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Moultoneer 91

The Moultoneer 91 Cover
The Winter 2011 edition of The Moultoneer has gone to the printers, and will be sent by post later this week. There's still time to join the club or renew your membership in time to get your copy. Some of the features in this issue include:

  • Moultons in Taiwan, KeReT Moulton project
  • Making Moultons at Kirkby in the sixties, an insiders view
  • Improving hub gears on Moultons
  • Moulton Automatic Restoration
  • Moulton rear suspension units - manufacture in the sixties
  • Touring in the US on an AM7
  • Japanese Hillside Terrace exhibition run down
  • New Japanese Moulton book
  • Observations by AM
  • Another Moulton weekend... April 2011
  • One mans meat.. Review of the new breed of bicycle in the early 60s
  • Colour sections and more pages than normal!

Twenty gentle miles around Chichester

The weather forecast for January 30th had been for white cloud so it was a great joy to put my MK3 in the car for my first MBC ride of the year with the sun rising into a clear blue sky.

Twelve of us assembled at Chichester station for a 1030 start of a ride lead by Arthur Smith around the Chichester Plain. The first stop was the café at Fishbourne Roman Palace.

On through the beautiful countryside and villages westward. The old buildings are in harmony with the landscape; timber-framing, tile hanging, mathematical tiles, ragstone, mellow brick, and flint, whichever was available, affordable or fashionable. Roof materials are equally varied: thatch, stone slate and clay tiles.

Several other clubs were out in the fine weather so Arthur decided the pub at Rowland’s Castle wouldn’t be able to fit us all for lunch and revised the route to Boaters Café at Thornham Marina where most of us followed Lynn and Arthur’s lead and had a child’s size portions, which were more than ample. Through the window I could see the Moultons getting lots of attention from people arriving or leaving. It seemed to be approving but I’m no good at lip reading.

Then back to Chichester (via Fishbourne). Along the way I saw my first daffodils of the year – just a single clump in the roadside verge. It was a lovely MBC and “café touring club” ride.

Website Changes

I'm pleased to announce that the Moulton Buzz website is now the main Moulton Bicycle Club website!

The previous club website will remain in place, mainly to provide access for club members to features such as the members forum, Moultoneer magazine downloads, classifieds, and the events calendar.
You can access the club members website using the link http://members.moultoneers.info

The link http://www.moultoneers.info will direct to this site, although it may take a few days for this to happen.

This site will continue to be available at http://www.moultonbuzz.com

There may be a few teething issues as the changes come into place. If you notice anything amiss, or simply want to make a suggestion or leave feedback, please email webmaster@moultonbuzz.com or by leaving a comment.

Moulton Bicycles at Cycle Show 2010

The Moulton stand at Cycle 2010 had a stunning stand, as usual, with some new innovations on show.
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This New Series looks interesting. It is the first factory built Moulton to be fitted with a Rohloff Speedhub.
Unlike previous standard New Series models, it features the Flexitor/front fork design from the Double Pylon. The front forks run entirely outside the front flexitor assembly, rather than passing through it in the style of the older New Series models.

The flexitor pivot assemblies are redesigned featuring a narrower middle section on the two side tubes, rather like a double-butted spoke. It also doesn't appear to have a soft lock-out mechanism.

The New Series also features a threadless headset and a new variation of the Moulton Wishbone stem.

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The demo model has wide Continental City Contact tyres. Up to now, the NS tyre clearances were too small for all but the skinniest of available tyres. Tyre clearance is helped by the use of longer reach dual pivot brakes, which may be a custom Moulton item.

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There was of course the shiny belt-drive TSR-2 with 2 speed, Sturmey Archer S2C kickback hub.

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The gorgeous orange TSR-2 features the new leading link design.
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Moulton Speed, featuring the redesigned frame, as seen at BoA
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And it was nice to see the beautiful original chrome S Deluxe, owned by Mike Woolf of Moulton Preservation on show.
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Finally, a fully loaded TSR-30.
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Photos from Flickr users tredzweb and Jack999