Hi

[carpenter]

I have started doing up bikes during the last year, reliving my youth when we used to raid a local dump and put together various bits and pieces of bikes (nearly fifty years ago now )

One of my daughters wanted a bike, so I bought a Raleigh mixte from eBay (quite cheap) and did it up for her.
A few weeks later I was bored (semi retired) so my wife said why not buy a couple more bikes and do them up as you looked so happy while you were working on the mixte - I don't think that she quite realised what would happen

Any way, I have joined in the hope of gleaning a bit more information about some of my acquisitions so I hope you won't mind a few, sometimes daft, questions.

 

[roadrash]

owdo

 

[welsh dragon]

Hello and welcome.

 

[Elysian_Roads]

 

[AyJay]

Greetings from Suffolk. Enjoy your time here.

 

[Illaveago]

Hi and .

We quite like questions of all sorts .

 

[carpenter]

Many thanks for the welcomes - looks like an active forum.

 

[DCLane]

Head off to the Vintage and Classic Bikes sub-forum and there'll be plenty of stuff on there.

 

[raleighnut]

Warning, it can get a bit addictive.

 

[night cycler]

Wellcome to ťhe forum Carpenter.

Nothing wrong with questions that may seem daft. As long as we receive sensible & helpful answers-which I invariably do from the members on here.

 

[Mrs M]

 

[Biker Joe]

Hi and a warm to you. Yeah, it's a satisfying pass time and quite rewarding. Sometimes frustrating but, solving the problems as they come up, is part of the fun. Ask away with anything you want to know. A lot of answers are already here on the forum, if you browse around. Otherwise you'll always get your questions answered from the good people here.

 

[carpenter]

Warning, it can get a bit addictive.

Too late

I now have: MBK Mirage (excellent condition, all orginal ), Carpenter (~1956 frame, very comfortable); Carlton Corsa Strada (cappella lugs - pretty!); Raleigh Competition (Carlton made 531 - fast and responsive); Falcon (not sure of models it had been hand painted , but Brooks saddle had 1965 printed on it) and a Wilson made in UK but not a Sheffield one - I think that may have been a company in Birmingham using same name?
Not forgetting my old Specialized Rock Hopper which was my "pub bike" but has been rather neglected recently.

My wife now says that she thought I would sell them up once I had tidied them up but I can't bring myself to do that - I love each of them!

Once I get to grips with the technology I will post a few pictures.

 

[Fonze]

Hello there ..

 

[i hate hills]

I have started doing up bikes during the last year, reliving my youth when we used to raid a local dump and put together various bits and pieces of bikes (nearly fifty years ago now )

One of my daughters wanted a bike, so I bought a Raleigh mixte from eBay (quite cheap) and did it up for her.
A few weeks later I was bored (semi retired) so my wife said why not buy a couple more bikes and do them up as you looked so happy while you were working on the mixte - I don't think that she quite realised what would happen

Any way, I have joined in the hope of gleaning a bit more information about some of my acquisitions so I hope you won't mind a few, sometimes daft, questions.

Welcome to cc