Just Arrived

[gucu]

Just arrived from sunny Cornwall and about to strip down and rebuild a Raleigh Royal and hopefully upgrade!

Looking forward to learning new skills and cycling the hills of Cornwall.

Rich

 

[raleighnut]

 

[gucu]

Thanks for the welcome @raleighnut As you might see from my other post https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/raleigh-royal.259322/#post-5944623 I have a couple of Raleigh's in my shed which will be collecting dust. Happy to give them away for some 'nut' to restore. Or can post at cost of posting. I would have liked to convert to an ebike but maybe it won't work.

 

[roadrash]

Hi, and remember we love photos

 

[welsh dragon]

Hello and welcome

 

[gucu]

I will take some photos today... Thanks for all the welcomes. Enjoy the day, looks like another sunny one.

 

[gucu]

This was an ebike build with a sidecar. We started with an mtb and built up from there. The sidecar was amazing fun even though the bike was somewhat underpowered!

I'll get some photos of the current kit shortly.

 

[raleighnut]

Thanks for the welcome @raleighnut As you might see from my other post https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/raleigh-royal.259322/#post-5944623 I have a couple of Raleigh's in my shed which will be collecting dust. Happy to give them away for some 'nut' to restore. Or can post at cost of posting. I would have liked to convert to an ebike but maybe it won't work.

The Trike in my avatar has an electric front wheel kit as does Maz's Dawes 'Geneva' so converting shouldn't be a problem, as for the kind offer I've more than enough bikes to be going on with including 4 Raleighs (an Outlander MTB, a 531 Road Ace, a City 3 speeder and an Equipe) there's also a 1967 Carlton 'Clubman', a Ridgeback Adventure hybrid a Saracen 'Blitz' and a Time Trial bike of unknown make but built with a Reynolds 653 tubeset.

 

[gucu]

Ok you really do class as a 'nut'! That is some bike haul and I thought I was going over the top with 3 Raleigh's! One day I might have a big enough property to have that many bikes!

 

[Mrs M]

 

[raleighnut]

Ok you really do class as a 'nut'! That is some bike haul and I thought I was going over the top with 3 Raleigh's! One day I might have a big enough property to have that many bikes!

The username 'raleighnut' actually comes from my 1st post on here regarding drilling out a rear brake bridge to accept a 'Sleeve Nut' to fasten a newer dual pivot brake caliper, I pointed out that this isn't such a good idea as there isn't much 'meat' on the tube and that drilling the back of the hole out to 8mm would weaken it significantly. There is a way of fitting one easily which is using a front brake caliper which is identical apart from a longer mounting bolt, this allows you to use a standard 'nylock' nut instead of the recessed 'sleeve nut'.
I'd not long done it to one of my Raleighs hence using that as my username, but really I wish I'd chosen something else.

 

[gucu]

A long time ago I picked up the nickname Shrek! Thankfully I have steered clear of using it in forums!

 

[gucu]

And here we go with some photos. Not very staged, we are taking this opportunity to spring clean! These are the three bikes I currently own, well is actually my wife's, the other two are wrecks needing rebuilding which is another thing I am taking the opportunity to do!