Restoration twenty

[TissoT]

ahh yates chippy...... im finding it wierd that we lived a couple of hundred yards apart.

Funny because I did have a griffter with cow horns on it was allways outside yates chippy .... This is weird..

 

[roadrash]

Fu

Funny because I did have a griffter with cow horns on .... This is weird

yeah....... along with half of goose green, riding em over the tipps at the bottom of lady lane, mine was same colour as the twenty above

 

[TissoT]

yeah....... along with half of goose green, riding em over the tipps at the bottom of lady lane, mine was same colour as the twenty above

Mine was knackered.... used to ride it over the tips before bmx

 

[Saluki]

have a look what some people have done to them here

http://raleightwenty.webs.com/apps/forums/

It says that I have to be a member to look.
My cousin Glen had a Chopper and my cousin Simon had a Chipper (baby chopper). Guess who my Dad was a dealer for

 

[roadrash]

Hmmm I wonder

 

[TissoT]

It says that I have to be a member to look.
My cousin Glen had a Chopper and my cousin Simon had a Chipper (baby chopper). Guess who my Dad was a dealer for

pinarello !

 

[roadrash]

i feel another project coming along.......................

 

[dan_bo]

Looks really well that.

 

[roadrash]

Looks really well that.

thank you

 

[roadrash]

i passed a lbs in horwich yesterday (in the car ) called THE GREEN MACHINE gonna have to get some photos of the twenty ouyside that shop.

 

[screenman]

Nice job but I am having flashbacks to my 11th birthday when my Dad presented me with one of those as my 'new birthday bike'. All my friends had 'racers' and I got that bloomin' thing. I left it unlocked all over the place but nobody would nick it. I loathed it with a passion. I went and bought my own bike in the end, just before I was 12 by using my savings. That Raleigh Twenty had less than 40 miles on it as I refused to ride it.

Before you all think that I was a spoiled little brat, my Dad owned a bike shop and my parents knew the bike that I wanted. I used to go and polish it on Saturday mornings when I worked in his shop. Chores for a new bike was the deal.

First bike my parents gave me snapped in half on th first ride, it took them another 2 years to buy me another one, it was not so much lack of funds but lack of interest in their youngest son.

 

[rogerzilla]

The BB is the main problem with these. 26tpi threads, 78mm shell width and bad chainline with the stock cranks. You either live with it, buy a Phil Wood Raleigh BB (£200) or have the shell milled down and retapped or sleeved to ISO (£50-90). Ouch.

 

[EltonFrog]

The BB is the main problem with these. 26tpi threads, 78mm shell width and bad chainline with the stock cranks. You either live with it, buy a Phil Wood Raleigh BB (£200) or have the shell milled down and retapped or sleeved to ISO (£50-90). Ouch.

Or get Kingpin that doesn’t have that problem.

 

[tamiya]

Or, y'know, stick with cottered cranks which still work perfectly fine for tootling down to the village shopping strip

 

[rogerzilla]

I know, and they look good, but the chainline is rubbish. Can't just move the sprocket outboard because the chain fouls the seatstay. It's a really bad piece of design.