Neil McGowranFrame 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……
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Time Trial frame? Road frame? Or a bit of both? What exactly is it? SB7393 came with a story that it was built and used…
eBay! Love it or loathe it, every now and then it does serve a purpose. Personally I loathe it and while I’m definately not a…
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 SBDU seemed to stop stamping their H reference on frames towards the end of 1979, meaning the frames coming out of Ilkeston at the…
This is post number two looking at new arrival SB632, and I’m measuring geometry. How will this frame measure up? What size is it? How long…
I’ve had another new arrival, not long after the 753 Dynaflite came into the workshop, I’ve found another rather special frame that just deserves to be…
Sometimes my frames come to me without any signs of originality meaning that I can’t accurately identify them. There is seldom a known history to accompany…
The “Services des Courses” frameset is described by the SBDU at Ilkeston as “…out and out ‘Team Issue’ framesets embodying our current thinking on design…
A few weeks after receiving my frame back from Dave, and I’ve finally assembled the kit to build it.
A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Frame Painted and Ready to Build
I was very excited to receive a frame sized box from the courier today and couldn’t wait to open it.
It’s been a few weeks since this little frame arrived, so after the small change of subject and posts about Dave Yates and his brilliant frame building…
I started every morning by pulling my boots on and going to have a lovely cooked breakfast. The boots didn’t hurt so much now, the…
Bikes are not much good if you can’t attach cables for brakes and gears, it would also be nice to carry a water bottle or…
Bicycle forks… how hard can they be to make…
Day 2 started with a plan, more pictures, sore feet, a huge blister and a tube box still full of tubes yet to be worked…
This is a little off topic, I normally keep this blog just for my SBDU Ilkeston bikes. However, I’ve just spent a fascinating week in…
Realistically, there may not be many ‘original owners’ of SBDU frames – I.E. those people who still own an SBDU frame that they ordered and…