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These lads do a frame incl blasting for 40-50 quid I've just found out. yowsah. Handy resource for Belfast folks. especially when the dublin lads are getting hit with 120 euro! Universal industrial spraying.
10 Kilwee Business ParkUpper Dunmurry LaneBELFASTBT17 0HD (MAP)County Antrim
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just saw handlebar tape, good job. Those wee clips would really finish it off.
Just getting to finishing my first fixed gear build myself and already thinking about the next bike. I'm thinking about a weekend geared road bike though and the fixed gear for commuting. something like an old rourke frame and a load of chorus on it.
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That puch would benefit no end from £5 worth of black handle bar tape.
Nice job though!
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I'd saw that one big block but couldnt quite bring myself to drop £7 on one bolt for an old raleigh stem.
lol
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was hoping for some kind of allen head bolt or something, or someone to have one in a tin.
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I need the bolt that kind of pinches your handlebars tight for a raleigh gb stem. anyone have one of can point me to a link of where one can be found? This is the stem.
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walking past my local off licence yesterday, you cant see out window due to display, fella leaves a bianchi road bike leaning against the glass outside without even a lock on it.
I mean ffs.
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Very nice lugwork - requires total restoration or would make surperb fix project - believed to be a Dave Russell frame 531 branded for Reg Barnett of S London - all i can find thius far is http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Dave_Russell.htm
Nice hubs pos campag - rear is flip flop for a fix if required -
99p with just over a day to go.
gotta be worth a punt that.
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debating some hammered mudguards myself for winter :)
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those mudguards are dapper, they the velo orange ones?
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For the record im not trying to rip anyone one off here.
The guy restores mk1 golfs, scooters, chooper bikes as well as road bikes.
He got the bike for cheap as part of a deal on vw bits and is willing to pass on at cost as he has enough project wise to be getting on with and heard I was building a bike.
So I'm not ripping anyone off thanks.
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ok just got a text through, its a geared fondriest circa 1992.
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For the money he's talking about im having it. just wanted to see if I could find out a bit more, a race series bike in a blue/pink I just thought would be unusual.
hopefully more details tomorrow.
lampre? arent their team colours pink/blue?
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No not drunk, I'm just hearing details of this via my mate who is into scooters and dont think twigged that it might be worth anything.
I think he said the model sounded like a french name but thought frame was italian.
gonna try and find out more tomorrow.
guy wanted virtually nothing for a complete bike!
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Fella I live with restores old scooters. He was round speaking to another scooter collector tonight and saw a bike the fella had in the back of his car.
70-80's race bike. Guy I live with couldnt remember the full name said something like a "jacques le monde" something like that and that, the fella recognised the series from the teams blue/pink/orange paint scheme.
I might be able to pick this up for next to nothing. I'd like a geared bike to go alongside my fixed gear. only surface rust :)
anyone recognise it? or any suggestions?
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what bars are those max?
lovely job btw.
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hopefully my front wheel/tyre/tube will be here in the morning. Cant wait, seems a big step forward in the build, then down to last few bits
toeclips/straps
stembolt.
chain.
handlebar tape
front brakeMega skint at the minute, so I've just been buying bits as I sold stuff on ebay lol
build funded thus far by
4 x cans of guinness (which I swapped for a 26" back wheel, that I then swapped for the rusty old frame/cranks/headset/saddle)
1 x mountain bike (sold for £40)
2 x old adidas trainers (sold on ebay £50) -
appreciate the link landslide I wondered how the drop was calculated as 10mm either way is a massive difference.
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I have a raleigh frame and 27" wheels, Im replacing the centre pull brakes that were orginally on the bike with a side pull front brake (its fixed gear now at back).
anyone know what size front brake I should be buying? I've no idea how you go about measuring them up and im sure this is simples to someone.
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not sure if those are up for sale, sounds like his collection, I'd be interested in if he has later stuff that he doesent really want primarily.
some taste in bikes tbf.
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Yep, I'll bring a camera.
The hetchins curly back, flying gate and holdsworth track just sound epic.
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Thats just a ridiculous collection, I'm going to be like gollum if I see them.
I wonder what "rubbish" he has going begging lol
He however may be Belfasts answer to fred west and is luring me in and I'll end up as part of his basement floor.
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It is in Belfast, frame are two a penny there than in London.
he mailed me back, check this for a collection.
"1948 baines flying gate all original.
1952 bates 1954 hetchins curly tail
1948 sun manx tt with wooden wheels!!
1955 holdsworth track
1953 claud butler track
1948 hobbs of barbican
3 locally built gordons frames
gearge stone track frame 1938 built in belfast
1948 paris tour de france
1955 mercian
and recently purchased thanet silverlight, very rare and expensive lol. all original"I think I just did a sex wee. jesus.
after a bit of noseying turns out "Gordons" made road racing frames in the 1950's about 10 miles away from me in reynolds 531. WANT. lol
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oddly enough ed they are harder to find here, all those ebay "pick up only" and gumtree finds are pretty slim on the ground, Literally on gumtree in six months there has been one rourke frame and a david lloyd bike for £250.
New road bikes go for good money but I have a sinking feeling too that a lot of people put no value on older frames so it just goes to the dump :(
Hopefully have struck lucky tho, wonder what he has rubs hands
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would this chain fit? its a kmc 415.
*The extreme fatter size makes this chain virtually indestructible, resisting impacts and grinds. The 415H is noted for being a little rougher and noisier compared to lighter duty chains. It may require additional axle spacing for proper clearance on some frames. This fat, extreme chain is ideal for freestyle, jumping, and street riding.
Link Size: 1/2" x 3/16" *
It'll be running between a standard 1970's raleigh cottered crank and a '27 x 1 1/4 rear wheel, Rigida chrolux chrome rim on a prima miche track hub, 16t sprocket, lockring'
I thought a heavier chain might be better for fixed gear rather than, a lighter one for a geared bike that isnt used for braking.
I bought the sprocket off here so ive no idea how big it is lol.