new project -weight cx bike

[cyberknight]

With luck I am picking up a cx project with the long term aim of making a winter commuter , its is a "weigh" branded bike which i have never heard of so if anyone has any information about the brand i would be grateful . This frame is free and the person giving it me is giving a set of old mavic askium wheels .
I am half thinking of using spray.bike stuff to spray it a uniform colour and to tidy up the cable rub of the front fork
It has cantilever brakes which i may change to mini Vs as i have heard they have better stopping power
Groupset wise i am not sure , i think all i need is a right hand 10 speed apex shifter and a front derailleur to make a full groupset or a pair of tiagra shifters to go the other way .I am half thinking of trying sensah shifters or even goign 1x but its all thoughts so far

 

[classic33]

This Weigh?
https://grahamweighcycles.com/

Search on here, as there's a few hits when searching the name.

 

[biggs682]

Good luck and nice frame

 

[cyberknight]

This Weigh?
https://grahamweighcycles.com/

Search on here, as there's a few hits when searching the name.

Yes already did a quick google search although the ones i found said graham weigh on the downtube rather than just weigh, the main site only sells lapierre or raleigh.

 

[classic33]

I got this one, very similar to yours.

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning

My "Raleigh" frame came from the above shop, they also have an ebay shop at https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/deesideolympic3 This may not be officially part of the shop but when I bought the Raleigh I used the phone number from the Graham Weigh web site and got through to the guy on the ebay listing.

As of now on ebay they have https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23506618...G7Z970&hash=item36bb0961a8:g:2BUAAOSw43pjXPI1

Bye

Ian

 

[Jameshow]

They were I believe the own brand for deeside cycles.

Bitd they were one of the big advertiser's in cycling weekly then other being Ribble.

They both had a double page spread with large numbers of fully customised bike options.

If anyone has a CW with those adverts I'd love to see one again..

 

[biggs682]

Pretty sure Mr G Weigh has a rather big collection of classic bikes I think someone once told me.

 

[cyberknight]

Picked up the bike and the frame is in better nick than I thought it would be so i might get away with a t cut then a touch up job on the forks , he also threw in a bar plus stem as well as an old set of askium wheels but i think they look fairly worn so i will check for brake track for wear before i decide whether to use them .
The guy was a real bike nut with a double garage full of very nice stuff

 

[si_c]

Nice. Have fun playing around with it!

 

[cyberknight]

Ok , i just bunged the wheels on along with the supplied bars and seatpost plus a saddle out of the spares box .Nothing is set up and its purely to get a feel for the bike .

 

[ColinJ]

There seems to be a lot of clearance under those mudguards! Are the wheels 650b size?

 

[cyberknight]

There seems to be a lot of clearance under those mudguards! Are the wheels 650b size?

the tyres are flat and i think they are 25s , the owner has run 35 knobblies