tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66587179331988350762024-03-16T10:07:09.738+13:00THE FLYING WHEEL"Tearing along the traffic-burdened thoroughfare with staring eyeball and reeking frame, this insane demon shoots past men,woman and children, with nothing to announce his coming or mark his passage save a faint hum and a curl of dust."
Letter to a Hawkes Bay Newspaper dated 9 December 1898the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-23179697299907286312022-02-07T14:51:00.127+13:002022-07-05T20:06:41.480+12:00Peugeot PY10 'Paris–Roubaix' <p>Over the past few years I have been thinking about how to build up <br />the most comfortable modern era classic/vintage steel race bike with <br />a reasonably short wheel base without to much fork rake etc <br />(Some say this modern geometry was standardized by <br /><span>Ernesto Colnago in 1968 with his iconic <a href="http://www.velo-retro.com/colnagotline.html">Colnago Super</a> frame)<br />...another good link for Colnago Super <a href="https://www.cycling-obsession.com/how-to-identify-a-colnago-super/">here</a>.<br /></span></p><p><span>The test bed bike I decided to use is my <a href="http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2020/10/1978-peugeot-py10-cp.html">Peugeot PY10</a> for reasons <br />that will soon become clear...so the first obvious step was to run <br />some 25mm <a href="https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/road-bike-reviews/vittoria-corsa-g-tubular-2016">Vittoria G Corsa</a> tubulars, as I had been told by reliable <br />sources that these rather expensive tyres offer unparalleled comfort<br />and performance. <br />I have been running two sets for about the past couple of years and <br />can personally confirm all those positive recommendations....<br />they are without doubt the best tubular tyres I have used.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCWkpcCU9Kea9hC7EKDhynblXukR_dOMOyRuiDxXETi8aRTtRDQB2qsPeYpvW8dGaN8D88RFNrUBfXtZK9h8z9sHmS3mIusRcjo_FYC9G0xHLsbOCLzwmZiPYHBWGJhIeSNI8BjsqHFKbp3BG2BBbSrfBWPcBu-n12bv0opCZIi1yYq212IITvjPHb=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1448" data-original-width="2048" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCWkpcCU9Kea9hC7EKDhynblXukR_dOMOyRuiDxXETi8aRTtRDQB2qsPeYpvW8dGaN8D88RFNrUBfXtZK9h8z9sHmS3mIusRcjo_FYC9G0xHLsbOCLzwmZiPYHBWGJhIeSNI8BjsqHFKbp3BG2BBbSrfBWPcBu-n12bv0opCZIi1yYq212IITvjPHb=w399-h282" width="399" /></a></div><p>The PY with 25mm Vittoria Corsa tyres on a 24h wheelset that I <br />believe are ex <span>Luis Ocaña (more about that sometime).</span></p><p></p><p><span>So The PY was now riding very smoothly, soaking up lots of that <br />awful road noise that New Zealand roads are rightfully notorious for,<br />but I have another item hanging in my workshop that I was hoping <br />would really turn the bike into a super</span> comfortable ride, while <br />remaining pretty close to period correct. <br /></p><p>Long ago I had seen a photo of Herman Van Springel contending <br />the 1968 Paris–Roubaix with Merckx, his bike running wooden rims..<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlxnBynpIt6NvZ0t-WvWc3ETmuIU_L-7ywcAnUvyk5dRLg5BA48zSpO3m1bIa3G0Hj4XAt0sdXT66nuIIYxf5Rroue9BprofkIx7DIHS67_mZI3gnFL8EQ7Edoh-ulrHvAvxzKIp4UbcZVN6W-upE-uSCezakTVzxfVaqH2R_lW4x7pq1GYeEUlYMg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="629" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlxnBynpIt6NvZ0t-WvWc3ETmuIU_L-7ywcAnUvyk5dRLg5BA48zSpO3m1bIa3G0Hj4XAt0sdXT66nuIIYxf5Rroue9BprofkIx7DIHS67_mZI3gnFL8EQ7Edoh-ulrHvAvxzKIp4UbcZVN6W-upE-uSCezakTVzxfVaqH2R_lW4x7pq1GYeEUlYMg=w296-h376" width="296" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had of course already used wooden rims on my 1970's/80's road <br />bikes, but I had mainly used a new narrow width set that Italian </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">specialist wooden rim builder <a href="https://www.cerchioghisallo.shop/">Cerchio Ghisallo </a>had especially </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">drilled to 28h for me, which to be honest turned out to <br />be a bit of a mistake on my part.<br />They need to be trued up pretty tight or they would go out of <br />alignment pretty damn quickly which resulted in various <br />complications too boring to go into here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also the narrow wooden rims, while looking seriously cool on the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">70's/80's bikes I rode them on, didn't look period correct, and as I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">have turned into that really annoying bike nerd that you would do <br />well to avoid engaging in light bike chat!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It just didn't work for me having those narrow rims after I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">saw Van Springel on those chunky woods in the <br />68' Paris- Roubaix, I realized that of course some riders would </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">have kept using such a well proven piece of equipment </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">that would go a long way to reducing rider fatigue on such a brutal <br />race as the Roubaix.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZdcZZ2dIhRw_r3iPROlgURQAa-hI5qfoPjSOZ1DP4vB5M-KPg1aKeeTrANvxdMOnKr6uHJh9HOdIBSyXlQBEgLOSwF6VqxI42esmCWZ4TLBlz_3xNs3tmdTNHyU09QfAl-z6eb8L1BYmnlr4bGAsr4H_FvgsIt8f1GJ8ic6f9BPFFWsgKsfxClXLt=s545" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="410" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZdcZZ2dIhRw_r3iPROlgURQAa-hI5qfoPjSOZ1DP4vB5M-KPg1aKeeTrANvxdMOnKr6uHJh9HOdIBSyXlQBEgLOSwF6VqxI42esmCWZ4TLBlz_3xNs3tmdTNHyU09QfAl-z6eb8L1BYmnlr4bGAsr4H_FvgsIt8f1GJ8ic6f9BPFFWsgKsfxClXLt=w331-h440" width="331" /></a><br />Wooden racing rims had been a mainstay of the racing peloton since </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the pneumatic tyre was invented, and as it turns out, not being fully <br />phased out in the late 1960's, possibly early 1970's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eventually I tracked down a set of 1970's 36h wooden rims laced<br /> +tied and soldered to Maillard 700, Professional hubs in France, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was told that these where a ex Paris-Roubaix wheelset, <br />which I of course, can't confirm, though that being said, it is hard<br /> to imagine any other reason for building a racing wooden <br />wheelset in the 1970's?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The one thing I knew I would need for the woods was a set of cork <br />brake pads, I had lazily used normal red and black rubber blocks <br />on previous wooden wheel sets which soon left a heavy ring of <br />unsightly rubber on the sides of the rims.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj3iJik0njdZ_Qskgr6Flk4tlF0q1bgF_2JU1Rte8qcLLNy2dvqPjhp91f6lWrCwzrFr9A-x4xSavVCxdVHaArS1Intunj7QHXq1xeB3ERCFc9Z8lSv6a3kqiDOib9ZRb0d4kQD18BMl0FMUTtSkaXaGf4USGe6vQO2tL4cIEGILAI-BKq77vzhdF_=s1849" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1805" data-original-width="1849" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj3iJik0njdZ_Qskgr6Flk4tlF0q1bgF_2JU1Rte8qcLLNy2dvqPjhp91f6lWrCwzrFr9A-x4xSavVCxdVHaArS1Intunj7QHXq1xeB3ERCFc9Z8lSv6a3kqiDOib9ZRb0d4kQD18BMl0FMUTtSkaXaGf4USGe6vQO2tL4cIEGILAI-BKq77vzhdF_=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>It was a pretty straightforward process cutting and shaping a set of<br /> blocks from unused corks and finishing them with a couple of <br />coats of shellac.<br /> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhth3u6fbI56PXuEDbx66yU76VqU71CoxM1NCD3IQi6YWkkIIE-lUQblaGC1NhxpbziBuTm3Ugx7IfThtw0O_AXzB-OKDBDqWm27Avmkg5sXeBKEOERjjKR3a62ApZRhHKqekSg9O7Ykh_oKqLZFW6xOpN85ixv_rFD-tnWOfbDozoUlULWo3a2Z8ck=s2317" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2317" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhth3u6fbI56PXuEDbx66yU76VqU71CoxM1NCD3IQi6YWkkIIE-lUQblaGC1NhxpbziBuTm3Ugx7IfThtw0O_AXzB-OKDBDqWm27Avmkg5sXeBKEOERjjKR3a62ApZRhHKqekSg9O7Ykh_oKqLZFW6xOpN85ixv_rFD-tnWOfbDozoUlULWo3a2Z8ck=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5Vlh2fDcVVMsuYrtlbLxI853oqxT3jHpsw7tXT-cLxiueM9JZvXqwCizZnDndkqJnpigNbGIJ81VezJ1o1qv3A_79mNEDM33TKOcPcTQJ-la1XUT1N5QCmnzCwCij0qk28mpywbdJ5QvyG1dV_LXChqQ6j-IAD46unk5IK7njNNfJ6XAcEZrc1n52=s2093" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2093" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5Vlh2fDcVVMsuYrtlbLxI853oqxT3jHpsw7tXT-cLxiueM9JZvXqwCizZnDndkqJnpigNbGIJ81VezJ1o1qv3A_79mNEDM33TKOcPcTQJ-la1XUT1N5QCmnzCwCij0qk28mpywbdJ5QvyG1dV_LXChqQ6j-IAD46unk5IK7njNNfJ6XAcEZrc1n52=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr26SIj5a91ffxhSnWJplU0sJe8VUTtOfy2PZpac02GxlDXEjo19OExJU3ooEHCwBMyFuHhQ_Qek2-ukPgCyuoAjt_UVpTMzlcTllNZvwc3v35WwoZWItf1elh4nnJoB5L4suexmY8e-qJ3CG-oiEj2VyJnC4Hmy4_-VUgxN0Ycm49OP5prvGzPjTJ=s3761" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3761" data-original-width="2832" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr26SIj5a91ffxhSnWJplU0sJe8VUTtOfy2PZpac02GxlDXEjo19OExJU3ooEHCwBMyFuHhQ_Qek2-ukPgCyuoAjt_UVpTMzlcTllNZvwc3v35WwoZWItf1elh4nnJoB5L4suexmY8e-qJ3CG-oiEj2VyJnC4Hmy4_-VUgxN0Ycm49OP5prvGzPjTJ=w314-h417" width="314" /></a></div> <br />Here they are mounted and after about 1000km use... they work </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">incredibly well,quiet, firm..I guess if I had to be critical they can </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">be a bit snatchy if applied too briskly at low speed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here is the PY10 fitted with what I believe are close to period </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">wooden rims, photographed immediately at the end of one of my </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">45km ride to work courses....so pretty!<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX_bU0YZGCN_QREABSGj4MwGp4c3AbBnRq8oUJkZEvM6Zb4dbLFivY6i3-piOEPAh8YBmlGWcNIRzjv0DS16XWG0-UF_28pGGDNmBhgQBg7r8ilKur3Kx0hGWKc22np7t0YoRC-XeKVsJ830LN9TKuqdZx6mDZDafXarXs0J-A9RAhOhfJeHIGqjvk=s4071" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2605" data-original-width="4071" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX_bU0YZGCN_QREABSGj4MwGp4c3AbBnRq8oUJkZEvM6Zb4dbLFivY6i3-piOEPAh8YBmlGWcNIRzjv0DS16XWG0-UF_28pGGDNmBhgQBg7r8ilKur3Kx0hGWKc22np7t0YoRC-XeKVsJ830LN9TKuqdZx6mDZDafXarXs0J-A9RAhOhfJeHIGqjvk=w406-h260" width="406" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The combination a beautifully built steel frame, Ideale 2002 saddle, <br />25mm Vittoria's and the woods have made this without doubt the <br />most rider friendly 1970's (almost) period correct </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">racing bike I have ridden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX3J-wKvdiYqRgegyZdppC0EiWXf_nNxG95257CO3KOVigrJ6ya7TX2CHqEKE1wxqQ4SnLN8g_2eDDV85DHuABM4OkNu2HR4vdHsZIoZQmJHXMS82ACPbufUUraAXrHdiLKojcdIsQr8U_HHkhOJuycyEC6bGFF0BgMa9GOtb_kuN-cprWk5c5YQak=s3668" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3668" data-original-width="2832" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX3J-wKvdiYqRgegyZdppC0EiWXf_nNxG95257CO3KOVigrJ6ya7TX2CHqEKE1wxqQ4SnLN8g_2eDDV85DHuABM4OkNu2HR4vdHsZIoZQmJHXMS82ACPbufUUraAXrHdiLKojcdIsQr8U_HHkhOJuycyEC6bGFF0BgMa9GOtb_kuN-cprWk5c5YQak=w265-h343" width="265" /></a></div>I have always been a sucker for those tied and soldered spokes, <br />something about them always adds a subtle touch of the serious <br />to any classic racing bike.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLs2-cUA8KNYyX36Vxw-P9yMTRJtirS6UBxZfMX-5baj_dtDFjoHsZUU8GSq_4CpuKj_5CB4xtzsNWG8eTxu5nYclG-2A0waD5xmxl9eQPEq49SlFN6tUomMzysGlKPAHzefzF0IInHzTSUYrwy85rsr4ujaY0c0S4LGOO94xWLTI3g60nYOOI331P=s4256" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="4256" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLs2-cUA8KNYyX36Vxw-P9yMTRJtirS6UBxZfMX-5baj_dtDFjoHsZUU8GSq_4CpuKj_5CB4xtzsNWG8eTxu5nYclG-2A0waD5xmxl9eQPEq49SlFN6tUomMzysGlKPAHzefzF0IInHzTSUYrwy85rsr4ujaY0c0S4LGOO94xWLTI3g60nYOOI331P=w359-h239" width="359" /></a><span><br />Notice that there is not that ring of rubber that is left with rubber<br />blocks, the red ring on the rim is a factory insert.<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-YK5F8u3YFE4LZFfF2YTUkbqij0fhuij0TUGlcRX-iqsieku8uX6uYNRSgj1I4d04fn_4j1Si_iQ0aIB5mJLO4R_s4n7jTtkiwDNefGLHu4pNFH69HyTBSggTyfWWZkT7gBVgFVbGHJe_nRMwD3uDY3EDNaQkP0oCA7BgLsIoidTuVEXCaMa4krET=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-YK5F8u3YFE4LZFfF2YTUkbqij0fhuij0TUGlcRX-iqsieku8uX6uYNRSgj1I4d04fn_4j1Si_iQ0aIB5mJLO4R_s4n7jTtkiwDNefGLHu4pNFH69HyTBSggTyfWWZkT7gBVgFVbGHJe_nRMwD3uDY3EDNaQkP0oCA7BgLsIoidTuVEXCaMa4krET=w419-h313" width="419" /></a></div>Jacques Anquetil en la Paris-Roubaix. 1959 on woods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8gT-30ZDyw3IdApGMLzBhpznrCgK3zOxp4v5uBFEJoRHIKmdrmusdzMol_F85XVf9PpLsTMlS61ZOW4IoMlSsQ_UI5JwNAyrsvcQ2oBYh_e22w_by_z3P_u7-aNm-LzJfBtr_vUN3yLGPsiuy6Dzyt81dnxoeBANFUIU3vL_yZCdSunl8KtjaCwp=s630" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="630" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8gT-30ZDyw3IdApGMLzBhpznrCgK3zOxp4v5uBFEJoRHIKmdrmusdzMol_F85XVf9PpLsTMlS61ZOW4IoMlSsQ_UI5JwNAyrsvcQ2oBYh_e22w_by_z3P_u7-aNm-LzJfBtr_vUN3yLGPsiuy6Dzyt81dnxoeBANFUIU3vL_yZCdSunl8KtjaCwp=w392-h245" width="392" /></a></div>Now I know that in the back of a lot of readers minds they will be </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">thinking, what about the weight? (I know I was)...well all I can say <br />to that is they didn't seem to have slowed Van Spingel down too <br />much over the 264km of the 1968 Paris-Roubaix....second to Merckx</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">is about as good as you could get during the peak Merckx years....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and he got it, case closed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rg07rlmFy_U" width="320" youtube-src-id="Rg07rlmFy_U"></iframe></div><br /> Some nice footage here from that 1968 Paris-Roubaix.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbxrijqlXkdwtj15Y6a6xUdy27nyHXZ0p6L_w2yYfdE9J9DQyPhrwYYgYXnxy8GWAGvqGm4PW627gzt_b5ekjBlcd4M-6UbMYjx4tZ4dAAWSKa-JETO4bSKN_R22aZtuMv7-uQWNwWKHN8Pzdg0DRgCY-WNflgHtVN3p37w5OkQm6pU0mWW0C8vIAA=s3229" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3229" data-original-width="2370" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbxrijqlXkdwtj15Y6a6xUdy27nyHXZ0p6L_w2yYfdE9J9DQyPhrwYYgYXnxy8GWAGvqGm4PW627gzt_b5ekjBlcd4M-6UbMYjx4tZ4dAAWSKa-JETO4bSKN_R22aZtuMv7-uQWNwWKHN8Pzdg0DRgCY-WNflgHtVN3p37w5OkQm6pU0mWW0C8vIAA=w282-h384" width="282" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If I had one complaint about this set up, it is that overall the ride on </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">this machine is so close to perfect for my tastes, that it makes it </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">quite hard to spend any serious time aboard any of my other <br />regular mounts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUYTQeLOTZM1Sh7CCokrfZFKQwjOphtOeqiabXC5QeQUmb9ISsCHdcwVfb3HoAExg3bcEOJgKsamVQ66RKrRdm2cD7gGrHNtLbOv1mQxcgKB9dl8NU_-nRUSMew5mCgVvL7BRv8bwtkSqTtNxk7Rr45O5g7b2wB2v0NKioM3YNTD3qXQVgYKf1mKEf=s1263" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="920" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUYTQeLOTZM1Sh7CCokrfZFKQwjOphtOeqiabXC5QeQUmb9ISsCHdcwVfb3HoAExg3bcEOJgKsamVQ66RKrRdm2cD7gGrHNtLbOv1mQxcgKB9dl8NU_-nRUSMew5mCgVvL7BRv8bwtkSqTtNxk7Rr45O5g7b2wB2v0NKioM3YNTD3qXQVgYKf1mKEf=w283-h389" width="283" /></a></div>Last photo goes to Herman Van Springel, a rider I didn't know a lot <br />about before researching the background to this build...apart from <br />his loss on the last stage of the 1968 TdF to Jan Jassen, there was <br />much much more to him than that, including a record seven </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">editions of the marathon Bordeaux–Parisa.<br />A great rider during a period of great champions.<br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-79260597261084116602021-12-11T10:40:00.011+13:002021-12-15T23:38:25.748+13:00The Art of the Sympathetic Restoration, Part 1/d The Finished 1920's Ruby Road Bike<div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQy2nQuXNbCK6bFIVRMFLKTKQr0FQUA-3Ge2Pvqd_CFuZHvDfCYh05QIQpHJH0gObIezQeTXpYnGampc5oJAmCC9H5kLISmtCkrSCVBE2PSltcX32AaxE7pMMoHht_0MenWwKUARGqPtErfjWEeNnK0QZfcNbkWbnIywYcBt5FA2AX2QRWWTBON3nB=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1747" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQy2nQuXNbCK6bFIVRMFLKTKQr0FQUA-3Ge2Pvqd_CFuZHvDfCYh05QIQpHJH0gObIezQeTXpYnGampc5oJAmCC9H5kLISmtCkrSCVBE2PSltcX32AaxE7pMMoHht_0MenWwKUARGqPtErfjWEeNnK0QZfcNbkWbnIywYcBt5FA2AX2QRWWTBON3nB=w341-h400" width="341" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Here we have the completed 1920's (maybe early thirties) Ruby road <br />bike, once again fully functioning and ready to ride.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can see what it looked like before I started <a href="http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-art-of-sympathetic-restoration-part.html">here </a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Even after the extensive research we (thanks Siobhan) have done, I <br />still cannot say for certain whether this machine was built by Ruby <br />in Dunedin, which operated up until the late 1920 </div><div style="text-align: center;">I think, or Ruby in Christchurch which operated up until the 1950's.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisw6ujbgkAa4vbKlIj0mJGdFFUQPDz9TTSTpdlYO-gkbmv80EXI-Wzg7QLlOeEKEoGD1-HjHncAfvF50jvWtwkKW0zVAYwgrhbeH1xMVFLVDNZkMA81qHYbVH5cvRJJ_IRlLp_QPGMXbhj1JZWugDkgOyqourwwb78olta7fBOdo_p7nqX8un3Po1q=s700" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="700" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisw6ujbgkAa4vbKlIj0mJGdFFUQPDz9TTSTpdlYO-gkbmv80EXI-Wzg7QLlOeEKEoGD1-HjHncAfvF50jvWtwkKW0zVAYwgrhbeH1xMVFLVDNZkMA81qHYbVH5cvRJJ_IRlLp_QPGMXbhj1JZWugDkgOyqourwwb78olta7fBOdo_p7nqX8un3Po1q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Advertisement for Ruby Special Cycles "The best and the prettiest" <br />Dunedin circa 1928</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsTLZHtZy-yzDFzrIF9b1Z9bYTCbGxBzM3YI-3DjEmxq6LW8r55mi7JSRv_22aEe1GHPExnBoiWI2QRoS401tc1Fbhqo40ku1yd_NHCBrBMqROxFB8CinxUbOWd14p9P8JiBevlonvvK6JSCjHNmeY8B7VZDcKvh6VNCeT5CO7Mudsu4SBWY2S7MBX=s1518" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsTLZHtZy-yzDFzrIF9b1Z9bYTCbGxBzM3YI-3DjEmxq6LW8r55mi7JSRv_22aEe1GHPExnBoiWI2QRoS401tc1Fbhqo40ku1yd_NHCBrBMqROxFB8CinxUbOWd14p9P8JiBevlonvvK6JSCjHNmeY8B7VZDcKvh6VNCeT5CO7Mudsu4SBWY2S7MBX=w185-h400" width="185" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Advertisement for Ruby Cycle Works Christchurch circa; 1936<br /></div><div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZu4aAI_3D0C-JoCRD32t5ZLh4rkP5yazkwXCjHhskFGBY2hY85NWHX0-yR1Ljam704nZ8Gz20YB6YXo3RmAY-VLX2JXtOH0Tg-eNU5S2Z7u_Th91Nz5VVYw94HRxkJPgnOImbEkSXzhjButCxGL7U3LWraibZIqyNo6SCjD1Bd9rhmHMxDF1z_dqe=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1439" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZu4aAI_3D0C-JoCRD32t5ZLh4rkP5yazkwXCjHhskFGBY2hY85NWHX0-yR1Ljam704nZ8Gz20YB6YXo3RmAY-VLX2JXtOH0Tg-eNU5S2Z7u_Th91Nz5VVYw94HRxkJPgnOImbEkSXzhjButCxGL7U3LWraibZIqyNo6SCjD1Bd9rhmHMxDF1z_dqe=s320" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The gold high lights with red pin-stripping came up very nicely, <br />it is this colour combination which makes me think that this frame <br />could be from the Dunedin workshops.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">It looks very 1920's to me, but would be happy to be proved wrong by <br />anyone who might be able to shed some light on this<br />....adrian@theflyingwheel.com<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ_7Y_oRCg86ZXlle_vwHdVyErowI6Jk_kIhyxq7gKS-WLruaKkfAUQV5eOTeLTuZrTl9xMgLcOlOFJ-lOi4zX0qpSrHBT29MToOrY_8XOdxOxunb445UgZYULTQTb-H2Mo1UyexKh82SKkomq_jF1e8VhmlOzJA_lO40Y3KdQ2Y8K5dldNMG5e746=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="2048" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ_7Y_oRCg86ZXlle_vwHdVyErowI6Jk_kIhyxq7gKS-WLruaKkfAUQV5eOTeLTuZrTl9xMgLcOlOFJ-lOi4zX0qpSrHBT29MToOrY_8XOdxOxunb445UgZYULTQTb-H2Mo1UyexKh82SKkomq_jF1e8VhmlOzJA_lO40Y3KdQ2Y8K5dldNMG5e746=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The gold on the seat stay caps was a nice touch I thought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvBE9pWzLIlD8n7xSAFbUyOMdCSlttXwNvwD5GLJuMeRpk1vZ5HtN_5TjYNCBJe-W-cYz144M24bhinRQ1ZDuGWjc5V08ayEIohojbxvrwQ7CHRl2KE29-zuQWLlAeBRuMH_ZZcXTLSJ2A5wSvPWhalyyHN0V-a5gfaZ5IbbOL-VVq9b8TEcz16Q81=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1914" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvBE9pWzLIlD8n7xSAFbUyOMdCSlttXwNvwD5GLJuMeRpk1vZ5HtN_5TjYNCBJe-W-cYz144M24bhinRQ1ZDuGWjc5V08ayEIohojbxvrwQ7CHRl2KE29-zuQWLlAeBRuMH_ZZcXTLSJ2A5wSvPWhalyyHN0V-a5gfaZ5IbbOL-VVq9b8TEcz16Q81=s320" width="299" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The original head transfer can just be made out, it seems to be <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><br />Boreas the Greek God of the North Wind, with the Earth in <br />behind. What is not so clear in the photo is <br />the script banner that contained the text which runs around <br />the sides and bottom of the image.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Must have been an impressive logo.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUD5OesMNyhnMVLV2qpvnmXnQ-n7gLNrkAw4N4M7B44c0qR58PNjG8fSRq6J3AAbCNCz99v_KG85kkS67WZPral5CEG9vkipaBhX4OzS4kBVX4of9W0HvtgzxZ6c1kZeIQ6h8-7fgsooohcjn5yLDOZjjxOloUBR67TZyL9Qqq9ZD-r8Fbrh_ofHbM=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUD5OesMNyhnMVLV2qpvnmXnQ-n7gLNrkAw4N4M7B44c0qR58PNjG8fSRq6J3AAbCNCz99v_KG85kkS67WZPral5CEG9vkipaBhX4OzS4kBVX4of9W0HvtgzxZ6c1kZeIQ6h8-7fgsooohcjn5yLDOZjjxOloUBR67TZyL9Qqq9ZD-r8Fbrh_ofHbM=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Williams crank set which seemed to have a single 'A' digit, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">this would have made it 1912/13 series crank set, which I</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">am very dubious about, it was a bit unclear so unfortunately</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">couldn't really be used to help date the bike, which is a a haphazard </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">way to date bike at the best of times to start with IMO.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">More on Williams crank dating <a href="https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/classic_components/williams-component-dating/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Williams/Williams_nmbrs.htm">here</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd"> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_0Pd_gXRf8OE-i6kuTTTvRKrt0A4PrQlp9H1gla8ZexOmWdD1uks1SqlUMBDYqN1vvvZoqF3pVpBtdsTuJrBJde32F-45uvbIhvNHQiK3PMMi3o0KpMStLBU_wcYJkNvrJFPY8WLD8uoCUXN8XhVjejfuQHGEnFgjR7evv9TKuFhXYRAPD_wUHH-Y=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_0Pd_gXRf8OE-i6kuTTTvRKrt0A4PrQlp9H1gla8ZexOmWdD1uks1SqlUMBDYqN1vvvZoqF3pVpBtdsTuJrBJde32F-45uvbIhvNHQiK3PMMi3o0KpMStLBU_wcYJkNvrJFPY8WLD8uoCUXN8XhVjejfuQHGEnFgjR7evv9TKuFhXYRAPD_wUHH-Y=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Phillips saddle actually softened up remarkably well over a </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">month or two, and is also really comfortable, well at least</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd">it was was over the 40 km test ride I have ridden it so far.<br /><span class="hgKElc"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0L30q6m5IpWwpTYl8FWOG5awVQLeA5NLsx_aMaMiDDZ4WQj7HVVPxQAXKl5s48CnpgFZbmBCovvdfDZ-afeBo8b6md7qOZiti5e56Z7z6y24Cx8R17I67NtTcH8HfP_miQaseIDWqVx9g9pH_DGTe9opTL4XvENbcAT2PF1VfbN9_D0uu9qkAG-jh=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1737" data-original-width="2048" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0L30q6m5IpWwpTYl8FWOG5awVQLeA5NLsx_aMaMiDDZ4WQj7HVVPxQAXKl5s48CnpgFZbmBCovvdfDZ-afeBo8b6md7qOZiti5e56Z7z6y24Cx8R17I67NtTcH8HfP_miQaseIDWqVx9g9pH_DGTe9opTL4XvENbcAT2PF1VfbN9_D0uu9qkAG-jh=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Classic Major Taylor cockpit, to be honest I am always very</div><div style="text-align: center;">tempted to place the bars under the outrigger, but have to say that</div><div style="text-align: center;">it makes for an extremely comfortable ride mounted as they are.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I guess there is good reason why most road men had them </div><div style="text-align: center;">mounted this way.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipALL1aLRLNZCvIl1Wbn8TiEq_2KxVSTbAREOqdikVEWIMXIALXwdnmuYYN3D2n_CtknTwKu9_3UNPk9HoUtx20CSAFF283lUgh0ALXduGAdWjTD8NXM_g3Udnrj64RUUaum5-TpcrKNVqubeLOsxht86LPDXItYB4Cmj3mWvs-w7ej-80-rmBzMiI=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipALL1aLRLNZCvIl1Wbn8TiEq_2KxVSTbAREOqdikVEWIMXIALXwdnmuYYN3D2n_CtknTwKu9_3UNPk9HoUtx20CSAFF283lUgh0ALXduGAdWjTD8NXM_g3Udnrj64RUUaum5-TpcrKNVqubeLOsxht86LPDXItYB4Cmj3mWvs-w7ej-80-rmBzMiI=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Very pleased with the wheelset, the brass nipples are a nice little</div><div style="text-align: center;">touch, after getting down and dirty with a wire wheel on drill, I then <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">rust neutralized both sides of the rims. The spokes where rubbed</div><div style="text-align: center;">down with medium wire wool, the final touch was rubbing in some</div><div style="text-align: center;">black stove polish which took to the old porous galvanized very well.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8TpLRu_g1PIeBD2YLw3zW-LZLjrtpT-WJeVp2ymPh8HZ6yty7JvIqIrH2Vho2wN3KvI3A4jpmEcV_XiMH3Q1wSzWWTH_bJxQpK74dSpS6v8qM1juXtvjKMnz6wuXG3I05vOiAV0newe-zakuPYbBMuPh6ep71PR1GsIqNt0403achtPxwLCsFas3Z=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8TpLRu_g1PIeBD2YLw3zW-LZLjrtpT-WJeVp2ymPh8HZ6yty7JvIqIrH2Vho2wN3KvI3A4jpmEcV_XiMH3Q1wSzWWTH_bJxQpK74dSpS6v8qM1juXtvjKMnz6wuXG3I05vOiAV0newe-zakuPYbBMuPh6ep71PR1GsIqNt0403achtPxwLCsFas3Z=s320" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="2048" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkrAvbCQcGWlNwBavotOSgtME4fT-9rD6l0SlV4eWjJ94EPfr9_iY3QuD8brS4_ZCTF_Ojzf15PYa8cEDWwggYjQgHEy6WKA1scXbTDsvdANYvIU2z0wvBOEy0PvtDWmi9gmUkKFarU9vCYn5sOWbRBB1EQCcUOfsDXyJzbMMuRG0YmCIE8t892dbG=s320" width="320" /></a><br />So there you have it, a complete ground up restoration of an (about) <br />hundred year old New Zealand build road racing bicycle, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ten years ago I would have probably have remade the decals,<br />stripped and repainted the bike.<br />That being said, I wouldn't get upset if someone out there decided <br />that is what they would prefer to do..each to their own I say.</div><p style="text-align: center;">Overall I am really pleased with the result, although very aged, <br />the patina is very nice, and the bike looks quite impressive, and<br />certainly feels impressive to ride. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I will post up a road test shortly, yes it was fun!<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWtHDswIsQ6d0gbxi2ecsF8rQ-5RsH2ER9hhM7nrDP6CVAyPCk7b_NFeg3uf3_ETh2FOzapJwDNASSSheBJ5JQ970lv5xfxPy3lg2mMr6ao5uBBVSXl3CXSHfEHuorDbsvsm_Zyo3PAzcUo25VlxIjwMb1npdUXcq-xVtzkdQvLpVLZITxy7OPC8GE=w400-h266" width="400" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Up next was the job of slowing going through the components, cleaning and degreasing, dealing with rust where needed and the polishing, waxing and reassembling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Strangely I had so far somehow missed what turned out to be the most interesting item on the bike, the rear "GEM" brake set, which after a bit of internet detective work, turns out to be of Australian origin, and judging by the lack of internet information and presence, I would say quite a rare item. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLcfYYnUHwCI_-XInba85M3Mi7c9S9KgvY6OymYEJjpnpoeiTTgXfX_NtsLmerEMQCw_zSVIO-Y2o1LLebfbnL_y9dbMNPfJKEgTuBXB2qnP5tkcOhMQdAX5nT3Asxq9KbIO-EZPDincACtCsTA__OzRm3lizKCmDXRZC6JWTw_srMnY7j6JVSJfTv=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1437" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLcfYYnUHwCI_-XInba85M3Mi7c9S9KgvY6OymYEJjpnpoeiTTgXfX_NtsLmerEMQCw_zSVIO-Y2o1LLebfbnL_y9dbMNPfJKEgTuBXB2qnP5tkcOhMQdAX5nT3Asxq9KbIO-EZPDincACtCsTA__OzRm3lizKCmDXRZC6JWTw_srMnY7j6JVSJfTv=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>Here are the "GEM" brakes, which are clamped onto the rear seat stays, the brake arms themselves act as the brake spring...not that successfully as it turns out!</p><p>the wheel set as always, turned out to be one of the most time consuming parts of the entire project, as you can see they were in pretty poor condition, though luckily none of the rust had actually gone through the rims.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUTVvoVV_2398olH41TLfWPAq-VvY_OKcUTt6CfvZrcHXDV3YBDa3MyfYxNNWm2OHYJhMDPM4dNm4VUxZ81PE-IGgK8p97PJxXsgHif6oJwERIXg3gPFIivWFWSGJUiMGN8bT629gi7-fOWq2AjcMuyMZhDZgG5zeXacQZbSY7h3rQ4bxvrH4CQFwM=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="2048" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUTVvoVV_2398olH41TLfWPAq-VvY_OKcUTt6CfvZrcHXDV3YBDa3MyfYxNNWm2OHYJhMDPM4dNm4VUxZ81PE-IGgK8p97PJxXsgHif6oJwERIXg3gPFIivWFWSGJUiMGN8bT629gi7-fOWq2AjcMuyMZhDZgG5zeXacQZbSY7h3rQ4bxvrH4CQFwM=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglxZQOI45cHIpA51KQPLm0HGafRp9BkBmqtfYHKgX1O5EAo9gRWKDOgkUVJAmEZCI3aOLPIExex7PlRfCc_ZBIVbSJltBCNyaZ1Lu9B6OUdXHsV7ppJ1mGph3AJAMW3fINw3jZPldHvV6mDSXnN_ucsiinkm0GmoRkDVWZdFR-o3HIu9rj-q_2GUvK=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1557" data-original-width="2048" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglxZQOI45cHIpA51KQPLm0HGafRp9BkBmqtfYHKgX1O5EAo9gRWKDOgkUVJAmEZCI3aOLPIExex7PlRfCc_ZBIVbSJltBCNyaZ1Lu9B6OUdXHsV7ppJ1mGph3AJAMW3fINw3jZPldHvV6mDSXnN_ucsiinkm0GmoRkDVWZdFR-o3HIu9rj-q_2GUvK=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had to cut the perished tyres off the rimes..first time I have had to do this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU6WBpA6O8SY1YFlDdOcon2kEeQewJHYyzATHfgxoLaJcQVse4hDdpsf5E3aLCMAG1PWuPqVpXyqRVZvuo9xGcovkqtAia1e7Ysw7w5t9scyEB8KN5xERxvng3R_8iqtGev2dFGWw9TSS9kt1lf4sU62Ax0ZiT5h5dZ5148SZx1N4BKDGQZY4ETas7=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="2048" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU6WBpA6O8SY1YFlDdOcon2kEeQewJHYyzATHfgxoLaJcQVse4hDdpsf5E3aLCMAG1PWuPqVpXyqRVZvuo9xGcovkqtAia1e7Ysw7w5t9scyEB8KN5xERxvng3R_8iqtGev2dFGWw9TSS9kt1lf4sU62Ax0ZiT5h5dZ5148SZx1N4BKDGQZY4ETas7=w400-h303" width="400" /></a><br />The bottom bracket had obviously not seen a mechanics tool for quite a while...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div>the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-28326829612195951032021-11-22T23:05:00.001+13:002021-12-11T09:00:34.028+13:00The Art of the Sympathetic Restoration, Part 1/a The Frame Set.<div style="text-align: left;">Here is a simple run down of how I go about cleaning, rust removing and preserving the surviving paint work and decals on a rough pre war bike frame set, now keep in mind this is just the way I do it, and it works for me, many others will have different methods which could well be better than mine, but I am pretty happy with the results I get. </div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnkVvMTrBrvWHw6BU7HdLF0T_ei_fbBzdrFNKZsltinptrWRBlZMcHR7T1xhINcYTf48fEG94dwAUB_Iv-intuM93J4Ep8E4tqpWCrOFVKtGg64eZVfdAjF3sK0nWM6EeJ0JwfIuU5DU/s2048/Ruby+16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1567" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnkVvMTrBrvWHw6BU7HdLF0T_ei_fbBzdrFNKZsltinptrWRBlZMcHR7T1xhINcYTf48fEG94dwAUB_Iv-intuM93J4Ep8E4tqpWCrOFVKtGg64eZVfdAjF3sK0nWM6EeJ0JwfIuU5DU/s320/Ruby+16.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The forks in their 'natural' aged state, after a soapy clean.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_o9MLznF0Qu9VVII3Rf2BczssNmYuH66ZLfrxs3Xc32ltuB4v4Z8XE4nGiUF89j-vKxdHqZXH3ABrXY3CWQLQ_MiDmPcNaP_7gbDx7n4i0WPAhWfVKDyL89MrKeUk0L_0_ywX3yO7Nw/s2048/Ruby+18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1971" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_o9MLznF0Qu9VVII3Rf2BczssNmYuH66ZLfrxs3Xc32ltuB4v4Z8XE4nGiUF89j-vKxdHqZXH3ABrXY3CWQLQ_MiDmPcNaP_7gbDx7n4i0WPAhWfVKDyL89MrKeUk0L_0_ywX3yO7Nw/s320/Ruby+18.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">First up I clean the fame with soapy water, which is a bit of a waste of time really, except it does one great thing...when it is wet, it gives you a brief but inspiring approximate idea of what the frame might look like when finished, then when it quickly dries and looks like crap again, you are left with the task of just rolling up your sleeves and getting that same look to stay permanent, mainly through some pretty dirty, sometimes tedious but ultimately extremely rewarding work.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I then degrease the frame with spray on degreaser, getting into the corners with old stiff toothbrushes, I also find an old small but blunted screwdriver with your rag covering the tip comes in handy during this operation around the lugs etc, obviously being very careful not to damage the paint finish.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugG_jFx-pBYaYUZ8-MN2_iGtE6zXGTLQ3v5AjRCbTulexBZgJOA2W-iQsEp2uYE-JElSlbIBJdukQrWKg6jUWBSWN3J3Eo-YTXS4i8vaMqKhquYNX5g1UiKKSNPvehyyKEF9XQKR6dzg/s2048/Ruby+19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugG_jFx-pBYaYUZ8-MN2_iGtE6zXGTLQ3v5AjRCbTulexBZgJOA2W-iQsEp2uYE-JElSlbIBJdukQrWKg6jUWBSWN3J3Eo-YTXS4i8vaMqKhquYNX5g1UiKKSNPvehyyKEF9XQKR6dzg/s320/Ruby+19.jpg" width="257" /></a><br />A bit of acid action...<br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After the frame is thoroughly cleaned, I then use a phosphoric acid cleaner on the exposed rust, getting into the surface rust with 000 wire wool at the same time...wear rubber gloves of course. If the rust is quite heavy and scaly, I might use a coarser wire wool, but am always being very careful to not further damage remaining paint or bright work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbNyyfxNLyBbNgImwN56RCTHXAF6xbniDB0kOSfEpiKxLua1qwFfs7K-oyJYJFTsJ62qM2JTRn42n55UtfSlOHf7hA56tpR5rKChsdtwwZts5Tm3ncC8PXiCpFRmSqldnTxwp-3z61P0/s2048/Ruby+20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1862" data-original-width="2048" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbNyyfxNLyBbNgImwN56RCTHXAF6xbniDB0kOSfEpiKxLua1qwFfs7K-oyJYJFTsJ62qM2JTRn42n55UtfSlOHf7hA56tpR5rKChsdtwwZts5Tm3ncC8PXiCpFRmSqldnTxwp-3z61P0/s320/Ruby+20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Once I am happy with the 'finish' on the areas of surface rust, I apply a rust neutralizer only to those area's with a small brush. Many of these products will leave a semi-gloss black finish, which is not a bad thing in some cases, but not always. </p><p>Depending on the area of rust and the finish I am looking for, I sometimes clean off the neutralizer before it has completely hardened off, as some fully hardened neutralizers do have quite a particular 'look' to them, and by removing it before it has fully hardened it looks (ironically enough) a little more neutral. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTh7XUiqQqYuX5Z_vkG-rMU4gsDym7FyMsfphGcr8ttRAgqadnnHbI4o4-teRNVpph4H0IzdiEkqT6Xs410q_ALs2TeW8c0ciiB1qfkdfhUf3-WxcQ94VRtQPMxMEDRo6eR5-ef7NOhU/s1366/Ruby+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1366" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTh7XUiqQqYuX5Z_vkG-rMU4gsDym7FyMsfphGcr8ttRAgqadnnHbI4o4-teRNVpph4H0IzdiEkqT6Xs410q_ALs2TeW8c0ciiB1qfkdfhUf3-WxcQ94VRtQPMxMEDRo6eR5-ef7NOhU/s320/Ruby+21.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rust neutralizer carefully applied to treated surface rust areas only.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">After neutralizing the rusted areas I then cut the entire frame using an automotive cutting paste..now it is extremely important to take care during this stage as one over zealous rubbing motion could remove a bit of pin stripe or bit of decal colour..maybe start out using something less aggressive just to be safe.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl5aEIyLVNmtd0s7mQh7pUsdWAKkPMFfUnBzIVfc-Z5cSp-nQ2L7WaCLSAQArDky_ilEDxisLP0RYeF_7td2Ew0Hdpz68pI47d9OkDMPQyPO1KLbj0fW7Ml9L8k3xhx-q_2HiBPbwd50/s1366/Ruby+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1366" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl5aEIyLVNmtd0s7mQh7pUsdWAKkPMFfUnBzIVfc-Z5cSp-nQ2L7WaCLSAQArDky_ilEDxisLP0RYeF_7td2Ew0Hdpz68pI47d9OkDMPQyPO1KLbj0fW7Ml9L8k3xhx-q_2HiBPbwd50/s320/Ruby+22.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cutting paste sparingly and carefully used</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next up is the pay off, the polishing stage...I use Brazilian<span> Carnauba car wax, and lots of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQu1XwekSJTcTx8zj3s5How1T9Ef5z3yx3uDUGLv4U-hjc36jIuCYil3s3vNJEq3XSutKAYkcQ8l8hpdXyWuugQulN9vdRLDCXTRtpOJ5EO78r8Y5hHz3HFS1cXCe2kCnZ5aSq5OVMwU/s1366/Ruby+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1366" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQu1XwekSJTcTx8zj3s5How1T9Ef5z3yx3uDUGLv4U-hjc36jIuCYil3s3vNJEq3XSutKAYkcQ8l8hpdXyWuugQulN9vdRLDCXTRtpOJ5EO78r8Y5hHz3HFS1cXCe2kCnZ5aSq5OVMwU/s320/Ruby+23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Forks up on the stand being polished and buffed at least two or three times.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSEZI8_HhhkyGAfeK_snhICM5BP-75f1E636-7JFY31iMJrH42cCJ2BqysacTpV6lrhJZeIv1nw-c2y80na6MuMYad92uAEz9Dp02gsks4QOIcp45Do79ov-e2cmHWuhDN9q64Wx2nqT8/s2048/Ruby+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1977" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSEZI8_HhhkyGAfeK_snhICM5BP-75f1E636-7JFY31iMJrH42cCJ2BqysacTpV6lrhJZeIv1nw-c2y80na6MuMYad92uAEz9Dp02gsks4QOIcp45Do79ov-e2cmHWuhDN9q64Wx2nqT8/s320/Ruby+24.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span> </span><span></span><span> </span>The forks finished and looking pretty nice.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>So there you have it, well as far as restoring the frame/forks go anyway,
doing the components is another process which I will go into next, then you will see the complete finished bike, which came up not to bad if may say so myself.</span> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-46042638053196754302021-11-17T10:57:00.064+13:002021-12-11T09:00:17.853+13:00The Art of the Sympathetic Restoration, Part 1 The Ruby <p>Firstly let me just say that the following posts on"The Art of the Sympathetic Restoration" are only my personal thoughts on, and a signal in the direction I will be taking going forward within the world of Vintage/Classic racing bicycle collecting, buying, selling and restoration etc...of course many others will have a completely different approach, and that is a good thing, different strokes for different folks I always say.<br /></p><p>Over the past several years it has been been becoming more and more obvious to me that my approach to tbicycle restoration has been quite a bit too hard edged...I guess if I am honest about it, my first thoughts upon receiving an old racing bike, that has no known history or provenance, has been 'strip it and repaint it' it, and if no decals of suitable quality are available (which is about half the time) recreate my own.</p><p>I am realizing now that actually each bike really needs to be far more carefully thought about and assessed before taking that radical and irreversible step of stripping it down to bare metal.</p><p>Some questions that I am asking myself now (and have been for a while) are...is it in original paint? how much of that originality is left, how much can can be saved if needed?, how rare is this particular bike in it's current condition? etc etc. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love restoring racing bikes, I really enjoy the challenge of recreating a vintage racing bike for myself and customers that should look and ride/feel almost exactly like it would have done when new...but going forward I am removing the knee jerk reaction of doing that to most bikes that cross my path.<br /></p><p>So as my first example for "The Art of the Sympathetic Restoration" I am undertaking what I consider to be an easy choice for this undertaking...a pretty original 1920's NZ built race bike.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiqIXGojJN7CwUUDYw1am_rFJbkrdiAI8_DfkBzDdS2JhZi7TLnLt90N0sN3N2mZI5k1xf6FbJ2A5XQyibrLGiPGzVgW-ESkCeOEsi0ryYJHCU-bxuSg15VQjIkJX2M6d_uyxyHILLSVU/s2048/Ruby+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="2048" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiqIXGojJN7CwUUDYw1am_rFJbkrdiAI8_DfkBzDdS2JhZi7TLnLt90N0sN3N2mZI5k1xf6FbJ2A5XQyibrLGiPGzVgW-ESkCeOEsi0ryYJHCU-bxuSg15VQjIkJX2M6d_uyxyHILLSVU/w400-h255/Ruby+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>A few months ago I happened upon this rather neglected looking bike on a local sales site, it was located down at the other end of the country (of course!), but I was keen on the Major Taylor cockpit and especially on the narrow racing/sports 28" spear point mudguards, the bike had obviously been pressed into service as a commuter at the end of it's racing career.<br /><p></p><p>When my friend, Jason (Bidrider Motorcycle Delivery Company, I highly recommend his service if you are in NZ) who picks up my South Island bikes for me, delivered it...still dragging some weeds wound through it's spokes, he was slightly amused at my purchase...though this is far from the first rusty heap he has dragged into my shop!<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLKrrdpY_dKOVGzcaHdBWj-c8NjN0cLrRH4P2lL0kpzO-hXBhFJcoa4Dvhvd95AKvT8ubUqhvfXID07lbHPWr4elOJaG5zp1wNZhi3YF-UGApopKXt5w8-qWm_H88uKyDF7UA47crn-0/s1366/Ruby+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1366" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLKrrdpY_dKOVGzcaHdBWj-c8NjN0cLrRH4P2lL0kpzO-hXBhFJcoa4Dvhvd95AKvT8ubUqhvfXID07lbHPWr4elOJaG5zp1wNZhi3YF-UGApopKXt5w8-qWm_H88uKyDF7UA47crn-0/w381-h254/Ruby+3.jpg" width="381" /></a></div>It was instantly clear that hiding under a heavy patina was the original paint, I had half suspected this from the very unclear photos in the original ad, but was pleasantly surprised non the less.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBWvpwLFJJWJixkEWyMg0rt9LIOW6DA-AHY6ifP8JNDSEyWtEje1eeUxcmu5bOREl1XpGpCwJ8RQG8LvQs6G1qBrqb-gmJ2rrzOBmJfMKc4qaa32XJ_A-ZlZ5bMHLrKd7d6CtJMVCZdwo/s768/Ruby+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="742" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBWvpwLFJJWJixkEWyMg0rt9LIOW6DA-AHY6ifP8JNDSEyWtEje1eeUxcmu5bOREl1XpGpCwJ8RQG8LvQs6G1qBrqb-gmJ2rrzOBmJfMKc4qaa32XJ_A-ZlZ5bMHLrKd7d6CtJMVCZdwo/s320/Ruby+5.jpg" width="309" /></a></div>But what was really exciting was that the original decal "Ruby" with a flying wheel on each end, could just be made out on the down tube.<p></p><p>If you have had anything to do with pre-war New Zealand racing bikes you will know that at least 70% + of them have been repainted at some point, and almost never with the original decals or anything to give you a clue as to it's origins. Now I know that some collectors out there claim to be able to identify some makers, I am personally a little more circumspect about identifying pre war frames. </p><p><br />Having the name still on the bike instantly gave this bike a provenance that meant I could justify to myself the many many hours of work that would be needed to restore this machine.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ypvHd8Uvzx4oqylCKYK8L47tHttUEo_TkwNhFCrAsATr2rj_WaB0fe2LqjjPEgIqri13AQR7QDVGmZ0gPsK3aQHmlml8WkuSdSo1qsnzCw80h5LdPrdixaidoKaj8V240-_2B7Anjbc/s768/Ruby+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ypvHd8Uvzx4oqylCKYK8L47tHttUEo_TkwNhFCrAsATr2rj_WaB0fe2LqjjPEgIqri13AQR7QDVGmZ0gPsK3aQHmlml8WkuSdSo1qsnzCw80h5LdPrdixaidoKaj8V240-_2B7Anjbc/s320/Ruby+4.jpg" width="285" /></a></div>A little gold with red stripping peeping through just below the seat cluster...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJaXpyBAVidGXBOcXfZiZcpyk8kKInZwKeLq068btanQoBSwiST3YQxvqwUCxGxu_4BNF_at5nsDcZyYgbBVMT2d1Ow3QgZAcD9cCjIeld1uxk4W9bguqamTMxQqEnPdMXzXIwWY065Y/s768/Ruby+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="607" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJaXpyBAVidGXBOcXfZiZcpyk8kKInZwKeLq068btanQoBSwiST3YQxvqwUCxGxu_4BNF_at5nsDcZyYgbBVMT2d1Ow3QgZAcD9cCjIeld1uxk4W9bguqamTMxQqEnPdMXzXIwWY065Y/w316-h400/Ruby+1.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><p>The Major Taylor stem and classic 20's-30's bars that first caught my eye...love that imposing Miller headlight on the the end of the outrigger, I will restore the lights and guards at some later point and refit them to the bike, but for this project I am returning the bike back into into it's original racing trim.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggA-DPcCEMJbHa7mkPOJw60EAH1nk1Wcxsy6sIrbFt9LaIdGUNa0Xm66cjR8p6Kwe1pQa1pDAdD766kB61Yasoi9jeBVSPgmqgYotZD3Rv4Z_HVNO5QCttiU0HpbpjsHc9PZf8jGL3MjM/s1366/Ruby+6_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="1366" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggA-DPcCEMJbHa7mkPOJw60EAH1nk1Wcxsy6sIrbFt9LaIdGUNa0Xm66cjR8p6Kwe1pQa1pDAdD766kB61Yasoi9jeBVSPgmqgYotZD3Rv4Z_HVNO5QCttiU0HpbpjsHc9PZf8jGL3MjM/s320/Ruby+6_1.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was pleased to find the narrow racing rims, even though covered in a thick coat of surface rust, were free of actual rust holes, the brass spoke nipples, now oxidized green should come up nicely with a time of work/time, the galvanized spokes seems to be hanging in there as well.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2ZNs2wGlQfXCXwt4gPB8r5LUwxaFrKnq_StYAO8sfONAilzm43vgTPKt3FkQ_XODWFAFlw6qu_qB5uwDm1GECFyvpMCGVg4xWo5Dw9Sy6ya2w-iSpdyFzwBIEl-7eaiI5x98VzV8rYo/s1366/Ruby+7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1366" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2ZNs2wGlQfXCXwt4gPB8r5LUwxaFrKnq_StYAO8sfONAilzm43vgTPKt3FkQ_XODWFAFlw6qu_qB5uwDm1GECFyvpMCGVg4xWo5Dw9Sy6ya2w-iSpdyFzwBIEl-7eaiI5x98VzV8rYo/w400-h303/Ruby+7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Overall the bike looked to be in pretty original order, right down to the twin fixed wheel drive train, and had clearly been left untouched for decades...and lots of them!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1PmiubiUKeIKlB2Y5QHMR1HwjqNUnkAnfDUellOzMOp7S_hVkJ1FtWkgbu8sBT36oPUNz911I_MlqFaBwo5iIfHeYRvElKZF9pKJVofHXlCeK2q6asIa50M4XB6G40_n69rUAqe1In4/s1366/Ruby+8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1366" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1PmiubiUKeIKlB2Y5QHMR1HwjqNUnkAnfDUellOzMOp7S_hVkJ1FtWkgbu8sBT36oPUNz911I_MlqFaBwo5iIfHeYRvElKZF9pKJVofHXlCeK2q6asIa50M4XB6G40_n69rUAqe1In4/w400-h293/Ruby+8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Phillips saddle at first looked pretty knackered, but like the rest of the bike, responded well to a bit of careful TLC. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-34084320127932030322021-02-19T23:01:00.005+13:002021-02-20T13:28:03.520+13:00Mitchell Madness part 2<p>Here are another two Mitchell's I built up along<br />side the Mitchell featured <a href="http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2021/02/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">here</a>.<br />These two bikes are for sale <a href="https://theflyingwheelworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/02/mitchell-professional-track-bike.html">here</a>, as I keep on telling<br />myself 'you can't keep them all', no seriously these<br />two were always meant to be for sale, believe me I<br />have more than enough Mitchell's for myself. <br />Though that being, said I am still always looking <br />for frames with known race history (any size)<br />or Mitchell's built with Columbus or <br />Reynolds in 56/57cm..let me know.<br /> <a href="http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2021/02/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html"><br /></a></p><p>The first is a nice Mitchell Professional track bike <br />(frame No 396), which of course has undergone a <br />full ground up restoration.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLmsHAysNJ6s1HOiE-HaMGQMU9yx0waFQQr9bE0M2tMXcLvGKoXiGhQdNdRGjRQ84HojYG-Fp05E70SdIcIFAxehRnWtO4cq7hCdeT-_j9_1HIiIQTM86QQvV1nLbeStUOPF8K4tyRyKk/s2048/DSC_5001+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2048" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLmsHAysNJ6s1HOiE-HaMGQMU9yx0waFQQr9bE0M2tMXcLvGKoXiGhQdNdRGjRQ84HojYG-Fp05E70SdIcIFAxehRnWtO4cq7hCdeT-_j9_1HIiIQTM86QQvV1nLbeStUOPF8K4tyRyKk/w386-h285/DSC_5001+%25282%2529.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><p>This blue must have been pretty popular,<br />I am sure that at least half of the Mitchell's I <br />have ever seen are this blue, which is not a <br />bad thing, it looks rather striking.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPQ018s9SLyXDp4m6SnyIft547_MO_LBuxG-Ybf1Wh9O1fAWCD4WbTjU82vQuQ1aSksnDCP1hyImy4exAlXxB85_2h4icB6bzE1qjo3lqgemJcgUBloMy-44irnS5RUjiWkzRY7cNz6c/s2048/DSC_5003+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1351" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPQ018s9SLyXDp4m6SnyIft547_MO_LBuxG-Ybf1Wh9O1fAWCD4WbTjU82vQuQ1aSksnDCP1hyImy4exAlXxB85_2h4icB6bzE1qjo3lqgemJcgUBloMy-44irnS5RUjiWkzRY7cNz6c/w264-h400/DSC_5003+%25282%2529.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Zeus Pista crank set with Zeus 48t ring<br />Zeus Pista bottom bracket set<br />Nice Kyokuto Pro Race pedals<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJc0D_VrpUADE-pA-7gMEO4tQafXjQjff0F6lvfyaf3VhsSAJUyS0e0rs5VJ0j9Yjb0WUVVYxXF13CgE_2iDQuvapfT0j2csyfYgTw0hEOY3ONkkxGYZQPv7DoP8Emd-PB637-CifVJXc/s2048/DSC_5005+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1925" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJc0D_VrpUADE-pA-7gMEO4tQafXjQjff0F6lvfyaf3VhsSAJUyS0e0rs5VJ0j9Yjb0WUVVYxXF13CgE_2iDQuvapfT0j2csyfYgTw0hEOY3ONkkxGYZQPv7DoP8Emd-PB637-CifVJXc/s320/DSC_5005+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>I haven't been able to find any period photos of<br />Mitchell track bikes in action, if anyone out there<br />has one or two, please let me know.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodN8TE8lmCmml48HgwISblAucAGOtH21JpNRE6mZEfLBamasqMqbnFRKHqcyuFbYcJQqgLqGdOr8mX1RmKpsVOrHAvRawoYti_kHEVeJy_sfcGhzwk_uOn701BdkI5SCtXHiTRUuz4is/s2048/DSC_5008+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1678" data-original-width="2048" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodN8TE8lmCmml48HgwISblAucAGOtH21JpNRE6mZEfLBamasqMqbnFRKHqcyuFbYcJQqgLqGdOr8mX1RmKpsVOrHAvRawoYti_kHEVeJy_sfcGhzwk_uOn701BdkI5SCtXHiTRUuz4is/w336-h275/DSC_5008+%25282%2529.jpg" width="336" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tight, but not to tight.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zuQebCpnE8uN6Q25UxM8m2oTjGBN26hc9O-06hM_wD_NU4_s5RF5w5gOjEIVlJhoIShcwd7N3Y4A_sPjZROyatp24SOl9pqK4XZq7WPLxgj8rA2zfrDh5zMXKzlw_UZgTbD51OzBki8/s2048/DSC_5014+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1742" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zuQebCpnE8uN6Q25UxM8m2oTjGBN26hc9O-06hM_wD_NU4_s5RF5w5gOjEIVlJhoIShcwd7N3Y4A_sPjZROyatp24SOl9pqK4XZq7WPLxgj8rA2zfrDh5zMXKzlw_UZgTbD51OzBki8/s320/DSC_5014+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Zeus Gran sport head set.<br />You can clearly make out the clear<br />vinyl wrap of the 'professional' decal<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAi5yxYugVncom_P_1viXSu0krv_Ku-cyrgZUvPD28GlSjeO131PLL8AnETUCrnSaZM9gihh_2LPCBr9u-ttHo_E5b5OMana4u5jKV4WOYUqzLXzlDXPy7osR4dLPv0YlhSjyoaTMRYc/s2734/020+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2734" data-original-width="1150" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAi5yxYugVncom_P_1viXSu0krv_Ku-cyrgZUvPD28GlSjeO131PLL8AnETUCrnSaZM9gihh_2LPCBr9u-ttHo_E5b5OMana4u5jKV4WOYUqzLXzlDXPy7osR4dLPv0YlhSjyoaTMRYc/s320/020+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1899" data-original-width="2048" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6taQl6-lMr5Ezp97JcZGrUYxe-1uKNVDLc3lEJa-Dd1URqJN6VwFTpEOiir4aFSu63iGJVyPB9sEkE_rPi-0q26U7_UO8M-x158MF6GMV-idHXxPLwSMKhkNulU6u5AnUGcOSXQqX4Wo/w359-h333/DSC_5007+%25282%2529.jpg" width="359" /></a><br />3ttt Record Stem with Ambrosio -Champion- bars<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yhX5caJDnhl3BNkZHTp3PU5XEtYfiC2szZKVtUgE8VddXukXEfNDM7NbnJh6I09SnHYj97uv1gOAi2xe_NBDNp5LjrnVTSLEG7wz8nSCX15LKgu0MXn54YCfsU4MjeDbugU7bHm3yK4/s2048/023+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1194" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yhX5caJDnhl3BNkZHTp3PU5XEtYfiC2szZKVtUgE8VddXukXEfNDM7NbnJh6I09SnHYj97uv1gOAi2xe_NBDNp5LjrnVTSLEG7wz8nSCX15LKgu0MXn54YCfsU4MjeDbugU7bHm3yK4/s320/023+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-FVudNRykMQBio7D9F3N439xzVKvvqq3fR4-C6yZW7Lx5dICa33HvxhOWg9Yancj7njX2F3XXIiHeQmDZsET4Astp5JKA_L5KcyQlMRYLI-2ivwnXpZceTSR5grcwNJ8R0k7F0sOGD9E/s2048/DSC_5018+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-FVudNRykMQBio7D9F3N439xzVKvvqq3fR4-C6yZW7Lx5dICa33HvxhOWg9Yancj7njX2F3XXIiHeQmDZsET4Astp5JKA_L5KcyQlMRYLI-2ivwnXpZceTSR5grcwNJ8R0k7F0sOGD9E/s320/DSC_5018+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">View from the cockpit with Cinelli saddle.<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nyqN3dOX14gYpXGw-8jG-KWw9hu42MzKTzN2dJjdOuplYhA1Rm0nu4cv9jO365GXpS0rPeUOWjYpl65muxC-UVwQZxgPg5S92QDf-yf0vdPQJ5Wuo9RE-yWbAfLvpMB70jsl98HaKU8/s2048/DSC_5017+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1271" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nyqN3dOX14gYpXGw-8jG-KWw9hu42MzKTzN2dJjdOuplYhA1Rm0nu4cv9jO365GXpS0rPeUOWjYpl65muxC-UVwQZxgPg5S92QDf-yf0vdPQJ5Wuo9RE-yWbAfLvpMB70jsl98HaKU8/s320/DSC_5017+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a> <br />Classic Mitchell/Ishiwata lug detail<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="2048" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkVzZQ4u7B6P04b6yc7qMZ4VhqXxXYHlT6XueENsRLI4RDhyI2JYRrYzm_HxbzDgg5R2AaaME9DScsqr7PKjMeZcXhKIyg3aR7YMSfBb43-sAwVpLvGsSqxOGONC5f3HvcMBpQ4sBLvA/w349-h203/008+%25282%2529.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mitchell frame sets were sold through many cycle shops<br />around the country, Laurie Coats Speedwell Cycles<br /> in Auckland being one.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeiCjFK6CzMw4mgIltm_9KELJmkgNBAaP8L5BwPae3qZuVV4uBrYVlV9j-Nu64FDN7ACMFvHVFKsDJ29HZkn50C1OY-2yADkerHvx6Vm8zOLjgFubYuiMfW0lCsu_vkCIdZhOphbyA8I/s2048/DSC_5000+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeiCjFK6CzMw4mgIltm_9KELJmkgNBAaP8L5BwPae3qZuVV4uBrYVlV9j-Nu64FDN7ACMFvHVFKsDJ29HZkn50C1OY-2yADkerHvx6Vm8zOLjgFubYuiMfW0lCsu_vkCIdZhOphbyA8I/w346-h230/DSC_5000+%25282%2529.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1309" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehgE7g92HiCfiQEGxUIO43zUczDmlTy2caCz-EXDD3mPEjHj4EGeuZf7uw4qHw31129eSUiuCSRkPdF8Vu-HU4gnE7oNwCXMYVsSCtkBjmRRu1LQz9XxYCubds3FoUu2x5IDJEvga9b8/w256-h399/DSC_5006+%25282%2529.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A damn fine looking machine from any angle.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next is a quite rare Mitchell Professional road bike<br />built with Columbus SL which is actually what I am<br />after for myself, ( I already have a couple of Ishiwata bikes)<br />but this one is just a touch to small for me...damn.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45xNg8ue-ZVjZt9ccNInYtcIUQYXsCFfM3xwxJ0xVxxXGZECkznsn4oeCxzzdyGKkDQMZjRPEfVP7uwRLRM2MH2v9jL21-D9eTcP7y5K-kU0qwu7LWwz9Z4GVnr51K7zGyYXZKOzM91E/s2048/DSC_4967+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="2048" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45xNg8ue-ZVjZt9ccNInYtcIUQYXsCFfM3xwxJ0xVxxXGZECkznsn4oeCxzzdyGKkDQMZjRPEfVP7uwRLRM2MH2v9jL21-D9eTcP7y5K-kU0qwu7LWwz9Z4GVnr51K7zGyYXZKOzM91E/w368-h231/DSC_4967+%25282%2529.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhzlylBVuu-Ugh1QGO4PNA0noNBiDlAx3Zhqwbw4MuFQ98AoQJJcjssyGfU3S5c_M4qZfQsjnneh1IhMlcvsa0Ol_eXMNFMk-CRAHivszr-IH0ueY2PhTa463LfIiRXh6py8M4S0aLhc/s2048/027+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1561" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhzlylBVuu-Ugh1QGO4PNA0noNBiDlAx3Zhqwbw4MuFQ98AoQJJcjssyGfU3S5c_M4qZfQsjnneh1IhMlcvsa0Ol_eXMNFMk-CRAHivszr-IH0ueY2PhTa463LfIiRXh6py8M4S0aLhc/s320/027+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">I built it up with a mix of first generation and second 7100<br />(or DA-100) it get confusing!) Dura Ace components, <br />I have done a couple of hundred km's on it, and have got to <br />say, this Dura Ace gear is very easy to get used too.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiy8RIyhmgsn4ZLBmTc52gBZCyLOUA5z9GtFmLyBW5Q8aF1xbhp1RRNB_7ZQaz1UnRAySxpul3S_eB1fAtvRb9ZwEBBb-cykrMUiaQ2NFl61NuWVxeMlulZbAtTe-wxcu3RiT9WYs2xk/s1916/DSC_4773+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1837" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiy8RIyhmgsn4ZLBmTc52gBZCyLOUA5z9GtFmLyBW5Q8aF1xbhp1RRNB_7ZQaz1UnRAySxpul3S_eB1fAtvRb9ZwEBBb-cykrMUiaQ2NFl61NuWVxeMlulZbAtTe-wxcu3RiT9WYs2xk/s320/DSC_4773+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />The very pretty, very light and smooth operating<br />Dura Ace 7100 rear derailleur, which had by all<br /> accounts taken the best from Campagnolo and <br />Suntour and rolled them into this..<br /></p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXtaaTShJQegNEFAJKx8rnSmvxdq0zUzhivc0DV4rLCp3QvzVdxxnKQzBDSVqWHKM5Ex6iVp6ML_v7LfVbCxj9FURT5ywFAlmdaB_cJqPiWuwGGj9solug8tezEdoF9YzDb3_FdJKv6Y/s2048/DSC_4852+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXtaaTShJQegNEFAJKx8rnSmvxdq0zUzhivc0DV4rLCp3QvzVdxxnKQzBDSVqWHKM5Ex6iVp6ML_v7LfVbCxj9FURT5ywFAlmdaB_cJqPiWuwGGj9solug8tezEdoF9YzDb3_FdJKv6Y/s320/DSC_4852+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The whole drive train works very nicely, is very<br />easy to set up and looks great too.<br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_QclUACnXt9_-PHi6_ja0NNI49oWa4YN01ldNRLKo4heCN1su5ZPyPmUGpviFSZCONe12O9GuGsf4yIHaDXsO9kX2e_cNUP7WiJCfVeVaEVLx3uNV95O_A_rkWvKi6HvuLSh_FPt61E/s2048/DSC_4984+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fizWkLMJnICL5fcn9HYT30yz-7vFT_m7V6QB5byM7r3mQuTkU7E9L_MQnaSHMs8eSkBsnC2cKreRlwuOShOp3V0_Es4mMXhCoWvaUtW6MvHfXPJy1MTRLZpP2HP8R3K9GXZSETPj5gs/s1905/DSC_4998+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="1905" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fizWkLMJnICL5fcn9HYT30yz-7vFT_m7V6QB5byM7r3mQuTkU7E9L_MQnaSHMs8eSkBsnC2cKreRlwuOShOp3V0_Es4mMXhCoWvaUtW6MvHfXPJy1MTRLZpP2HP8R3K9GXZSETPj5gs/s320/DSC_4998+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frame number 745, these frame numbers are quite small<br />and always seen to be stamped at the centre/rear of the<br />bottom bracket shell.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEyr1snMWqXWY6ttw5dKW88rQfLzEBS0cnFbEgyG6xAH2PWUGF43boLUZVh49WmNg1ydntAG1_VFkc6SnP6kYsnZNYU4HuOABkDKK6UnA7tFRnL92cQxLkDR4LKK3i4yTpAGsbwRpMS4/s2048/DSC_4991+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2048" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Im2rpuUqFgM7LyqBZLktNOjzymnZ-aFY5MnHZB18k4E6H1n8YToc4vOzNhrtp6jUmkjUgrHM5ZqZaInsgtN6juw1UA4ceJXCoolBpBj5M93oiFQ5-in6weWkiARDl6gPEeqUSyuv0PU/w428-h298/DSC_4880+%25282%2529.jpg" width="428" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just one more view of that drive train, the more I<br />use it the more I like it.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93m9bAU5qRNEvuGPNCT2HCyr9CTpOaTM_x3Pg3OcHrEU1GWEC1tcNRm7uTwmnLA484T6AoiL3aXKUoE_q_8VVY32eACCeERPorfS9UK5xXgf8hP8VMw0TN0lohMQUrG2dWD5jsUFceB4/s2048/DSC_4995+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93m9bAU5qRNEvuGPNCT2HCyr9CTpOaTM_x3Pg3OcHrEU1GWEC1tcNRm7uTwmnLA484T6AoiL3aXKUoE_q_8VVY32eACCeERPorfS9UK5xXgf8hP8VMw0TN0lohMQUrG2dWD5jsUFceB4/w369-h360/DSC_4995+%25282%2529.jpg" width="369" /></a><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV5R21v7SwO9cuX0AU3A4lAgXHnJEtDTWrJ1K1psBMsDythjUq_SveeahyGU9YdSgQgI7KnOIiOcuxfykl-lIRciOzXQaeZtn9ahAFeyyguyk5m0Kl-ZkcYvlFmOrKBPgFnqzru7RkA4Q/s2048/DSC_4976+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1570" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV5R21v7SwO9cuX0AU3A4lAgXHnJEtDTWrJ1K1psBMsDythjUq_SveeahyGU9YdSgQgI7KnOIiOcuxfykl-lIRciOzXQaeZtn9ahAFeyyguyk5m0Kl-ZkcYvlFmOrKBPgFnqzru7RkA4Q/w306-h400/DSC_4976+%25282%2529.jpg" width="306" /></a></div>As I mentioned these two are for sale, I don't usually like<br />to put bikes for sale on this blog, but I did want to display <br />a couple more Mitchell's from the project, so you will have <br />to forgive me for my crass commercialism.</div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieRLguZOrnbPWhpAvdZR3FshKwlc8pvjcZYLG5Jh-1yNMo08W46mIeJIyZVRWvhKqAJEdeAzXOZjlWGQCiFeVNaJsOFPVMi67JsjF437hyGLIXZhOVI2dFOrQfIfiIqlPy21uPiKrGjKU/s2048/DSC_0184+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="2048" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieRLguZOrnbPWhpAvdZR3FshKwlc8pvjcZYLG5Jh-1yNMo08W46mIeJIyZVRWvhKqAJEdeAzXOZjlWGQCiFeVNaJsOFPVMi67JsjF437hyGLIXZhOVI2dFOrQfIfiIqlPy21uPiKrGjKU/w358-h294/DSC_0184+%25282%2529.jpg" width="358" /></a></div><br /> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">I
have finally finished the first part of my Mitchell restoration <br />project..what a mission!<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSY3aNg3RQfXkRhCAlDlkn5Jqz_WTZSZgCJbbrK2G2hpP5i5k9aB0Nm_H29rrbGFO7u8S59dtYtFAlbQXLYvJSknXHJRYhimJ3Bza07o07ki2MD_eiur0AGRCTL6ywuJ8n2Qm_qBHKTA/s2048/DSC_4964+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="2048" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSY3aNg3RQfXkRhCAlDlkn5Jqz_WTZSZgCJbbrK2G2hpP5i5k9aB0Nm_H29rrbGFO7u8S59dtYtFAlbQXLYvJSknXHJRYhimJ3Bza07o07ki2MD_eiur0AGRCTL6ywuJ8n2Qm_qBHKTA/w400-h270/DSC_4964+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As some
of you may know I have been a Mitchell fan for <br />quite a while, these
New Zealand built race bikes are <br />one of the real local classics of the late
seventies and <br />early eighties. A classic that has a race history and <br />pedigree in
New Zealand which is hard to match.</span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTs5tCO-qxZIkiroVEhiFgIZ1-B4JNverdMsHq6IOvY3COQgUZmfsiiB290EDxgVXsQww5msdcfFs80gHjIxXo3vEh9JJEahE5sIEwnwKezBSEUiwVKsYziRuJf92w_GfwEYgNqf6YPEE/s889/1982+Carton+%25281400x1115%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="717" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTs5tCO-qxZIkiroVEhiFgIZ1-B4JNverdMsHq6IOvY3COQgUZmfsiiB290EDxgVXsQww5msdcfFs80gHjIxXo3vEh9JJEahE5sIEwnwKezBSEUiwVKsYziRuJf92w_GfwEYgNqf6YPEE/w323-h400/1982+Carton+%25281400x1115%2529.jpg" width="323" /></a></span></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Stephen
Carton riding his Columbus SL Mitchell<br /> to</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> victory in the 1982 Dulux Tour.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><br />He looks to be running a full Shimano AX Dura Ace Group set</span> </i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i> </i></span></span>
</p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Firstly
if you are not into some serious bike restoration <br />minutiae..</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">then you might want to skip this bit.</span><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Anyway let’s step back. The most important part of </span><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">the project was to recreate the decals as faithfully as I <br />could</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> to the originals; the decals on the bikes I have <br />collected over the</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> years had decals that were obviously <br />printed on a Gerber printer.</span><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">These very early sort of half digital and half analogue <br />printing</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> machines used a cassette for very colour <br />you wanted printed, very time consuming!</span></span>
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAaX3F2slwRKg7AghxUi6Idn1mtsG2LAm5tpuK0MJnggz8bOpfEYzmXz3J6pRLJme2A9orTOddR8yFDo3e9fL97PbPMEtxBIEOd-adyKUAvRMqwJUQpVVTpKR39Zb5iV1QLxZKZFIkjc/s2048/DSC_4640+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAaX3F2slwRKg7AghxUi6Idn1mtsG2LAm5tpuK0MJnggz8bOpfEYzmXz3J6pRLJme2A9orTOddR8yFDo3e9fL97PbPMEtxBIEOd-adyKUAvRMqwJUQpVVTpKR39Zb5iV1QLxZKZFIkjc/w320-h213/DSC_4640+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Gerber colour cassette, showing a print that has been </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><br />transferred to the vinyl medium </span></i></span></div></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The great
thing about these machines is that they could <br />print onto </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">chrome foil and also print fairly opaquely <br />onto clear vinyl.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The finished print also has a quite <br />distinctive look, which I very much</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> wanted to <br />replicate. I also wanted the "Mitchell" and <br />"Professional" to
be on clear </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">vinyl which wraps<br /> around the top down and top tubes respectively.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <br />And lastly I really wanted that <br />really wrong green on the world champ</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> bands. </span></span></span>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Be7onujUlUpoTs95GJpKvUu77OBIHIbpUoGWkaGM21GLR7ozW6YS14IBGYIMlb555uBvKmnOSt7bBSiPZKvaGu4uBiVseUPxOlYaVs2keM_4JZUyu7-IhFlo1bXzXDNxZsGg8mhXp3U/s1692/IMG_0020+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="1692" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Be7onujUlUpoTs95GJpKvUu77OBIHIbpUoGWkaGM21GLR7ozW6YS14IBGYIMlb555uBvKmnOSt7bBSiPZKvaGu4uBiVseUPxOlYaVs2keM_4JZUyu7-IhFlo1bXzXDNxZsGg8mhXp3U/w400-h341/IMG_0020+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The very distinctive Gerber printed Worlds band with 'that' <br />green</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> on an original Mitchell, it's a bit hard to see here, </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">but</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> the Mitchell text is printed onto clear and <br />wrapped around the tube.</span></i></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Now as it
turns out I got myself an old Gerber from a print shop <br />
outside Wellington with a lot of cassettes to do just such a job. <br />
I was told that this machine printed some Mitchell decals, <br />
However Kevin Filer who owner of Mitchell Cycles 1973-82<br /> and was the driving force behind the creation of the Mitchell <br />racing bike, told me that he had the original decals made in <br />New Plymouth. Kevin also told me that the <br />sequential numbering (starting from 100) went to the early<br /> 300's when he sold Mitchell in 1982. <br />
The funny thing is I have about nine Mitchell's and all bar <br />one are numbered between 400-700, obviously I will have <br />to do some more research into this, and am hoping that <br />the actual frame builder</span> </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Mark McLean might be able to <br />shed some light on this when </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">I talk to him. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"></span></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62nIttNEX1T-Ooc6cgvADsp8SfpcH3sj98kcj4It0yZLOOHkwjpzG3PTZyERaqGZWvqlCuEIE3CF3TyquT1r90MAg9g5trRa-2D1Eff4mbyT3x_s-DxIs1oZGVUBKcA9RIlonQeJNaBo/s1905/DSC_4998+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="1905" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62nIttNEX1T-Ooc6cgvADsp8SfpcH3sj98kcj4It0yZLOOHkwjpzG3PTZyERaqGZWvqlCuEIE3CF3TyquT1r90MAg9g5trRa-2D1Eff4mbyT3x_s-DxIs1oZGVUBKcA9RIlonQeJNaBo/s320/DSC_4998+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Mitchell Frame number 745 centre rear B/B shell</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><br /></span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Anyway,
luckily among the colour cassettes I did have <br />was </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">the very green I was looking for. <br />Unfortunately I haven't been able to get my Gerber <br />running, so I tracked down a local sign writer who still <br />had his (though rather unused) Geber and <br />commissioned him</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> to
print the decals on his machine <br />with my cassettes.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The
results I think were pretty good; <br />I mean they should have</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> been, as I did supply very exact <br />artwork files that had taken quite</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> a while
to get right, <br />except the 'professional' font which I will amend</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> when <br />I print my own on the next run...so here we go.</span></span></span>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The other
thing I did, which I know is not period correct, </span><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">but I am sure they would have made them if they thought <br />about it..</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Mitchell toe straps.</span></span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">My first
Mitchell (Frame No 691) restoration was this <br />Professional </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Road bike which I built up for myself as <br />a replacement for the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Mitchell I <a href="http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2019/04/man-vs-busbus-wins.html">crashed badly </a><br />a while back.</span><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">It runs a complete Japanese group set including <br />Dura Ace </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Black anodized drive train. The group I <br />used is probably a generation earlier than I should <br />have used, but hey it was black and the bike is <br />white...what ya gonna do?<br /></span></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpAwTF8LPow_RTUEyl-I0fvImAF7KC1fjGHGb2hbbXOiDhpNDGyX_jIaAmC0ti1swFsSLfdFO2n0x4VZc_yqVTh_-WsiXo_dmEojEwPbqGu_d8CGfD5TRgAYB7NhJciMuO4RnnW29HaOo/s2048/DSC_4645+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1363" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpAwTF8LPow_RTUEyl-I0fvImAF7KC1fjGHGb2hbbXOiDhpNDGyX_jIaAmC0ti1swFsSLfdFO2n0x4VZc_yqVTh_-WsiXo_dmEojEwPbqGu_d8CGfD5TRgAYB7NhJciMuO4RnnW29HaOo/w266-h400/DSC_4645+%25282%2529.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">A very unusual and seemingly quite rare Sakae SR</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">stem..if it's got factory drilled holes, I am there.</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRdkC037WwjRFXJMYxoNf6OdKDjoVhfYVwlFFrgryoJd2Pzr4X0FPNEFMuaVNcKUYJk0Yk_8MeH-YCjpGDkgpcMWqAY9VW-aASh2WMZ3jVd70o9GKzBUTwzs_JW0nhi8mraDPW_0b4hA/s2048/DSC_4902+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRdkC037WwjRFXJMYxoNf6OdKDjoVhfYVwlFFrgryoJd2Pzr4X0FPNEFMuaVNcKUYJk0Yk_8MeH-YCjpGDkgpcMWqAY9VW-aASh2WMZ3jVd70o9GKzBUTwzs_JW0nhi8mraDPW_0b4hA/w393-h301/DSC_4902+%25282%2529.jpg" width="393" /></a></div>Top tube 'Professional' clear wrap looking good, text is <br />very slightly different, I will correct this at some point.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">The drilled lugs picked out in a contrasting colour is a bit<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">of a Mitchell signature (in NZ),and not a bad starting point </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">to identifing a Isiwata built Mitchell<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"><br /> </span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTYHc4HODyKx5D85LDKpFMRmOQVmi6NMyOF9ll1xCuu2UUg2kWaiYFrdJCy_tB105FPdUeJ-EPjoibrYk-bNVRNJpNi0ViuTNbi8Cf8OjpaZuYIe0vHFZu8hUN8gHGESAtIVLDJwaLlo/s2048/DSC_4905+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1520" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNpeZTOi0rZ7565vQPT8FfuNVtdWjgCm-siuEOHqzK7FD5WwzUPEi2k1ligJQTsQ6l-ySm09qXOXy7gppZDCmEOniMS5GHkOuq6UE5RsvDRRqqq6wtfmVsleVbtQ_zpVvi_kfmYpm9EtY/w298-h400/DSC_4889+%25282%2529.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>Dura Ace crank set with classic Sugino B/B set</i><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuyPS8MjxGBZMu1VhJD1YOXUSEfeTPNZFJmdm7SWq_NJLfdX7gaPDaogeY0OA222STiemFcQg30g4RwBVKYG1RvwbPwOO59c95o6-pvuZCq464Zen69cvL1W1yKp25L1VDC4N10oBRgM/s2048/DSC_4892+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1675" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuyPS8MjxGBZMu1VhJD1YOXUSEfeTPNZFJmdm7SWq_NJLfdX7gaPDaogeY0OA222STiemFcQg30g4RwBVKYG1RvwbPwOO59c95o6-pvuZCq464Zen69cvL1W1yKp25L1VDC4N10oBRgM/s320/DSC_4892+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>The Dura Ace front derailleur is a particularly <br />nicely finished component</i>.<br /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cf7dg-7hyphenhyphenWVokWRqIgNDNlptXR7JC4_IY-JNKIEaC5_Qjrp-F24OQe5NfTgRXObmn2md2KSt4oSqYGch0dhO5o9DMfsPsD21aEqoUQ6ODljLHgc1Y-TVO-JzSGMNrNgqeVGAEuW3njI/s2048/DSC_4893+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cf7dg-7hyphenhyphenWVokWRqIgNDNlptXR7JC4_IY-JNKIEaC5_Qjrp-F24OQe5NfTgRXObmn2md2KSt4oSqYGch0dhO5o9DMfsPsD21aEqoUQ6ODljLHgc1Y-TVO-JzSGMNrNgqeVGAEuW3njI/w400-h301/DSC_4893+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUac95p-Jr3RLot8uZLygFrKau3eTDdrRVVwgENYgc1PA-Eu1n7RjcunK9ZZBMkmLSs4eGgmrF3NU7_ss6LFoGOQ1Ur_H-6IKfSS2Pct_tjPlv8SqJIzJY67g0H54x-9Tr_wVVi__HLo/s2048/Souther+Cyclist+May+1982.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="2048" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUac95p-Jr3RLot8uZLygFrKau3eTDdrRVVwgENYgc1PA-Eu1n7RjcunK9ZZBMkmLSs4eGgmrF3NU7_ss6LFoGOQ1Ur_H-6IKfSS2Pct_tjPlv8SqJIzJY67g0H54x-9Tr_wVVi__HLo/w375-h246/Souther+Cyclist+May+1982.jpg" width="375" /></a><br /><i>Mitchell Cycles ad Southern Cyclist May 1982</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>"as used by NZ's Leading road cyclist"</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>wonder who that was....... <br /></i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQ6LKKdjrS2YJt2HlCZyhv3HsIteMe1HhgAtLOB9VhVzEsZEqacKCiYcPx9EQgxEiquq8hVbp5lrFdz4_Fg-8tmv4ZOy98pFmeH1ry_sN0kPYomdzizi9Cj5W8a_OmqNtpl4xjnTsl4s/s783/1981+cox+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="470" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQ6LKKdjrS2YJt2HlCZyhv3HsIteMe1HhgAtLOB9VhVzEsZEqacKCiYcPx9EQgxEiquq8hVbp5lrFdz4_Fg-8tmv4ZOy98pFmeH1ry_sN0kPYomdzizi9Cj5W8a_OmqNtpl4xjnTsl4s/w384-h640/1981+cox+%25282%2529.jpg" width="384" /></a></div></i>..Stephen Cox on his 'sponsored' Mitchell with full Suntour Superbe</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>groupset circa 1981. Photo from the cover of the 1982 Dulux<br />Seven Day Cycle Race programme.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiToQjOthJRRs0wvSLG25n7wj7hs34AZjepXeofH7ePObfjb8YrgjlhJgnV5o90qmwWxPJuut6cAaQs_YXPUYOTKNWXU86YU35U1p4CtCsD2mpN8Otx0_T_C-vUK3o_imTqkcRTsYQlBM/s2048/DSC_4777+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1785" data-original-width="2048" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiToQjOthJRRs0wvSLG25n7wj7hs34AZjepXeofH7ePObfjb8YrgjlhJgnV5o90qmwWxPJuut6cAaQs_YXPUYOTKNWXU86YU35U1p4CtCsD2mpN8Otx0_T_C-vUK3o_imTqkcRTsYQlBM/w400-h349/DSC_4777+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The only pair of black SR pedals I had were a bit worse<br />for wear, so did a bit of a make over...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEialesE5Hdn1kc3fe3eDiLKeDbUFUnMzRAI1iZN2aZarqV1yx7NtgIxWfUr-oTnQBfSOg2ZaRtZOdTDdvRHe9n1b-cyBX7bdQWyNqZMqE4vaJbsAhDAAJnzT-sj8cio2pJNko2ZF7rcWHo/s2048/DSC_4778+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1739" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEialesE5Hdn1kc3fe3eDiLKeDbUFUnMzRAI1iZN2aZarqV1yx7NtgIxWfUr-oTnQBfSOg2ZaRtZOdTDdvRHe9n1b-cyBX7bdQWyNqZMqE4vaJbsAhDAAJnzT-sj8cio2pJNko2ZF7rcWHo/s320/DSC_4778+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">..cleaning, sanding, masking and then <br />etch priming/top/satin clear coats....<br /></div><img border="0" data-original-height="1621" data-original-width="2048" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkwLaNT0p-joj9PWw3Zd8Av7z9hBu-EQUzcirHy_exV6qkuN5STM1__S6jnOjBmvopOGWX2v22BqBx0mTlhXKor3XzELGpzJgUZ1Qf15QX9Iszw-Bg8GpXH0pPrjzet5TB9EtnWdNuDo/w400-h316/DSC_4897+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></div>..and you finish up with a reasonable looking pedal set.<br />Mitchell toe straps don't look out of place either.<br /></i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1599" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCAVTCozaUukq9UV-Sih-eVM9VKmgNjh5DasEo7uohPU3F-y1eXK0IHVQoPXQjTumpcqDbAkCvOx2X9prtl0CJPDPOcgmrWwadlj43kTASFnLD_fgBXqZi1yPSkyAoa5IZr6UIFgTCfVw/w295-h378/029+%25282%2529.jpg" width="295" /></span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i> </i><i>International Cycle Sport Nov 1973</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i> </i></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1983" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzVztSqSemSGU2u5zqE_JvJUT_G9CIUMpKR9Pybe8hEw7NEZXMHnWYy7cvYqH96iwTKydOD7m9QgbvybiGMBaCgNsugrPobOEv6wwBBIEU2zbAudYA98o7iXQZEiEnDYtRPOAkUtwsfGA/w388-h400/DSC_4894+%25282%2529.jpg" width="388" /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The 'Crane' Dura Ace rear derailleur, I find the action very</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>direct and positive, not a bad effort for Shimano's first</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>high end racing derailleur. <br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVuYpu8ts_ZDIFSsl9kuYk6Rnq4hq3p7-9eB_ns4vOl0VNaNhtt9hz98KtdpPNs9YchzAqkngKhoHFzQKnt-qpDBdnqR2V-kYwrvvn7ycqvFK8BqcpVt137XlMUJ3BBN9ZXayFJqt34M/s2048/DSC_4912+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVuYpu8ts_ZDIFSsl9kuYk6Rnq4hq3p7-9eB_ns4vOl0VNaNhtt9hz98KtdpPNs9YchzAqkngKhoHFzQKnt-qpDBdnqR2V-kYwrvvn7ycqvFK8BqcpVt137XlMUJ3BBN9ZXayFJqt34M/w382-h309/DSC_4912+%25282%2529.jpg" width="382" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Nice cockpit, I know a lot of people don't seem to<br />like the Benotto celo bar wrap, personally I <br />really like using it, and it cleans so easy!</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEqdsKSRa5dallePaUr7k2GkYTvlV_T2UNsbWd8b4tvJHLHjVY4uKt9GInYrwCfWvvjOr3TM2TYyAer6i-tUWA93PHWAnJ1H7oAEo1hmwu4bCbVU8XJipNoVnQ16NdKHlca-Z0nWZj4U/s2048/DSC_4649+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEqdsKSRa5dallePaUr7k2GkYTvlV_T2UNsbWd8b4tvJHLHjVY4uKt9GInYrwCfWvvjOr3TM2TYyAer6i-tUWA93PHWAnJ1H7oAEo1hmwu4bCbVU8XJipNoVnQ16NdKHlca-Z0nWZj4U/s320/DSC_4649+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVCeTWGB1teWwayMnYwqEArP4ykmoPO6AO1a6G-F_sz7TVOI4DLFQXQQct2NS56-uw_8uwK7pIoBuocrUD9Tu6PZ4IxhMqzWIlr0HWUTTIeokUVFhhG1TBmUI8kgQoetJIuG8wRhE7YU/s2048/Danglo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVCeTWGB1teWwayMnYwqEArP4ykmoPO6AO1a6G-F_sz7TVOI4DLFQXQQct2NS56-uw_8uwK7pIoBuocrUD9Tu6PZ4IxhMqzWIlr0HWUTTIeokUVFhhG1TBmUI8kgQoetJIuG8wRhE7YU/w392-h309/Danglo.jpg" width="392" /></a></div></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">OK, bit of a side track here...this Dulux race photo doesn't <br />have </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">anything to do with Mitchell, but it does have an <br />interesting bike.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> On the left the rider is riding a Danglo <br />labeled bike, which I am </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">pretty sure were frames branded<br />by the (then) NZ based Australian</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> rider David Gee..<br />would be interesting to find out a bit more about</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">this, by pure chance I actually have a full decal Danglo set. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">If anyone can shed some light on this...<br />adrian@theflyingwheel.com.</span></span><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpw-cQ1qHaCSLMX1YASQ5bA5eb-hRw3zW69t6JCI6h3nHe2mvh3Zdw9xugAp-X7kHqHwtvmMNp4m1vD2tu6rMpEOSodLyRoj7wt6UqF6HzjnRkhM0vO1M48azl5kkrcfXzSueQsB9F-U/s2048/DSC_4911+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="2048" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpw-cQ1qHaCSLMX1YASQ5bA5eb-hRw3zW69t6JCI6h3nHe2mvh3Zdw9xugAp-X7kHqHwtvmMNp4m1vD2tu6rMpEOSodLyRoj7wt6UqF6HzjnRkhM0vO1M48azl5kkrcfXzSueQsB9F-U/w400-h306/DSC_4911+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The Shimano anodized black components seem to me, a <br />lot 'blacker' than most anodized gear, they have almost</span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>a painted quality about them, or maybe that's just me?<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBxvtzRg1SHZS2apuMma-O57WipqrhbdMxNwZh3cXhLoGIjStqSUlEarKexlRBYv0zx7kb2VbAJYSy-5S_4LoX26fEci15Qwb0G27MhbFnCcaXEyXBi0uyoYYgU9uzKXx1ETVpfEk4i8/s2048/DSC_4916+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1787" data-original-width="2048" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBxvtzRg1SHZS2apuMma-O57WipqrhbdMxNwZh3cXhLoGIjStqSUlEarKexlRBYv0zx7kb2VbAJYSy-5S_4LoX26fEci15Qwb0G27MhbFnCcaXEyXBi0uyoYYgU9uzKXx1ETVpfEk4i8/w394-h344/DSC_4916+%25282%2529.jpg" width="394" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Mitchell text on clear vinyl full tube wrap,<br /> and silver foil printed World Champ band, they <br />came out pretty damn good if I may say so myself.<br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRb6NYn-jjSgyt1u81eeJanM477gmioUtwmCGU0lEVTVHjWffbCiUZUJSUDjzWaqJJtlS5RNGeriUDVm9tJwY96-WmWVXPVtmneeD7CiqEWHTOLbmpr9JUMTJ2_O-xxZd0R6j7K8w_qR8/s2048/dulux4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1636" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRb6NYn-jjSgyt1u81eeJanM477gmioUtwmCGU0lEVTVHjWffbCiUZUJSUDjzWaqJJtlS5RNGeriUDVm9tJwY96-WmWVXPVtmneeD7CiqEWHTOLbmpr9JUMTJ2_O-xxZd0R6j7K8w_qR8/w362-h452/dulux4.jpg" width="362" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Andrew Whitford gets a push back into the fray by<br />Dulux race mechanic John Sutherland, 1982. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Whitfords Mitchell looks to be running Campagnolo.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0OvdRF25e7xxOKJv1M0VcEfkjASOwzeFNz0FtBrLyIzbQz-dg7cbFkRcm3OCGlk3Dw83sE8ODu83RDUDLNzcQ55yykaCRijU0HNAyvDUmOLETG6-BIHyytORZtyVOHLjLhUkn9ZsJSk/s2048/DSC_4908+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1290" height="513" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0OvdRF25e7xxOKJv1M0VcEfkjASOwzeFNz0FtBrLyIzbQz-dg7cbFkRcm3OCGlk3Dw83sE8ODu83RDUDLNzcQ55yykaCRijU0HNAyvDUmOLETG6-BIHyytORZtyVOHLjLhUkn9ZsJSk/w324-h513/DSC_4908+%25282%2529.jpg" width="324" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Seat tube decals look pretty bang on too, and even the <br />Ishiwata frame decal doesn't look to bad.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVBNZsfkaaCwgADoaUQbi-J8deEpJjgGwok-cUYYD9BJ3oxl5cJMsa2o1Ty5nwwR04vZl3fR9YP6gC-6ePGNKzqFcOs7fJrjps0smVe1G_YqxJsNan2Nx1XuZuS_AyowOx3Sq-O5U_4Q/s2048/DSC_4918+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVBNZsfkaaCwgADoaUQbi-J8deEpJjgGwok-cUYYD9BJ3oxl5cJMsa2o1Ty5nwwR04vZl3fR9YP6gC-6ePGNKzqFcOs7fJrjps0smVe1G_YqxJsNan2Nx1XuZuS_AyowOx3Sq-O5U_4Q/w309-h400/DSC_4918+%25282%2529.jpg" width="309" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXtuBe1HumQoQ7D-2exoQVlKnpNXuAoTfjY3DofKGxgKcil1FCEGGEcC-5eC1AqZ68xHpG7I_0zzaBrIrMeRJsaUOu6FDB5XIJXZ6ZPfliW2bBnw48URRqhFPiL4mnvj4S5aNeM7ucVo/s2048/DSC_4906+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2048" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXtuBe1HumQoQ7D-2exoQVlKnpNXuAoTfjY3DofKGxgKcil1FCEGGEcC-5eC1AqZ68xHpG7I_0zzaBrIrMeRJsaUOu6FDB5XIJXZ6ZPfliW2bBnw48URRqhFPiL4mnvj4S5aNeM7ucVo/w400-h295/DSC_4906+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></i>Dura Ace calipers with period Scott Mathauser finned<br />brake pads, which actually do work really well<i>.</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhd3iHi1f9X6W_3HzZXi9yl9t7zMFhAKYUwlKMx8KYkghwvWoUwDy2G9PFNc5gkMM0HrUGMcZ-acuJaEfWkKC9QoqcLGlI9pe7er3mo6R8u1ghNXCHOYVFWxeKax9OD-bC_wJhawpLiq0/s2048/028+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1626" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhd3iHi1f9X6W_3HzZXi9yl9t7zMFhAKYUwlKMx8KYkghwvWoUwDy2G9PFNc5gkMM0HrUGMcZ-acuJaEfWkKC9QoqcLGlI9pe7er3mo6R8u1ghNXCHOYVFWxeKax9OD-bC_wJhawpLiq0/w289-h364/028+%25282%2529.jpg" width="289" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>International Cycle Sport may 1975</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgustWKi7sSmr64UIRZBTbj0J45l1XqU-q3Cg90oYPkvYQJ5p8XaMmOLpNGeLIUmSLekgI6BsTEv9P-MjA0zUZ6LLONgBqUYxfJtKLNAKhrIGlGDqr9Z58ncwlzDc3cMgfW-vzNBGUgErw/s2048/DSC_4917+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1477" data-original-width="2048" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgustWKi7sSmr64UIRZBTbj0J45l1XqU-q3Cg90oYPkvYQJ5p8XaMmOLpNGeLIUmSLekgI6BsTEv9P-MjA0zUZ6LLONgBqUYxfJtKLNAKhrIGlGDqr9Z58ncwlzDc3cMgfW-vzNBGUgErw/w392-h283/DSC_4917+%25282%2529.jpg" width="392" /></a></div></i>After riding this for a few hundred km's, I can't fault </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>the drive train at all, maybe just a wee bit clunky, but that is </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>probably more of a reflection of the derailleur technology <br />of the period than anything else.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i> </i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-9ob7Km4TnJ9TnJyan4TAx3AEa1RDzlhUjxhKx1HaZQCzub10XhgdtqQ4qUyMhqjcEFmCqef5dwVi0LsqSyKGBf943TGEsYy8sA-9srLkS1a04qenDrmO7pkO0vmmvf8pXqUIopQY40/s2048/dulux2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1711" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-9ob7Km4TnJ9TnJyan4TAx3AEa1RDzlhUjxhKx1HaZQCzub10XhgdtqQ4qUyMhqjcEFmCqef5dwVi0LsqSyKGBf943TGEsYy8sA-9srLkS1a04qenDrmO7pkO0vmmvf8pXqUIopQY40/w400-h334/dulux2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>This is some of the type of racing Mitchell frames were <br />designed to handle, and by all accounts they fulfilled their</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> role with ease.<br />I have heard that Stephen Cox regards his Mitchell as<br />one of the finest machines he raced on...</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>you can't ask for a better endorsement than that.<i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGknggJKaNFXf1hJUKHNtktfAL2EZRbXkU_4Dqp7D2cBhZ5YVBmMJKV05QbPMtvZWDbToO9D9S1eNw_MzZ26jabIageyf_Y1O6Hbt6tBXNZLvKx483yPMJEDDuxwC7jgUTMfK6eCPJrk/s2048/DSC_4895+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1683" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGknggJKaNFXf1hJUKHNtktfAL2EZRbXkU_4Dqp7D2cBhZ5YVBmMJKV05QbPMtvZWDbToO9D9S1eNw_MzZ26jabIageyf_Y1O6Hbt6tBXNZLvKx483yPMJEDDuxwC7jgUTMfK6eCPJrk/s320/DSC_4895+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></i></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i>NOS Barum Kriterium tubulars ride great.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i> </i><br />So there you have it, the end result of a hell <br />of a lot of time/research and work and a lot of <br />frigging around for one reason or another, and <br />at the end I have (I hope) recreated a pretty <br />authentic example of one of New Zealand's <br />great racing bicycles.<br />I can say that it was well worth all the effort, <br />I have been riding this one and the Black one </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>which I will do a post on next, a lot. They both<br />ride and handle as well as any high end </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>bike I have ridden, with the difference being<br />that this bike has it's own unique place in<br />New Zealand's racing heritage which I often</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>like to think about when I am out on the </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>road, riding..especially on the saddle of a NZ <br />made racing frame..Mitchell,Comet, Leader, <br />Bosomworth,Jones they are all just a little bit <br />more interesting and special to me, but then</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>they would be ......I am biased after all!<i><br /></i><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdnCrQMr_JDZkFeGryfdC-UfEuqvVUrY29trh9LQtkeB7UACiVVigOaBr-qhivOUO6cdlbLI9oHmsqP2T2JB76cYhx-Kxb8SvQVOPjU-H-OBHI0xHXuvQz2x0VN4lYvg7OSLaRm-C5T8/s2048/DSC_4903+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2011" data-original-width="2048" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdnCrQMr_JDZkFeGryfdC-UfEuqvVUrY29trh9LQtkeB7UACiVVigOaBr-qhivOUO6cdlbLI9oHmsqP2T2JB76cYhx-Kxb8SvQVOPjU-H-OBHI0xHXuvQz2x0VN4lYvg7OSLaRm-C5T8/w389-h382/DSC_4903+%25282%2529.jpg" width="389" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span><br />the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-509863019677142682020-10-01T19:46:00.010+13:002020-10-03T18:35:16.209+13:001978 Peugeot PY10 CP<div><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Unpacking the model range of Peugeot's various road bikes is quite a task and not one for the faint hearted. Well maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, however their various models can be quite perplexing to identify to the causal observer and often even an interested one like myself (Just try following this thread from <a href="https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/775011-px10-py10-peugeot.html">Bike Forums</a> to see what I mean!). So when a supposed 1978 Peugeot PY10 came up for sale in France in fantastic original condition, I thought it about time I did a little research and try and unravel at least some of the mystery of model identification before I tried buying the bike and having sent to the other side of the world. </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLA_OHvS0TdhG8_V7wwMJluQ_sO0_QZEGQ_0HGkKX1zTNbK_uRzDfRSsQRSGov9JhwGnydqpFR4_uyGPeC1c3KpOon6oBHugCfc1MhSywpxEXLew6cHe9QCpT2AobFpaOxJANJR5JgVuA/s656/Screenshot_2020-10-01+Peugeot+catalogue+1978+%2528V-CC+Library%2529+%25282%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="461" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLA_OHvS0TdhG8_V7wwMJluQ_sO0_QZEGQ_0HGkKX1zTNbK_uRzDfRSsQRSGov9JhwGnydqpFR4_uyGPeC1c3KpOon6oBHugCfc1MhSywpxEXLew6cHe9QCpT2AobFpaOxJANJR5JgVuA/w281-h400/Screenshot_2020-10-01+Peugeot+catalogue+1978+%2528V-CC+Library%2529+%25282%2529.png" width="281" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Of course as Bernard Thevenet famously rode an almost stock PY10 to his two Tour de France victories this is the bike that most enthusiasts would like to own, myself included. <br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">For anyone interested in researching Peugeot's PX and PY 10's I would try this excellent source on <a href="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/France/bicycles/Peugeot/PX10_history.htm">Classic rendezvous </a>and this great piece from <a href="http://classiclightweights.net/france/peugeot/1974-peugeot-py10/">Classic Factory Lightweights</a>, so having done my due diligence I purchased the bike and then as I had just made the deal when Covid broke out started playing the waiting game, which turned out to be quite a long drawn out lesson in trusting that things would just turn out OK and the bike would eventually arrive in one piece, which it did after a nearly four month wait.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dAmnLg9Npu8j84j3msKgUUwfKIUi32cz5DlcrWuy3X447DXy7SJ8Vhyphenhyphenq8mSSATGfAR5LzbnnEhTqpttg4r01V-L100_21B3Ld0fsAzWlwjNLV6JyXpZCorp-kWNmvUKjfQcoFVrK4uM/s2048/DSC_9027+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1293" data-original-width="2048" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dAmnLg9Npu8j84j3msKgUUwfKIUi32cz5DlcrWuy3X447DXy7SJ8Vhyphenhyphenq8mSSATGfAR5LzbnnEhTqpttg4r01V-L100_21B3Ld0fsAzWlwjNLV6JyXpZCorp-kWNmvUKjfQcoFVrK4uM/w400-h252/DSC_9027+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is the 1978 Peugeot PY10, which I am almost certain is a CP model. As I mentioned it is an extremely nice original example, I purchased it out of France from a Peugeot collector who had brought it from an ex Peugeot employee who had it made especially for himself. I haven't done all that much to it except change the stem to a longer 3TTT stem which suited me better and at the same time swap out the Pivo bars for 3TTT Gimondi bars which also suit me better and took the opportunity to stich on some leather wrap...and one or two other little upgrades along the way.<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course I stripped the bike back to bare frame and forks, aligned them both and faced the bottom bracket and head tube, then reassembled it using NOS cables/cable housing, period grease, the original Sedis chain was also in great condition with no measurable wear, so that went back on..<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">So here are the unique factory modifications that set the PY (CP) Peugeot's apart from other Peugeot's, namely the ubiquitous PX10.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn_tmDzYnz709Vew8XLnhiPcb5TU1fDLDXI7fdMAZc2O_AOCni0-nawi_mwiBVOxSgVWrfhtLo6UXP_c4GbG-8Jomi1svCr1L9NQG_eSGcwl4IVSSLLQaUs1IzhnlIuKZw4hWVs2sSvk/s2048/DSC_6300+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="2048" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn_tmDzYnz709Vew8XLnhiPcb5TU1fDLDXI7fdMAZc2O_AOCni0-nawi_mwiBVOxSgVWrfhtLo6UXP_c4GbG-8Jomi1svCr1L9NQG_eSGcwl4IVSSLLQaUs1IzhnlIuKZw4hWVs2sSvk/w400-h346/DSC_6300+%25283%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Drilled bottom bracket shell, I did change out the bottom bracket to a titanium Stronglight one I happened to have tucked away</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwOgYjPh1S_rwt_OJjcDoU0i-s7_wr_Q2Gv5RDWJNQgQl2QL46tqms7fXwMrL-n1kHNwJja3kvRYPL5x4h4VZjLkfjATqMDiW1gnhVEPIBOfjh5cCDh0WmqCZeRa-BtCe3M3gmzbqRSM/s2048/DSC_6298+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1554" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwOgYjPh1S_rwt_OJjcDoU0i-s7_wr_Q2Gv5RDWJNQgQl2QL46tqms7fXwMrL-n1kHNwJja3kvRYPL5x4h4VZjLkfjATqMDiW1gnhVEPIBOfjh5cCDh0WmqCZeRa-BtCe3M3gmzbqRSM/s320/DSC_6298+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">I also changed the seat post to a milled Campagnolo record one </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">with O.M.A.S. hardware.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LeePO56Giks_O-upq1a-2z8_nX563D3ZeANbgjJpaqcVU_dv0VLmOVAdSFYahr0fUa6TIrU7AKhjniQS3JsR7owwPj5CMl_daTRNFM5L0QhZwHaP0iCgG891LNMZlVPkeSO7mRezXM8/s1587/DSC_6489+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1587" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LeePO56Giks_O-upq1a-2z8_nX563D3ZeANbgjJpaqcVU_dv0VLmOVAdSFYahr0fUa6TIrU7AKhjniQS3JsR7owwPj5CMl_daTRNFM5L0QhZwHaP0iCgG891LNMZlVPkeSO7mRezXM8/w400-h394/DSC_6489+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The mudguard eyelets have been removed which is apparently a sure sign of a PY10. Also shown is a very pretty and seriously underrated SLJ Simplex derailleur.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18T9KMsoIGc9Tnz52r7cQDOaH-jbyjTFsrN38QNs6FhduWUsW7fza6Is7Win4J8RaxAuLidBSdRt8tC3Ymr3H2UoCjmBnVZJZsZnnYdG23kSO98pXDb7KoebTPD87VR97U2-1-u0VXQQ/s2048/DSC_6494+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="2048" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18T9KMsoIGc9Tnz52r7cQDOaH-jbyjTFsrN38QNs6FhduWUsW7fza6Is7Win4J8RaxAuLidBSdRt8tC3Ymr3H2UoCjmBnVZJZsZnnYdG23kSO98pXDb7KoebTPD87VR97U2-1-u0VXQQ/w400-h263/DSC_6494+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Braze on top cable guides are also unique. Note the very nicely finished seat cluster, many of the PX10's that I have seen up close are not all that well finished really. apparently these PY10's where built in Peugeot's race dept so we can assume a bit more care was given to these frame sets.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTbaw2hI0QO74IASPT0P3tdf1fHjWbMF-TlHDOZCUboGB-01XLKlRdDlDGtvIv5j0zlNk5vD9WZnV8Ad7AhgcWxkQZiI967KKMvHQlkh1H1vP_uCoQyTMFCKs97rOthki4qZkD51qso8/s1114/gabari10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="1114" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTbaw2hI0QO74IASPT0P3tdf1fHjWbMF-TlHDOZCUboGB-01XLKlRdDlDGtvIv5j0zlNk5vD9WZnV8Ad7AhgcWxkQZiI967KKMvHQlkh1H1vP_uCoQyTMFCKs97rOthki4qZkD51qso8/w400-h168/gabari10.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Inside the Peugeot race workshop we see a PY10 being assembled.<br /></span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvzQB2nnl7lZIMvPGZtzebcPHq_NFtq7iP2lIGAbouymucKznag_jYuQqSfvn3p-OncSuuWUOdehnkZsymlOd2fHVncmZZPfym3dsjvKoya1nn8aiRIkOyliylD36yvJCD2us96qjJ_M/s2048/DSC_6495+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvzQB2nnl7lZIMvPGZtzebcPHq_NFtq7iP2lIGAbouymucKznag_jYuQqSfvn3p-OncSuuWUOdehnkZsymlOd2fHVncmZZPfym3dsjvKoya1nn8aiRIkOyliylD36yvJCD2us96qjJ_M/w397-h307/DSC_6495+%25282%2529.jpg" width="397" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Probably the most conspicuous difference is the direct mounted Mafac brake calipers which was meant to stiffen up the action, I have to say they are a great set of brakes that work very well once you have sorted out the inevitable sequel.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_s9wjUo3nKShjdz9m93d2nRk5TB5K49KASDQLR2Yhyvmz0g2igqcw-ZFz-VJiPiFKz37rN8jOClO2Qwsf_XdbwGDE2sOqbj2clkKrotmVhzCt8ve1xBlB5DsuaTUBO7NejxBt7Lqa_m8/s2048/DSC_6384+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1801" data-original-width="2048" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_s9wjUo3nKShjdz9m93d2nRk5TB5K49KASDQLR2Yhyvmz0g2igqcw-ZFz-VJiPiFKz37rN8jOClO2Qwsf_XdbwGDE2sOqbj2clkKrotmVhzCt8ve1xBlB5DsuaTUBO7NejxBt7Lqa_m8/w400-h351/DSC_6384+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The bike didn't come with pedals and the only French ones I had was this very shabby Maillard 700 set, which were period perfect..so I set about a little refurbishment...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWoXqn-U1F3yEgN6ftPxNs9TWS4O-xvKWW__bo_JpH803CAd8xFlpEnL8uE9zVcDJgrGSQSMVlPLolF8Ut6He2EHG2Hb7N8J36a45aYYYn1GvwATWK29Rb8OIa0BfSsa6tmOZVKiXbrk/s2048/DSC_6454+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1684" data-original-width="2048" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWoXqn-U1F3yEgN6ftPxNs9TWS4O-xvKWW__bo_JpH803CAd8xFlpEnL8uE9zVcDJgrGSQSMVlPLolF8Ut6He2EHG2Hb7N8J36a45aYYYn1GvwATWK29Rb8OIa0BfSsa6tmOZVKiXbrk/w400-h329/DSC_6454+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">They came up so nice that I fitted a set of NOS Ale alloy toe clips to finish them off just right.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxNJHIa7ILR7WmRKQa4g03yI2RTnVNa6XUv1vjOytw5B9QBnzL5DtYNejPbnZgqZ9AJ2UDFL3Co8LFiCa2x3zkkDA0rI9p8GxPrjJS8pzk0sYfCt-eLLiwymEND_tmqqMiKo_w_g91BQ/s2048/DSC_6498+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1845" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxNJHIa7ILR7WmRKQa4g03yI2RTnVNa6XUv1vjOytw5B9QBnzL5DtYNejPbnZgqZ9AJ2UDFL3Co8LFiCa2x3zkkDA0rI9p8GxPrjJS8pzk0sYfCt-eLLiwymEND_tmqqMiKo_w_g91BQ/w400-h360/DSC_6498+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">So here it is ready to ride, compete with tubular carrier and pump. I have been very pleased indeed with the performance of this bike, the frame is extremely stiff and handles as well as any Italian bike I have ridden and better than most, and the Simplex SLJ derailleurs are a real pleasure to use,and the retrofriction levers are really the best performing non index levers available imo...all in all a classic bike that really lives up to its reputation.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCu7bouzC1_v82jtuAq50TrDhpHXwjpzKxgSy4UO_EjnjqVWVApoTn1pX2m9AqTLYnuX4gbUY2WsfXXr1Mb-q1weRBGF9P76UjQgVMyEpgTcWoLlEF8pn8Zh09O_4s_O0VB_uGOwQK_A/s2048/DSC_6501+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1482" data-original-width="2048" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCu7bouzC1_v82jtuAq50TrDhpHXwjpzKxgSy4UO_EjnjqVWVApoTn1pX2m9AqTLYnuX4gbUY2WsfXXr1Mb-q1weRBGF9P76UjQgVMyEpgTcWoLlEF8pn8Zh09O_4s_O0VB_uGOwQK_A/w400-h290/DSC_6501+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">And best of all I finally have a bike to go with the jerseys I have collected over the years.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a lovely 1949 <a href="http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/harrison.html">R O Harrison</a> which</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has just been finished for it's new owner after a complete</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found the bike in the UK last year in rather a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dilapidated but structurally sound state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was very taken with it's lovely fork crown, and those</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No 25a <a href="http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/designs/osgear-hs.html">Oscar Egg rear drop outs</a> are hard to pass by... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon arrival in New Zealand it was sent off to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chrome shop for a bit of work, while this was underway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I set about recreating a decal set. I had initially intended</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">using one of the decal sets available in the UK, however upon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">close inspection it soon became apparent that these sets were</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pretty poor reproductions of the originals, wrong fonts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wrong spacings in fact the more one looked the more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wrong they looked compared to the couple of photos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of original unrestored bikes that I was using for </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">comparison...so I set to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> So here are my reproductions. I guess the folk in the UK just used</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a gothic font that sort of closely resembled the originals, however</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">during the forties a graphic designer would have most likely </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hand rendered the original font, so I traced from the originals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one fault (well two) are that the photo I used didn't show</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the r/h end of the scroll so I made that part up, which I now </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">know is the wrong shape, so will fix that for next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my text is maybe a touch on the heavy side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still I am pretty pleased nonetheless, they are a vast </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">improvement on what was available, and I sure as hell wasn't</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> going to get a bike sent half way around the world, completely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">restore it and then use some half-assed decals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coming as it did with those Oscar Egg drop outs, I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was the right bike to run a classic Super Champion (Osgear)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drive train on, and luckily I had a spare set ready to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> then setting them up to work as smoothly as they can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> That being said I really enjoyed this build from beginning to end, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the three way paint </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">job came out really well, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I mixed all the paint colours </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">specifically </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for this job and again am pleased with the overall look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't even think about the time spent masking..ouch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The very pretty "GB Courier" <span class="st">Hiduminium brakes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="st">Yes and even the head tube decal that is being offered in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="st">the UK is quite inaccurate, so had to remake this as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Harden H/F hubs with Cyclo wing nuts laced to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weinmann concave tubular rims. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Original NOS Tressoplast cloth bar tape with three</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">coats of shellac, the same cloth is used as top tube cable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ties as was often done at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Lugs had been beautifully filed finished, I should have taken </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some photos of them unpainted, extremely tidy workmanship </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">over the whole bike. I thinly lined them in gold to give them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just a nice little subtle highlight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although these early Super Champion derailleurs were </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">speed freewheels when they became available, I have set this up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to run four speeds,but will let the new owner drill that fourth hole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These derailleurs shift remarkably well, infact they shift a little like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Campagnolo Grand Sport, in that you over shift slightly then </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very smoothly and quietly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Without doubt one of the most classic and purposeful looking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Cobra pedals, mainstay of the NZ peloton in seems, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">well judging by the number I have seen around here </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and why not, they are a very stylish and robust piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A nicely balanced and very usable vintage racing bicycle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't road tested this one (it's raining) but hope to get it out in the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Capa, Tour de France], July 1939 </span></div>
the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-71442612697647256982020-04-02T09:43:00.001+13:002020-04-02T09:43:38.732+13:00The COVID-19 Vintage Cycling Reading Reading Room #5<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day six post #5 we have Cycling magazine's road test of Bernard Thevenet's 1976 TdF winning Peugeot PY (PX)10, and who doesn't have a soft spot for PX 10's?</span></b><br />
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<br />the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-70097971831712263472020-03-31T23:24:00.001+13:002020-03-31T23:27:45.648+13:00The COVID-19 Vintage Cycling Reading Reading Room #4<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day four brings you one of my all time favorite articles..a well and truly thumbed through Feb 18 1978 Cycling piece on lightweight components, some great info here...for the rivet counter that is.</span></b><br />
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<br />the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-25808264988901371222020-03-31T00:11:00.002+13:002020-03-31T00:11:36.992+13:00The COVID-19 Vintage Cycling Reading Reading Room #3<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day three brings you from the pages of Winning magazine a road test of Gianni Gugno's 1992 Bianchi team bike and an interview of the great Bob Jackson.</span></b>..<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Funnily enough I have been riding a very ugly 1990's Rieker built with Oria Cromo as my main ride for the last couple of months..and loving it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were right in the middle of building a a Bob Jackson TT low pro like the one in this photo for sale (except our one is 700/700) when we got stopped by Covid 19, I am looking forward to giving it a blast over my favorite flat course after all this is over.</span></b>the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-57292099794851908762020-03-29T23:12:00.003+13:002020-03-30T09:51:26.501+13:00The COVID-19 Vintage Cycling Reading Reading Room #2<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the early English riders to become a professional cyclist in Europe, Brian Robinson tells us his thoughts on choosing a bike and the the right gear to mount on it.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>His name was Jacky Hayes, I had met Jacky when I was tracking down information on the surviving New Zealand frame builders from the golden age of hand built race frames in New Zealand, which I extend into the early nineties btw.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2009 which was on <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2009/05/1958-comet-specs-cranks-bsa-flutted.html">Comet Cycles</a> of course!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Notice the machine advertised in the Comet add weighs in at 12lb 12ozs (5.7 Kg).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>When I had heard of Jacky passing I made a trip up to Auckland and purchased a Comet that I had known about for while with the intention of building it up as a tribute to Jacky Hayes, Salter Hayes and Comet cycles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This is the bike as I purchased it (not including wheel set/bars/stem), unfortunately it was just to rusty to leave as is, so a full restoration was in order, before I stripped the paint I took the frame to my paint supplier and had him colour match the green and red, and have to say I am very pleased with his match.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Here is a <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2016/11/comet-cycles-road-and-track-bike-and.html">link</a> to more photos and the story behind this bike.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>With this build I wanted to portray a serious 1950's road bike.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I find that many of the restored 50's race bikes that I see on the net ( I am really talking about English light weights here), seem to me to look too...well tweed, lots of them somehow just don't come across to me as authentic looking period race bikes that are about to be taken out to do battle.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>For my homage to jacky I wanted to build a bike that was about as period perfect to about 1954-6 as I could reasonably make it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The bike also had to reflect a roadman who, like most young men at the time had far from unlimited funds, so had to choose his components carefully.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> The original "Comet" down tube writing was applied with a tin stencil and then hand lined. I had seen this stencil in Jackys garage, he was going to give the stencil to me, but sadly I lost track of it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Anyway I made my own stencil taken from the <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2009/05/neil-ritchies-1956-olympic-track-bike.html">1956 Neil Ritchie Olympic track bike</a></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which was just as well, I spent some serious time getting this right. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>long line of New Zealand race frame builders, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>and sadly missed.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fully restored Comet Road/Track machine</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Jacky Hayes jersey he wore while competing in Australia in the late1950's, he also worked for Malvern Star at that time, where he <span class="st">learned</span> to pin stripe. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>My favorite 'suicide' type front changer, the classic</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>these contraptions..</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Half hollow axle, alloy cap and retaining nut. these pedals are a great example of some the top end English equipment on the market during the 1950's, some of the best in the world IMO.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Type 2 Benelux derailleur, which runs fours speeds,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I am just using the five speed block until I can find a</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>four speed with a decent rang on it, as I actually want to</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Notice the Chater Lea rear track drop outs, as I </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>mentioned in the original post on this bike, it was used</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>by it's original owner as both a road and track machine, and</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Exploded view of not quite the same Benelux derailleur taken </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1952 AKL Junior Champions, notice both Whyman and Gunn are holding Comets, I know that Neil Richie also rode a Comet, not sure about Peter Baird though, I know he rode a few Bertins. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baird would go on to come second in the 1958 Empire games road race, and Richie rode for NZ in the 1956 Olympics.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The nicely bent Reynolds Hiduminium bars that are soon to </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unknown rider takes the line a Comet circa 1948. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red anodized GB Coureur Plus brake set, I had been saving</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> OK, I did slip a bit with these GB cable oilers,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brian 'Happy' Howlett of the Manukau club in Auckland</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rode Comets throughout most of his career, he was married to </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pam </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Stephenson who was a professional photographer, and</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">husband, hence there are more photos of Happy Howlett from</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this period than anyone else (that I am aware of anyway).</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are a selection of photos of Howlett and fellow bikies </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">during the period that this bike was being used in </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these same races.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L-R, Unknown, Lynn Parris, Howlett and what appears</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to be a very young Dick Johnson, I think this photo must be from</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1958 as Johnson first rode against the seniors that year I believe.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johnson would go on to win the first Dulux Six day tour in 1960. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L-R, Howlett, Peter Baird, Lynn Parris and </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Halloway</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in what I think is the trials for the 1958 Empire games. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Brian hammering his Comet to good effect, BSA </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">double chainset, Campagnolo derailleurs..I would </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wheel set is something pretty special, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harden H/F hubs radial laced with 17/15 DB spokes</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with alloy nipples to Constrictor ASP 27" alloy rims, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tyres are fasgrip crono 240 gram TT rubbers all held</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on with Reynold alloy wing nuts.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rear is radial/cross.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately the NOS fasgrip tyres fell apart on</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my first ride, luckily I had some Specialized</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">27" tyres that fitted the bill as replacements. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nervex lugs on the frame but not the forks which I think</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1951 New Zealand Cycling Review which ran from</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1949-53(?) a great little magazine, let me know if you have</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">any, I would really like to get a complete collection together.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A beautiful Coloral water bottle that Lynn Parris gave me.</span></b> <br />
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-43095551576733437712020-03-27T21:59:00.001+13:002020-03-29T22:57:56.305+13:00The COVID-19 Vintage Cycling Reading Reading RoomOK, so here in New Zealand we are on a four week lock down, and who knows how long this might go on for?, not me that's for sure.<br />
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With this in mind I am going to endeavor to scan and post a new vintage cycling article every day from my (embarrassingly) large vintage cycling magazine collection.<br />
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Remember to view the page larger and make it easier to read, click on the image, right click and enlarge...so without further ado here is a nice piece from Cycling Dec 1985 with Dennis McCarthy reminiscing about the controversy over the emergence of derailleur gears during 20's-40's in the UK along with a good insight into the fixed wheel TT scene of that period as well...enjoy. <br />
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<br />the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-48656789247950379492020-01-16T22:15:00.001+13:002020-03-28T10:17:47.021+13:00 1970 Giuseppe Pelà built Faema replica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giuseppe Pelà was one of that small number of master </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pelà is known for never building frames under his own name,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">preferring to construct high end frame sets for elite riders </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and in the case of Feama, the whole team in 1969(?), </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and flagship frames for established brands,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Masi and Gios to just name two!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently he also taught Irio Tommasini the fine art of </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guiseppe Pela, <a href="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Paratella.htm">Paratella</a> and <a href="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Picchio/picchio.htm">Angelo Picchio</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In the early 1970's Pelà's wife became seriously ill,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have this card pinned above my workbench, I would often </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> so of course I had to build a Faema team replica bike at </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some stage, you know, like Merckx rode...who doesn't. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I brought this frame out of Italy from a collector whom I</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at least once, so there was no way to tell what name it had </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">originally been built under, which suited me fine for this </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">particular project, sadly I forgot to photograph the frame</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">before I stripped it...damn.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway here is the finished result.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you enjoy the photos, I know I really enjoyed the</span></b></div>
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-79648931769133888332019-05-19T17:07:00.002+12:002020-03-29T12:01:53.368+13:00Fignon 1983 Team Gitane.<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When pre race favorite Bernard Hinault was forced to</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through a recurrence of tendinitis, the world of </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cycle journalists was sent into a frenzy of speculation</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as to who could win the most prestigious of cycle races</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in what was now the most open TdF for many a year.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading through their predictions now, it is quite incredible</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Out of eight of the great experts of the time only two</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hinault and Fignon during the 1984 TdF.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1983 Tour de France</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eric Vanderaerden won the prologue TT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercier upsets the TI Raleigh machine</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by winning the Stage Two Team TT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now you might be wondering why I am so interested in</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the 1983 TdF, well the story starts a couple of years ago</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in a badly placed add in E Bay France.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vendor is selling what he believes to be one of</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Fignon">Laurent Fignon</a>'s '83 tour bikes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So to cut a long story short, I took a huge risk & brought it </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(and it was listed as pick up only!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and to make matters even more challenging, it</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">located in a very remote part of France.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So even though I have a few French friends, getting</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it back to New Zealand proved to be a Herculean task.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">following is the story of the 1983 Tour de France </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Laurent Fignon's 1983 team Gitane.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stage three saw a break by Kim Anderson anf Rudy Mathys</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that left many of the pre race favorites up to 20"down, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Miller in particular losing over 16".</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next day was a career highlight for Serge Demierre, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">going clear for an epic 46km solo win.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the bike finally arrived, I was more than pleased.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">although it was missing a few of it's original parts, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ie; cranks, stem/bars/brake levers, it was none the less mainly</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in original race condition, and what was also very relieving, is</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that also came with a FFC (Federation Francaise de Cyclisme)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> authentication, dated 1983.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cinelli bottom bracket shell dated 30/05/83, which makes</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a perfect time line for a new team bike for the July TdF.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first fortnight run on mainly flat stages were a </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">predictable happy hunting ground for the sprinters.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stage seven saw a popular sprint win by Italian </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Riccardo Magrini, who apparently gave quite a</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">good performance on the podium.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the highlights of the Gitane is it's original </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simplex LJ 4000 CP/SP Team Edition Rear Derailleur.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a factory modified version of the Simplex 4000CP, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drilled aluminum pulley cage, delrin pulleys, alloy pulley axles, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bringing the weight to a very respectable 145
grams. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stage ten saw Sean Kelly in yellow, if only for</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a moment, as the next day was a brutal thinning</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">out of pretenders over the Pyrenees.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> UK enthusiasts were rewarded with a awesome</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">climbing display by Robert Miller, who became the</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">first British rider to win a major mountain stage</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the TdF.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stage also had also seen another Peugeot rider,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Pascal Simon ride himself into yellow.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> An indication of how tough was the days racing, was the</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">retirement of twelve riders and three being eliminated </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for being outside the time limit.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Over the next couple of months I found the parts</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">needed to return the bike to it's original spec's.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First up was a Stronglight 107 crankset.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cinelli XA stem and bars, and of course some</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3ttt yellow bar tape and yellow cable...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...the only thing I couldn't find was some undrilled black</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Modolo brake levers, so drilled ones will have to </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">suffice for now, </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stage ten had transformed the race into a real battle, Simon</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was positioned nicely with a strong team in Peugeot, while</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the contenders to fight him for his jersey remained plentiful. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the very next day, tragedy struck the Peugeot squad,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while sitting in the bunch, Simon. with a touch of wheels, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crashed into a ditch with Jackie Boyer.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon finished the stage assisted by team mates,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> but was obviously very hurt.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon held on for four days to his precious jersey, including</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">courageously defending it over a 15.5km mountain time trial.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">however the writing was on the wall, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and time was running out for Pascal Simon.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simons epic TT ride, endeared him into the hearts</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of all French fans.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FFC (Federation Francaise de Cyclisme) authentication.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According
to the document this Fignon 1983 Gitane team bike</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was
given by <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Porte">Gerard Porte</a> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Then head doctor on the Tour de France)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as a
Christmas present to someone unknown.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stage 17 in the Alps was finally the end for Simon </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who abandoned at 56 miles, the yellow jersey was now</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in play. Bernaudeau and Winnen both attacked, and the </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However a young rider named Laurent Fignon, riding </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his first TdF, had been slowing and inconspicuously</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">working himself up the leaders rankings, and on this</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">day, rode with a maturity that would go on to be one</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the strongest features of his natural ability.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rather than chase the two escapees, he latched onto</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the two climbers Van Imp and Delgado, and using them to </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pace him, rode into himself into the yellow jersey...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and the history books. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fignon in the young riders jersey, rides with Van Imp on the</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Simplex LJ 4000 back in it's rightful place on</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laurent Fignon's 1983 team bike.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under the careful guidance of one of cyclings most successful </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="st">Directeur Sportif's of the period<a href="https://rouleur.cc/editorial/cyrille-guimard-tour-de-france/"> Cyrille Guimard,</a></span> Fignon held on </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the remaining tour to become the youngest</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> winner of the TdF since 1933.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cyrill Guimard one of the great legends of cycling.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fignon was well aware of the talk of him being a </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unworthy winner of the Tour having not won a stage, he </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">responded by winning the penultimate 21st stage, the</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dijon 50km time trial, a far from straight TT which included</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">climbing for most of the first 25km.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> So there you have it, the story of the 1983 tour, and the story of</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cannot say for sure that this was one of his tour bikes, but</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Modolo Master Pro calipers, one of the nicest brakes </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the period, would love to get a set for one of my 'riding' bikes.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The 'professor' Laurent Fignon one of the </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">last of the great classic riders at the end </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I have just learnt a very important lesson</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about riding bikes..always look ahead!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my way home from work about 4 Sundays ago,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was feeling pretty good, you know that feeling, 2.30</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the afternoon, nice and sunny, but not too hot, all</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that training and riding is starting to pay off.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I felt like I was cruising riding at about 35 kph, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I look down as I pass a few big trees and notice the </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">way the sun is making patterns through them on the </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">asphalt in front of me, and I start wondering how I </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">could get some nice film of this for a music video</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been vaguely thinking about making..then</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BANG!!!...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Straight into the back of a mid sized bus parked </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seven broken and/or fractured ribs, punctured lung,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">three vertebrae smashed out of place,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (four hours of surgury..titanium rods/screws)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">couple of broken teeth, missing a bit or hair.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">six days in intensive care, two weeks in hospital..</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and here I am recovering.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">write off, but incredibly the front Mavic Cosmic</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rim seems to have survived in tact.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The saddest part of the whole thing is that I have</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and am going to miss so much work time</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that I am forced to sell my <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/search/label/Armstrong%201995%20Caloi%20Merckx%20Team%20Bike">Armstrong bike</a>..damn.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still i am not going to complain, I got off pretty</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lightly..it could have been a lot worse..</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I guess the moral of the story is that things can happen</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fast even at 35 kph, and you can damage your self </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pretty good at that speed as well...lesson learnt!</span></b></div>
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<br />the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-46880382062986660612019-04-18T14:54:00.001+12:002020-03-29T12:01:29.984+13:00Lance Armstrong's 1995 Team Motorola/Caloi authenticated by Eddie Merckx<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I have finally had <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/search/label/Armstrong%201995%20Caloi%20Merckx%20Team%20Bike">Lance Armstrongs 1995 </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/search/label/Armstrong%201995%20Caloi%20Merckx%20Team%20Bike">Caloi team bike</a> authenticated by the<a href="https://www.eddymerckx.com/"> Eddie Merckx </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.eddymerckx.com/">factory,</a> which is great news.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What was even better news was that the man who</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>and even remembered building the bike!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Then to make it even better it turns out the the frame builder</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>is none other the most prestigious of Merckx frame builder the</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> famous Johan Vranckx who was sent by Merckx in 1979 to work</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">alongside </span>Ugo De Rosa in his factory in Italy and learn the</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>fine art of race cycle frame building.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/765/merckx-factory-visit">Here</a> is a great article and interview with Vranckx.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Here is a short clip showing Johan Vranckx building</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>the Eddy70 limited edition (70 only) steel bike in 2015.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This is the email exchange betwen myself and the Merckx</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>factory earlier this year...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hello, I have a 1995 Ex Team Motorola/Caloi Eddie Merckx bike, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>frame No F
9016, made of Columbus SLX New. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It was sold to me as one of Lance
Armstrong's team bikes </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>from that year, I am reasonably sure that this
information </b></span><br />
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would appreciate it if you might be </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>able to authenticate for sure if
this is correct or not. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There is more information and photos of the bike </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>on my site The Flying Wheel here...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2018/03/lance-armstrong-1995-merckx-team-bike.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2018/03/lance-armstrong-1995-merckx-team-bike.html</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thanks in advance for your time. Best Adrian</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hey Adrian,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is true, I can verify that this was Lance's bike once.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">Almost impossible to find, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">the maker of this bike is still working for us and he told me.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">Have a great day!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yours sincerely
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lauwers William</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I then emailed back asking if I might be able to</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>use the builder name on my blog...</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dear Adrian,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Of course you may use the name of the frame builder.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">It is Johan Vranckx.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-language: NL-BE;">Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,</span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: NL-BE;">William Lauwers</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So that is the good news, unfortunately the bad news</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st"><i> </i>is that I crashed my bike pretty badly about five weeks</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">ago, and will take at least another 6-8 weeks before I can</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">get back to work, so I now am forced to sell the bike.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">Oh well, at least I had the pleasure of owning it, even</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">if it was only briefly. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">(And I did ride it..just once...beautiful) </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="st">For sale <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/p/wanted.html">here</a>. </span></b></span></div>
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-18507768749178988622019-01-06T22:55:00.000+13:002019-01-07T18:26:25.472+13:001981 Team Hoonved Bottecchia<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a very nice 1981 Team <a href="http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ploegfiche.php?id=5832">Hoonved Bottecchia.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was sold to me as a original '81 Team bike, I have sent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the details of the bike to<a href="https://www.bottecchia.com/en"> Bottecchia cicli S.r.l</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so we will see if it proves to be the real thing or not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had always liked Bottecchia as a cycle brand, in fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there a few things I like about Bottecchia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So when I had the opportunity to buy what was possibly an </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ex team </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">frame set several years ago, well I couldn't say no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Firstly there is the heroic/tragic story of <a href="https://pelotonmagazine.com/features/the-doomed-champion-ottavio-bottecchia/">Ottavio Bottecchia</a>, the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">first Italian to win the Tour de France, and also the first rider to wear </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the maillot jaune from the first to last day of the tour (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Tour_de_France">1924 TdF</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also won the tour again in 1925.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ottavio had, from the beginning of his cycling career, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">been helped in no small way by bike shop owner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teodoro Carnielli, whom it is said, gave Ottavio his first</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">good quality race bike, a <a href="http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/GANNA.htm">Ganna</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometime between 1924-26 Carnielli arranged to sell bikes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">branded as Bottecchia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then in 1927 tragedy struck, while out on a training ride </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ottavio</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">meet a mysterious fate, he was found unconscious on the road side near </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an orchard with a skull fracture and several broken bones, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but apparently no sign of a hit and run.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He died 12 days later. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More on that story <a href="http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/cyclings-murder-mysteries/">here</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teodoro Carnielli kept producing and expanding the Bottecchia range </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of bicycle</span>s,I have read somewhere as much a tribute to his friend</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ottavio as a business venture</span></span>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Unfortunately I couldn't seem to find very much information </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on Teodoro on the net at all, not even a photo of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secondly, I really like the way there is practically no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">believe that a serious Italian race bike company, with a serious </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presence in the peloton, made a conscious decision to not go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">down that path during the pantograph boom of the 80's. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone high up in Bottecchia must have called bullshit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the cult of panto when it came to their race bikes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to admire the purity of vision. </span><br />
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Team rider Gisiger Daniel doing a time trial,,no panto here pal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lovely fork crown is probably the only bit of Bottecchia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pantograph most of us will ever see</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Nicely lined brake bridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thirdly I have always admired their decision to offer proper team</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">replica's for sale to the public, appropriately decaled with sponsors names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This wasn't all that common during this period,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which makes verifying this frame's team authenticity that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">much more challenging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lastly, the Bottecchia jerseys have always been</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">outstanding, and their early eighties ones were some</span></div>
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Their early jerseys were pretty nice too, but then nearly all the team</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">jerseys from the first team jerseys to early 1960's are pretty stylish IMO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an authentic team issue frame set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look closely at these lugs, they have been filed almost flush</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the tubes (top and bottom), there is a hell of a lot of work that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Even the seat cluster lugs get the same treatment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Top/bottom and seat tube have all been filed flush. </span><br />
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The whole frame set has been masterfully finished from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This tattered magazine cover showing Brian Jolly on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his Carlton Professional in 1971, was the spark that lit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a bit if a crazy obsession for me about four years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I noticed that the rear stays were full chrome, I had never seen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a Carlton Team bike with a chrome rear triangle before, and as I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a huge fan of the high end Carlton Cycles, my interest was piqued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I owned a copy of the 1970 catalogue which showed the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">normal half chrome stays, after searching for a while I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">came across a 1971 catalogue which I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eagerly awaited...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While all this research was going on I had decided to make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">myself a replica of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brian Jol<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ly's</span></span> '71 Team Carlton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I picked up a very rough team bike on our local auction </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">site for pretty cheap, which I intended to use for the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was super pleased when I picked it up to find that it was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a 1971 frameset...sometimes you get lucky!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the frame before stripping</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and rechroming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Carlton back from the chromers (last in line)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Here it is masked/etch primed/undercoated, and the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">white panels painted and masked, waited for me to mix up </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the famous 'Lagoon Blue'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1971 catalogue wasn't much help, it had the same photos as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the 1970 catalogue, by now I was starting to assume that Bulls Carlton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">might well be a frame set built by a favored frame builder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with Carlton decals,which was pretty common practice for professional</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> riders around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1971 Team Professional Carlton from the catalogue...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">exactly the same photo as the 1970 catalogue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strangely the bike in both the catalogues don't seem to be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Carlton Professionals that were on sale in 1970 or 1971.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice the different seat cluster, also the Camagnolo 1010a drop outs </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have the fender eyelets, whereas the Professionals (as far as I know) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had the 1010 drops outs without eyelets, also the slack frame</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> geometry...all very strange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Cycling November 7, 1970 </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mixing the Lagoon blue, using the catalogue and my beaten up old </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pantone colour book as my guides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All painted, now just waiting for decals and clear coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally I found the piece of the puzzle that I had hoped might show up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a Carlton add from a February issue of Cycling advertising the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Team bike with full chrome forks/head lugs/seat panel and full</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rear triangle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Cycling January 30, 1971 </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Unfortunately I had already had my frameset </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chromed and was half way through painting it, when I found this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">add, I hadn't realized the whole seat cluster was chromed, I had just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had the stays polished and chromed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course it seems obvious that you would do that now...oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So after about three years of slowly putting together the info and (mostly)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">correct period parts..here is my 1971 Carlton Team Professional Mk III.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Butted Reynolds 531 of course. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 1971 Team specs from Cycling February 20, 1971</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 3TTT Stem with Fiamme Stem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't think the Fiamme bars were used by the Team, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but I couldn't help myself, just really like that logo, and as this is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what you look at most when on the drops, I allowed myself this </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> slight deviation from original.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">VAR spare tubular bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The great innovator Gerald O'Donovan (R) Directeur of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carlton Team at the time, and who of course went on to set up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and manage Raleigh's famous </span><a href="http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/raleigh-sbdu-builders.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specialist Bicycle Development Unit</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (SBDU) so serious pedigree for these Carlton team bikes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is unquestionable, but is probably often overlooked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chrome rear stays, and REG Cobra pump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wes Mason on what looks to be a Carlton Contre la Montre</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time Trial bike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Period Canetti Tubulars which were sold through Holdsworthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Weinmann Vainqueur 999 centre pulls, spongy but surprisingly effective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of pretty chrome, notice the slightly clunky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">red lining, I did this intentionally as I have noticed that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all the original Carlton Pro's I have seen were pretty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">heavily lined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used Fiamme rims, the front is actually <a href="http://wolvesoftheroad.blogspot.com/p/dulux-jerseys.html">Neil Robinson's</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">time trial wheel from his<a href="http://wolvesoftheroad.blogspot.com/"> Dulux </a>days, it is a 28h track rim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very fragile on the road I am told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Yes I even used original campagnolo grease, what can</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I say, I am now just another sad rivet counter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lovely Campagnolo Nuovo Record drive train.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">56/46 chain rings, the 56 is quite a bit of fun, but the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">46 might need changing, it can make some of the bigger hill </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Team rider Trevor Bull trade card.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carlton also had one of the nicest team jerseys of the period IMO.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If any who reads this know where I could obtain one, or any old</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">British pro memorabilia for that matter, please let me know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">adrian@theflyingwheel.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An iconic derailleur that actually works pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tied and soldered spokes are always a nice touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The 1971 Carlton team line up was a very formidable team </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the UK pro scene, they competed very successfully on </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Campagnolo bar end shifters, work good, and look the biz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So after much research and buying a complete set of Cycling Magazine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from 1971,I know that this model was only advertised three time in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 1971,and seems to have then reverted back to the half </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chrome front/rear style that we all know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was also never offered in Carlton's official catalogues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I presume that this model proved either just to expensive to produce </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the price point that (Raleigh) Carlton were aiming at, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or maybe Raleigh just wanted to shift the limelight to the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ploegfiche.php?id=4830">TI Team Raleigh</a> project which was about to be unveiled in 1972</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...bit of a pity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nice little photo taken inside the Carlton factory in 1970.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice that they are still using a hearth in the brazing process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I left the original headbadge unrestored as a nod to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">battles this old race bike had seen before I restored it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=1205">Brian Jolly</a> in action, cycling February 1971. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I have ridden a couple of short shake down rides, one 80km </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ride and one 20km TT so far, and will say that I am very glad </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that I spent the time getting this one pretty close to period correct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It feels very 1960's to me, the narrow bars, and just slightly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">longer wheelbase probably account for his, it is also </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very supple in it's ride and soaks up road noise nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All and all a well rounded and balanced vintage race bike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone has any further information and or corrections on this subject </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they can contact me here..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> adrian@theflyingwheel.com </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Last photo goes to my honey, who calmly puts up with my</span></div>
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-61556824373509847442018-11-03T21:22:00.004+13:002018-11-04T08:18:57.576+13:00Team Falcon Professional Update<div style="text-align: center;">
For anyone interested in British professional</div>
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bikes, and especially <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2013/10/falcon-proffesional.html">Falcon Professional's</a>, here is some interesting</div>
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information on these very rare bikes that I was given from a seller on</div>
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Ebay UK selling one of <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Reynolds-531-professional-Falcon-team-bike/302941263644?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144">Sid Barras's ex team bikes</a>....</div>
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The team bike for sale on UK Ebay.<br />
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Reynolds-531-professional-Falcon-team-bike/302941263644?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144</div>
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"this was Sids bike at
end of 1983 start of 1984 as his winter training<br />
bike it was built with
columbus tubes and sprayed and badged </div>
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Falcon at the factory in Brigg . </div>
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My
father inlaw was team manager for the falcon pro team untill </div>
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end of 1986 when
it stopped, i was part time mechanic for falcon </div>
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at races and maintained the
bikes .</div>
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Soon as the new team bikes where ready in january 1984 </div>
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this particular
bike wasnt required and Bernard Tayler the team<br />
manager kept it as his own bike
i then acquired<br />
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The bike you own then
belonging to Sid would be a 1984 </div>
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team issue frame as they had full chrome rear
triangle </div>
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and chrome head lugs and forks and were blue built with </div>
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Reynolds 531
pro tubing although some were built from columbus SL<br />
tubing and badged 531 pro
as riders preferred columbus tubes</div>
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Phill Thomas being one rider who preferred<br />
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All the bikes in 1984 were built by Brian Rourke
cycles </div>
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frame builder Paul Washington and would go to the falcon factory</div>
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to be
painted up ,Terry Dolan built some new frames half way</div>
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through the season as
the other were pulling apart at the<br />
bottom bracket shells</div>
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Dolan built all the
Falcon pro team bikes after that including</div>
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1985 and 1986 bikes when they
changed to red colour scheme</div>
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on the frames and used Reynolds 753 tubing"<br />
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Sid Barras and fellow Falcon team mate Phil Thomas<br />
(in Yellow) keeping some pretty serious company during the<br />
1984 Kellogs<br />
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Thanks to the E Bay seller ( I didn't get his name) for the information,<br />
now I am all fired up to get my Professional on the road for this<br />
summer...<br />
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-34801030066800614262018-10-22T14:29:00.002+13:002018-10-22T14:44:54.073+13:00I Like Alf...New Alf Engers book<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have just finished reading 'I Like Alf' the new</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">book out of the life and cycling career of 'King' Alf Engers.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(available <a href="https://www.mousehold-press.co.uk/book/i-like-alf-14-lessons-from-the-life-of-alf-engers/">here</a>), what a great read, if you wern't a fan of Alf </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">before reading this book, you will be by the end. Alf is really </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the old school of top level amateur racing cyclist's.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ton's of natural talent for sure, but probably more importantly </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an iron will to compete and be the best that drives him to</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> overcome even the most adverse hurdles.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I can thoroughly recommend it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (and that's not just because I am a fan boy!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As anyone who has read my blog over the years will</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">know, I have long had a strong interest in the UK time trial</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">scene, from the early fixed wheel years through to the</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">radical low pros in of the early to mid nineties.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I am of course a huge King Alf fan, and was really</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">looking forward to this book coming out. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Out of the blue a couple of months ago, I received an </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a couple of photos of my homage <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/search/label/SHORTER">bike</a> to Alf Engers and </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alan Shorter in his soon to be released book. I was more than </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pleased to oblige, but I did have one request. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Paul if I could send him a piece of clear sign writers </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vinyl to him in the UK, and ask Alf if he would sign it </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the top tube of the Shorter, he was happy too.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alf Engers signature on clear vinyl.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What can I say, Alf's signature on the top tube of the Shorter I </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">built as a homage to him (and Alan), it doesn't get much </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">better than this when you are a collector/restorer.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some more photos of the Shorter on Classic Lightweights <a href="http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/bikes/shorter-adrian-rb.html">here </a></span></b></div>
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the flying wheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169138019100411272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658717933198835076.post-42215676821972964482018-08-20T21:40:00.001+12:002018-08-20T21:51:49.590+12:001961/62 GB Component Brochure "The Road to Success"<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just uploaded quite an extensive 1961/62 (?) Brochure <a href="https://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_17.html">here</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am pretty sure this date is about right as the brochure</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mentions that the Coureur 66 calipers have just been released,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and as far as I know they were available from 1961.</span></b></div>
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