Building my TI-Raleigh Team Pro 753 (…and the other SBDU Ilkeston bikes I've collected along the way…)
Every new addition gets a good clean and although it was already looking quite good, SH377T still needed a bitContinue Reading
Trying to make sense and research and write about a workshop, the frames and the set of guys who built those frames is a big task. In fact it is a massive task! They only existed under the same roof in Ilkeston for a little over a decade, and for those few years, they designed and built bikes that beat the world over and over and they became the team behind the team – that team was the most successful team in professional cycling.
That success for TI-Raleigh has brought lots of information onto the internet, and I’ve given myself the job of sifting that information into the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The ‘Good’ pile never seems to grow as much as the other 2! However, whatever does make it into the good pile is the stuff I like to write about and share. Hopefully what I find and share helps those with their own SBDU bikes…
All of the 50th Anniversary parts that I’ve carefully and patiently cleaned over the last couple of weeks have been re-unitedContinue Reading
I wasn’t planning to do this job today, it just happened. I’d been thinking for the past week about howContinue Reading
It’s just over six years since I fastened the first component to this frame and four or five years sinceContinue Reading
Following the change of cables on SB4059 there is now only one thing that I need to do, one moreContinue Reading
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about this bike. SB4059 is my original bike, number #1 in theContinue Reading
Is SB4059 ever going to be finished? The answer is probably no, but today I took another step closer whenContinue Reading
I’m frequently asked about the specification of TI-Raleigh’s team bikes. The most popular search terms I see on my blogContinue Reading
This post gives me the opportunity to play with my favourite bike, my Team Pro 753 TI-Raleigh. I’ve built thisContinue Reading
Some things I set myself up to find for my bikes are extremely rare! Patience, and keeping one eye constantlyContinue Reading
One thing I’ve tried to combine with my blog is a comprehensive photographic record. I try to capture each buildContinue Reading
It’s been 18 month since I claimed to have finished this build and posted the complete bike post and buildContinue Reading
I’ve just realised that I have never detailed the build of this bike. I tried my best to recreate aContinue Reading
I’m going to use a term that my 13 year old daughter Lauren uses… “Oh My Gosh!”, it’s finished! ChristmasContinue Reading
