Chris Barber Team Sun replica bike, c1968

[Spokesmann]

Just about done here now, just a Tru-Wel decal to sort and possibly the top tube script...

 

[mikeymustard]

superb!!!

 

[Spokesmann]

Treated the Sun Chris Barber 10 to some new Schawlbe tyres...

 

[dbeattie]

Nice!

 

[Spokesmann]

Upgraded the tyres and fitted a bigger block on the rear. Thinking of using this at Eroica this year...

 

[Illaveago]

Is it possible to enlarge the Chris Barber script and fill in the missing bits from what remains on both sides and then make transfer from that?

 

[Illaveago]

I have been looking through your pictures and I think you have enough remaining to be able to make a tracing which could then be trued up once you have enlarged the image.

 

[Spokesmann]

I have been looking through your pictures and I think you have enough remaining to be able to make a tracing which could then be trued up once you have enlarged the image.

Possibly!

 

[Cycleops]

And I always thought Chris Barber was a jazz trombonist, shows you how much I know.

 

[Spokesmann]

And I always thought Chris Barber was a jazz trombonist, shows you how much I know.

He was and is, one of his band was a keen cyclist and he ended up sponsoring the team. He is now in his late 80s.

 

[mikeymustard]

@Cycleops

 

[dbeattie]

View attachment 342408 @Cycleops

I like the guy trying to get a tune out of his pump

 

[Critical]

Excellent work again Mike...

 

[mikeymustard]

Excellent work again Mike...

Thanks, you're welcome!
Oh, wrong Mike lol

 

[kev the rev]

Great to come across this site, better still to find this thread.
This model was my first 'proper' bike, my first ever new bike! From Halfords Stafford.
Birthday present from dad, either 14th or 15th, mad keen on it at that time, the little international cycling mag, the comic of course, the local Stafford road club and the big schoolboy group.
I broke a club schoolboy t.t. Record for 5 miles on this, adapted to run on 49x18 free only.
Something daft like 110 rpm average cadence! Still on original high pressures then.
I outgrew the 21" frame quickly, next purchase was a Henry burton 24"!
The good news is that I still have it, alas was resprayed up in stoke at some point and components changed.
Can't bring myself to dispose of it!