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Author: Alt Design

Reynolds Anniversary Tubing

Reynolds to celebrate there 110 year of tube manufacturing has released a limited number of 531 tube sets of which we have a few. They are the 531 competition tube. We can build these into any of our frames. If you would like to reserve a set please call our shop on the normal number

A nice pair

These Paul Smith bikes where built for a very good customer of ours who last year had a 60th Anniversary bike. Both of these will be used on a regular basis for day rides and the trip to and from work.

Vincitore Crown

This caught my eye in the spray shop today its a chromed Vincitore fork crown. Its going to be a complete bike so I will post a picture as soon as its done.

Vinyl Transfers

A quick glimpse of the new vinyl gothic transfer. These within reason can be made to match the colour of any bands you have on your frame. We have the technology to also have your name/club/nickname on the top tube in most fonts as well. We have the artwork from many manufacturers both new and…

Exchange Rate

There is a bit of good news around especially if your outside the U.K. Due to the exchange rate and you have always been hankering after a Mercian it may be worth checking your exchange rate to U.K pounds. Its not good news for us of course but now might be the time to place…

Mercian Vigorelli

I have been asked in a earlier comment to post a picture of our shop Vigorelli . Well here it is in all its glory in Green poly with gold block transfers and black lug lining. Its equipment is Mich chainset and Mavic open pro rims and stainless spokes. Nitto bars, stem and seat pin…

Clag gone !!

Well here you have it our latest design. We have had this on the back burner ( haha ) for some time . I would like to thank Dave for the design . You should see one in the shop soon ( hehe)

Funky track bike

Another track bike almost ready for the road ( just needs fine tuning) As you can see this one has straight bars and I think it looks cool. Two brakes as it has a freewheel as well and with no mudguard clearance to give it that sporty look . It will be on its way…

Christmas & New year opening times

Wednesday 24th December Closed all day Thursday 25th December Closed all day Friday 26th December Closed all day Saturday 27th December Open Sunday 28th December Closed all day Monday 29th December Open Tuesday 30th December open Wednesday 31st December Closed all day Thursday 1st January Closed all day Friday 2nd open all day

Pheww done it

We got it done. Gav the shop manager put the bike together today ready for the customer. Im sure he will be happy with the result.

Vincitore Special

A lovely looking Vincitore special frame built from Reynolds 725 tubing with a nice helping of chrome for good measure. We have to get this ready for xmas as the customer wants it to ride over the holiday. So it will be all hands on deck tomorrow.

Complete bike

Here is the other side to the frame which Phil was holding in a earlier post. As you can see its a completely different colour. This is a difficult and time consuming paint job. The customer has based it on our Paul Smith design. The bike although is for a London customer my just find…

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