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Re: elswick Hi there, I don't have much info about elswick but I do know they were solid factory built bikes, they certainly aren't as refined as an artisan frame like a Mercian or similar. The Lincoln imp certainly had 531 main tubes, Dunlop special lightweight wheels, gb arret brakes and...

Re: rob roy Hi. I ended up buying this bike, it had top spec components for its time so that raised my suspicion re the model, having inspected the bike I now believe it's a home paint job, a quite convincing one in a bizarre rob Roy theme,had me fooled for a while, the components and the imp...

Re: Wittlesea bike jumble There were quite a few bargains there last year(2016) Great atmosphere too! Well worth a visit..

Re: Im pretty sure all frames are reamed to a certain extent, the inside of the tubes is not perfectly smooth after manufacture, or at least that's how it was explained to me on the frame building course I took, we certainly didn't try any seat posts before reaming and the tubes did not...

Re: On hand built frame it depends who reamed (bored out) the seat tube, I have only done this once on a 631 tubed frame I built, it came in around 26.8 and the inside of the tube is not perfectly smooth so needs to be reamed out smooth to what ever size you want (within reason) I went for 27.2...