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Tubs now sold

Saddle and carbon post sold

Bit of a workshop clear out , all quality stuff . Collect Hendon/Colindale NW9 or If you can pay by pay pal I can post at cost . PM's please

San Marco Ponza Power white saddle mint £15 SOLD

Campag Super Record seatpost 25.00mm for Alan / Vitus hard to find £35

Campag Xenon chainset 172.5 53/39 good condition £25

Cinelli 1R record stem - best looking stem ever - for 26.4 bars only
12cm usual insertion marks rest very good £25
9.5cm usual insertion marks , a few on the body £20
both have the original dural stem bolt .

Carbon seat post 27.00mm can't find a brand name but looks good quality , full carbon not carbon wrap only £10 SOLD

2 Vitoria competition Rally kevlar tubs , have been stuck to rims , but never used , nicely matured £20

1 x Mavic GP4 rim NOS (for tubs ) 36 hole £20

SOLD , thanks

A very nice Raleigh 531 C Luxe frameset . Built in 1987 at the Raleigh lightweight products division , these were only available as frames ,not complete bikes ,not to be confused with the massed produced stuff , this is a true hand built frame.

Measurements;
seat tube centre to top 62cm ( 24.5")
top tube C-C 57.5cm
rear width 126 mm (7 speed)

Being the 'Luxe' model this frame has a top spec;

531C main tubes with 531 Pro fork blades and back stays
Cinelli cast bottom bracket shell
Bocama cast seat lug and fork crown
All braze on's , including chain retaining pip and double bottle bosses.
Gipemme forks ends with adjusters

Includes Shimano headset

This frame was professionally refinished in 1991, but has seen little use since then , a few marks , but no rust , absolutely no dents or dings and is dead straight .

Frame has been professionally prepared , all threads have been chased , the BB shell has been faced , the seat tube and steerer have both been honed.

honest description , fair price as well

£129 collected from London NW9 or £139 ( pay pal ) posted
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Love what you're doing with the Humber. There are loads of old roadsters around but your bike will be pretty unique. I might have been tempted to just varnish the stripped frame.

Thanks for the encouragement ! . My plan is to protect the frame , by wiping it down with linseed oil , I'll give it a try anyway and see how effective it is .

Found some useful bits in the wife distressing , bike bone yard , in my back garden.

Firstly an old Brooks B15 saddle , leather had dried out , but responded well to some dubbing , that I had to hand . The saddle had started to sag badly , turning the nose bolt didn't help much , so I used the old trick of drilling holes along the side of the saddle and then lacing the sides together , the result is a much firmer saddle you sit on rather than in . Saddle is attached to a gallows seat post , essential with such a slack seat angle .

Found these rather nice elegant , fluted cranks , they look very simpler to 1930t's Chater-Lea cranks , so suit the chainring very well . The original bottom bracket was completely fooked , but luckily I had
some very good cups and a NOS axle knocking around , these bikes have an unusual 76mm B/Bkt shell , so finding a replacements could have been tricky.

Next up , wheel building.

Frustratingly , I've had no time to do any work on the Humber recently . So in an effort to keep the thread alive , I thought I would post a pic of a few bits scored off Ebay over the summer for the project .

Top of the pic we have a NOS sturmey archer 40 hole coaster hub ,they stopped making 40 hole coasters in the 70t's , so I was pleased to snag this for £30 .This came with 18t sprocket , but I will swap this out for a 21t . Originally I was going to go with a fixed , but this bike is mainly going to be used for leisurely rides , and there's nothing leisurely about trying to stop a bike this heavy with a fixwheel and front rod brake!

In the centre , is a NOS 'booby dodger' rod brake lever from the 1920t's
it's nickle plated , which makes the dating about right , even has the original rubber sleeve , a snip at £13 . This was one of the 'trick' parts of it's day.

Bottom , we have a 50t 1/8th chainring, with the unmistakable 'CL' of Chater- Lea , this has been replated at sometime , nice to have at least one bit of Chater-Lea on the build , the Campag of it's day , and it slipped under the radar at £5 !

More soon .

^ this.

looks a great job, and not a single puppy harmed.

looks like its heavy as hell though no?

It's as heavy as it looks ! , about 55lbs when I first got it , Even when it looses the S/A gears and dynamo its still going to be over twice the current UCI limit ( 30 lbs approx ) .

So maybe some more explaining . What I really wanted to do was to buy and restore an original path racer , but there rare and increasingly expensive ( £500 ++) , and like a lot of things that are rare and valuable , there faked . Enter the Humber , bought for £50 , mainly because the sturmey archer gears had lunched themselves ,and in all honesty , I almost certainly saved it from the skip/Thames .


Top picture is a 1903 Rover path racer , underneath is the Humber . As you can see , the frame construction and geometry are quiet close , the Rover has slightly higher bottom bracket and the wheel clearances are a bit closer under the fork crown and rear brake bridge .

The steering lock is now gone , I wasn't too precious about it , they seem to have been an option on Humber's , some have them , some don't . Anyway I didn't have a key for it , and if I had I wouldn't have used it . It's all metal under the paint , just very shiny metal , so I've toned it down a bit by painted the lugs satin black .

OK , so I had some time today to strip the beast . First I had to find my random collection of imperial spanners and sockets , once found , the tear down began .
Well everything started good , everything came of easy enough , even the fixed cup . But , as always seems to be the case , the last job was a complete bitch .
Now when I bought the bike , I diligently checked that the h/bar stem wasn't seized , it was tight , but it moved . Of cause , as soon as I tried moving it in the workshop , the bastard thing won't budge . I was applying so much force , the forks were starting to twist , time to stop.

After a bit of a sit down and some logical thinking , it occurred to me , if I could get the steering lock to work , I could lock the forks to the frame , turn the lot upside down and jam the stem in the bench vice . This would give me the whole solid frame to turn and pull out of the stem . Didn't have a key for the lock , but I did have a ghetto key ( hammer , screwdriver ) 2 mins latter the forks are locked to the frame , half an hour latter the stem's out of the frame , it took 2 of us , but the jobs done.

What to do about the paintwork , has been bugging me . so I got some 120 grit paper , and starting sanding , the black paint came off easy enough , only to reveal a coat of gold hammerite , arse , so much for getting back to the original enamel . So , as an experiment , I stripped the paint off the forks, using an angle grinder with a wire brush attachment ( don't try this on your colnago!) . The bare steel underneath has lovely aged tarnished look , I'm thinking of doing this for the whole frame , what to you think?


Next , I'll be tackling the removal of the steering lock , if I mess that up , the projects over , the tension mounts....

Rear hub's not C-Record , possibly chorus or athena , Campag not always easy to identify , still worth a tenner mind .

Yep , done a lot of research , so I've seen plenty of path racers , your right that BSA is class ,I'm gonna go with the same ' gallows' seat post brooks B15 saddle combo , and I would dearly like to get hold of a major Tom style adjustable stem , problary well out of my budget these days .
As to the steering lock , I've had a good look and I recon I can angle grind it off , than fill the hole in with a mig welder , that shape it with a dremmel , these bikes have thick cast lugs so there should'nt be any issues , just a bit time consumming.

Any love for vintage path racers here ? Anyway , I've had a hankering to build one for a while , took me nearly a year to find a suitable machine , mainly because it had to have the following spec;

Massive 'garden gate' frame with super slack frame angles.
Reverse rear drop outs , and twin plate fork crown.
28" wheels.

Eventually found this imposing machine in Oxford via Gumtree .

Really love the 'Duplex ' twin tube front forks . Very fortunately the 28" rims are stainless steel and near perfect condition ,this is a real bonus.
On the downside the bike's been hand painted with a 6" paint brush and I'm not sure if I'll be able remove the mess to get down to the original enamel , but luckily the brass head badge is still intact . There is also a very unpath racer like steering lock right on the front lower head lug that looks like it could be a right pita to remove .

The offending steering lock

Humber trade mark ' dancing man' chainwheel , though I will probably not use these as the LH cranks shagged , and the cranks are stupidly long 7" (178mm).

original head badge should polish up nice.

My bike was actually build by Raleigh in 1959 , although it's no different to one's made in the 30t's which in turn were based on machines from 1900's.
Right , the plan is to build a replica of a 1900 path racer , not an exact period correct bike , more a collection of vintage parts I like the look of. I intend keeping as much ' patina ' as possible , so no new alloy parts , boutique leather saddles etc .
Next up , the tear down .

Everything sold now except the fixed sprockets , now reduced to £6 each !!!

Campag chainring now sold , dura ace sold pending payment

Ofmega wrench now sold

TA ring and pedals sold , some price drops as well

HI there,

Are theses still up for grabs ? very interested.

cheers Adrian

Clearing out some quality bits from my racing days;

Chainrings all 144 BCD

Dura Ace track black 50t 3/32nd hardly used £20.00 SOLD

TA Track 48t 1/8th super finish VGC SOLD

Campag super record 46t 3/32nd some wear,but very usable £10.00 SOLD

SR drilled 47t 3/3nd very cool, VGC £10.00 SOLD

Ofmega 49t 3/32nd good £8.00 SOLD

Dura Ace 15t 3/32nd VGC £6

Suntour 13t 3/32nd VGC £6

MKS Sylvan pedals , a bit wider than a standard track pedal VGC £SOLD

Ofmega 15mm crank / wheel bolt wrench,like a Campag peanut butter wrench , only even higher quality , pro workshop tool,last forever £15.00 SOLD

PM's please

I don't go into town much , so pick up daytime Hendon NW9 or I can post at cost , if you can pay via pay pal gift

Cranks and bars now sold,thanks. Chainrings still available

Having a bit of winter workshop clear out ;

Blingtastic full polish Miche 165 piste cranks 135 bcd (Campag)

£30.00*** SOLD***

' Major Taylor' style alloy bars to fit oversize stem , a bit different look good on the right build

£10.00 SOLD

Sugino messnger 42t 1/8th ring 130 bcd, as new

£10.00

Ofmega 49t 3/32 super record copy chain ring 144 bcd , sought after size for track racing , or it was when I last raced.

£10.00

cash & collect daytime Hendon NW9, or I can post at cost ,payment via PayPal gift

PM please,cheers

Dibs yellow forks,sending PM

looks like early 80t's super ,looking at the lugs and seat cluster,the forks should have an alloy steerer,nice frames,I have the CX version

I had a "Gios" blue Baracchi ,1976 I think,there were few builders at the time that could build lugless frames to such a high standard,a lot less now.