Hi Everyone.
Picked up this Triumph last week, despite most chrome work being badly rusted. (It did have a nice old Wrights saddle but unfortunately that was to far gone to keep).
Anyway as the 26"x1&1/4" were rusty i fitted a pair of 700c wheels to the bike and also replaced front and rear brakes as again originals were rusted.
Having checked on a couple sites i think from the serial number, the bike possibly dates from mid 1960,s. Certainly there are no braze on,s at all for cables.
The rear mech is Campagnolo Valentino Extra with downtube shifter which also works very well once used to it.
Im hoping some of You good people may remember these bikes and maybe throw some light on model, and maybe years likely to be from if not mid 60,s.
One old guy who stopped to admire it over weekend seemed to think they had Reynolds tubing. Is that likely even thou there is no sticker on frame?
Also i see on the original wheels that the spokes inners and outers all run straight to rim rather than under/over crossing each other like modern wheels have. When did that become the norm for wheel building?
Thanks in anticipation.
Picked up this Triumph last week, despite most chrome work being badly rusted. (It did have a nice old Wrights saddle but unfortunately that was to far gone to keep).
Anyway as the 26"x1&1/4" were rusty i fitted a pair of 700c wheels to the bike and also replaced front and rear brakes as again originals were rusted.
Having checked on a couple sites i think from the serial number, the bike possibly dates from mid 1960,s. Certainly there are no braze on,s at all for cables.
The rear mech is Campagnolo Valentino Extra with downtube shifter which also works very well once used to it.
Im hoping some of You good people may remember these bikes and maybe throw some light on model, and maybe years likely to be from if not mid 60,s.
One old guy who stopped to admire it over weekend seemed to think they had Reynolds tubing. Is that likely even thou there is no sticker on frame?
Also i see on the original wheels that the spokes inners and outers all run straight to rim rather than under/over crossing each other like modern wheels have. When did that become the norm for wheel building?
Thanks in anticipation.
