Recent content by Jonny69

Someone might have gone over the frame with Linseed oil or similar to protect the frame. I would expect the frame to be Reynolds 531. What diameter is the seatpost?

The headset was notching into the ahead position (and probably contributed to a crash I had) so I gave it a going over a couple of weeks ago. I was expecting to find the crown race badly brinelled, but it was in fact the race in the lower headtube cup which had the most damage. I don’t have a...

Very rare bike. I don’t know how much you do or don’t know about Parkes bikes. FC Parkes started the Sun bicycle company. Sun were the factory-built bikes and the Parkes brand was reserved for the handbuilt lightweights. They shared frame numbers with Sun frames, so your P is 1948/1949: Over...

What saddle is that?

£10! Amazing it’s a 1991 frame given that it looks like it’s basically identical to a 1950s Raleigh Lenton. I think it’s both great and terrible that they carried that design forwards for 40+ years!

The weather looks like it’s going to be cack for the next five-six days but the local roads are going to be absolute chaos for commuting next week. Combination of schools going back and the key road out of here is closed for seven days for works. It’s going to be a mess. I normally commute 2-3...

New tubs and SPDs fitted. Saddle adjusted and it’s ready to go. I even gave the chromework a polish!

Believe it or not I still have this and it’s about to go back into daily service. I’ve not ridden it at all in the last year because the tubs are shot and I was actually struggling to find any in 25mm wide when I last looked. I had another look last night and hopefully got some Vittoria Rally...

I’ll still stick with my silly old rubbish, thanks :)

Cool patina! I can’t see anything that looks worrying there. Hopefully just a bit of polish and oily rag is all it needs 👍

Not seen one of those before. Was that a promotional thing for Anais Anais? I can literally smell that perfume now.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to go from the 5-speed on there to a 6-speed with a 28T lowest gear? If so, I agree, it looks like the Mk7 will be reluctant to do that.

Cool, I saw that and I wasn't sure if you were sure because of the frame number. Just giving you some more evidence for it being a later frame.

Just catching up with this thread. Good to see it ended up with GIGFY. I know this has already been covered, but I don't think it has many hallmarks of a 1930s frame. If you ignore the 1950s componentry, the following things are inconsistent for on a 30s frame: the fork is too straight, no...

Wow, some cool stuff there!