Retro Road Bikes ?

[J4CKO]

Ok, we have Retro MTB and BMX threads, didnt see a Road Bike one, so here is one.

I nearly put an offer in on this last night,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-Record-Sprint-1...

I spent ages as a 14 year old lusting after these, when I wasn't lusting after a girl called Louise. Never managed to get either, the former as my dad bought a secondhand Peugeot for me whilst I was still saving up and the latter as she wasn't interested in the slightest

Anyway, the Peugeot turned up, we repainted it blue, my dad sourced the correct decals, put some nice bits on it and it looked ace, until it got nicked.

So still have a hankering for a Record Sprint.

Prior to that I had a Raleigh Arena and subsequently had a series of Raleigh Equipes, three to be exact as they were cheap and used the old one to keep the new one going, one got pinched (eventually got it back), the second didnt survive a jump, the rear stays snapped.


So until I got a cycle to work bike I only ever had Pig iron bottom of the range Raleighs, what did you have ? still got them ? should I buy that Record Sprint ?

My mates who had richer parents had bikes from further into the Raleigh catalog, Scirocco and Crterium I think.

[louiebaby]

I have an old Raleigh from the end of the 80's at my Dad's house, I bought it for £100 a few years ago and tidied it up a bit.

I'm back there within the next few days so might take it down and go for a run out on it, and get a picture.

It's nothing special, but we lived near Nottingham, so used to go to the factory to collect new bikes for the family. It's just a nice thing to have.

[lampchair]

I indulged myself some time back...

[andySC]

I have a real soft spot for 80’s/90’s steel road bikes. I started riding in 1986 on a £99 Falcon. It weighed a ton, steel everything, no aluminium anywhere. I completely destroyed that, even managed over 100 miles on the thing as 14 year old lad (Doncaster to Humber Bridge). I then progressed to a Raleigh Eclipse, Reynolds 501 with the usual spec that they used at the time (Weinmann rims, brakes, Sakae cranks & Suntour derailleurs). Next up was another Raleigh with Reynolds 531, a few Dyna-Techs. In 1995 I built a Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra (Team Telecom colours) with a Campagnolo Record groupset, this thing was beautiful & I still kick myself that I sold it.

Now I’m lucky enough to own a 1986 Raleigh built in the Ilkeston SBDU, it’s Reynolds 753 with Super Record throughout. All original paint (Panasonic/Weinmann) & it’s in fantastic condition. The steel theme continues as I’ve got a modern Condor that’s built from Columbus tubing, this is a lovely thing to ride, feels properly fast, weighs about 7.5kg & looks amazing, possibly a collectible, retro bike of the future ??

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[fizzwheel]

My Kirk Precision

Sadly it's cracked like they all did at the Bottom Bracket so its now hung up on the wall in my study

[Top Banana]

This is my 'retro'-mod road bike

Ex-Belgian trade team Colnago Master Pui in 'art-decor' colour scheme - I wanted to mix a classic steel frame with more modern
brakes and gears (also the cost of NOS period campagnolo stuff was eye watering..)

so built up with a mix of 10 speed Campagnolo daytona and veloce, kept the period panto stem and Titanium finish 3t bars and turbo saddle

Rides absolutely bloody awesome, really flies along and gets great appreciation at cafe stops, etc

[lufbramatt]

Top Banana said:

This is my 'retro'-mod road bike

Ex-Belgian trade team Colnago Master Pui in 'art-decor' colour scheme - I wanted to mix a classic steel frame with more modern
brakes and gears (also the cost of NOS period campagnolo stuff was eye watering..)

so built up with a mix of 10 speed Campagnolo daytona and veloce, kept the period panto stem and Titanium finish 3t bars and turbo saddle

Rides absolutely bloody awesome, really flies along and gets great appreciation at cafe stops, etc

That's gorgeous

Skinny tubes and deep rims looks great IMO. Also think that that road bikes need to have horizontal top tubes. Sloping ones just look wrong.

[splodge s4]

Ebay find a few months ago, needed new tyres, tubes, cables, chain & a few spokes, does me all in for £60 so not bad. Rides crap!

[Matt_N]

Like Topbanana, I have a few old Colnago’s (and a modern one)

Master Olympic (cracked stay so now a wall hanger)


Dream



Dream Crono ex Rabobank (frame only at present)



Master Olympic (current sunny day bike)

[Matt_N]

Top Banana said:

This is my 'retro'-mod road bike

Ex-Belgian trade team Colnago Master Pui in 'art-decor' colour scheme - I wanted to mix a classic steel frame with more modern
brakes and gears (also the cost of NOS period campagnolo stuff was eye watering..)

so built up with a mix of 10 speed Campagnolo daytona and veloce, kept the period panto stem and Titanium finish 3t bars and turbo saddle

Rides absolutely bloody awesome, really flies along and gets great appreciation at cafe stops, etc

I remember seeing this on one of the Colnago FB pages, went back to Colnago for a repaint?

[Deefor62]

Matt_N said:

Like Topbanana, I have a few old Colnago’s (and a modern one)

Master Olympic (cracked stay so now a wall hanger)


Dream



Dream Crono ex Rabobank (frame only at present)



Master Olympic (current sunny day bike)

Was it a cracked seat or chain stay on your Master?

I bought a Master frame that was in a very sorry state, and a local frame builder put a new top tube and seatstays in to get it back into shape.
Picture shows just how bad it was.

[Matt_N]

Seat stay at the brazing vent hole.

I’ve still got it but it always felt a bit big, it’s a 59cm with Freuler seat lug and my others are 58cm.

It’s probably going to a mate at the end of the month who is going to get it repaired.

Good job getting yours done.

[Deefor62]

Matt_N said:

Seat stay at the brazing vent hole.

I’ve still got it but it always felt a bit big, it’s a 59cm with Freuler seat lug and my others are 58cm.

It’s probably going to a mate at the end of the month who is going to get it repaired.

Good job getting yours done.

Ok. Good to know it’s going to put back into service. They are such a lovely bike to ride. I was very pleased with how mine turned out.

[pete]

Here's my old Graham Weigh (Deeside Cycles) 531c road bike, which was originally made-to-measure for me in about 1990, but has since been upgraded with hand-me-down components making a lovely comfortable retro winter bike. It has slightly hilarious geometry by modern standards, like 74 degree parallel angles, a crazily short wheelbase, and toe overlap like a crit racer, but it still rides beautifully. Apologies to all the fans of 80's fade paint jobs, but I had it powder coated in a more subdued hue as it was just too battered.



Meanwhile, I took that bike's original 30-year-old wheels and Shimano/Campag component mixture and stuck it on an old Peugeot 501 frameset that I had lying around, so I have a pub bike which is more in keeping with the late 80s :-)

[stepaway]

Posted this up a while ago. Purchased locally for a ton. Looks as though it has had very little use, proper ridden once then left in the shed type bike.

Alu frame not steel, 1994 vintage. I've put some more modern spare wheels on it in this pic, but i've got the original Mavics still fitted with 23mm tyres in the bike shed.

Ride it on short 20 milers on sunny days - cracking fun

[stepaway]

Loving the Klein and the Colnagos above also - beautiful machines

[Top Banana]

Matt_N said:

I remember seeing this on one of the Colnago FB pages, went back to Colnago for a repaint?

That's the info I have - apparently once the trade team had finished with them they all went back to the factory for repaint, but cant confirm the story but the paintwork does seem remarkably fresh. I had put the bike up for sale but decided instead to sell one of my other bikes and will keep this for a while as it rides so nicely..

some amazing repairs on other Colnago Masters on the thread - just shows how repairable a steel frame can be

[Will O. Bey jr]

This thread reminded me that one thing I really like about modern carbon bikes is how sexy they look.

[Skyedriver]

pete said:

Meanwhile, I took that bike's original 30-year-old wheels and Shimano/Campag component mixture and stuck it on an old Peugeot 501 frameset that I had lying around, so I have a pub bike which is more in keeping with the late 80s :-)

That makes me upset, I sold an identical Peugeot to that for £25 about 5 or 6 year ago. Mind to be fair, the bottom bracket was loose, the frame had some pretty awful rust spots but it did have campag brakes and mavic rims.

[Barchettaman]