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What he would do if his trusty Touriste <\/em>were stolen or crippled had long been a concern to the scout and he had many times looked fruitlessly at what might replace it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1997, his second Freddie Grubb<\/em> (1978 ten-speed; the first was a 1974 five-speed) was taken from outside a shop in Exeter’s Fore Street, while he had briefly let it out of his sight. He was without a bicycle for months, until he saw the Touriste <\/em>in the window of Cyclerama, which then had a shop in Cowick Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One night, after again poring through the catalogues and finding none of the modern tourers in the least appealing, the scout had a quick look for secondhand Raleighs. There happened to be two for sale: a Touriste <\/em>and a Royal<\/em>, being offered at \u00a3200 and \u00a3250. The Raleigh Royal <\/em>had the same frame as the top of the range Randonneur\u2014<\/em>a bicycle still much admired by steel-frame devotees and coveted by the scout\u2014but with less expensive equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question of which to buy was solved by buying both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n