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Author: Alt Design

Congratulations Chris Hoy

Well done Chris on your BBC sports personality of the year award. Not forgetting the British cycling team who won team of the year also David Brailsford won coach of the year.

Another Anniversary Frame

Here you have Phil proudly holding a Anniversary frame which Rob and himself have been working on for the past few weeks just before it goes to the shop for building into a complete bike. A little like the our Paul Smith design but to the customers own colour scheme. I will post a picture…

Michael’s 60th Anniversary bike

We have here a picture sent in by our good friend Michael. He lives in London and has put himself together a lovely looking bike built around one of our 60th Anniversary frames. I think this is number 7 of 60 being built . Each of these frame comes with a sterling silver head badge….

Frame Renovation Time

It’s the time of year when some of us are considering a frame re-spray. We do offer a collection and delivery service within the U.K which will help if your a distance from the shop of course. If you would like us to collect the Frame please call our shop who will arrange all the…

xmas is coming

Well xmas is coming and we are all getting ready for it here at the shop. We dug out the old christmas snow man and put it in the window which brightens up the shop no end.

Brooks saddles

Just thought you would like a look at the new brooks saddle display. We do sell a lot of Brook,s saddles and because of this Brooks sent us this display. It.s not road legal as it has no brakes but I like it.

Derek

Here we have a proper photo. Here you see Derek working on a fork crown. This was one of a whole load of photos taken by Chris Floyd the other week for a management magazine we where in . The quality of these photos are out of this world. I would like to say thank…

Thank you Darrel

We had a email the other day which went down well with all concerned with the build of this bike . I quote a couple of paragraphs from his letter. I just wanted to say thank you and offer a picture for your gallery, to show you my frame built up. It’s a thing of…

S & S Couplings

This picture shows a King of Mercia frame with the stainless steel S & S couplings just before it gets put together as a complete bike ( the customer has supplied most of the equipment ) . It has a slight overspray of blue with the blue head tube to match and please note the…

eBay sprocket board

Just a quick update this evening as I am away from the computer. If your interested we have a Campagnolo sprocket board put on eBay by Carl our eBay man. Its our old 8spd sprocket board from out our workshop. Ideal for keeping all your sprockets in one place.  

Vincitore Track

Hi all and thank you Gary from London for this picture of your Vincitore special Reynolds 631 track frame ( pearl white with a pearl orange barbers pole and head tube). As you can see its a a great looking bike with some lovely equipment on it. Campag chainset , Mich hubs and Brooks saddle….

Mercian Bottles

First of all sorry for the delay with this update we have been extremely busy over the last week or so. Any way to get the ball rolling again we have have a few Mercian bottles at the shop which sell for £3.75 each if you fancy one please give us a call.

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