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Greetings all, Due to the recent arrival of our second son I’ve had to have a close look at the number of bikes I have in the garage, and after having surgery on my shoulder two on this ago I’ve been instructed by my physiotherapist that I need to have a look at rowing machines as my trapezius...

Re: It looks extreme but I am just over 6'5" with very long limbs so it actually works rather well. Quick vid of it in test run action with my usual TT helmet on to check head position (note my arms aren't as bent at the elbow as Ian's in the picture Nob put up, but I can't hold that bent arm...

And for those wondering........ This is its brother in full modern setup which is used every week in the spring and summer.

Finally after many months of working on this off and on it's finally finished! This is the second of a pair of these Dynatech 2325 Titanium frames that I purchased from Ian Cammish a while back. The cosmetically damaged one (peeling decals and a siezed in bottom bracket that removal damaged...

Re: Still for sale. Price now reduced to £450 o.n.o

It is with a heavy heart that I offer up my beloved Raleigh Banana re-production up for sale. This bike is an accurate re-production of the late 80's version of the bike and was painted to match those race machines (hence why the join between top-tube, seat tube and seat stays is yellow unlike...

If anyone out there has a 650c sized carbon fibre front wheel needing a new home could they contact me please? I'm looking for a tri-spoke ideally (like a HED H3, Specialized or Mavic) but a Corima quad-spoke would also be great, and I'm not bothered if it's clincher or tubular. It's for my...

Really hoping someone has a pair of these residing in their spare parts drawer somewhere..... Needed for the refurbishment of my Raleigh Banana Singlespeed as the original brake levers and callipers I built it with were a bit low end and struggle in the crummy road conditions we have during...

No worries :) I've tried so many different saddles and the best one I've come across is the Adamo that I have on my carbon TT machine, but at £140 it's a wee bit expensive to go buying one for every one of my bikes. In the meantime I've found the Selle Italia anatomical cutout saddles at...

As I've said elsewhere you ride what works for you........that works for me. Anytime I ride with the supposed 'proper' saddle angle of parallel to the ground I end up losing feeling in my undercarriage after less that two miles. My Adamo on my TT machine helps that, but it's still a slight...

And so it now needs a tiny bit more work (new wheel bearings, debadging the wheels, and some bar tape), but it's now been test ridden!

Frame, forks, bars, and chainring back from the painters this morning. So last weekends mission was to go down to Pedal Rev to borrow their headset tool (too damn expensive to buy one of those for my own tool cabinet!) to fit the new Miche headset complete with its old school conical...

Sadly it's not a proper 'Nana' :( And the values of the old 531c's has dropped recently as I have a permanent eBay search going for 'Raleigh Banana' (being a wee bit of a nut on them). A very tidy 531c Banana Limited Edition sold two weeks ago on eBay. Originally the seller had it down...

A few were made available for the public to purchase, but I mean a few (less than 50 someone told me when I was looking three years ago). If you check eBay regularly and see how often the Limited Edition bikes that were made from 531c with full Shimano 105 turn up and then reduce that by a...

Does anyone have one of these in their shed just hanging around? Not bothered if it's in clincher or tubular flavour as its going to be used on a TT bike for early and late season racing. I brought a clincher version of one of these wheels from someone and it fitted the forks on my project...

And so tonight's mission - after the regular turbo session - was to spend an hour or so sanding down the frame prior to getting busy with the superb decals that Andrew Shore of Shore Design has knocked out for me. The 'Banana Dyna-Tech' on the top tube is my favourite. The original...

***Update*** Came back from the painters yesterday with a full boot of the car. And this is what the bike looks like now I have decals on the way from H Lloyd Cycles for proper reproductions of the Special Products Division badge, the Gerald O'Donovan badge, the Raleigh SBDU...

Well the first frame is away at the painters, so today I've been attacking the forks of the second frame. The second frame has been well used and therefore had a fair amount of corrosion on it, least of which was one seized bottom bracket plate, and the worst was the stem........the wonderful...

Thanks Bikemeister2000.......... Really great to hear from someone who was there at the times that this pair of frames was born, and just superb to get the history of the two frames ironed out too. Even if it wasn't actually made by Gerald the larger of the two frames certainly had a bit...

Well apparently the MacDonald Cycles frame was built especially for Malcolm Elliot for the hour record attempt, an dit was made by the main man himself. According to Ian the pair of frames for him were made at the same time in the Special Products division, and whilst one was made by the usual...