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Haha, great story and nice twist!

Pedals are cleaned out and rebuilt. They will live to see another day. Just need a polish now. My grease is feeling a bit thick and sticky but then it dawned on me that it’s been in my grease gun for around 20 years so probably no wonder :D

I also don't think they made them themselves because, like you, I don't think they could have had the means to. They're so similar to the early 49D that I would wager they got Stronglight to make them. Size, shape, surface finish and features are near enough identical even down to the size...

Long day. But that’s it rebuilt. Just small adjustments to make now. Can do. Any idea where it is? I don’t think I’ve ever noticed a number on it.

Could well be an Equipe. I had one recently. Same basic sort of frame with pressed dropouts but I can’t remember if they had Raleigh embossed in the seat stay tops? Originally they were white frames with either a red or grey fade. My experience was the same as GIGFY: they were basic, heavy...

It’s funny you should say that. I was reading through the earlier posts here and you warned me about early bottom bracket tapers and it suddenly dawned on me I hadn’t checked what taper the Stronglight needed. Cold sweat. Luckily it’s the same as the RH one, so that’s a relief! That’s...

Rebuild day. It’s been great for smashing over the trashed roads around here with the drop bars, but it is a bit of a handful like that with a Hamax and child on the back. Going back to risers and vee brakes. So, off with the 10-speed Shimano 105, drop bars and TRP Eurox; on with the 9-speed...

Spectacularly slow progress on this, but some progress is better than no progress. Or something like that. As the saying goes. I cut down the chainring bolts on Friday. This was sort-of straightforward. I say sort-of, because the thread is sort-of M5 but not. My plan was to stick a bit of M5...

There is a market for those sorts of jerseys. I tend to wear mine and repair them when needed, while others tend to collect them but don’t use them. If you put them on eBay, check similar prices and bear in mind the sizing is a bit all over the place. List the armpit-to-armpit measurement...

Short answer is yes. Longer answer is I’ve got both WD40 and Plus Gas in the shed and I don’t think I’ve really noticed much difference in freeing ability between the two after many years of using both to free stuff off on old cars and bikes. That said, Plus Gas is noticeably lower viscosity and...

Sorry for the slow reply - ok it’s way too big for me!

I shouldn’t be looking at this. What length is the seat tube from centre of bb to top?

It doesn’t look like you’re in a hurry. Before you go to Seatpost Man can I recommend getting a tin of Plusgas (the non-aerosol one) and dribbling a little bit down where the seatpost goes into the frame every couple of days. You might find after a week or so it just comes free. It won’t harm...

Any more recent pics showing off the colour?

Whereabouts are you? I have a Raleigh Richmond mixte in Reynolds 531. Complete bike, black, but quite scratched.

Very nice! I’m not an expert on those Simplex TdF mechs, but is that chain routing correct?

I’ve been busy scrubbing the cranks with a green scourer and hot soapy water. They’ve cleaned up quite nicely. Decided a quick mock-up was in order: I’ll have to cut the chainring bolts down but that’s what it’s going to look like as a double. I’ll give them a quick going over with metal...

@Woz I’m going to take the 44 off and just use the 48 and 28. The rings just stack up on these - the 44 and 28 both use the same holes. That’s exactly what I was looking for because I didn’t want an unused set of holes on view.

I won’t hit the cranks with alu foil because it’ll scratch them up and wear the details down. This is just mud (it’s not even greasy) so it’ll just need some hot soapy water and effort followed by a light polish. I don’t want them perfect either, it’ll look out of place on this bike!

I brought them into work to check the pedal threads since the pedals were here. All good and French which is, uh, good. Side by side with the RH cranks, you can see how similar they are both in size and look.