Recent content by Fratello

I can't quite read the decal at the bottom bracket. Would it be possible to get a better photo that one? Also what is the history of your bike and what country is it in now?

That's fantastic. Thanks very much for posting. I'll post more photos when I get more work done.

That's great. I searched the entire internet and concluded it wasn't on it. I believe an Irish rider brought it home after a stint in Europe. It changed hands several times with the repaints getting worse. When I got it there was no sign of decals or brand of any kind. I had to take the seller's...

To the best of my knowledge it was all purple when new. There was little trace of tbe purple after several others had painted and repained it over the years. The fork strangly retained all the layers of paint added while the frame seems to have been sanded. There was a small crack where the two...

I have the fork repainted and got hold of a nice 600 groupset. I dismantled the levers to get them working again. It was tricky but I did a pair of RSX shifters after and found it easier second time around. Innards are very similar. Then I fitted new repro resin decals from ebay. Frame was...

Paint removal in progress. Established it's a Donnay. The fork serial no. suggests it was made after the Merckx Donnay. Still looking for a photo of it when it was young to see what decals it had.

Tbanks. I have that discussion it's the same frame before it was dismantled. I just bought the frame fork and the seller kindly threw in bars & stem the rest had gone to others. Before I bought it I thought I was buying one of these...

Thanks for the reply. Fork is aluminium with steel threaded steerer tube. It has a serial no. Suggesting Nov 1993 but......it had 5 paint colours. Crap purple, green, metallic green, dark green and nice purple.The frame seems to have had three, I can't seem to find any mor colours under metallic...

I bought an early carbon frame. Came with aluminium fork. Original paint was light metallic green, I think. Seller said it was a Donnay (tennis raquet maker) but it's not a Merckx Donnay. Seller said it was made for a European pro team and made its way to Ireland in the 1990's. I'll attach a...

Re: That would be great. PM me if you like.

Re: Thanks for the offer. I bought the makings of wheels so I just need to build them up. I need to update my wish list, which is much shorter now.

Re: PM sent.

Re: I have a front which needs cones and ball bearings. I ordered them yesterday. I have no rear hub. I need a silver 7 speed. LX in black is too modern! If you had a silver one I'd be interested. Thanks for the reply.

Re: I had the same query. I found that St. John Street Cycles still stock them. Go to their website and search for "559 rims" They stock a silver Ryde Zac 19 RS which looks reasonable to me.

brocklanders023 Sold me a lovely LX front mech. Highly recommended. 10/10