Parts , bikes and project bikes

[SteelNipple]

could see no impact stress markings in the usual places from your posted images

wonder if it was made with this error

once encountered an odd head misalignment on a 1973 Raleigh RRA

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[example image only]

evidently Raleigh had their mitre cutter mis-set such that when the head was pressed onto the top & down it sat off-centre when looking straight down on the frame -

- one of those misalignments which is not coldsetable...

Could've been made like that. I'll take a closer look at it at some point. I would need to find a place that has a good welding/machine table to see if I could use it to cold set the head tube and check the rest of the frame. Or alternatively just use a bench vice.

Those Raleigh RRA's are great looking bikes.

 

[SteelNipple]

While I will stand corrected, I believe that pictured headset is potentially a mish-mash.

Parts from three headsets, Stronglight for the lock-nut, Torevess for the locking washer, and RFG(?) for the cups.

Understandable too to replace worn bearing surfaces with something French and a low stack height.

Looks like you are correct, definitely a Stronglight lock-nut on that. I hadn't really looked at it and thought it was a Stronglight P3 headset, but then I saw the Torevess print while taking those pictures of the frame.

 

[juvela]

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fergawt to menshun -

Torevess also a perpetrator o' bottom bracket assemblies:



here is an image of a stock Torevess jeu de direction as worn by an Allegro:




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[SteelNipple]

Some progress
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Every bearing surface is regreased.
For the Stronglight/TA triple crank the BB spindle needed to be 128mm and for 68mm bracked I only had a 130mm mystery cheapo one, but the surfaces were good.
The headset was set really tight by the previous owner and the bearings had indented the races...
Seatpost is really scrached and the cap between the post binder ears was too narrow/non-parallel.

The blue Bluemel Club Specials are from 70s/80s and are the quick on/off type with wing nuts and clip on mounts. The front one doesn't quite fit as can be seen in the photo. I'd rather not cut the front one to clear where it hits the front lower of the crown.
So downsize to 700c or try on chromed steel fenders with black striping that are from the 60s.

Huret Allvit gears, leather saddle, blue or black cotton bartape, black cable housings.

 

[SteelNipple]

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fergawt to menshun -

Torevess also a perpetrator o' bottom bracket assemblies:

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here is an image of a stock Torevess jeu de direction as worn by an Allegro:

View attachment 1003548


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That upper cone looks similar to the one on the red Lejeune. Both have vertical knurling. I have lock-nuts like that, but I think all are for 1"

 

[juvela]

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Could've been made like that. I'll take a closer look at it at some point. I would need to find a place that has a good welding/machine table to see if I could use it to cold set the head tube and check the rest of the frame.

Marchetti e Lange!

Or alternatively just use a bench vice.

Those Raleigh RRA's are great looking bikes.

Loved mine, purchased new at local Sir Wally emporium in March of '74.

Owner gave me a reduced price out of the blue, without me saying anything!

Was dosh challenged so made a deposit and came back for it some days later after making some sales.

It turned out to be just right for me. "disappeared" beneath me the fit and comfort were so good.

Example with mis-mitred tubes was a second one purchased pre-owned. It had been badly crashed anyway so knew it would need a top n' down.


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[juvela]

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Every bearing surface is regreased.
For the Stronglight/TA triple crank the BB spindle needed to be 128mm and for 68mm bracked I only had a 130mm mystery cheapo one, but the surfaces were good.
The headset was set really tight by the previous owner and the bearings had indented the races...
Seatpost is really scrached and the cap between the post binder ears was too narrow/non-parallel.

The blue Bluemel Club Specials are from 70s/80s and are the quick on/off type with wing nuts and clip on mounts. The front one doesn't quite fit as can be seen in the photo. I'd rather not cut the front one to clear where it hits the front lower of the crown.
So downsize to 700c or try on chromed steel fenders with black striping that are from the 60s.

Huret Allvit gears, leather saddle, blue or black cotton bartape, black cable housings.

pardon me aged "braine/memory" but what annum hast thee been able to determine for Herr Den Beste?

spindle -

for the three plateau, if using SPECTA the model would be a Nr. 374, if using Verot the model would be the Nr. 125

SPECTA also offered the odd Nr. 373 which is something of a "tweener" length - can be employed as a long double or as a short triple

Herr DBS's OEM cable casing was silver, you would want the special small diameter silver casing for the Huret gear ensemble

P3 brinneling -

you could mark the two pressed in head tube races and their seats with a pen or crayon, remove them and then remount a half ball thickness away

this will reduce the ratcheted feel of the mechanism

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