Awesome customer's bike update! Cecil Behringer build

     A little while back I had done a post about a Behringer pista frameset we had sold through the shop. Well, now it is a completed bike rolling around our fair city. The owner Josh and I went back and forth with ideas of how to set it up and we are both pleased with the outcome!
      Initially, he said he wanted it set up with a three speed rear hub and upright bars, the ultimate light weight city bike. He also expressed the desire to build it with mostly older high end lightweight components. At first we used modern alloy rims, but encountered a problem with the rear brake reach. Then we needed to find an appropriate front hub. As luck would have it I found a stray complete front wheel consisting of and Air Lite hub laced to a Dunlop Special lightweight 27" steel rim. I then found a matching Dunlop rim for the rear, which solved the brake reach problem and boom! we were getting somewhere. I found the brass face plate Sturmey Archer shifter which is era matched to the rear hub date code. Then I found the GB center pull brakes to give us the required reach with Scott Mathauser pads to ensure powerful stopping power with the lightweight steel rims. Josh sourced the Williams crank set and bottom bracket and the super cool Gipiemme aero type pedals with Oppy style toeclips. I had never seen these pedals until now, and I gotta say if i come across a set at a swap, I am gonna buy them for myself! Josh also provided the handle bars and super cool GB spear point stem. Our head mechanic  Davis did all the build work to his usual high standards, and the result is quite pleasing, I think. We enjoy projects like this, exchanging ideas and coming up with awesome results. It is a bit of an unorthodox build and we are glad to have been a part of it! Enjoy.

Awesome Customer's Bike: 1940's Carlton

     This is a bike we recently put together for one of our customers. It is a 1940's Carlton that belonged to his father. I always love it when bikes are passed down from one generation to the next and are put back into service. He had it painted a nice forest green color and brought in some of the original parts and we assembled it for him. It is a bit of a mix.
      We used the original Campagnolo Record rear derailleur and shifter (shifter is closed "C" , so it is newer). It also has the original Brampton Alatet head set. We had to get a custom BB made for it as it took the oversize Chater Lea type (Whitworth threaded). The customer wanted to use more modern  (cotterless) cranks. Our solution was to use a Shimano cartridge bearing BB spindle of appropriate length and bearings, and have oversize Whitworth threaded BB cups and a spacer sleeve made. The solution, after a bit of tinkering, worked like a charm, buttery smooth and tight. So, the bike retains the original threading in the BB shell with a more modern cartridge bearing assembly and cotterless crank set. it has modern alloy wheels (27" double wall machined sidewall rims). it also has the original bar and stem, GB Maes (sleeved) bars with really cool stem of unknown make. It also has the original GB Hiduminium brake calipers with modern pads.Unfortunately, the paint is a bit thick on the underside of the BB shell, obscuring some serial numbers / factory codes. (see photos).
     The end result is an updated classic that hopefully will be ridden for many years to come and hopefully goes further down the generational line of the family.  Thanks for trusting us with its care!

For sale: 1950's Rudge Aero Clubman

     This  is a nice Rudge Aero Clubman from the 1950's offered for sale today. Here is a link to the Retro Raleigh page about the rise of the Clubman style bike in Great Britain.  CLUBMAN! This bike is set up a bit differently than original, but still a clean example worthy of restoration. It currently utilizes front and rear derailleurs. Originally it would have had a Sturmey Archer internal rear hub gear and single front chain ring, somewhat a British tradition. Derailleurs were more of a continental European thing. This could also have been imported to the USA and set up like this here. The motto of the era in England was "export or die" post war time. The cranks are also French threaded, and I assume French in origin. The pedals are Atom 700 and are threaded appropriately. These are things I will leave up to the buyer to decide how to set up / change. Original decals are all there, some in better shape than others.
     Here are the measurements and details:

• 55 CM CTC seat tube
• 58 CM CTC top tube
• 32" stand over height
• Dunlop 27 X 1 1/4 special lightweight rims laced to unknown rear British hub and front SA Dyno hub (works).
• Raleigh tires
• Front light does not work, maybe switch issue or something, bulb is good.
• Rear taillight works.
• Simplex front rod operated derailleur, works, but requires a fair amount of trimming to avoid chain rub.
• Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with the barrel adjuster (early version) of the model.
• Unknown French double steel cottered crank set.
• Atom 700 French threaded road (quill) pedals.
• GB Sport Hiduminium brake calipers and GB levers.
• Unknown Brampton' esque headclip headset.
• Unknown stem about 90mm extension.
• Unknown alloy bars.
• Bluemels "popular" white plastic fenders, no cracks with front mud flap.
• Wrights leather saddle in great shape

• Reynolds 531 DB tubing frame construction.

     The last two photos are from an original catalog (1952) with the specs for the model.

               Please email at: bikeville@gmail.com for pricing or with any questions you may have.
                                                                SOLD!