1960's Holdsworth Monsoon

Here is the first Holdsworth I have restored

using my own Holdsworth decal set.

I have had a real problem with many of the decals that

are available on the market (apart from Cyclomondo).

So I couldn't face doing all the work hand 

stripping (thanks Neil), preparing, etch priming, priming, 

sanding, priming, sanding, base coating colour and then

 clear coating all two pack paint systems, only to use

decals that are not quite right,

Here is one of the decals available, can't stand that tone of red.

Here is an original decal, notice that the red is a nicer darker tone

also the very pretty light grey/blue colour in the horse and

border of the shield, and the gold is darker.

 Here is my first prototype , pretty good I

think, I will darken the gold slightly om the next run.

You can also see the 1950s/1960's type 

World Champion strips that I made at the same time.

Anyway here is the finished Monsoon frameset.

For more detailed information on Monsoon, or anything

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For sale here.

Max's lightwight path/communter Holdsworth

Just finished building up this Holdsworth into

a simple light commuter/path bike for a client.

Max's brief was simple, make it stylish and simple.

something to commute the 20km's work occasionally

and some easy weekend path riding.

 We both thought it came up pretty nicely.

I gave it run on my 25km commute home and was

impressed with it's ride, it felt fast and very responsive,

which is unsurprising considering it's racing pedigree.

I am enjoying making the twine wrap at the moment,

with a layer of cloth wrap underneath, they are a lot

more comfortable than they look.

 The red Ofmega hubs are a nice little touch.

Brooks (of course) and my newly made tubular, or in this 

case spare tube and tyre lever carrier.

I will do a little feature on the tubular pouch shortly,

have been trialing an few prototypes, but think I

have got them right now.

HOLDSWORTH ITALIA

I Have just finished restoring this early Seventies Holdsworth Italia frame set, I was going to keep it, but other projects demand funds, so it is now for sale.

I am pretty sure after reading the famous Holdsworth website 
that this frame-set is most probably 

the work of either Reg Collard or Tommy Quick, although I can't verify this.

Any way it is a absolutely beautiful slice of steel, and I will be real sad to see it go.
But I have got a cool new project to keep my spirits up...
a Seventies Shorter TT frame set, will post photos soon. 

Frame stripped and ready for some light body work.
Overall the frame was in excellent shape.
You can see by the condition of the drop outs that this
machine has seen very little action in it's life.

After many hours the frame is painted and ready to roll once more.
This is really a very nice frame set, and I'm not just saying that 
because of my well known soft for British race bikes.....

Howards Holdworth

Holdsworth 531 Special

I forgot about this one,this is from about six months ago. I was asked if I could put together a stylish fixie for friend down in Wellington. I found this nice Holdsworth Special 531 frame set, which I thought would fit the bill nicely, the only requirement was that it be painted white, the rest, including the red high lights were left to me.

The 531 Special gets undercoated and spot primed.



Looks the part, and could easily be made back into a road bike, which is what I would do if it was mine, althogh I did take it for a spin before I delivered it, and it felt like it would be a lot of fun around town set up like this.