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Giving it away! How did steel of this quality come to be so undervalued?! World’s gone mad.

Price?

Did it sell?

Is this the one that was on eBay that the seller wanted 3k for?!

What a tease. I wanna see the rest…

Lost count how many times I’ve rebuilt this frame. It’s 70 years old this year so as a birthday treat it’s now my winter/commuter for the coming season.

This has got to stop…

Price?

Thanks for that. I have the same habit. Currently trying to convince myself I don’t need that Ken Ryall…

These are both excellent builds! Have you converted them from 27” to 700c? It’s my current obsession to get fatter tyres. Also, is that Ken Ryall frame currently on eBay yours? Very similar vibes.

What are the clearances like? Any chance of 32mm with fenders or is that crazy talk?!

I didn’t know this thread existed! Just finished this, my attempt at a randonneur on the cheap. Got the frame for a bargain and then built up the rest from the parts bin. Had Campag brifters but switch to DT shifters in friction mode and it’s perfection. Friction all the way for me. Everything works with everything!

So I have no excuse with my granny triple! The intention is to make it into a 2x9 sub compact by ditching the outer chain ring. More cheapskate tactics.

Thats pretty bling for a dad bike! The bars are the same ones you enquired about that were on my orange Bob Jackson. In fact most of this build came off that bike. I did 200 miles in the Shropshire hills and realised it's just not the bike for touring hence building this.

Just finished this. I wanted a rando bike a la Rene Herse/Weigle but I'm skint. Found this '86 Raleigh Royal frame for very little money and built it up using my admittedly respectable parts bin. Eventually I'll add more bling in the way of Honjo fenders and posh racks but it's pretty convincing for now. I even have some Carradice bags for full grandad mode.

I saw this frame in the pictures the liquidators put out as part of the vulture feeding frenzy over the Mercian corpse. Glad you got it back! The last of its kind.

The bars are from an 80s Dawes Galaxy. They have 'Handmade in England' on them and seem to be based on old randonneur bars with the slight upward flare.

Useful set up for a few days touring. Super C saddle bag with bagman support and struts. The struts allowed the tent to sit in the space behind the saddle.

A sad day indeed. I don't know how they lasted so long to be honest. It's another consignment to history of something this country could be proud of.

Tommasini Tecno. Mostly Dura Ace 9100 with Rotor X crankset and American Classic wheels. 7.9kgs. Bracing myself for the hate over the stem (it’s not staying like that).

He’s running a 3 speed Sturmey-Archer hub on a track bike. This has necessitated a genius DIY workaround for the shifting mechanism. Sheldon Brown would approve!

Absolutely love this. Particularly the gear shifting ‘solution’.

Rebuilt this for the 100th time. The bars are surprisingly effective on long rides.

I bought the hubs on Ebay and the front one came with that set up so I left it. Makes it easier for fixing punctures!