Claud Butler for a Fiver! Boot sale bargain?

[tefal]

Hi all, im pretty new here but im a bit of a magpie, I collect things and generally buy junk, hence why I love boot sales! I went to a local one this morning and picked this up for a whopping 5 pounds!

Not sure what to do with it really as im usually into road bikes, looks decent quality, might build it up as a hack!

Suggestions?

 

[orange71]

can't complain for a fiver - like you said, build it up as a hack - will get you offroad well enough.

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

Bargin ! a bike for less than the price of 2 pints !

 

[tefal]

The bloke said it was his grand sons and said he bought it around 1995ish so seems retro enough, might de sticker it and polish it up, it's alloy but forms are steel and going rusty

 

[legrandefromage]

clean it - keep the tyres and sell it at next week's booty for £25

 

[Pickle]

clean it - keep the tyres and sell it at next week's booty for £25

I was going to say that too, its got to be worth it just for the tyres alone!

 

[tefal]

The rear tyre is badly split and the rear wheel isn't exactly round! Just been stripping it down, the frame seems really light now I've got most of the crap off it LOL, need to get rid of the horrid grip shift gears

 

[Mr Panda]

Yep - just what I was about to say - replace the grippies and you've won a huge coconut

 

[velomaniac]

Love the handbuilt in England sticker, Alloy frame almost certainly was not built in England and as the frame is the only bit most manufacturers actually make the label is a tad dishonest.

Mind you for a fiver who's complaining

 

[silverclaws]

Hand built in England yes, Saracen had that too, but what does it really mean, what does it really mean for anything proudly displaying such a label ?

Is there in reality actually anything really hand built in England, or even Britain for that matter.more likely it is a bunch of parts gathered from around the world, shipped to Blighty and assembled there. Even food packaging beware labels are misleading, a common conn used by manufacturers to get an edge over the competition and appeal to the traditionalists.

U.S.A bikes are the same, Shimano is Japanese.