I was speaking to a an older freind in Glasgow a couple of months ago, just general bike chat type thing at a family get together. He has been keeping an eye out for a Flying Scot for me for a long while and we were talking about a few of the old rides.
He was talking of his flying Scot his dad bought for him from his dads good mate who used to work for them. His dad had one and my freind had his for many, many years. He sold it in the late eighties/early nineties to replace it with a Mercian or Holdsworth.
Anyway I digress, but he said to me that he still had the Campag der that his dad put on it in the 50's. He said it was one of the first type and was expensive in the day as it was the same or very similar to what Coppi had won the world champs with in 53. He said it was in a bag, somewhere in his shed. He had moved a couple of times and cleared out things but unless the wife had thrown out the bag, which could be possible, then it should be there somewhere.
My fatherinlaw came to visit this weekend and on arrival gave me a dirty tesco bag and said' thats from Norrie'. Upon opening it I found the said Gran Sport component.
I dont really know too much about it other than general Gran Sport info, or even if the above is correct, but its in very good condition for its age and works perfectly
The chrome, yes its chromed, is wearing thin but a good polish should bring it back to reasonable, or maybe even a rechrome. I polished a small section around the jockey wheel and it came up very well. The surface rust you can see in the pics is very much just that, surface rust from very small pinpricks.
Its certainly a bit of history and extremely well made. I found another the same for sale and they were asking crazy money, not that that matters as its not really mine to sell, but maybe to restore.
I must be getting old now as I find myself really interested and enthused by what is essentially a rear mech.
Just thought I would share a nice bit of kit with people who may (or may not) appreciate it.
If any body knows any more then I would be grateful to hear.
Cheers
Jamie
He was talking of his flying Scot his dad bought for him from his dads good mate who used to work for them. His dad had one and my freind had his for many, many years. He sold it in the late eighties/early nineties to replace it with a Mercian or Holdsworth.
Anyway I digress, but he said to me that he still had the Campag der that his dad put on it in the 50's. He said it was one of the first type and was expensive in the day as it was the same or very similar to what Coppi had won the world champs with in 53. He said it was in a bag, somewhere in his shed. He had moved a couple of times and cleared out things but unless the wife had thrown out the bag, which could be possible, then it should be there somewhere.
My fatherinlaw came to visit this weekend and on arrival gave me a dirty tesco bag and said' thats from Norrie'. Upon opening it I found the said Gran Sport component.
I dont really know too much about it other than general Gran Sport info, or even if the above is correct, but its in very good condition for its age and works perfectly
The chrome, yes its chromed, is wearing thin but a good polish should bring it back to reasonable, or maybe even a rechrome. I polished a small section around the jockey wheel and it came up very well. The surface rust you can see in the pics is very much just that, surface rust from very small pinpricks.Its certainly a bit of history and extremely well made. I found another the same for sale and they were asking crazy money, not that that matters as its not really mine to sell, but maybe to restore.
I must be getting old now as I find myself really interested and enthused by what is essentially a rear mech.
Just thought I would share a nice bit of kit with people who may (or may not) appreciate it.
If any body knows any more then I would be grateful to hear.
Cheers
Jamie
Talking of which though, are those bearings in the jockey wheels? I've only ever seen those sleeve things on any of mine, presumably the sleeves are a newer invention?
