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As you know I've been researching and trying to restore my Winchester 70's roadbike, and thought I'd post a few pics. Still not completely finished and bits to redo but almost there. Just wanna get back to riding her again. The bits can wait till Spring 🤣.

Hi all. As you already know, I'm trying to identify and restore my 70's roadbike. And slowly (very slowly), its all coming together! Upon stripping, cleaning and measuring up the crank shaft bearings for new replacements, low and behold, bang in the centre of the shaft were the letters...

Ha !! Lol !! I found a little bit of a metallic purple whilst shot blasting it, so maybe I'll paint it a high fleck purple and edge the lugs with a gloss black ! I'll post a few pictures when it's done.

Keith, in all respect to you, I don't care if the bike is worth £25 ! I like it ! I just wanted to know what it was and where it came from! That's all! It looks beautiful and I want to carry on riding it! I'm no purist by anymeans! Keith, all respects to you and your knowledge! Really! I...

That's The bloke, I was young at the time.

Wow ! I never knew that! It makes total sense, as I was looking at the brazing pattern and it didn't look rite ! I.e if you did it by hand it wouldn't look like my frame does. So putting it in an oven of sorts pre prepared with braze makes total sense 👌 I found out the frames origin today and...

Hi Keith, I just found out that the bike frame is a Windsor ! Funnily enough in the 70's they employed an ex employee from the Cinelli factory. And rather than direct him in his building they left him to do his own thing, and being from the Italian building critique he just wanted to build...

To Touqueless Hi, you are so rite !! I just got a message from a guy in USA, he had pictures of his bike and his had more detailing. Identical to mine !! Almost. I can't believe it !! Basically it's a Windsor-Mexico ( a derivative of the Carrera model) and was likely built up by an importing...

Thanks for that Touqueless, another bit of info to bear in mind. I'll take anything I can get at the moment! I've managed to find so little out about this bike, it's so frustrating. My hobby is restoring old cars, currently doing a minivan for keeps, so restoring this bike has kinda joined...

Cheers Keith 👍. I did find a handful of Nervex lugs for sale a while ago, new old stock, so it is more than possible to make your own frames etc. These Winchester frames are all hand made I feel as I stripped mine down yesterday and shot blasted it ready for restoration. Its clearly hand...

Thanks for your input Keith 👍. Whilst getting info about the yellow bike, an established guru like yourself in America said that he owned 1 in the 70's and thought that it may have come from Japan. It has dia compe brakes etc, so ? If you try and match the emblem, it doesn't exist? So when...

In addition to the photos I provided of the only other Winchester bike I've ever seen, I thought I'd better post some of mine as they have better close ups. Also I think that the heart shape on my frame may be an attempt to' fake it' into a De Rosa? I can't find any stampings or markings...

Hi all, My name is Steve and have recently joined the group. I live in Dorset in the UK. A few years ago I wanted to get into cycling again to get fit and purchased a roadbike locally. I'd never heard of the make but the bike looked good and was extremely light. On a ride out a man...