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Thanks! I'll do some better photos of the Ladies Lenton when I get back. I feel a bit ashamed of my phone pics having seen some smart bike photos on here! What's your local bike shop?

Re: Yellow Peril Hey, thanks! I quite the yellow, but it's a bit garish. I had thought of a respray to a duck-egg blue or somesuch, but it ain't broke so why bother?! The chainset is the original shimano Biopace triple. It's got a thousand miles or so left in it, and with regular...

Here's the Yellow Peril. A Raleigh Randonneur with Royal forks, without its mudguards for summer. Sorry about the saddle (flogged that for £30 so that particular horror has gone) and the saddle bag is a bit scrotal because it had a load of tools in it to correct my mistakes on the road (it was...

Hi! I'm glad you like it, thanks for your reply. I'll take some more pictures of it when I get home this week. The frame is proper shabby, but I love the part visible transfers. I won't repaint, but may lacquer it o preserve it's condition, or smash some clear shoe polish on it! Here's...

Hello Thought I'd say hello on my own, first post, and show a couple of photos of a project finally coming to an end. I bought a knackered 50's Raleigh Lenton frame, and have been doing it up for the missus. Apart from a bit of fettling like hooking up the hub gear, getting mudguards and...

Many thanks for your reply Rich, and for the welcome. There are spoke holders on the rear right, and the seat post is 27.2mm so presumably double butted 531. The bike is ridiculously light (at least to me- my only other bike is a Raleigh Pulsar)! It has braze-ons all over the bike...

Good evening all I'm new here, having been prompted to go searching for help on here after a relative gave me what he believes is a Raleigh Randonneur. Things are made trickier by the serial number being covered over by a frightful yellow paint job! As far as I can tell it appears to be...