You can vote now for the August/September rBOTM !

ugo.santalucia's Sannino Super Record >>>



Cipolinni's Raleigh Panasonic SBDU >>>



Bikenut2010's Pettenella >>>



Old Ned's Flandria >>>



Citoyen du Monde's Marastoni >>>



Legrandefromage's Raleigh >>>



Tel's Raleigh Twenty Special >>>



Grumpycommuter's Raleigh Lenton Clubman >>>



NeilM's Raleigh RSP 853 >>>



Agentorange's Colnago Tecnos >>>



Trip's Merlin ExtraLight >>>

Blimey, that's one of the toughest yet! It's like being the first to open one of those big chocolate boxes and getting faced with 2 full tiers of choice (with no orange or coffee creams to ruin everything).

Very hard to choose this month, as it always seams to be.

I could only decide as to which bike I would like to ride the most:

Cipolinni's Raleigh Panasonic SBDU.

Top effort from everyone though, well done to all.

So how's me little Raleigh Twenty Special doing eh!? Don't want to vote for my own bike or for any of the competition either so can't see the results.

After the blood sweat and tears that went into building something bolder than the run of the mill racers we normally see on here it would be a shame if it doesn't place at least in the top 3.....

My Tecnos may on the surface may look like a run of the mill racer but I often lie awake at night recalling the hours my father spent at his death bed with a lathe milling down the axles while my long-departed mother worked her poor calaced fingers to the bone while stitching my saddle. Classic bikes have always been a family affair in this cold desolate Pyranean village, anyway, must go, I can hear the generator spluttering...

I've voted for Grumpy's Lenton Raleigh. Mainly for the beating it dished out in Herefordshire!

You sir, are a man of estimable taste! Grumpy Santa will be bringing something special for you to Cannock on the 27th of December

+1

Top 3 - good call...

Another top month, congrats to all

Retrobike road Bike of The Month Aug / Sept 2012 Official Result

1. Agentorange's Colnago Tecnos
2. Citoyen du Monde's Marastoni
3. Tel's Raleigh Twenty Special

Oh Tel! You was robbed!

Hanging chad?

Oh, superb, the old girl got top place

I know Colnagos are eye-rollingly ubiquitous these days & lack the personality of some of the exotic bikes above, but despite it's looks this is a real bargain basement build with parts passionately sourced from local Classified ads & eBay here in France, the last thing I wanted to do was throw big money at this thing.

Many thanks to those who voted for my Colnago.

3rd!!!!? THIRD!!???

Ooof! I was robbed. It was because I didn't fit the bell wasn't it? Damn my lack of attention to detail....

Congrats to the 2 that managed to scrape their way past me by a cats whisker.

In fairness all lovely bikes. Thanks for those that voted.

So what's my prize?

Good stuff, what bars are you running on your Colnago agentorange?

Hi, Newbie question... please be pacient with me, how do I put one of my bikes on the contest?

Thanks in advance!!