Category: My Frame Building

I spent a week with Dave Yates in August 2015. These posts show the frame building work each day and the subsequent build into a bike.

SB6560 531c Services des Courses 1984 SBDU Ilkeston Panasonic Raleigh Frame Prep

Neil McGowran on February 2, 2017

SB6560 1984 531c Services des Courses Panasonic Raleigh Frame Ready for New Bosses

I’ve been working through my collection of frames, and next on the list is SB6560, a 531c Services des Courses 1984 frame in the ’84 team Panasonic Raleigh colours. I’ve moved this up the list as I really want to get a Panasonic schemed bike built to fit in with the Raleigh Banana (SB8868) and TI-Raleigh (SB3800) that I have built in the last few months. Read More

A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 4

Neil McGowran on September 2, 2015

Dave Yates Frame Building Course Day 4 A Look Around Daves Workshop

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 two. That means that day 4 was all about ‘braze-ons’ – those little guides that you pass cables through! Read More

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