Hi all,
I am about to attempt to restore an old bike I brought and think it may be a Claud Butler but not sure as the numbers are different to what I have seen in this forum.
The story goes like this... I always had racers many years ago when I was younger and have been thinking about getting another for a while now but didn't really want to buy a new one. So last week I pop to see an old friend about something and he has an old racer sat on his drive, what you doing with that I said? nothing much he said why do you want it?. I say yes how much do you want for it, give me £25 he said so I promptly took my axe out of my pocket and took his hand off.
I know very little about makes and models etc but the guy over the road from me does a bit with racers etc and hes currently doing up an old Rally one he has, so I ask him how old do you think this bike is?. He looks and says that looks pretty old to me and it looks like a Claud Butler, so I jump on the old tinterwebs and end up here .
I have had a good look through the threads and the number identification thread but to be fair theres a lotto look at and I can see the woods for the trees, that said most of what I have seen seem to have 6 digit numbers and are on the bottom underside of the pedals. My one has no numbers at all there, there is a five digit number above the forks. I will try attach a picture here and am hoping someone can help me identify it so I can do it justice in restoring it as original as possible, thanks for any help in advance.
I am about to attempt to restore an old bike I brought and think it may be a Claud Butler but not sure as the numbers are different to what I have seen in this forum.
The story goes like this... I always had racers many years ago when I was younger and have been thinking about getting another for a while now but didn't really want to buy a new one. So last week I pop to see an old friend about something and he has an old racer sat on his drive, what you doing with that I said? nothing much he said why do you want it?. I say yes how much do you want for it, give me £25 he said so I promptly took my axe out of my pocket and took his hand off.
I know very little about makes and models etc but the guy over the road from me does a bit with racers etc and hes currently doing up an old Rally one he has, so I ask him how old do you think this bike is?. He looks and says that looks pretty old to me and it looks like a Claud Butler, so I jump on the old tinterwebs and end up here .
I have had a good look through the threads and the number identification thread but to be fair theres a lotto look at and I can see the woods for the trees, that said most of what I have seen seem to have 6 digit numbers and are on the bottom underside of the pedals. My one has no numbers at all there, there is a five digit number above the forks. I will try attach a picture here and am hoping someone can help me identify it so I can do it justice in restoring it as original as possible, thanks for any help in advance.