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I couldn't resist really and as you've probably guessed dear reader this post is about a Nigel Dean Triathlon and what I plan to do with it. I picked this little gem up from FB market place a little while back and I really really don't need any more bikes, but I do like Nigel's frames and am...

Its amazing how time flies. Work, stuff at home, eloping to Las Vegas to get married, cars, other hobbies and just life in general have meant I've not done much bike fettling for a while, I've still managed to ride a few of my bikes but just not got greasy handed for a while. Well I was home...

This will probably appeal to chaps of a certain vintage but back in the 70's and 80's before the gravel bike was a glint in a marketing mans eye, long before the advent of the Mountain Bike and for that matter the Raleigh Bomber, those of us that couldn't convince our mums to buy us a Raleigh...

I'm expecting this to create some opinions but In the words of Jeremy Clarkson I've done a thing so I'm very interested in what peoples thoughts are about this thing I've done? I do very much doubt there are any other Campag equipped electric bikes though. The reason for this thing is quite...

I picked up a couple of scruffy steel framed machines yesterday. The guy that owned them had posted pictures of them on the Facebook vintage bikes group and asked for opinions on value where he of course got a very wide range of answers. As he was local I asked what he actually wanted for them...

Hello All. I don't usually stray into this section of the forum because, well most of my bikes struggle to get out of the 1980's let alone anywhere near the turn of the century. Anyhow I'm after some advice that is probably better served here. I have a modernish bike that I needed to get forks...

No No No No No, I don't need any more bikes I really don't, but I always argue that need and want are such easily interchangeable words so that justifies it as far as I'm concerned. This is one of two bicycle frame manufacturers to hail from my childhood home of Ashford in Kent, the first was a...

I went out last weekend to pick up a nice Columbus framed Ribble I'd bought via the internet and when I picked it up the guy I bought it from said do you want another? He said its free otherwise its going to the tip as its not in great nick. So not being one to turn down anything road bike...

I think this just about qualifies as retro as it does come from the end of the last century. Anyway there I was idling looking through ebay and this BMW Williams road bike frame pops up, its quite scruffy but being a man who's partial to the products of the Bayerische motoren werke, a motor...

Casually scanning ebay the other day I found one of the decal sellers has started doing the correct decal set for my Mk2 TDF so its finally time for this mail order catalogue Christmas pressie special to shine once again. I'd already stripped down the wheels a while ago and re laced the hubs...

This one I picked up as a bare frame and posted a frame identification thread over here. Its a very common looking frame so obviously I didn't get a huge amount of feedback or suggestion. So after a bit of research myself I've come to the conclusion that its probably a Geoffrey Butler and in...

Help, can anyone identify this frame? What I know: It's British, 531 throughout, takes a 27.2 mm seat pin, has Gipiemme drop outs without mudguard eyes, has heart cutout lugs and has a 4 digit number stamped on the steerer and bottom bracket which in this case is 5793 and is a small font...

A while ago I did a thread on my Meral and mused on how French I could actually make a bike and always vowed to do another so next up is another frame I've had a very long time and not got round to doing anything with. This is a Navarro from Lyon that is made with Vitus tubing so a very French...

Next up in the bikes I intend to get at least started during lockdown is this Centresport from the bike centre in Port Talbot. Its not a shop I'm familiar with so can anyone with any info educate me on this one? It seems to be a nicely made frame if more than a little corroded so it's going to...

The suns out and I'm finally stuck at home without any real work so that feels like a very good reason to drag old metal bits and tools out of the garage and have a fettle. Life for me since I last prettied up a bike have been more than a little busy with work and home additions so apart from...

Does anyone have experience with varnish fix decals? And if so do you have any suggestions for a varnish I can get easily in the UK that's suitable for applying these decals? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I had this frame in the Retro Classic Road section along with another I was trying to identify. The other which never got identified (identity attempt thread here) became the paint your wagon special (painting thread here). This one I think we got a little closer on identifying (identity...

Like it says in the title I could do with a little help identifying this frame I've picked up. It came as a complete bike with a mix of parts: Wolber rims on Mailard LF hubs (dated 1984) Stronglight 3 ring crank Stronglight headset Cinelli bars and stem No name alloy seat pin Shimano Deore...

Now I bet most of you were expecting to see yet another 70's team colours Raleigh, and yes I know I've got form in that department but there's nothing Raleigh about this old girl, and even those from its home country might not know too much about these as info is scant online. Believe me there's...

It's that time of year when I start thinking about what projects to start looking at ready for spring and usually what happens is I have a list in my head at the end of Autumn that completely changes in the following January This is a case in point, its a very scruffy 1978 Raleigh Sirocco frame...