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Cheers :) I just did a bit of experimenting with stripping the paint and I'm leaving it in the sun with a healthy coating of bleach and salt on the test section while I go MOT the big stuff. Hopefully it'll do something.

Re: Thanks for the positive replies :) Been googling rust framed bikes and if I get time today I'll definitely remove the rest of the paint. Got 2 bikes in for mot first though. Oh and I had to admit defeat last night and buy a rear cable. £1.49!

Re: Yeah I did debate that but my knees are only just up to a single. Fixie is off the menu for me I'm afraid. There's something really pleasing about the proportions of how it sits, can't quite put my finger on it. I've got some bearing work to do on it too yet (BB, head, rear wheel) but...

Re: OK, it's pretty much finished. Ground lugs off, built a chain out of 2 other bits of chain and the end of my oil filter wrench and treated all the rust. I had to muck about a bit to get the chain line but it's there. The only thing I need to actually hand money over for is a bloody rear...

Started spitting a bit so I've come in for chow. It's followed me... What? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!!

Right. Some background: usually I only build motorbikes, moved on from bike bikes a long time ago, but like most here I have piles of bike bits lying around. I had a brain fart last night that I was going to build something, the challenge is I'm not allowed to buy anything. Unfortunately the...

MY home built (frame might be a c**t butter, can't remember)... bob.jpg

Welcome :) Could you put pics of the bike up please. Oh and sunshine. We could use some pics of that too.

Bloody hell that brings back some memories. These were show ponies in the old freewheel catalogues. If you could get the one for this year you'd have more info to go on.

Lovely! Nice to see another one, i still have mine from new as well.

Nice to see another one! Dont suppose it had a decent set of cranks or pedals on it did it?

http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy19 ... ture22.png

Your main thing is to get something with horizontal rear dropouts, or youll have problems getting the chain length accurate.

Ok, trying another one...

New poster on here, been looking at some of the awesome bikes for a while though. Lot of memories bought up by them. Here are my two... Triathlon, had from new in 1987... http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy19 ... re18-1.png Record sprint, ongoing resto to replace the one i had before the...

Good save from the skip, looks great with the new tyres. Stick some pics up when youve taped the bars.