Show us your skip find bike

[ren531]

Only requirement is for it to be pulled out of a skip .
Here's mine a 1976 Peugeot Neuvo Style folder .

 

[raleighnut]

Equipe

• raleighnut
• 18 May 2016

 

[Gunk]

1960 Claud Butler. Was going to be thrown away.

 

[tyred]

I could fill this thread but I'll start with what I rode today - my Viscount Aerospace although it had no wheels when I got it and I built it up in touring trim.

 

[ren531]

I could fill this thread but I'll start with what I rode today - my Viscount Aerospace although it had no wheels when I got it and I built it up in touring trim.

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Definitely counts though, it's shocking what gets thrown away.

 

[tyred]

Definitely counts though, it's shocking what gets thrown away.

I tried to get a 531 frame from the recycling centre but they said they couldn't give it to me.😢

 

[ren531]

This frame is another one of mine, was being thrown out and had it in the attic for 20 year's before making it into this.

 

[Mrs M]

Not quite a skip find but chatting to one of the regulars at the dog park today.
Got onto the subject of Raleigh Choppers.
He had a 5 speed but I never got one at all 😢
He has a mark 3 in his garage that needs some work and said I can have it for nothing 😀
Not sure what condition it’s in and likely way beyond my capabilities, also think there could be “a murder” if I acquire bike no 4 but very tempted.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Both of these were headed to the scrap metal bin, it would have been such a waste. A 1977 Panasonic made Centurion and a 1984 Bottecchia

 

[ren531]

Both of these were headed to the scrap metal bin, it would have been such a waste. A 1977 Panasonic made Centurion and a 1984 Bottecchia

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There's a very special joy in riding around on skip find bikes , a joy that can't be bought, yours looks brill.
I have more skip bikes in the attic under lots of junk given time I will give them an airing .

 

[cyberknight]

I need to move, around here they would be on ebay for a few hundred

 

[ren531]

I tried to get a 531 frame from the recycling centre but they said they couldn't give it to me.😢

Some places have "bike aware" employees that sell them on , a local metal recycling company near me has a guy that moves them on to someone to rebuild or move on again so they may end up back in circulation hopefully.

 

[TC99]

I tried to get a 531 frame from the recycling centre but they said they couldn't give it to me.😢

Did you offer a tenner?

 

[Mrs M]

Her it is 😀
Finally have a Raleigh Chopper 😎
Slight wreck but not as bad as I thought.
Wee project.
Managed to fit it into the bike cave too.

 

[Mrs M]

Busy in the garden just now but managed to inflate the tyres and free up the rusted chain.
Went a wee test drive, (just around the garden as no brakes).
😬 How on earth I managed to ride one of these as a kid is beyond me, wobbling all over the place 😮