Hello folks,
Its been a good while since I contributed to the collective, busy busy... real life and other excuses!
Anyway, 2018 projects...I expect it may take a while to find the missing bits....
1987 Tushingham....the model before they added the "B.52"
Tange Plain Gauge tubing, Chainstay mounted brakes.
1988 Tushingham B.52 made from Tange Triple Butted Tubing and now with Seatstay mounted brakes.
I've had one of these frames for a while (Tushingham)....it has been around the site in various ownerships where it eventually came to me as part of a package with a couple of other frames. Original frame and fork and was in a terrible state and not worthy of a rebuild. It had more touch-up paint than original paint.
The Tushingham B.52 I found on Ebay, it was complete with original stem, bars and fork, however the paint was again not in good shape and had faded to a transparent yellow, the Exage groupset was shot or had been changed over the years. Decision was taken to restore both to as new, there are enough survivors around with their original paint for the purists.
The Tushingham will be built up to the factory brochure spec with Exage Mountain, this is proving difficult to find good parts especially the rear Mech, Crank arms, brake levers..
The Tushingham B.52 will be built up with MT60 in a 'reasonable' race spec from the 89-90 period...I have a hankering for a Mark 1 Girvin Flexstem...
Apologies for photos, I will redo and sort them out.
Going to be a slow build....
Andy
Its been a good while since I contributed to the collective, busy busy... real life and other excuses!
Anyway, 2018 projects...I expect it may take a while to find the missing bits....
1987 Tushingham....the model before they added the "B.52"
Tange Plain Gauge tubing, Chainstay mounted brakes.
1988 Tushingham B.52 made from Tange Triple Butted Tubing and now with Seatstay mounted brakes.
I've had one of these frames for a while (Tushingham)....it has been around the site in various ownerships where it eventually came to me as part of a package with a couple of other frames. Original frame and fork and was in a terrible state and not worthy of a rebuild. It had more touch-up paint than original paint.
The Tushingham B.52 I found on Ebay, it was complete with original stem, bars and fork, however the paint was again not in good shape and had faded to a transparent yellow, the Exage groupset was shot or had been changed over the years. Decision was taken to restore both to as new, there are enough survivors around with their original paint for the purists.
The Tushingham will be built up to the factory brochure spec with Exage Mountain, this is proving difficult to find good parts especially the rear Mech, Crank arms, brake levers..
The Tushingham B.52 will be built up with MT60 in a 'reasonable' race spec from the 89-90 period...I have a hankering for a Mark 1 Girvin Flexstem...
Apologies for photos, I will redo and sort them out.
Going to be a slow build....
Andy
