cut and thrust of town riding, it goes to pieces. The slack head angle and short fork mean
that it reacts to violent "oh monkeyfarts, that bus is coming right at me" manoevres like a D-reg
Scorpio on dead shocks. In the "must get a sprint on to get in that lane" out of the saddle
situation, the steering wibbles horribly in a manner that I can't recall in a bicycle since my POS
Falcon Cheetah.
It's a shame. There be touring bike in that there DNA.
But it goes to show that "horses for courses" goes for bicycles as well as, um, horses.
It also goes to show that MTBs have evolved. And some.
Still a cool bike though.
Andy Chequer, off to get the Ribble 653 roadworthy again.........
(kill the heretic and whatnot)