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An interesting alu framed vintage bike has turned up here I Norway, The seller calls it a Bifrato. I tried to Google this but nothing turned up. The bike in question sees to be of late eighties vintage, the seller says its fully Campa equipped, from the pictures it seems to be Super Record...

Just checked the bike over again, the front derailleur seems to be a Super Record With the black body. And it's a a brace on type thus indicating that the bike might be later in the eigthies as indicated by "bugloss" above, when did Rossin start with brace on front derailleur? Further the six...

Frame numbers I bought the Rossin in question. The frame numbers are: Non driv side dropout.: LR96 Under bottom bracket: 58 Does this make any sence to you out there? Brg Pet

Re: Chrome Rossin Thanks for the reply, I have some more details of the bike. The crank is not Record , but Nuevo Gran Sport, the rear derailleur is marked patent 78. The bike in question looks very similar to the Rossin Record I found in a catalogue at...

Hi I was writing about my Rossin Ghibli in a Norwegian Vintage bicycle Facebook group the other day. Suddenly I got an offer for an other Rossin. This Rossin has a chrome frame, it has a full Campa Nuevo Record group and is labelled as a Rossin Record. The bike seems to be of late seventies...

Hi there I recently bought this Rossin Ghibli late eighties bike for a reasonable price of around £300,- As far as I can understand, it is equipped with a full Camapa Chorus Group, with two X seven gears, with the exception of the hubs, which is Campa Record C at the rear and a Shimanao Dura...

I have BSA Golden Fifty Fifty bike. It is made after Raleigh bought the BSA bicycles in 1957 as it have all the Raleigh telltale like the Raleigh botom bracket treads and headstock treads. The bike is nicely equiped with Campa Gran sport gears, GB brakes, Dunlop rims. I am trying to gt...

Regarding rim specks from Challange, please see here http://www.challengetech.it/products/ro ... nca-037/en BRG Per

I had a chance to do a small test ride on Saturday, sunny and dry but still only +2 degree. The bike is riding beutifully, good responce and the gearing seems to suit may untrained body well. Jus has to wait untill the real spring for the proper test. The weather forcast is promising us 30 cm of...

Thansks for your kind replies, I dont think I will have any clearance problems on my old BSA, there is plenty of space for big tires! Here is some pictures of the bike in question. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=317183 I will use a set of wheels with NISI Solidal rims for this event, they are 20mm wide...

I will participate at the Eroica Britannia this year with my 1960 BSA Golden fifty Racer. I am planning to put on some good strong tubulars suitable for the gravel roads. I have so far found this two tires intresting, Challenge Paris Roubaix 27 mm and Challenge Strada Bianca 30 mm, Your...

Re: Campa Gran Sport were available from mid fifties and Mafac Racer brakes was introduced in 52, maybe som BSA hubs, All of this turns up on ebay in between. Maybe GB stem at handlebar?

Re: thanks for pointing out the difference, I was not avare of this smal details. This here is a Gran sport this is a Valentino: [url][/url]

Re: The picture in the advertisement is not quite good enough to see the brand of the components? [url][/url] Talking about the devil, here is an other on for sale at £210,- seems to be the rare MTB first edition

Re: The asking price is around GBP 250,-

This Kirk Presision is for sale here in Norway, it is advertised as a KIRK Precision Limited First Edition. The bikes seems to have a very intresting technical backgroud with frames in magnezium, but they seems to gained a reputation for braking the frame. This bike is a one owner bike in very...

Re: Here is a Picture of the staring point, before any restauration work started. I have carefully taken care of all the original parts and will keep the safely in stock if and when anybody wants to bring the bike back to original.

thanks for the kind words, yes I am recovering fast and is now back at job again. I am looking forward for the spring making it possible of trying out the bike. Today it was 10 below zero and a lot of snow here!

I got this BSA of e-bay in October as a project to keep me occupied and motivated while I went through a cancer treatment. This is my first bicycle restoration, although I have done several BSA motorcycles. The bike is Raleigh built BSA from around 1960. The bike is not original; the aim has...

Re: A good indication of the threads in the bottom bracket is the with of the bracket, if its 68mm then its Standard british threads 24 tpi, if its 71mm its Raleigh threads 26 tpi