Recent content by sjcprojects

I saw this one on Facebook a while back, looks lovely. It was obviously built as a time trial frame, so no need for a front derailleur.

Thanks. Flites are definitely one of my favourite bicycle components, just the perfect combination of style (the original versions at least) and function – the only choice for a 90s road bike, really. This one is an original from 1993, I actually took it off another bike to use on this one.

The cranks are now both polished with the logos removed, and the seatpost and saddle added. I have a tendency to have slightly smaller frames than might be ideal, aesthetically at least, though I've always found they ride fine for me. This a 56cm and a 58 is more my size, but I guess I have...

The paint is looking nice in the sunshine - that can’t have been an easy job. A definite head-turner, that’s for sure. 😎

St Lawrence's Church, Eyam, in the Peak District. Eyam is also known as the 'Plague Village' because of a famous episode during the plague years of 1665-66 when the villagers chose to quarantine themselves to avoid spreading the plague elsewhere. Around 50% of the villagers died of the plague...

...and after: 5 minutes in drain cleaner removed all the anodising, then a hard rub on the logos area with fine wire wool and alcohol took off the black parts of the logos. A light sand with 800 grit removed the rest, then 1000 and 2000 to smooth out any marks, and finally polishing with...

The stem and bars are now installed. Putting bars in a traditional quill stem is always nervy for me, but some isopropyl alcohol seems to help slide the bars in, and thankfully I avoided the dreaded scratches. I've kept the original ITM 400 stem. It's been the perfect weather for spraying in...

This might be a moot point by now for the OP, but just to add, to my surprise I've just managed to resurrect a pair of RSX shifters that seemed absolutely, completely stuck and past it. The right shifter just didn't move at all - and this is after flushing both out with GT85. Someone did already...

I'm after a nice condition 90s Campagnolo headset top nut (and/or top race). 1993 to be exact, but a few years either way are probably fine. If you only have a top nut, that would be fine as it's the main part I need to replace, really. For the top nut, probably most models would be fine...

It does have the usual cable guides for a road bike, it just doesn't have the shifter bosses for the cable stops near the top of the downtube - instead those stops are on a band. Which is fine, it just means you need some band-on downtube shifters and there are plenty of those around.

Wow. It's got just the right level of randomness and ugliness (half a front mudguard and no rear one, a few scapes here and there, nasty stem and bar-ends) to disguise the fact that it's a fantastic bike. Though having said that, some people obviously think anything not 'modern' is worthless...

Another couple of contrasting Sussex churches. First of all a fairly typical small, somewhat squat, flint-stoned church from the 12th century, the Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe. It's also known as the Shepherd's church. There's a steel-making link here, as Pyecombe was known for its...

The Mavic 610 unthreaded BB is installed, after a bit of improvised tool use. Because I had to separate the aluminium sleeve of the BB from the other parts to actually remove it from the frame when stripping it down, I've now had to re-insert the bearings into the sleeve (and therefore onto the...

Thanks. I’m hoping to use the pantographed ITM stem that the bike came with. Unfortunately I was unable to save the pantographed areas, so it will be entirely resprayed in black, leaving a very (very) subtle pantograph still visible. I can’t decide if this will look weird or not so I’m going to...

The headset is installed, plus a few other parts. I wasn't going to use the Veloce headset that came with the bike due to it not being in the best cosmetic condition, but due to the low stack height I was quite limited with options. The bearings and races are good, so after much deliberation I...