Neil McGowranOne of my top collecting aims is to document and preserve the originality of SBDU frames, especially the TI-Raleigh scheme. This scheme is one of……
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Hennie Kuiper! Yes, HK276 has arrived and sits in my collection right next to other TI-Raleigh riders such as Jan Raas, René Pijnen, Cees Priem…
SB1861, built at SBDU Ilkeston in late 1977 is back in the workstand, I need to get this bike completed. It has sat for too…
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…
As if I don’t already have enough projects. As if I don’t already have enough plans to fulfil and enough mysteries tucked away in my…
What do I have planned next year for My TI-Raleigh Blog? Tricky question as most things with me and my blog and collection just seem…
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…
What happens when a frame looks like an SBDU build but you aren’t too sure? A frame may have several features that match an SBDU…
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…
SB7393 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…
I’m definately dipping my toes into the unknown with this one. This MK. IV Raleigh Professional frame is a break from the norm for me.…
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…
Did you know I have a “Premier League” of frames within my SBDU collection? I call the lucky ones that make it into this league…
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…
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…
I’m going to make a bold statement right at the beginning of this blog post… my theory is that this Stayer frame could be a…
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…