OMG..........OMG

[Dangermouse]

I am not 100% sure but I was googling for a Reynolds frame and stumbled across something that may be my first ever race bike............I am pretty sure this actual bike is it, bought the frame from Kendall cycles in Castleford, and all the parts over a few months...........even the wheel stickers are the same (built by Gary Proud)..........surely this isn't my old Panasonic, even the old Rolls saddle is my old saddle

 

[BigonaBianchi]

gonna buy it back?

 

[Dangermouse]

It sold...........if it was my first bike I would

 

[Dangermouse]

I put full 105 on it when it was new, the silver/bluey stuff

 

[biggs682]

spookey , wish i could find my first bike again

 

[Biker Joe]

Well, well! What a turn up. It must have given you strange feelings.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Bit like black beauty for bikes

 

[Venod]

Mavic MA2 wheels built by Gary Proud, I am not surprised the wheels are still going I had a pair built by Gary they were bulletproof, one of the best wheel-builders about, he has just built a pair of motorbike wheels for an old BSA Bantam a friend is renovating he is over the moon with them.

 

[swee'pea99]

I thought those brakes looked like 105. Dare I say that seems a tad over-specced for what's surely a pretty entry-level sort of a frame? If you put a full 105 groupset on, it must have been worth more than the rest of the bike by quite a margin. O, hang on, I forgot those wheels...they must have been worth a few bob. In fact, the frame's the only weak link in the chain, looks to me.

 

[Venod]

I thought those brakes looked like 105. Dare I say that seems a tad over-specced for what's surely a pretty entry-level sort of a frame? If you put a full 105 groupset on, it must have been worth more than the rest of the bike by quite a margin. O, hang on, I forgot those wheels...they must have been worth a few bob. In fact, the frame's the only weak link in the chain, looks to me.

Raleigh had some decent frames in the early 80's ( I am guessing the bike is from that era ) but I can't see any 531 stickers on this one, could be a respray and not refitted the stickers.

 

[swee'pea99]

Raleigh had some decent frames in the early 80's ( I am guessing the bike is from that era ) but I can't see any 531 stickers on this one, could be a respray and not refitted the stickers.

They did, but that wasn't one of 'em. And no, it's not a respray...just a frame that wasn't made with anything at all special. It wouldn't have been *bad* - Raleighs of that era were always ok, at worst - but not good either. Put it this way, if I was going to go putting serious wheels and groupsets on a bike, I'd make sure the frame had at least 531 on to start with.

 

[Venod]

Yes it does look a entry level frame as you say, I am just a bit surprised that Kendells sold an entry level frame by itself and the OP took the trouble to build it with decent parts.

 

[Dangermouse]

The frame was actually 531 if I remember it was a race replica the reynolds sticker is at the bottom of the seat tube

 

[Venod]

The frame was actually 531 if I remember it was a race replica the reynolds sticker is at the bottom of the seat tube

Yes you can just see it through the chain-set were the forks 531 ?

 

[Dangermouse]

Yes you can just see it through the chain-set were the forks 531 ?

Yes both frame and forks, I can remember paying a fortune for it at the time as it was an Ilkeston built frame