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I use various painters - the Bianchi was painted in Italy and the Claud by Mario Vaz in London. The Hobbs and Excel are in original paint - the Excel still has all the gold feathering on just about every tube if you look carefully

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Excel Split Seat Tube

Claud

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You shouldn’t get me started - far too many pics.😂😂 Anything in particular you’d like to see? They are 1937 Bianchi , 1949 Claud Butler Sport Anglais , 1939 Hobbs Continental Model and the late 40s Excel

Hey - whatever takes your fancy Guiness! - I kinda see this as my ‘Irish’ bike but orange may be too much😂😂☘☘️ These are some others I’ve done. I think the red tape and green cabling works on the Claud Butler but want to do something different. I did have white on the split seat tube Excel but...

Cheers - I’m gonna get it up and running as a fixie to start. I’d like to leave that wheelset as is. I have a few Conloy rims knocking about but think they’re 26”. But the longer term plan is to do it with an alloy Sturmey FM set up. Also have a nice fluted set of Williams cranks (albeit circa...

Looks lovely - can’t wait to get riding mine too👍 Despite school hols and a family holiday I managed to get some work done on the Model 26. Chrome cleaned and polished , frame rust treated , small parts , stem and chainset through the acid bath and forks and frame put back together with new...

Thanks - yeah I have seen it but still a great thing. I seem to have the bare bones there in mine. Finding the concave bb cup was a bonus. It has a Raleigh 16 axle but not the hollow one. I have a load of early hiduminium brakes and period Brooks saddles so it should be possible to get a fairly...

Not the best but you can just about make it out from this pic

Gave the bars and seatpost a clean on the green RRA today. Both came up well and they’re both stamped Reynolds Aluminium Alloy. The bars are the Maes bend and the seatpost is the R1 version and with a date code of 10 53. Assuming that’s Oct 1953 and the post is original it could mean this bike...

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Thanks - as you can see , it wasn’t when I started😂 Just nice that it survived - loads of track bikes didn’t 😥 I had no other option than a full restoration for obvious reasons

I feel your pain😂 it was a similar thing with the Moderne. Def won’t say how much I paid for it😂😂 But one of my best deals was this SBDU track bike. Found as this powder coated “ MTB” , by the time I sold all the MTB bits and the nice but wrong Sugino chainset , it was as if someone had given me...

Succinct and accurate. I was working on both the Model 26 and the Moderne frames today. I know it’s easy when you have both in front of you but they are very different. Do you have a source for the Moderne decals? HLloyd has some but I can’t seem to find the seat tube decals. Cheers , Mike

Thanks for yr interest but no , the Moderne is quite different. I’ve just posted some pics later in this thread

Many thanks for your post - I’ll def be in touch with any queries. At the mo I’m fairly on top of things but ive been doing this long enough to know all could change rapidly😂😂 I think for what I paid it was a good price. The frame and wheels being so good was a big plus. The trick now is not to...

That ‘s great - thanks for the info