MORE ENGLISH 1970'S TT COOLNESS

Pete Matthews 1978

 Alf Engers Shorter 1978

I know I have posted this cover before

  but what the hell, it is a classic.

1964(?) CINELLI CORSA

I just picked up this 1964 (I think)

Cinelli Corsa, although it looks pretty

rough, I think it will come up nice with 

a bit of TLC.

There are of course a couple of issues

that need to be sorted before painting,

the main one being an incorrect

R/H rear drop out, which will have to 

be replaced.

 The offending drop out.

Early Record derailleur is a bonus.

 

Cino Cinelli himself

There is a very good short history of Cinelli

on the Italian Cycling Journal blog

here 

 Classic Cinelli seat cluster

 The flat fork crown, distinguishing this frame

from the Super Corsa

Cino's brother Giotto Cinelli

who actually started the business.

You can see the Cinelli team in 

the photo below circa 1949

have G Cinelli on their jerseys.

FALCON PROFFESIONAL

Here is a extremely nice late model

Falcon Professional.

It was apparently owned by the

great English Pro rider Sid Barris

(Super Sid), although I have yet to confirm this.

I can't find 

a lot of of information on this later

model Professional.

What I can say is this is really a

 beautifully built frame set,which has obviously

had a lot of time lavished on it's build.

Mid 80's Falcon/Campagnolo/Cinelli Team Jersey, 
I would imagine that this would be

 probably one of the last Falcon team

jersey designs, after a long and distinguished

history in the British Pro scene, which began in 1959.

A Cinelli B/B shell, something you won't find

on to many Falcons, notice the Cinelli logo

on the arm of the Team Jersey.

The Best of British.....

Luckily for me, bikes like these are still

very cheap compared to their Italian

counterparts.

 Falcon Team 1970

 Falcon Team 1973

SIMPLEX SUPER LJ

Well after getting the Peugeot all 

up and running with Simplex 410

running gear, and being mightily impressed

at its ease of set up and operation.

I had to try out a set of the Simplex

flagship range, Super LJ.

After trawling Ebay for way to long

I finally got a set at a very reasonable price

As you can see,they are really beautifully finished.

Strange that you don't really see this stuff in New Zealand, 

as it was pretty competitively priced at the time.

Eddie following Bernard Thevenet

during the TDF.

Bernard won the Tour in 1977 for

Peugeot, with an all French

group set, including the

Simplex SLJ, although his was

the gold version.

So pretty....

NZ TRADE CARDS

Well I finally tracked down a Tino Tabak

Ti Raleigh trade card for the collection.

So I thought I might as well put them all

 up here.

It's taken a little while to get this lot

together I can tell you!

MORE MITCHELL CYCLES

OK, for all you Mitchell fans, 

here is another installment 

on New Plymouths great
 Mitchell Cycles

First up is my new Mitchell on its

way to a fresh blue paint job, and a general revamp.

 Frame has been stripped, inside tubes have all had a good dose of

fish oil, a coat of etch primer and couple of goings over with spot putty.

tomorrow it will get a coat of general purpose primer.

 Drop outs show almost no signs of wear, I guess

this one didn't see much action in it's day.

Next Mitchell up.

This one is one of what seems to be the ubiquitous Mitchells,

the classic Ishiwata 022 frame set with sun tour drop outs.

 

Last up is Flying blog reader Julian's

 Ishiwata 022 Mitchell.

Julian kindly sent in these photos of 

his machine after reading the last post about

Mitchell, including a short history.