Road bike beyond repair ?

[fiveSixteenths]

I notice it has a map engraved on the handle bars, not sure if that means anything to anyone ?.

I think they'd be GB Maes bars, the map is usually of Britain, contemporary with the bike's age.

 

[fiveSixteenths]

No problem at all, send me a PM and I will pass on my address.

Fantastic, will do and thank you very much again.
cheers
Richard

 

[night-owl]

Afternoon night-owl. I'm in over in Basildon on Wednesday, could I pick it up in the afternoon?
It's very good of you to offer it up, it'd be a really nice project.
cheers
Richard

No problem at all, send me a PM and I will pass on my address.

I think they'd be GB Maes bars, the map is usually of Britain, contemporary with the bike's age.

Yes it is a British map, thank you

 

[fiveSixteenths]

No problem at all, send me a PM and I will pass on my address.

Yes it is a British map, thank you

Have sent a PM.

 

[torqueless]

I took it to the bike shop who basically said it's about equivalent of a £300 bike of today's standards

See.. (neither wishing to impute bad motives to the bike shop, nor to interfere with your arrangement with five Sixteenths,) this is what I mean about bike shops. Assuming your dad bought the parts that make up that bike new in the 60s, just the frame on its own would have cost him the contemporary average weekly wage, or something close to it, and that would've been perhaps a quarter of the cost of the whole machine. The average weekly wage for 2020 was reputedly £560.

 

[night-owl]

Hi Torqueless,

Thank you for your input,

I totally agree the bike shop had little interest but i have little skill in bikes and feel it would be left to rot in my hands. Therefore offering up to a member of the forum hopefully insures that it will be looked after and may be used again. Certainly I would expect that if the bike was something really special and was worth significant monetary value, someone on the forum would point that out to me. So I came to the conclusion it's just a very nice bike that deserves to be looked after in a good home rather than left rotting in the garage.

 

[torqueless]

No argument from me, night owl.

 

[night-owl]

Hello, I have visited a family member today who likes doing things up and wants the bike, clearly family comes first so I am giving the bike to them. Apologies to fivesixteenths.

 

[torqueless]

Ah OK... If you think worthwhile maybe you can persuade them to read through this stuff:https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/patina.362391/

 

[night-owl]

Will do torqueless, he restores lots of things and very well. It's his retirement hobby. I will post some photos when done. Thank you all