Recent content by averagebiker

I tell you what, if anyone can work it out/find it, I will give them one of my far too abundant project bikes I don't have time for lol If they don't want the bike I offer i will give £25 to an MS charity instead 👍🏻

Whilst a lot of bikes are not worth buying to repaint they can still be worth buying to use if the price is right.

Too far and too small

I would reveal my channel if it wasn't such a load of old sh............... 🤣

Lovely bike I have an almost identical one. I think your is a 94/95.

Ok, this evening I have trial fitted the donor 7-speed wheelset and I think it looks better than it did with the wheelset it came with (no doubt helped by the less agricultural rubber!). Does the retro community agree? It has also shaved 700g off the overall weight (no doubt helped by the less...

Thanks for the offer, I am sure it would work. I will get riding her quickly via the 7 speed wheelset but suspect I will eventually give the full campy xenon groupset a go on the bike just to try it. I have never ridden a Campy bike before so am intrigued lol

Errrm, what makes you think I am not already under a pile of bikes?!?!?? 🤣

It looks like the frames are very similar but your seat tube/seat stay set up is way nicer than mine! Raleigh paint of this era is bullet proof quality in my experience. I hope the project goes well.

Let me take you through the fevered mind of retro biker trying to fit this project in around work, childcare, family incidents/accidents etc......I am sure you are all the same 😁 Damn the donor bike with the Xenon groupset is an alloy frame so the FD clamp will be too big for the...

I have a 21" Pioneer with 501 tubing as my current station bike. I will have a look in the morning light to see how similar the UkK market frame is to yours.

No need to apologise. I was just clarifying my intentions for these to be temporary options until the wheels are rebuilt. I was not getting upset lol

Thinking about this, would it require a freewheel swap too?

Thanks. I know they are not top of the range but both should do a job for a while.

That is likely to be my first attempt as ideally I would like to keep it original (apart from new rims) so would be the quickest work around whilst I get the wheels sorted. I will also test my flexibility to be able use downtube shifters lol