Recent content by retrobate

Lee Cooper for me too. People tell stories about frames from the midlands being delivered to Overburys, no one has said so but I have always been under the impression that Lee Cooper was the mystery builder.🥸

I'm not quite sure why we are discussing provenance, the tooling required to make this would probably cost knocking on for £10,000 & also require a F'king great forging machine. Why on earth would anyone spend that much money & effort to fake it (I was going to say forge a forging!). Its an...

Looks like a forging to me, just hasnt had the flashing removed.

:oops:I think that "Custom built" means made of 2 old bikes welded together!🤣

DM re "Suntour XC Pro brakeset now £30":LOL:

DM on the way

Not mine. Upgraded spec with DX & a nice blue Flite...

Not cheap but tidy...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187172530920?_skw=Raleigh&itmmeta=01JT1SWZ5A3HAZP34VP9TFB4AZ&hash=item2b945a2ae8%3Ag%3A8RkAAOSwuVFoC-sE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dnAlzyqY2WEtqD7ZlJeL6KUOFd%2FcKideuhPU0y5U0Elj%2BnEm3RYe1d1TCaxCy2uoTIWFxCIAiVyMt2FIHdVVlVGj0WRpquca%2FgOS2uH6f58VchWltKQjY...

Thoroughly enjoyed this. It was great to chat bike shit with some of you chaps, buy more crap valuable investments to clutter up my garage & perv some awsome bikes. Big thanks to Mike for setting this up. 👍

Not mine...

I'm also very interested in the frame set pending some size information. Can I join the que after Tangent please?

She's my wife now!

I will take this please. PM on the way.

I have done the same as August Bicycles and never had an issue. I took it a little further & also drilled 4mm holes every 90 degrees in the steer tube either side of the join & welded the sleeve to the steer tube at each of these holes so even if the butt joint failed there is a bit of a fail...