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Anonymous
Please see below the pictures of my recently acquired from the bay 1966 Claud Butler Velo Valentino, catalogue link included. It's in not the greatest condition with mainly surface rust and the biggest issue a stuck seatpost. I plan to turn the bike into my 'can lock outside in London' runaround/banger for which the 5 speed is perfect. A few questions I have are.
1) Any advice for getting the seatpost out? I'm finding it difficult with the pipe type seatpost to get much leverage as the seperate saddle clamp doesn't get much purchase, have sprayed some wd40 down there for the moment
2) Would you do a home respray? Paintwise the frame is in terrible condition with the decals gone on the whole and lots of surface rust.
3) What Reynolds tubing sticker would originally have been there? There should be a picture of the remaining bits, the same with the Claud Butler decals.
4) From the catalogue I'm presuming only the three tubes would be made from 531 rather than those whole bike, correct?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nkilgariff ... entino.jpg
1) Any advice for getting the seatpost out? I'm finding it difficult with the pipe type seatpost to get much leverage as the seperate saddle clamp doesn't get much purchase, have sprayed some wd40 down there for the moment
2) Would you do a home respray? Paintwise the frame is in terrible condition with the decals gone on the whole and lots of surface rust.
3) What Reynolds tubing sticker would originally have been there? There should be a picture of the remaining bits, the same with the Claud Butler decals.
4) From the catalogue I'm presuming only the three tubes would be made from 531 rather than those whole bike, correct?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nkilgariff ... entino.jpg