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

Good morning

I hope this is the right forum. I wonder if anyone is able to identify the font used below? I may have to try to make my own decals for a respray. Many thanks.

There will be a certain member who will be very pleased that you posted that. :)

I've PM'd him and he should be along shortly. I don't know if he knows much more, though.

Good morning

I hope this is the right forum. I wonder if anyone is able to identify the font used below? I may have to try to make my own decals for a respray. Many thanks.

Yeah! Good find! My namesake!!!!

You'll have to make them up, though...

But I might be able to help.

Give me a tick.

(thanks Oliver!)

http://oldbike.wordpress.com/1930s-genial-lucifer/

If you need it, I can create an Illustrator eps which should be mint for a transfer maker.

i've done an eps of it, purely out of boredom.

pm if you want

they were made in birmingham for a while by a frame building contractor

great, cheers!

Thanks for the replies! Pasipanopane, I've pm'd you.

People on here have already given me useful info about the frame:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread64230.html

There's a picture of the headset in that thread. Osgears seem very very rare and expensive (but so excellent!), so I won't be attempting a complete restoration, just a respray and new lease of life for it.

Also when dismantling it I found it has has a Baylis Wiley axle, the thread shell slides in and out of the bottom bracket. I think the original brakes must have had a massive drop, the front OLN is 90mm and the rear 105mm ...... just thought I was buying a cheap frame off ebay with a nice headbadge but then find myself sucked into a different world!

Hi.

Is there anyone familiar with cannondale road bikes around 1980?
Saw somebody ride past me two times now with a really gorgeous bike, from the days where they only put a rather condensed logo on the top tube (orange on white in that case).
I think the series is called 'criterium', but I'm not really sure.

The frame looked much like this one-

but i think the tubes were not cylindrical all the way, especially the top tube.

so what I'm basically trying to do is identify what bike it is excatly, try to buy a used one off ebay or somewhere else, and build it up as lovely as the one that drove by me.

any help appreciated, thank you.

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ok, so I found vintagecannondale.com -
didn't really pin it down, but I think I was searching for the SR500 from 1987.
Maybe an european version, as I'm pretty sure the decals were orange on white.

Does anyone know something about this frame? Seller just says it's in a very good condition but doesn't sais nothing about where it's from...

(and I suspect it's a b-quality frame)

probably utter rubbish. please tell the seller to send it over to me for 50 quid

;-)

...seriously, I don't think it's b-quality, actually looks pretty good and well preserved vintage, but needs more pixels...

+1
polished chrome crown & decent geometry, let down by chromo chainset and cheap looking wheels.

I love how people don't understand how to take a photo; remember trying to buy a rare car via ebay, the guy had put up 3 photos from a really really crappy phone camera in low light (a child with a pencil could have drawn a better picture), when asked if I could get some better photos his response was..
"well there liek free fotos on the internets mate, im not making any more as those are dem gud them 1111s liek"
yet still the car went for crazy money, ebay is a crazy place.

Can anyone help identify my Raleigh frame please? I can't find the model or the year of manufacture (it do not have the original rear hub)

It has the code N...0032828 (... indicates unknown character). It had rod brakes and just a Realigh decal down the seat downtube. The cose is stamped on the back of this tube facing the tyre.

Many thanks, Ollie

Seen this local to me for not too much cash, looking to build my first singlespeed, nothing special, just something to commute on and do a few road miles.

It's a Falcon, but does anyone have an idea of model or era?

photo (2) by Hallsy01, on Flickr

photo (1) by Hallsy01, on Flickr

photo (5) by Hallsy01, on Flickr

Just wondering if it will be worth a punt or better avoided!

Any help appreciated :)

0What I can tell you is that it's nothing special, it's a standard run-of-the-mill gas-piped Raleigh that weight as much as London itself.

Put foot retention and ride it as much as possible.

0What I can tell you is that it's nothing special, it's a standard run-of-the-mill gas-piped Raleigh that weight as much as London itself.

Put foot retention and ride it as much as possible.

Thanks, but I'm not interested in how special it is to you, rather when it was made and what model.

I decided to ask the Google of the world and this is what it bestow upon me almost immediately;

http://www.jaysmarine.com/TH_raleigh_serials.html

Oh and it's made in Nottingham, so 73-82 according to the link I've found above.

A cycle manufactured in Nottingham, in the month of March of the year 1975, would feature the serial "ND5------."
For instance, the photo shown above, to the left, bears the serial "NL9------," indicating a machine made in August 1979, at the Nottingham factory. The example to the left is "WR0------," which would indicate Worksop manufacture in November of 1980 (and most likely a 1981 model due to the late month).

my point about it's not being anything special is that it's not worth spending a lots of money on in the near future.

I decided to ask the Google of the world and this is what it bestow upon me almost immediately;

http://www.jaysmarine.com/TH_raleigh_serials.html

Oh and it's made in Nottingham, so 73-82 according to the link I've found above.

my point about it's not being anything special is that it's not worth spending a lots of money on in the near future.

Thanks, I Googled it yesterday and got the same page but somehow missed that bit. I didn't think they made Raleighs that late with rod brakes. I guess the bars could have been retro-fitted for some reason.

my point about it's not being anything special is that it's not worth spending a lots of money on in the near future.

I agree, I was just going to abuse it round town.

Oh by the way, it's a Raleigh Tourist, I forget to mention that in my original post.

Here is a 1978 example, as you can see rod brake is still in existence;

Excellent, thanks for your investigative skills! I'll try and uncover the second digit so I can figure exactly when it was built.
Much appreciated!

Hard to tell from the angle of the photo but the Tourist looks to be much slacker geometry no?

different seat clamp area too.

I think you guys could be right, I'll stick up a side on picture later tonight