Hi everyone, I picked up this old beauty last week from my local bike workshop. It is a Rudge Ulster Sports bicycle, I have looked on the web and wikipedia says that Rudge Whitworth are defunct as of 1939, somewhere else I saw something about a 1952 Rudge catalogue, so I have no idea how old this is :/ could someone enlighten me please? Can someone please tell me a bit about these bikes, their history etc and what a complete/good condition one should look like. I am as yet undecided about what to do with this bike, the previous owner tried to make it into a fixie as the cassette is seized, I want to convert to hub gears, I have a spare 3 speed hub as well as a 5 speed hub kicking around. I am thinking of doing a sort of rat/restomod thing here, keeping the frame forks and crankset original, going for some tasteful modern components, hub gears, shorty mudguards, brown bar tape and saddle etc, a bit like what the guy in this video did with a Raleigh Lenton sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzC4JZ2yMkw
Anyway, here are some pictures, better pics to follow soon![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Regards
Michael
Anyway, here are some pictures, better pics to follow soon
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Regards
Michael