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Can't recall where I got them from or if they are a good match but I have these written down for the Gran Sport on an old note... RAL1024 Pantone 117

Always used it for setting the tip of the brake lever level to the bottom edge of the bars and lying across top of lever to check level against handlebar. Hole in the end was very useful for hanging it on the end of the workbench. I have a similar straight edge that I use for the same thing.

Looks like an Avocet 20 - the model before the 30/40 when all the different colours were introduced.

The Road Ace in 84 had 600AX and top mounted levers but the 85 catalogue shows the Road Ace as 600EX (std levers). This has Gipiemme ends, Prugnat lugs and shot in stays so it matches the Team Replica, Road Ace and Competition. They probably all used exactly the same frame so model was...

Re: EG Bates...

Yep, the 50th group has a std Nuovo Record BB and Super Record headset so just swap them out for British threading. If you have a 27.2 seat pin then you are looking for a later 1982+ 753R or any 531DB/531c frame.

The H ref system appears to have stopped at the end of 1979. The last frame I've seen with an H up to this point is SB3177. From the bikes I've seen in the 1979 period, every other frame had an H ref, so it looks like it was dropped from the start of 1980. The SBDU built custom frames, that...

You only ever hear about the frames that fail, just like you only ever hear about the Record cranks that crack - Campagnolo produced 100s and 1000s, if not millions of these cranks but it is only the cracked one that people talk about. You can talk about an SBDU frame (thousands made), and you...

Sachs Aris freewheels came as either complete blocks or you could build them from a range of individual sprockets and spacers. Most workshops like ours would have the Sachs board on the wall and you would build blocks to customer spec. The LY is nothing to do with the name or year of the block...

This is a 531c Services des Courses in Chrome and Team colours - different to the 531 Pro Super. These were just as popular than the 531 Pro Super, maybe more popular. As this is the SDC frame, it has a complete set of Cinelli lugs (fork crown, head lugs, seat lug and BB). Because of the Cinelli...

I sold this a while ago, from memory, I think the rims were Mavic Open SUPs on 105 hubs

Most of what the renovator does is remove dirt, it is a very mild cutting compound and if the frame doesn't have clear coat then it will take off a little paint together with the dirt. If the frame has a clear coat then it is going to scrape off dirt. I find it is the dirt that dulls the...

I use this stuff... I've used it on a few frames now and always had good results. Here's a link to that blog post https://raleigh-sb4059.com/2017/10/28/s ... ocumented/ Rub off any thick dirt first, then use a clean polishing cloth to add the renovator, remove with another clean cloth, then...

SH377T cleaned up nicely...

I think I would say that all my original paint SBDU bikes are really quite thin paint, It's almost as if they are just coloured steel tubes if that makes sense? It is so easy to spot a repainted SBDU frame. SBDU frames have lovely thin paint with razor sharp lug lines and even things like frame...

Yes, the frame is in great condition, it just needs a clean and polish to get the dirt off it.

The Campag Pista parts will go back on and I'll hunt out some nice wheels, bars and stem, saddle and pin to finish it off. The frame just needs a clean

The 2nd acquisition of the week. I couldn't believe my luck that this was just sitting on eBay. It had some fuzzy low res pictures in the ebay ad as the seller had broken his camera but the description mentioned a frame built my Mike Mullett for Steve Heffernan. Zooming into the pictures...

I've got another few still to share... just need to get some time. I would love to display these bikes and that will hopefully happen one day!

I can't see any signs that there were ever holes on the head tube so I'd expect this was always a transfer type head badge, although they normally used the foil oval TT type instead of the one on here. The braze on mech is a later mod either by the SBDU in the mid 80s or by Chris when he...