Current Projects chat and miscellany

The Tornado in a somewhat rideable state... ;)

Lots! TI, who bought Raleigh in 1960, bought up lots of names like BSA, Hercules, Humber, Phillips, Norman and Sun and merged them together from 1960 onwards.

Did it look like it might be earlier than that? Brookes took over Lycett in the 20s so that could have been really old, but I don't know when they stopped using the Lycett brand.

Unusual not to have a BB stamp though.

had something come into the shop recently that looked very similar to this, sturmey with the tt pulleys, but it was fitted with a "lycett" leather saddle, absolutely perfect condition, really nice bike and the guy bought it from the local tip for £20, i was tempted to offer him £30 for it, only thing was it had no markings at all, the original badge was removed and it had no bb stamp, definitely not a raleigh though any thing similar produced?

How did this happen?
Hope the injuries werent too bad, looks like a pretty huge smash.

It wasn't me. It was in an alleyway. I really hope that someone smashed it up with a hammer in a fit of rage against the insulating tape on the bars (which annoys me. Why not spend £10 on bar tape? Looks so much better) rather than crashed it because eif they were on it I think that might be the end of the cycling. Ever.

Yep, it's still too dirty to read, but planning on having a look!

Wanted to verify independently in case the wheel had been replaced or it didn't have a date stamp, but hopefully it will say 69 and match up.

There is usually a date stamped on SA hubs.

Picked this up today, pretty much everything will being changing on it to be set up for the track, just switched everything off my old trick setup so nothing goes but for now i'm using it for general use.

Sick!

Saw one of those in the flesh the other day, seriously nice.

it would look nice with some carbon forks

I'm keeping my eyes open for a used set of these;

Or these;

I Actually think the aluminum-ones would fit the frame best...

Oh Little Maxy, how's that paint job going to survived the coming winter?

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I'm keeping my eyes open for a used set of these
I Actually think the aluminum-ones would fit the frame best...

I though the fork you use on the frame look rather fitting, I like it better than the straight aero fork.

It wasn't me. It was in an alleyway. I really hope that someone smashed it up with a hammer in a fit of rage against the insulating tape on the bars (which annoys me. Why not spend £10 on bar tape? Looks so much better) rather than crashed it because eif they were on it I think that might be the end of the cycling. Ever.

It wasn't crashed, to many different individual impact zones, the back end is bent about 5 different ways which either means a car ran over it, or a cricket bat.

Those aren't horizontal dropouts... Your gonna struggle to get chain tension with those babies. Unless your building a geared..?

I was planning fixed, there's about 1cm of horizontal space, think it's not enough?

a bit of magic gearing and 1cm is plenty, in fact it would actually make it work whereas magic gearing on vertical dropouts fails due to chain wear/lengthening and zero space in the dropout.

Recently finished my Bianchi project:

For the record the paint job was by Mario Vaz, I was a bit worried after reading the Vaz thread, but I'm extremely pleased with how it's turned out.

A few more photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benedict_w/sets/72157624581077558/

Zing!

:-)

Lovely junoface. One of the best projects ever seen on this thread. Bravo.

Amazing attention to detail. Beautiful.

^^ not just a lovely bike, but shows the patience of a saint. You waited to collect ALL the parts together before starting the build. Well done.

Nice Bianchi. Put a pic of the frame or some details of the job in the Mario thread?

Lots! TI, who bought Raleigh in 1960, bought up lots of names like BSA, Hercules, Humber, Phillips, Norman and Sun and merged them together from 1960 onwards.

Did it look like it might be earlier than that? Brookes took over Lycett in the 20s so that could have been really old, but I don't know when they stopped using the Lycett brand.

Unusual not to have a BB stamp though.

Lycetts were fitted to complete bikes well into the 60s.

thats really, really, nice junoface.

^^ not just a lovely bike, but shows the patience of a saint. You waited to collect ALL the parts together before starting the build. Well done.

i can never do that. which is probably why my projects are pieces of shite.
ill do it with my currnet one.
already feeling the pain.

Phil nice photo (and bike!)

Finished mine off today, im not breaking a chain again for a while - pain in the arsehole, and its red! Not sure I like it.

I thought that Griffin was absolutely spot on as it was. Sorry man, this ain't working for me at all.

I was planning fixed, there's about 1cm of horizontal space, think it's not enough?

a bit of magic gearing and 1cm is plenty, in fact it would actually make it work whereas magic gearing on vertical dropouts fails due to chain wear/lengthening and zero space in the dropout.

kerley is right, you just need to get the gearing right. otherwise your fucked and that picture i showed you?
thats your bike.

Just needs a black chainring. so... close...

also yes they're 700c and i'm HUGE