No love for Paul Donohue road bikes

[sausagefingers]

I've only done a brief search but there doesn't seem to any info on here concerning Paul Donohue road bikes.
I know he's very highly regarded with the mtber's but how come there's nothing in the road section?
Are his road frames not as good as his mtb frames?

Cheers, Mick

 

[Tel]

I haven't seen many in all honesty but the few that I have were bloody lovely!

 

[47p2]

The GW I built recently was built by Paul and it's a fantastic bike on the road.

 

[sausagefingers]

Thanks for the quick replies.
So it's just a case of 'not many around' as opposed to 'they're rubbish,better not to mention them'
I thought if there was one place on t'net where I could find some info on them it would be here, but not even a picture

thanks again

 

[47p2]

...but not even a picture

 

[Robbied196]

And another

 

[sausagefingers]

both very nice

So how many different firms/makers would PD have made frames for?

Is there any way to date my PD bike from the serial number?

thanks again

 

[David B]

Paul Donohue, as well as building for Graham Weigh/Deeside, also took over the Cougar marque from Terry Dolan in later years. PD-built steel Cougars were, IIRC, almost exculsively of welded construction, and I think alloy-framed Cougars also started to appear in larger numbers under his ownership.

David

 

[sausagefingers]

thanks for that,

how would i go about dating the bike? serial number?

i'm guessing mid 90's. columbus slx tubing with campag mirage groupset

 

[fatandforty]

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