Real Steel

[clarion]

My Woodrup - just beautiful.

It's broadly a Giro from 1981, but the first owner specced vertical dropouts, which was way ahead of the times back then, so my dream of making it a fixie was scotched. Still, with a Campag Record gruppo, it is the road bike I never knew I needed till I fell in love with it.

Photos are as it was when I bought it - I've done some fettling since. Need to do a bit more to get it back on the road for summer.

 

[fossyant]

That's one classic bike ! Very nice

 

[walker]

very nice lugs

 

[Just Plain Ancien]

Has it ever been in an Aeroplane hold? I've got a Raleigh Record Ace with the forks bent back like that.

 

[fossyant]

Has it ever been in an Aeroplane hold? I've got a Raleigh Record Ace with the forks bent back like that.

Think that's just the camera angle !

 

[clarion]

Yeah - it is. The forks are fine, with a lovely slender curve.

Damn! I look at these pics and wonder why I'm on the internet instead of out on that bike...

 

[Fab Foodie]

That's a luurverly machine.
Maybe the next "trend" will be a return to real tubes. Would be no bad thing!

 

[Just Plain Ancien]

Yeah - it is. The forks are fine, with a lovely slender curve.

...

I was just looking at the lack of trail and the close clearance behind the front wheel.

 

[TheDoctor]

Classy. Very very nice.

 

[Landslide]

Yummy! Nowt wrong with that at all.