Spotted for sale elsewhere: Vintage / Classic bikes, framesets and components

[wafter]

Latest FB dump in the hope of closing some of my million open tabs..

Elswick Hopper Turbo 12, £95, Holmfirth:

Pushing vintage, but vintage-adjacent Ridgeback Voyager, £300, Teignmouth:

Elswick Stag, £100, London:

Currys Elizabethan (essentially a Raleigh Superb with a few differences), £65, Louth:

Greaves twin-tube road bike, £750, Middlesbrough (wheelbase and head tube angle make it look both midly comedic and terrifying):

 

[RamoRuon]

Latest FB dump in the hope of closing some of my million open tabs..

Elswick Hopper Turbo 12, £95, Holmfirth:

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Pushing vintage, but vintage-adjacent Ridgeback Voyager, £300, Teignmouth:

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Elswick Stag, £100, London:

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Currys Elizabethan (essentially a Raleigh Superb with a few differences), £65, Louth:

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Greaves twin-tube road bike, £750, Middlesbrough (wheelbase and head tube angle make it look both midly comedic and terrifying):

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Re: the Greaves - is there a National Turn-on-a-sixpence Competition I'm unaware of ?!

 

[DCLane]

@wafter - that was posted before, back in late October, at the same price. Imo it's a 'hopeful' price based upon someone else wanting it as a collectors item rather than regular-ride bike.

 

[biggs682]

Re: the Greaves - is there a National Turn-on-a-sixpence Competition I'm unaware of ?!

Ol' track frame

 

[Proto]

Project for someone? Bike charity I work for have this available ….

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/840005328216634/?

 

[Gunk]

Looks like a Raleigh Hustler. Sadly not worth much restored.

 

[biggs682]

Project for someone? Bike charity I work for have this available ….

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/840005328216634/?

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Too small for me

 

[wafter]

Too small for me

You're a tough bugger to please, aren't you? 115 pages of suggestions and I don't think you've bought a single one... always with the excuses!

 

[biggs682]

You're a tough bugger to please, aren't you? 115 pages of suggestions and I don't think you've bought a single one... always with the excuses!

It's a matter of having to be, these days so many bikes are available and available cheap compared to 3+ years ago.

I tend not to post links for ones that I buy till I get them home in fear of missing out on them .

Saying all of the above I still have a garage full of bikes.

And just seen this one on another forum and it has made me feel very happy 😀

Thread 'Dave Moulton British Built Frame Campagnolo Galli Mavic Components' https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads...ame-campagnolo-galli-mavic-components.489475/

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

Slightly of topic but there is an interesting page at http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2017/11/20/brass-brazing-reynolds-753.html

Presuming that this is a genuine site and there is a lot of content so it probably is and that this page is not some sort of windup, then Dave Moulton used to brass braze 753 frames with Reynolds' quiet approval even though his brass brazed sample failed certification.

There is also a statement that he made 6 brass brazed 753 frames that we used in the 1976 TdF, although it is unclear what used means, a full race bike or demonstrator or something in between.

I am not sure how I would feel about this if I were a customer, 753 frames were expensive and buying one made using a process that had failed certifcation without being told about it?

So 753 can only be silver soldered except when it is brass brazed or even in the case of new 753 frames maybe even welded for some joints.

Bye

Ian

 

[simongt]

So 753 can only be silver soldered

In the fifties ( ? ) when Thanet were building Silverlights & Silverthains, they were mostly silver soldered, but with the technology of the time, there was a tendency for the solder to fail, especially on the way that the bottom bracket was mounted on the Silverlights.

 

[avecReynolds531]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/1978-viking-vision-racing-bike-reynolds-531-frame/1492669349

 

[biggs682]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/1978-viking-vision-racing-bike-reynolds-531-frame/1492669349

That's cheap enough and big enough shame about the distance

 

[avecReynolds531]

531 framed Dawes bike from 1950s - possibly Tartan Clubman? Good original paint. £50
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/doors-vintage-road-bike/1492846819

 

[Jenkins]

531 framed Dawes bike from 1950s - possibly Tartan Clubman? Good original paint. £50
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/doors-vintage-road-bike/1492846819

FFS - assuming the seller's owned it for a while, he's taken a picture with the brand clearly visible but still advertises it as "Doors"