Category: Restorations and Rebuilds
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Colnago C50 – Another Experience
I have a friend, whom I will call Adam – mainly that’s because it’s his name and I’m not about to vilify him or any else scandalous (ATM) 🙂 I’ve known Adam for a few years, at an uneducated guess I’d say maybe 5 years, it doesn’t really matter, we both have a love of…
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Funny Bike
Back in the day I used to trawl Gumtree for interesting for interesting bikes and then, if something caught my eye, I would buy it. I freely admit, I bought some weird things and made more than a few questionable choices, but for the most part, they were diamonds in the rough. So it was…
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Pegasus #2
From knowing nothing about the Pegasus brand or Keith Davis to suddenly finding myself with two frames! This frame came from one of our regular customers who has a bit of a collection. Occasionally, she tries to move one or two bikes on to make space for the next project. This came in as a…
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1997 Colnago C40
A work in progress.
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Pinarello – GOING for GOLD
Stuart had this amazing Pinarello that has been restored with extra bling! But it had travelled and been in storage and was generally looking a bit worse for wear. So, he asked me to bring it back to its former glory.Â
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Malvern Star Flying Wedge
Rodger emailed me from Sydney. “We’ve had this bike in the family for years and would really like to do it up for my oldest brother’s 60th birthday.” While it had been in the shed, it was still in a pretty awful state when we go it. Everything was rusty and some of it pretty…
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1987 Kuwahara MTB
In 1987, Andrew bought a Kuwahara mountain bike to go bicycle touring with his girlfriend. Many years, adventures and another continent later, he’d married the girlfriend, emigrated, started a business, had a family and thrashed the bike every day commuting, riding with the kids, doing the shopping and still the odd back road ramble. As…
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Klein Quantum
Don picked up this great old Klein Quantum from a friend and we decided to give it a makeover one night after work – more like a full strip and rebuild!. Several hours and a number of IPAs later we had replaced the worn out groupset with it’s big brother Shimano 600 Tricolor and a…
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1980’s Giant AIRWOLF
Another shed clean up and another old bike comes to light. This little piece of cycling history is the Giant Airwolf. A bike from the period when Giant started to go it alone with everything that they had learnt from Schwinn. This bike is running a complete EDGE groupset. This is one of the first…
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Univega CONQUEST
This Univega Conquest, was another shed discovery … not sure how it ended up in Australia, but there are a few of them around. Initially I suspected that they were mostly brought in individually but people who had owned them elsewhere, but the more I look, the more I find; enough to make me think…
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2001 Specialized CX Comp
One of our customers brought us a lovely old steel Specialized frame that they’d had from new as their main commuter for many years. They had upgraded to a Sirrus X, which they’d bought from us and decided that a fitting end would be to give it to us the old bike to restore. Although…
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1992 Lemond VENTOUX
Mark brought this old Lemond in with quite a few scratches and a bit of rust, badly in need of some loving. We stripped it completely and got it repainted with a new set of decals and then clear-coated. Most of the original parts were still in good condition and with a bit of cleaning,…
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Kennedy Road Bike
James came in with this lovely old Kennedy road alloy road bike that had been languishing in the shed for too long. A bike he’d ridden heaps back in the day when he was unencumbered by life. He’d had a few bikes since, but this was his love and he wanted to get it back into…
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1976 Ti-Raleigh Europa
Alec emailed me one day with photos of a very sad looking Raleigh, “This is the bike I rode when I was at Uni and I would really love to restore it.” “Leave it with me Alec, I’ll see what I can do.” We thought about putting a more modern groupset on it, but eventually…
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1930s Arrow
Ryan called me about restoring his grandad’s old racing bike. He really didn’t know much about it and only really knew that his grandfather had raced at a pretty high level in the late 1920s and 1930s. After he’d stopped racing, his race bike had gone into the shed where it had stayed until Ryan…
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1973 Sovereign Star
Living and working in Mildura in the northwest of Victoria, a lot of people knew that I was passionate about old bikes and that I was restoring them in my spare time. I would sometimes get invited to come and see someone’s bikes or visit their workshop and from time to time people would come…
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1991 Casati Ellisse
Lachie wanted a Vintage Steel bike, so he bought this Casati online from Europe and had it shipped over. He brought it in for me to refurbish and build before he rode it. It was in pretty good condition, a bit of a dent in the top tube, but otherwise in great. A full Campagnolo…
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1980’s Tecnotrat Oria
Greg brought this beauty in one day after we had been yarning about all things bike. Originally a mid range Italian steel road bike, it was looking a little neglected. The frame is Italian, built by Tecnotrat, probably in the mid to late 1980’s. They built frames in Cuneo (NW Italy, not far from Nice…
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1982 Colnago Super
Can you make this new again? Brian owned this old girl since new and between riding, racing, travelling and several iterations of storage, she was looking a bit worn. He came in with the bike and a page from the original catalog – hardcopy was a thing back in the day! He asked if we…
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1976 Colnago Super
A long-term project for a good friend.
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1980 Mercier
Brought into the shop for a service and an upgrade. It hasn’t been ridden in a while and the owner wanted to get back into riding. After we costed out a full service and parts he decided to just buy a new bike. Then he wasn’t sure what to do with the old bike. He…