What to buy 1980/1990 race bike.

[Boon 51]

My latest eBay purchase!

On image 2 with the holes - can this be converted to take a bottle holder neatly please?

 

[carpenter]

Drill out damaged braze ons a bit and then fit a rivet nut?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkPhGIaPCVs

 

[Boon 51]

Drill out damaged braze ons a bit and then fit a rivet nut?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkPhGIaPCVs

Have you ever done this ?

 

[carpenter]

No; I had a look at your photograph of the frame and looked up ways of fitting a water bottle without braze on. They all looked a bit naff (to me) and seem to involve tie wraps, so I looked up ways of adding on fixings (wife and daughters in London today at a spa, so plenty of time on my hands) - I was rather taken with the video although not sure how well it will work with a curved profile.

 

[midlife]

Rivnuts are a common way of adding bottle mounts, especially in alloy frames. Any frame builder will add them for you or DIY...

 

[Boon 51]

No; I had a look at your photograph of the frame and looked up ways of fitting a water bottle without braze on. They all looked a bit naff (to me) and seem to involve tie wraps, so I looked up ways of adding on fixings (wife and daughters in London today at a spa, so plenty of time on my hands) - I was rather taken with the video although not sure how well it will work with a curved profile.

A few years ago I damaged the frame by the cage mounts on my mtb so I looked in Decathlon and they did a rubber strap cage mount and I bought one and it worked very well, so I looked just now and I see they still do them, they are only about £3 so I might get one of them and then see if I can find bike shop that might drill the frame?

 

[Boon 51]

On my Triumph the stem is too short I measured it from the centre of the bolt to the centre of the handlebars ( 35mm ) is that right or do I measure it a different way? The width is 22.2 and the bars size is 25.4 so that's ok
I have seen some on ebay but it wants to be at least 70 or 80mm if I have measured it right?

 

[midlife]

BITD roadsters never had any sort of length to the stem, usually the long wheelbase meant none was needed.

Have you changed the bars?

 

[biggs682]

On my Triumph the stem is too short I measured it from the centre of the bolt to the centre of the handlebars ( 35mm ) is that right or do I measure it a different way? The width is 22.2 and the bars size is 25.4 so that's ok
I have seen some on ebay but it wants to be at least 70 or 80mm if I have measured it right?

I had the same issue with the Hercules and Raleigh Lenton i have so ended up using a stem with the correct length i wanted and then bars to suit

 

[Boon 51]

BITD roadsters never had any sort of length to the stem, usually the long wheelbase meant none was needed.

Have you changed the bars?

I've not changed the bars but they might have been changed in the past perhaps. ( not sure )

 

[Boon 51]

I had the same issue with the Hercules and Raleigh Lenton i have so ended up using a stem with the correct length i wanted and then bars to suit

I think the bars will be ok its just they need to be further away from me.

 

[roadrash]

they look like the original bars to me

 

[Boon 51]

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they look like the original bars to me

I think they are but just need to be a bit further away.

 

[biggs682]

I think they are but just need to be a bit further away.

Just need to find a longer stem with the right id for the older style bars

 

[midlife]

Just checked velo orange who do these things and their grand cru stem is sixty quid!