Neil McGowranIt’s always nice to sit down and have a think about where my SBDU collection is and to plan where it is heading. That might……
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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…
I’ve bought a few frames from Hilary Stone over the years. He’s been the source for some of my best featured frames such as SB4409,…
In a previous blog post I introduced the new TI-Raleigh SBDU forums which are part of a larger ‘Community’ project that I’m building. At the…
My site has taken over all of my spare time recently. I’ve been expanding it so I can let people in, creating an area that…
My previous post turned up a couple of surprises about SB1995. The first, smaller surprise, was the owner’s initials on the fork. The bigger surprise…
“Never assume with the SBDU”. That is a phrase I say a lot. It is a mantra I repeat when I’m assessing SBDU frames and…
Recollections are a funny thing. Could you remember details or be precise about a specific date from maybe only a month ago? Could you remember…
It was a Thursday evening a couple of weeks ago, and as usual I was sitting in front of the laptop, half watching TV half…
I’ve been collecting for years. I can go for what seems like a lifetime without a new addition while at other times I seem to…
A lot has happened since this bike last graced my workstand. I’ve just checked through my posts and I last mentioned it in July 2017.…
I guess it’s a passion… it didn’t start out like this and I never intended it to be like this, the blog just grew quietly,…
SB518 is the third frame I have lined up this year to be painted in the TI-Raleigh colours (it’s nice to start the year with…
I have a few 2019 projects to complete and this is the second such project that happens to be a track frame and the second…
Back in March 2018, a short but interesting email dropped into my Inbox… I am the son off Roy Schuiten. I recently found a time…
This frame has eventually made it to the top of my list of projects. This is a Jan Raas frame and it has waited too…
Last year took a very different direction to 2017; that year was all about snapping up everything I could find, and 14 frames was clear…
I’m going to make a bold statement right at the beginning of this blog post… my theory is that this Stayer frame could be a…
Every now and then I spot something slightly different, something that I struggle to identify but which has the potential to be something nice, maybe…
When I add a traditional horizontal top tube SBDU bike to my collection it can sometimes take a few careful measurements and a little bit…
While I’m patiently waiting for the final few Dura-Ace 7400 series 6 speed components to arrive, I’m going to begin the paintwork restore on SB6560,…
I haven’t written many ‘New Arrival’ posts this year after slowing down my collecting habit and being a bit more picky, so it really is…
Over the years since bike number one arrived (SB4059), I’ve continued to look at what I’m collecting and I’ve tried to add frames that plug…
I always find this topic a sad one to write about. I get sad when I know that someone is spending money on a bike…
I always get nice comments about my work space. It is often commented on when I post bike images. So I thought I’d write quite…
Frame weight… it’s often talked about, requested and used as a measure to try and determine tubing type. From my own experience I can see…
SB6560 arrived in terrible condition with missing gear lever bosses and poorly applied transfers. It is a frame that has always been overlooked and put…
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…
This isn’t intended to be an Internet resource of Raleigh frame numbers! If you are reading this for anything other than SB number sequences from…
Emails dropping into my Inbox on a lazy Saturday afternoon are quickly becoming the best kind of email! The one I received last Saturday offered…