New Project

[Tony Raynor]

picked this up tonight, not expecting very much but it's thrown a couple of nice surprises.

Reasonable stronglight crank, gipiemme sprint hubs and mavic ma2 rims and possibly some chrome on the font forks under the poor paint job.

Was listed as Reynolds 501, but need to strip and weigh frame as it feels lighter and the 26.4mm post is too small so need to get the calipers out.

Never seen a serial number starting MOG before so if anyone has a clue please reply.

 

[biggs682]

very nice @Tony Raynor shame its not a Raleigh

 

[raleighnut]

Nice.

 

[classic33]

Gitane?
Gitane Sprint 1983 26.4
Gitane Tour de France 1973 26.4

 

[biggs682]

@Tony Raynor just looked at these pics on the pc rather than the phone its huge @pclay is looking for a decent a sized bike

 

[Tony Raynor]

Okay got round to fettling on this bike. Tidied the tape on the bars, stripped, greased and cleaned bike and wheels. Changed the horrible modern rear derallieur to something more in keeping with the bike. Just need to change the rear block as the short cage rear derallieur won't handle the 32t rear sprocket.

 

[biggs682]

Okay got round to fettling on this bike. Tidied the tape on the bars, stripped, greased and cleaned bike and wheels. Changed the horrible modern rear derallieur to something more in keeping with the bike. Just need to change the rear block as the short cage rear derallieur won't handle the 32t rear sprocket.

it didnt shrink when you cleaned it then