Neil McGowranI’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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
When you have a get a good look at the paint on SB7393 you can see that it isn’t the best. Although it is all…
Now that Eroica Britannia is out of the way and work on SB4059 is complete (for now), I can turn my attention to looking at…
Another email, another road trip, another bike. I was sitting with my feet up on holiday at the end of May, just relaxing and watching…
It was just another night in front of the television when an email dropped into my Inbox regarding an SBDU frame, this is a situation…
After working out that SB664 was built from an early type of Imperial Reynolds 753 tubing, I wanted to use the calipers and metal rule…
In the beginning there was Metric Reynolds 753 tubing, and then later in 1982, a new Imperial Reynolds 753 tube was introduced. The new tube,…
There is no long winded waffle from me on this post, at least that is the intention… it’s hopefully just a short introduction about a…
The Easter weekend has given me some free time so I decided to work on a couple of projects. SB4409 was the first frame to…
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…
Wow, there are some rare frames, and then there is this one. The overwhelming reaction from most people is “Never seen one of those before…”…
It’s not often I write a quick blog post, but this is just too exciting to wait for a full and detailed review – so…
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…
It’s a new year and my first day off so I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it than building a bike and writing…
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…
While I was away last week, the post man delivered another Ilkeston frameset and it was waiting for me when I eventually got home. I’ve not…
I’ve had a British threaded Omas Titanium bottom bracket with rather nasty bearings in the parts box for a little while and I thought it…
After deciding to build this frame, I still have to decide on which parts to use. Do I stick with Campagnolo Super Record or do…
Decisions, decisions… It’s nice being in this position and having this dilemma. I know lots of SBDU collectors who would like to be in this position too.…
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…
I have a list of frames that I want in my SBDU collection. That list of frames is slowly getting smaller; but on that list…
I have a few SBDU frames and recently decided that if I’m going to add to the collection, it had to be something different to…