Anyone recognise my latest project?

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Does anyone have any idea what this bike used to be

It's going to be a single speed eventually but I was wondering if anyone recognised it? It used to be red, and I can't really make out that name on the downtube, and it looks like there's something down the seat tube too.

 

[Bigsharn]

Looks a very similar shape and size to my Raleigh Equipe... It could easily be a Peugeot racer though, I had a friend who had a red one, the Raleigh and Peugeot are practically the same bike

 

[Biscuit]

Do you have a closer pic of the down tube logo?

Is there a frame number stmaped under the BB shell?

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Picked it up at the weekend, it's a gas pipe special, italian (cottered) BB, Balilla brakes, Dia-Compe brake levers, GB bars, nice Normandy front hub.

Frame is a bit shite so I'll just hand paint it. Brakes, bars, levers will all be polished. Single speed f/w, but the spoke nipples are a bit seized to re-dish the wheel............mmmmmmm . Got a nice SR stem to go on, that was a freebie.

Anyone got a cottered crank going??

This is my first foray into doing a renovation job, I reckon I'll keep a look out for a better frame and swap parts over, but in the meantime I'll just play with this

Oh yeah, meant to say it just had "CLASSIC" on the downtube/seat tube and a number on the l/h dropout, nothing good

 

[cameramanjim]

Picked it up at the weekend, it's a gas pipe special, italian (cottered) BB, Balilla brakes, Dia-Compe brake levers, GB bars, nice Normandy front hub.

Frame is a bit shite so I'll just hand paint it.

Noooooo! Hand painting ain't worth it. Just completed my Rossin rebuild and the sandblast and powdercoat was only around £70.00 and well worth it. http://rossinproject.blogspot.com/

 

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Noooooo! Hand painting ain't worth it. Just completed my Rossin rebuild and the sandblast and powdercoat was only around £70.00 and well worth it. http://rossinproject.blogspot.com/

Believe me, the chainstays are holed where they meet the BB, rusted where water has pooled around the chainstay bridge, so I aint chucking 70 squid at it no how!

This'll just be something to play about with for zero expense 'til something better turns up LOL!

 

[david1701]

tractor paint is the stuff to give a smooth finnish hand painted, also easy to spray yourself mixed with thinners and using a handsprayer....

 

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Stripped the paint off the frame with a wire wheel in an angle grinder, then rubbed it down. Gave it 2 coats of red oxide and it'll get 3 coats of red enamel, not looking that bad for a hand job (fnarr fnarr!)

F/hub polished up lovely and spins nice. F/rim chrome all rusty, rear hub fell apart when I stripped the wheel/spokes, so the rear alloy rim got a good polish and is now radially laced to front hub with nice stainless spokes.

Just got to source a rear track/ss hub and an alloy 27" rim

Brakes have had a good polish too, plus stainless dome nuts.