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Tuesday 4 June 2013

How many parts to your bike?

Check out this fascinating image from today's Grauniad G2 supplement. It's a photo of a 1980s Raleigh racer stripped down to all of its constituent parts - not gone to the trouble of removing the inner tube patches though.
...427, 428, 429... shit! 1, 2, 3, 4...
Its part of a series called 'Things Come Apart by Canadian photographer Todd McLellan - sounds more Australian to me like.
So there are 893 pieces to this bike including pedal reflectors but only one single front and rear wheel reflector which is some kind of oversight. 
If you look carefully you can spot the red Raleigh branded seat post nut which has just taken me back to the 80s and my Grifter.
I bet it was a bugger to break that chain apart...you can buy a copy of this on the Guardian website.

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