Woodrup ye olde tarck

For a while there’s been a gap in my bike line up for a sweet vintage fixxy.

I decided earlier this year to try to plug that gap in order to do some Eroicas. There are loads of them across Europe now and I have a rusty old VW bus to sling the bike in to get there.

The challenge of getting there, the challenge of doing the ride, the challenge of getting home. Triple fun.

The OG L’eroica is obviously the big goal but I’ve heard it’s shitty to get on.

So what I wanted was a nice old track bike in 52-54cm flavour but I’m planning on road riding it so need to think about brakes.

And then this came up on here:

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And is now mine. I think having been Tiptronic’s and Slippy’s before me it’s now an actual forum bike.

And look - some divvy has already drilled it for brakes so I don’t have to stress about fucking up a mint OG track bike.

Ideal.

It’s generally very nice and at 53cm it’s just right for me with a period-perfect stumpy seatpost.

The job list is:

Work out what year it is.
Get a front calliper and levers from that era.
Relace the hubs to new clincher rims.
Do a few cosmetic details.
Ride it.

Anyone know how to date a Woodrup?

Phone them?

Anyone know how to date a Woodrup?

See if they're on Tinder?

I didn’t mean date like take out for a five guys then back to mine for coffee and Sting’s greatest hits.

I meant work out what year it’s from.

Looks great, look forward to seeing it getting used

Sting’s greatest hits

Newly released EP?

I'd ride that shit to Five Guys.

Lovely looking bike.

Yeah but you'd be mad to lock it up outside.

zing!

Don't get me wrong, I'd lock the living shit out of it.

pics of rusty old vw bus? bike is nice too, obvs, but... rusty old vw bus.. (bike against the bus, or something, to keep the bike theme?)

I can’t really take one of the bike and bus at the mo, as the bus is currently looking like this, so as to make it not rusty:

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What started as a quick patch up on a rusty front panel has escalated quickly.

youve got type 1 VW needing resto?
you could buy twenty vintage tarck bikes for what youll spunk on that.
jus sayin

type 2, t2. should be a bit cheaper to de-rust as a first gen :)

Yeah. Type 1 is a Beetle innit.

I’m not sure what I’d do with 20 track bikes.

So my frame number is 2066.

According to this:

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Woodrup/Woodrup_serial_numbers.htm

that puts me 1973/4.

Which means I should look at a Record 2040 caliper:

http://www.velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx?ID=A8392B7C-B3DB-405F-A1A7-EEBF94E4DCDB&Enum=117&AbsPos=4

And 2030 levers:

http://www.velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx?ID=11A774EF-CD24-4324-83A8-FA81F72C6181&Enum=118&AbsPos=2

Does that sound right?

My dad had a Type 2. Oh how my schoolmates laughed.

Oh how I also wish he hadn't sold it for 50 quid to some bloke down the road in early 90s.

[Edit] Yeah, brakes sound spot on.

Man this is going to be lovely. What shape is the paint work in?

Do you build your own wheels?

The paint looks to all be OG and is generally nice, there are a couple of scratches and the usual bits missing around the seat post bolt etc. But it’s pretty awesome for 44 years old.

I’m going to try to deal with it carefully. I’ll post up before and after pics when I do.

Having looked at the price of H+Son TB14s (£60+) which I think are the rimz I’m going to go for, I think I’ll unbuild them and lace them loosely myself then take them to the LBS for final tensioning, else I’ll be spending £200.

Are you going for silver rims as per OG? I think it'll lose something if you go with another colour.

Yeh. These:

Nice but pricey.