Old Frame

clarkey cat

In 1996 a friend's (who was fairly serious about racing) Dad built me a bike using various bits laying around in the garage and I'd say that it was my first proper road bike. I spent two very very happy summers on it and it was seriously rapid. Anyway, I went off to university and as is the wisdom of youth it was left in my Grandad's garden and went all rusty and eventually went in the tip. I kick myself every day I think about it now.

Anyway, I don't remember much about the actual details other than it ran on tubs, had Campy groupset with downtube shifters, a yellow leather saddle and a beauftiful white Reynolds frame with little orangey and yellow splashes of colour.

Has anyone any idea what frame it might have been as I'd love to rebuild myself something that had the feel of those heady summers blazing across the Purbecks.

Sorry I know its not alot of info to go on...

rjsterry

You left it in the garden? :shock:

Criminal!

The livery sounds similar to some old Peugeots I've seen.

davis

It sounds like it might have been a bike....

With that much info? Maybe a Peugeot frame but I thought they were Carbolite rather than Reynolds. Let's wait for the slippers and pipe brigade.

mudcow007

were peugeots of yesteryear good?

i remember being given a road bike years ago that was reynolds tubing and i hated it because it had the shifters on the down tube but they wernt indexed so it was just a hope you got it into gear, that ended up rusting away aswell......

clarkey cat

it was definitely a Reynolds. Is there a particular type of Reynolds used (or used to be used) for racing around the mid-90's. This guy was pretty serious so I'm guessing it would have been a decent one.

rjsterry

mudcow007 wrote:

were peugeots of yesteryear good?

i remember being given a road bike years ago that was reynolds tubing and i hated it because it had the shifters on the down tube but they wernt indexed so it was just a hope you got it into gear, that ended up rusting away aswell......

So let me get this straight: you threw away a Reynolds-framed road bike because it didn't have indexed gears? Muttermuttermuttermumblegrumble.

Granted friction DT shifters need a bit more skill than indexed or STI, but they're difficult to beat for low-tech durability and ease of set-up.

mudcow007

rjsterry wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

were peugeots of yesteryear good?

i remember being given a road bike years ago that was reynolds tubing and i hated it because it had the shifters on the down tube but they wernt indexed so it was just a hope you got it into gear, that ended up rusting away aswell......

So let me get this straight: you threw away a Reynolds-framed road bike because it didn't have indexed gears? Muttermuttermuttermumblegrumble.

Granted friction DT shifters need a bit more skill than indexed or STI, but they're difficult to beat for low-tech durability and ease of set-up.

i was a young whipper snapper back then....an all of my mates had raleigh griffters and i felt left out. i have seen the error of my ways now though

gtvlusso

Most likely a Peugeot with reynolds 501 or 531.

However, I have seen some old Eddy Merckx frames with livery you describe....Depends on era!

rjsterry

mudcow007 wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

were peugeots of yesteryear good?

i remember being given a road bike years ago that was reynolds tubing and i hated it because it had the shifters on the down tube but they wernt indexed so it was just a hope you got it into gear, that ended up rusting away aswell......

So let me get this straight: you threw away a Reynolds-framed road bike because it didn't have indexed gears? Muttermuttermuttermumblegrumble.

Granted friction DT shifters need a bit more skill than indexed or STI, but they're difficult to beat for low-tech durability and ease of set-up.

i was a young whipper snapper back then....an all of my mates had raleigh griffters and i felt left out. i have seen the error of my ways now though

I can remember at secondary school (late '80s - early '90s) I was pretty much the only person to have a road bike - a 5-speed Dawes tourer - while EVERYONE else had a more fashionable mountain bike. I seem to remember people boasting about how many gears they had. I was not the cool kid at school.

UndercoverElephant

rjsterry wrote:

I can remember at secondary school (late '80s - early '90s) I was pretty much the only person to have a road bike - a 5-speed Dawes tourer - while EVERYONE else had a more fashionable mountain bike. I seem to remember people boasting about how many gears they had. I was not the cool kid at school.

Yeah, well, my Dad drove a mushy-pea coloured Lada estate. I win.

rjsterry

UndercoverElephant wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

I can remember at secondary school (late '80s - early '90s) I was pretty much the only person to have a road bike - a 5-speed Dawes tourer - while EVERYONE else had a more fashionable mountain bike. I seem to remember people boasting about how many gears they had. I was not the cool kid at school.

Yeah, well, my Dad drove a mushy-pea coloured Lada estate. I win.

I actually quite liked being the only kid with a road bike.

mudcow007

my dad had a brown allegro if that counts for anything?

jonginge

gtvlusso wrote:

Most likely a Peugeot with reynolds 501 or 531.

However, I have seen some old Eddy Merckx frames with livery you describe....Depends on era!

Peugoet did do quite a range of reynolds around that era. I picked up a 531Pro frame in 1988. Red and white with (unusual for the time) a sloping fork crown. Luvverly

Edit: in fact very similar to this:

Except I put DA/Ultegra/Time on mine...

rjsterry

Like this?

rolf_f

mudcow007 wrote:

were peugeots of yesteryear good?

i remember being given a road bike years ago that was reynolds tubing and i hated it because it had the shifters on the down tube but they wernt indexed so it was just a hope you got it into gear, that ended up rusting away aswell......

Errrr, half the point about down tube shifters is that they don't need to be indexed. You just need a small amount of ability

Wallace1492

UndercoverElephant wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

I can remember at secondary school (late '80s - early '90s) I was pretty much the only person to have a road bike - a 5-speed Dawes tourer - while EVERYONE else had a more fashionable mountain bike. I seem to remember people boasting about how many gears they had. I was not the cool kid at school.

Yeah, well, my Dad drove a mushy-pea coloured Lada estate. I win.

I used to get dropped of at school by my Dad driving his Fish Van. I thank cod that was a long time ago, a different time and plaice.