Neil McGowranSB7393 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……
Advertisements
It’s amazing what can happen in a matter of minutes. I had my feet up, relaxing on a Sunday morning, doing nothing much at all…
It’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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m gradually working my way through the snagging list on SB4059, all those little jobs that I know about and that require attention are slowly…
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…
It has been a long couple of days but I’ve finally completed this small and difficult project to bring SB4059 up to spec in terms…
I think I must have been slightly bonkers to start this project but the desire to get SB4059 looking correct was too much! That morning…
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…