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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
The bike does have a handlebar water bottle cage and going over the cobbles I'm sure there would be spillage.
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I didn't even think about the cobblestones. I was going to joke and say it was an emergency brake to push on when that sucky front brake didn't work, but, now I 'm betting it was to keep the wheels dry so they wouldn't get slippery on the cobblestones.
Those bottles had cork? stoppers. I bet they leaked bigtime.
I also remember the cotter style cranks. My dad had a 60's raleigh with them. I remember trying to remove them as a kid and just beating the hell out of the cotter pin and it never came loose. When I had the opportunity to restore my dad's bike, I reluctantly passed. He had left it in the elements for too long, and even restored, the frame flex at the bb was immense. It was too much work for something that wasn't going to ever work as well as some of the more modern retro bike builds.