Restoration projects, wheelbuilding, saddle recovering and other mechanical adventures.
As the lacquer dries over the new decals on the refinished frame & forks (pics coming soon!) here’s a handful of parts ready to fit… we’re excited now, very soon the project is going to actually resemble a bicycle at last!
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Three snaps of the freshly painted frame which was bead blasted then beautifully wet sprayed in a two pack metallic finish, colour matched especially by our friends at Spray Quick in Bredbury… We’ve also finished building the front wheel and have started on the rear. Next jobs include applying the repro decals before lacquering the
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Not been giving the Mick Nash Peugeot much attention recently as the frame and forks are away being resprayed (and we’ve been refurbishing the workshop itself) but today we found the opportunity to make a start on the wheelset which we stripped down a few weeks ago… The hubs are original to the bike and
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More news from the Mick Nash Peugeot restoration project! When we were told that Sgt. Mick and riding partner Cpl. Spence Parker snatched the Land’s End to John O’Groats time trial record from a certain infamous veteran DJ (who was there to meet and ‘honour’ them) we didn’t believe it… Well now we do, what
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You may recall our friend Andrew Parle for his respray work on the vintage Raleigh 5-speed we currently have for sale, as well as the Sun Worksop we built up and sold last year. Well, here’s some stunning work he recently did on a Bianchi road frame…
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A quick progress report on the Mick Nash Peugeot restoration project now the bike is completely stripped down! In the next couple of weeks we’re taking the frameset down to our painters to get an exact colour match before getting it media-blasted, and we’ve removed and restored the all-important headbadge ready for reattaching. We’ve sourced
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We’re helping a friend restore an interesting Reynolds 531 framed Peugeot for his father, Mick Nash, who rode the bike when he and Spence Parker made their successful attempt at the Land’s End to John O’Groats armed forces record in 1979. They broke the record (held at the time by Jimmy Saville!), but by the
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While we await the re-finished frame we’ve had to make a few tough choices with exactly which cycle parts to use for this restoration, balancing our choices between the three factors of condition, originality and cost. In other words, we want the bike to be as shiny and original as possible within our agreed budget.
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More progress on our 1957 Elswick Invincible restoration… the frame and forks are ready for powdercoating, we’ve found a chainguard but need a mounting bracket for it and we’re getting rather expensive quotes for re-chroming some of the parts! The new whitewall Michelin tyres and chromed bell have arrived along with new brake pads and
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So she’s stripped down and ready for restoration. Amazingly the stem, seatpost and fixed bottom bracket cup all came out with no traumas, we just soaked the whole bike in penetrating spray overnight and out / off everything came! We’ve also started on cleaning up the chromework… we’re going to try and use as much
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