WhtANightmare
Devout Dirtbag
Hi All,
First of all a quick apology, as my knowledge on bikes it terrible. Me and my wife moved into her grandads house recently, and with it came a couple of vintage bikes, which we would love to get one of up and running as a nice gesture for the family, and to use for some casual riding. Both bikes have been up in a loft for 30+ years, and all the wheels are completely bent and seem past easy fixing. The grandad was a Surrey Hill Race champion back in his day, and one of them we believe he did race on in the 1950's potentially.
The first bike is a Claud Butler which has olympic stickers on it, as seen in the pictures attached. Sorry for the quality of the pictures this was limited time sorting loft currently so took a quick few whilst i could. Any help on aging of bike would be welcomed.
The second bike is a Carpenter bike (which appears to be a little local bike manufacturer 'Surbiton - London') which we can't find much info about. Can post pictures if people would like to see.
I have had a friend looking at the Claud Butler as he has some albeit very limited bike knowledge, however, the wheels seem like they used glued on tyres, which from looking online seem to be tubular tyres? The old tyres and glue were so back they had almost gone rock solid, and took forever to try to remove the old tyres. The friend said the wheels need a lot of work to get them to be aligned correctly, spokes tightened etc etc.
My main query is, whilst in an ideal world i'd love to get the wheels restore, and put on to keep as original as possible, we don't really have the money to get someone to do this. Is there a way to use new wheels on such an old frame? The friend said he tried to put his road bike 700's on the frame, but the axle was too big for the dropout (i think thats what its called).
Any help/advice for a complete bike idiot would be hugely appreciated. if anybody has any questions i will do my best to answer if i can.
First of all a quick apology, as my knowledge on bikes it terrible. Me and my wife moved into her grandads house recently, and with it came a couple of vintage bikes, which we would love to get one of up and running as a nice gesture for the family, and to use for some casual riding. Both bikes have been up in a loft for 30+ years, and all the wheels are completely bent and seem past easy fixing. The grandad was a Surrey Hill Race champion back in his day, and one of them we believe he did race on in the 1950's potentially.
The first bike is a Claud Butler which has olympic stickers on it, as seen in the pictures attached. Sorry for the quality of the pictures this was limited time sorting loft currently so took a quick few whilst i could. Any help on aging of bike would be welcomed.
The second bike is a Carpenter bike (which appears to be a little local bike manufacturer 'Surbiton - London') which we can't find much info about. Can post pictures if people would like to see.
I have had a friend looking at the Claud Butler as he has some albeit very limited bike knowledge, however, the wheels seem like they used glued on tyres, which from looking online seem to be tubular tyres? The old tyres and glue were so back they had almost gone rock solid, and took forever to try to remove the old tyres. The friend said the wheels need a lot of work to get them to be aligned correctly, spokes tightened etc etc.
My main query is, whilst in an ideal world i'd love to get the wheels restore, and put on to keep as original as possible, we don't really have the money to get someone to do this. Is there a way to use new wheels on such an old frame? The friend said he tried to put his road bike 700's on the frame, but the axle was too big for the dropout (i think thats what its called).
Any help/advice for a complete bike idiot would be hugely appreciated. if anybody has any questions i will do my best to answer if i can.
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