Orange P7

[Brother Belcher]

I've been putting a orange p7 back together for the last few week, I always wanted one of these, but I now realize that I'm struggling a bit with the straight bars, so it may not get ridden much (43, 14 stone)
I may put it in the 'for sale section' any idea what it would be worth?

 

[jimihendrix]

Nice

Post it in this thread and the Hugh Scully's of the bike world will give a valuation

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 81&start=0

 

[XCDave]

That's lovely, similar to mine. What size is it? Looks quite small.

 

[Brother Belcher]

I think it's a 17" & as far as I can remember it is as it came from orange except there are a few purple bottle cage screws, all LX I even managed to get some of the foam grips that they came with, the frame has a few 'rust spots' but these seem to form under the lacquer.
I bought the bike off ebay & used most of the good bits from a c16r to put together a good P7, I think the only parts I used from the ebay bike were the frame, forks, saddle, cranks, & shifters, the wheels, stem & seat post came of the c16r as they were LX or better condition.
I've had the pedals for years but can't remember what they are?

 

[Brother Belcher]

close up of frame

 

[fingers]

Nice wheels... Ive got some of those.

BTW mine also came with purple bottle cage screws...

 

[reanimation]

Nice.

Ya could experiment with different front end set up, shorter/taller stem, perhaps suspension, or maybe bars with more bend back.

 

[Brother Belcher]

I was trying to make it as original as possible, so did not really think about how it would ride, it was a bike I wanted but could not afford at the time, I think a LX P7 was about £850? seems quite a bit now, so must have seemed very expensive in 1995.
I'm going to put it on ebay later if anyone is interested?