in message , vernon levy
') wrote:

I'm sure bikes and their ancilliaries were more rubust when I was a
lad :-) There again they were probably over weight and over engineered
too.

As I type this I realised that I have spent more in a year on
replacement parts for my bikes than I have in the past three years for
my car.

Ditto. Substantially!

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