Pashley 26mhz project 1

After spending too long looking and not buying i thought sod it and bagged myself a couple of my childhood dream bikes the pashley 26mhz. A few lucky guys i knew used to ride them but unfortunatly my mother couldnt afford anything like this so i was stuck with my saracen x-ile . Years pased and when i was earning my own money, motorbikes / booze and women took 1st place and the street riding slowly tuned into a thing of the past..

20 years on (feels like 5 mins) i am coming out of the other end of the cycle and wanting to treat myself and own somthing i could never have had back in the day. I done some searching around and after recently joining this forum i noticed a bike for sale on a facebook group im in.



After a small bit of quibble with the seller we agreed a price and 2 days later the postman dropped off this beauty







The bike came with XTR v brakes but my go to braking was always the HS33 for looks and performance so I scouted marketplace for brakes, found this set for £115 in Immaculate condition,


The brakes came attached to a free bike which I immediately sold for £80 so total paid was £35 for some mint brakes .

Into the 26mhz,
She arrived with no chain tensioner and a rusty chain, I hit wiggle up for a gusset tensioner and a kmc single spd chain and a fitted the magura brakes.




I wanted to try and keep thigs era specific so hunted down some Azonic bars and stem (not sure if i like them)

Plans are to possibly get the frame re painted, new decals and ride it.
each time i tart it up or improve it i wil doccument it on the thread

I have also brought another 26mhz which needs work so there will be a seperate thread for that too.

Nice! I used to look at the advert for these in mbuk. I too was a Saracen budget kid, i think it was a used rufftrax frame, rattled canned black at the time.

W7Ford said:

Nice! I used to look at the advert for these in mbuk. I too was a Saracen budget kid, i think it was a used rufftrax frame, rattled canned black at the time.

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Mate the struggle was real ,Carrera Vulcan for me to begin then some rattle can green x-ile lol

So I decided to get the frame stripped along with my other or two projects,

Frames were then dropped off at a powder coater near me a few guys reccomended.

This morning was a good morning.. I had a call from the coaters and the pashleys were ready for the collection, I decided to have one bike ivory and the other the iconic blue colour, also slipped a pair of fatty R forks in there for good measure