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Pathman, do you realise that you are posting in the 2022 Wanted Road Path Frame thread? I think you may have intended these posts for the September 2024 Wanted Road Path Frame thread.

Hi, if your post is for me, I'm afraid the frame is no longer for sale, I've decided to hang on to it.

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Hi As I've posted this one in September RBotM I'd better do a quick build thread. Picked up a cheap 84 RRA frameset off Ebay as it was my size (21.5") and I was looking for another project (not really but I couldn't turn it down). I knew from the start that I wouldn't be putting drops on it so I...

I'll go first then! 1984 Raleigh Record Ace, built from a cheap Ebay frameset. Just completed yesterday and only ridden around the local park this morning. Surprisingly no adjustments required and rides lovely. Obviously a non-standard colour but it had been professionally re-painted at some...

The shed door is a lot wider at the top than the bottom as well:) Camera perspective.

I said a few years ago that I would really thin out my bicycles and related stuff by the age of 70. I've only got 2 years to go now:- "How's it going?" the answer is "Not very well". The main problem is that stuff is not selling well and there is loads of good stuff around that's a heck of a...

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I build them for an easy, comfy ride but keeping the classic flavour:-

I remember back in '64, when I was 8, being frogmarched back home by the local bobby for riding on the pavement. A couple of years later I was stopped and driven 6 miles home in a police car by two bobbies for having only one working brake, my mate had to caddy the bike home - served him right...

Love it, reminds me of the Ribble that I "converted" a couple of years ago.

I certainly do, I wanted a Record Ace, now I have 6!

A quick update, browsing the V-CC archives online I found a Raleigh brochure from 1974 which actually pictures the original owner of my bike. I know his name was Anthony Crump and the seller (nephew) told me he worked at Raleigh, possibly a manager, and the bike was built for him, as mentioned...

I use Michelin World Tour, Panaracer Pasala and Schwalbe Marathon wire beaded tyres on vintage Weinmann hookless rims and have had no problems at up to 80psi. Folding tyres are a no-no.

I learned back in the 1970s as part of my apprenticeship at the Royal Ordnance Factory Nottingham, ROF (N). I opted to become a sheetmetal worker and spent the next 4 years in the sheetmetal shop fabricating components for such projects as the 105mm Lightweight gun, Eager Beaver military...

Not quite sure yet, I'll wait until I've collected it..................

Bought it myself, couldn't resist it.

Too big for me, some nice bits:-...

Yes, it's Pleasley Pit Mining Musuem near Mansfield Notts. Great bacon cobs and chip butties in the cafe and miles and miles of cycleways on the old pit railways and country parks.