Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

Posted this in current projects, picked it up off eBay as an unknown. Any ideas?


Most larger steel frames are heavier due to the size of the rider and it absorb stress better.

Just because it has Gipiemme dropouts doesn't mean it is not top end.

Send them an email to find out.

It is a good find, why ask for information if you want to slice and dice the frameset.

I say keep it you can still make it a fixie with its braze on.

Ask Colnago if the have decals for it also. He is a cool guy to talk to (met him in 2005 at the Tokyo Bike Show).

If you want and like it ,it is work restoring. I have never let a bike die, I have gotten tubes replaced, new paint jobs and resold to people who still uses them.

If I can go through the builder cool, if not there is someone who got skills to fix it.

Steel is REAL.

Go to Velo space and search Ceya's RAP 3 that is one that has came back from the dead.

S/F<
CEYA!

Hi there guys

I haven't been reading lfgss for ages as I am now back in NZ. Pleased to see its still going strong. I thought I would post this here as there is so much knowledge here amoungst you lot, and hopefully someone could enlighten me.

This Colnago road frame is one I bought a couple of years ago. The rear dropouts are Gipiemme (not Campy) there has been a repair done to the R chainstay so unsure if these are the original rear dropouts or not. Sadly I don't think it is a high end frame as it feels heavier than my other frames (531c & Columbus SL). From my endless research/googling, the lugs appear similar to some old Colnago Supers, but I don't think it is a Super. Looks 80s by the decals.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the tubeset could be (definitely not SLX as no ribs at base of seat and down tubes) and if you reckon the frame has any collectible value (besides being a Colnago). I'm actually thinking of filing off the braze-ons and deraileur hangers and making a nice conversion out of it (taboo I know on a colnago, but I suspect its a lower end frame and it rusted like hell, and its already had a repair done on it). If anyone can tell me that this frame model is worth restoring as a road bike I will do so and put a nice Campy groupset on it.

Apologies for the crap images.

You could try H Lloyd Cycles. They did a first class job supplying decals for my Nigel Dean I've just had resprayed.

I have had this hanging in the garage for a few years, was always going to do the conversion to single speed. Ran out of time and patience and got a flyer last year. Now considering starting the process, before I do owt, any thoughts on its provenance other than the obvious. It needs a paint job, but would be a shame to lose the Raleigh marking, perhaps someone knows how they could be reapplied once done. Any issues with converting something like this?
Thanks.

Hello everyone, been waiting and watching all the good bicycle things that go on here! I'm hoping someone can maybe shed some light on this frame. I bought this a while ago from a retired guy who'd had it in his shed for years. As you can see, its looking a bit sorry for itself. But I'm thinking it could deserve a restoration.

It just seems quite a nice frame under all the surface rust. It appears to have a much later Holdsworth sticker, or, whats left of it, But for any experts out there, there does seem to be some distinguishable features that might give an idea of model, age or make.

Someone has already suggested it could be 1940's/50's

The rear forks seem very thin, they taper to about 5mm diameter at the point where they are brazed to the seat tube. I don't recall seeing forks attached to the main seat tube in this way before, although I'm no expert.

The lugs have some nice cut out details and there's a grease nipple  on the frame for the bottom bracket. It must be quite a few years since  grease nipples were used? The cable guides are brazed on.

The rear drop outs also seem a bit unusual to me and are spaced at 120mm.

Unfortunately, there's no head tube badge. Someone has had their own  name on the frame, 'Carole Jones' and painted their initials where the  headtube badge was.

There's an extensive site for Holdsworth but I can't find anything  like this one on there or google. A useful bit of information I did read  was that Holdsworth stamped the frame number on the fork blades tube as  well as the bottom bracket.

I stripped down the headset and the number on the fork tube is 242,  which seems a very short number as a frame number. I've cleaned the  paint off the bottom bracket and it does have a corresponding 242  stamped on it. There are also a couple of other numbers on the BB along  with British stamped in an arch. G5364 and what looks like SR23 which could be the frame size, it does measure 23" It also has the word 'CYCLO' stamped on the inside of the rear drop out lugs, didn't see it until I got some paint removed.

Anyone any ideas?

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Anyone have any idea of the provenance of this bike? Unfortunately these photos are as large as I've got.

genuine colnago with campag athena

What would you pay for it? It just came up for $480 Canadian (about £300). Is that a good price?

Sorry - I'm brand new to the used bike purchasing scene.

^ bargain

cranks are chorus, maybe front & rear mech too

I bought it! Thanks for the IDs!

Hi guys

Got this Merckx on sale, but people do ask what kind of steel it is made of.
It has had a respray, and sticker has been lost.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread62978.html
I think it is the corsa model, since the serial on bb is C 4315 according to http://www.cadre.org/Merckx/ at least.
But that is all the info i've got.
Anyone that could be of any help?
I think the groupset is dura ace 7402

Cheers

was told what these hi/lo hubs were but forgot

any ideas?

thanks

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mac ready that frame looks sweeeeet ! sorry no idea what it is though...

http://www.lfgss.com/thread60126.html

can't remember the brand of these either - sure they are jap - and they are chrome

any ideas?

these - pretty charactersitci bend

3rd time lucky?

right at alst - heres' the pc

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mac ready that frame looks sweeeeet ! sorry no idea what it is though...

http://www.lfgss.com/thread60126.html

Bloody hell, would of bought it off you here had I known!

3rd time lucky?

right at alst - heres' the pc

Nitoo ABD-X?

Or those Anatomic Sakaes?

was told what these hi/lo hubs were but forgot

any ideas?

thanks

Nuke Proof.

Nitoo ABD-X?

Or those Anatomic Sakaes?

Not Nitto Bars. maybe Sakaes, they do look like them alittle.

S/F,
CEYA!

yes i'd discounted the ABD-X as seem to be not sever enough and have no collar - maybe an earlier model? can't find any sakae bars that look like them. i've seen them on ebay with the name but cannot remember. thanks for the nuke-proof info too.....

macready - sorry it was on here for ages with no movement. does the fork have a number? (i never even thought to check when it was here ) i have a hunch what it could be....

Any thoughts on this? Resprayed as Colnago.

wow

I think I've seen things like that before.
Certainly no Colnago.
What it is? A pink/white bike frame with the looks of an ill camel.

0 mm offset front fork ?

I like twitchy camels.

Ill get my coat.