Neil McGowranHandlebar wrapping can be one of those bike building tasks you either love or hate. When it is done badly it will make the best……
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Bolting a couple of derailleurs and other small parts to a frame is the easy stage of any bike build. Normally I build in three…
Campagnolo Super Record 50th Anniversary Group – that’s what I’m working with again. But before I get to the shiny gold parts, I need to…
Frame Prep! Any task requires prep. Great prep should be the foundation of everything you do, it will give you the best chance of achieving…
Carlton Capella lugs seem to be everywhere in my SBDU collection at the moment. They are always nice to have, and when they appear on…
2020 is moving fast, it will soon be February. I’ve already added two frames since the New Year and I’m aware I haven’t yet recapped…
It’s time to figure out the correct SBDU frame number for my frame stamped as SB4522. Is that number correct? Is it SB5422, indicated on…
This is probably the only bike that has had a pre-new arrival post. I wrote about this Campagnolo 50th Anniversary bike a short while ago…
I often ask myself if this bike will ever be finished. Is it good that I think there is always more to do? Will fitting…
There is no doubt that this bike is fitted with a Campagnolo Super Record 50th Anniversary Group. There is also no doubt that this is…
Although an SBDU frame may be best known for the oversize seat stay cap design, it was the SBDU fast back that landed with a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’ve planned before and never got there, I’ve bought a ticket before and never got there, but this year I actually did get there. Karen…
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…
You probably think seat stays are quite boring, why on earth would I devote a blog post to the two narrow tapering tubes on the…
I wasn’t planning to do this job today, it just happened. I’d been thinking for the past week about how to tackle the task of…
It’s just over six years since I fastened the first component to this frame and four or five years since I completed the first build…
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…
Following the change of cables on SB4059 there is now only one thing that I need to do, one more thing to sort out, one…
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about this bike. SB4059 is my original bike, number #1 in the collection, the bike that started…