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  1. sherlylock

    '89 Titan Exclusiv

    Nope - couldn't find much about Titan other than what's in this thread. Quite rare in this country as I think only sold on the continent. I think I read that the frames are Italian made and the sticker on the chainstay suggests it was sold in Germany by a company called RadSport Ruster. Shame...
  2. sherlylock

    '89 Titan Exclusiv

    Just looked back on the sale info and it was a chap in London who bought it - came across to Southend on the train and picked it up. Shame it got broken up but there......I decided to sell it! Did it come with the original chromed fork - you mention thread damage - on the steerer?
  3. sherlylock

    '89 Titan Exclusiv

    Ha! No way - def. the same frame (got a cycloshite sticker on the downtube?). Shame it's been stripped of it's groupset as it was in really good original condition - regrettable sale as it's certainly a rare frame. Where are you based? (Just wondering how far it's travelled).
  4. sherlylock

    '89 Titan Exclusiv

    Certainly cool bikes - and well specc'd - looks like that one has a cool nineties smoke effect paint on the lighter bits of the frame? I sold mine last year as part of a cull of my collection and I quite regret it. Don't see many about that's for sure...... thanks for sharing. :)
  5. sherlylock

    Elswick Hopper Prima Resto

    Nope - couldn't find out anything about it I'm afraid. Long gone now.
  6. sherlylock

    The faded Caramel beast......'82 Raleigh Gran Sport

    Finally got my shizzle together and bolted this all back together........and took it out for a ride this morning. Being honest - it's been together for a few months now - I mostly finished it off over the winter but have been waiting for the better weather to come before test riding. 5 1/2...
  7. sherlylock

    1990 Saracen Traverse

    Ooo blimey - looks like my old bike for sure. Marks on the cranks look the same..... Paid £30 for it, sold it for circa £150 (after a full strip, clean and rebuild). Think I sold it late 2020 (so much for the "it's a keeper" statement :LOL: ). Here's one of the last pics I took for the ebay...
  8. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Shakedown ride a few weeks ago. What a bike! Rolls so smoothly......best "first ride" of a project I've had. No tweaks needed. Next up - replacement saddle and trying to get a matching Maillard hub for the rear to match the original front.
  9. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Regarding bartape/saddle/cables I decided on a cool grey scheme for this - seeing as it's a white bike. Grey cables and grey bar tape - with the plan of finding a grey saddle too for full-on matchy matchy. Cotton velox bar tape in grey - whilst it offers little comfort compared to modern...
  10. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Lovely that! I'm tempted to fit some mudguards to mine at some point..... Cleaned up and repaired the Weinmann gum hoods as best I can. I always like to retain these if I can - sometimes they're past their best though. I've got one good and one reasonable... Simplex retrofriction levers...
  11. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    After giving the frame a good paint cut and polish and a coat of wax I moved onto components. Original bars were nice - but bent so I had a rummage in the shed and found some not-period-correct GB bars. Bit of light corrosion but they're cleaned up reasonably well. After junking the...
  12. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Good idea...... Can't remember how you summon @Peachy! .......say his name 3 times whilst looking a mirror or summat like that (or I could just ask him on facebook). :LOL:
  13. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    I think that's the receipt from the '92 built frame (he mentions having a second frame built in 92 for his missus in the writeup). The '81 bike in that article has the same frame colour and font as my bike but much more plain lugs.....but has the same canti brakes. No mention of its frame...
  14. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    I've certainly seen evidence of Nervex pro lugs on 80s machines......on the ClassicLightweights page for Nervex pro lugs they show a 1986 Mercian as an example. Would love to decode the frame number but there seems to be very little on EG Bates bikes online......
  15. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Yeah - compared side by side with my '82 Raleigh Gran Sport and bb looked to be a similar height. After a couple of rides I could resist the urge no longer and stripped the bike down to give it a good once over. Frame number under bottom bracket. Hard to make out but I think its 2961 - not...
  16. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Yeah, brakes and shifters are really good......now they're clean and fixed. There's a blind fixing on the back of the fork and it has got mudguard eyes too so I'd assumed it was a tourer. Canti brakes of that style were a CX thing weren't they? Yep - the end of the spring in the shifter for...
  17. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Ha! Yep - pretty much all reference images of Bates from that era I could find online are in white. "You can have it in any colour as long as it's white......."
  18. sherlylock

    Very pink 1985 Orbit Gold Medal

    Loving that - looks very fresh.......top job :)
  19. sherlylock

    Mid Eighties E.G Bates Tourer

    Picked up a couple of months ago......a sorry looking E.G Bates. Recognising the Bates name as being something of potential quality I dropped the seller a message and within the day I was the new custodian. Eddie Bates was the Bates brother who was based in Plaistow (Horace Bates being the...
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