Tag: Australia
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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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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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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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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…