Neil McGowran1st Gen Super Record components on an original paint 1974 SBDU bike! Not just a 1974 SBDU bike, but also a single digit SBDU bike!……
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1974 Raleigh SBDU frames, there aren’t too many, believed to be no more than 50. My thoughts on the use of the word ‘Rare’ are…
Handlebar wrapping can be one of those bike building tasks you either love or hate. When it is done badly it will make the best…
Bolting a couple of derailleurs and other small parts to a frame is the easy stage of any bike build. Normally I build in three…
Campagnolo Super Record 50th Anniversary Group – that’s what I’m working with again. But before I get to the shiny gold parts, I need to…
Frame Prep! Any task requires prep. Great prep should be the foundation of everything you do, it will give you the best chance of achieving…
SB1861, built at SBDU Ilkeston in late 1977 is back in the workstand, I need to get this bike completed. It has sat for too…
It’s time to figure out the correct SBDU frame number for my frame stamped as SB4522. Is that number correct? Is it SB5422, indicated on…
This is probably the only bike that has had a pre-new arrival post. I wrote about this Campagnolo 50th Anniversary bike a short while ago…
I often ask myself if this bike will ever be finished. Is it good that I think there is always more to do? Will fitting…
There is no doubt that this bike is fitted with a Campagnolo Super Record 50th Anniversary Group. There is also no doubt that this is…
SB7393 is a 1985 Reynolds 531 Professional SBDU bike that I picked up last year. Since then I’ve slowly been putting together the missing pieces…
An SBDU 531SL Aero frame? SB4944 was an impulse buy from quite some time ago. I saw it listed on Hilary Stone’s site as an…
What do you call it? Do you say Rear Derailleur, Rear Mech, Rear Mechanism, ‘Mech’ or just ‘Gears’… they are all names to describe the…
I currently have six or seven or maybe even eight or more projects and builds happening at the moment. But lots of projects means lots…
It’s just over six years since I fastened the first component to this frame and four or five years since I completed the first build…
The year was 1984. I was only 14 and riding a beat up Raleigh Grifter around the estate. My parent’s shed was my workshop and…
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about this bike. SB4059 is my original bike, number #1 in the collection, the bike that started…
Every new addition gets a good clean and although it was already looking quite good, SH377T still needed a bit of work. Wet oil and…
The process of purchasing SB3505 was super smooth… a late Friday evening email, additional images on the Saturday, deal done on the Sunday morning, packaged…
It’s been a busy week. Two SBDU frames have been received, unpacked, documented and blogged. SB1500 was intriguing, it didn’t need any clean up at…
Sometimes my plans for builds go smoothly and sometimes those plans stall and start to back up. I started the rebuild of SB1861 a little while…
Finding bikes built by the Specialist Bicycle Development Unit (SBDU) that aren’t what they appear to be is part of the appeal of bike hunting…
I’ve been itching to take this bike to pieces and to get my first good look at the detail of this frame and today was…
I thought I had moved away from using tubs, but I had second thoughts about them after I decided to rebuild the wheels on SB5794 with some…
It’s been a little while, but SB5794 is finally getting the wheels that it deserves! When I initially built this bike I just used the…
I’ve not got much to write in this post as the pictures will hopefully say everything. This Raleigh Banana has been an awesome bike to…
To say that I’m happy with how 2017 has started is an understatement! My first SBDU bike for the year is built and it is…
I’ve been collecting a few items for this build since getting my hands on the frame in December last year. It’s been a bit of…
This build is moving quickly! I found an amazing condition Dura-Ace 7400/7402 series group set from the late 1980s almost immediately after getting my hands…