I like the idea..... I've got a soft spot for english rode bikes... I also (no flame please) have distain for those deralleurs Just tapping one of those front changers with your heal and off it flies into the chain/ring cable goin' into the mess. I (dummy me) did that twice... On customer bikes! The boss was not happy... I remember it like it was yesterday, A yellow Styre Clubman and a white Peugout UO8... Get some nice Campy Gran Sports* on there.. It won't "be right" but I think it'll look and work right..
Don Williams Woodinville Washington USA
* I still woulden't use the "push rod" front I'd find a pantopraph.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Adam Hammond <anhammond@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent this weekend in Barrie, Ontario celebrating my sister's 30th
> birthday. My gift was an "IOU" for a bike, and we spent some of the next few
> days deciding on what sort of a bike she wanted. She's the mother of three
> young children and a victim of the recent jump in gas prices, and wants to
> go on rides with her children and run some of her errands by bike. We
> decided on a Rivendellish/BOBish bike: a lugged steel frame, but modern
> components. We thought it would be nice to mount them on a 1978 frame, since
> that's when she was born. I would just have bought a Rivendell if it weren't
> for fiscal constraints -- $1500 for a frame is pretty steep, and I have
> nearly a whole bike's worth of modern (by which I mean 105 derailleurs, a
> Sugino triple, and bar end shifters, etc.) components on my shelf.
>
> My search for a frame didn't take long. Yesterday on Toronto Craigslist,
> someone posted a late-70s Raleigh Grand Sports in her size for $250. It met
> nearly all our requirements: good tubing, lots of clearance for fat tires
> and fenders, and she loved the way it looked. The bike was delivered this
> morning, and you can have a look at it here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> The moral quandary is the following: I don't intend on keeping very many of
> the bike's original components in use. I like the frame very much, and the
> Weinmann centrepulls, but don't intend to use the derailleurs, cranks, bars
> or stem, etc. The Brooks saddle will likely find a home on one of my other
> bikes, but I'll likely sell the remaining components on eBay or offer them
> to list members (though I have no idea of their value, so stating a firm
> price as per list rules might scare me off...)
>
> The plastic Simplex rear derailleur gives me some confidence that I'm not
> committing an atrocity in stripping this frame. But I thought that before
> dealing with regret, I would ask for advice. This frame will get lots of use
> and have a good life in its future incarnation, and I won't powdercoat it or
> remove any braze-ons -- but am doing wrong in "stripping" it of its original
> condition to give it this new life? I was born several years after this
> frame, so I have little of the historical/sentimental context...
>
> Opinions welcomed!
>
> Adam Hammond
> Toronto, ON, Canada