Category: Bicycles
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Summer bike repairs.. the workshop is in full swing, taking bookings for repairs and service checks
Contact me via phone for your summer bicycle mechanical needs. Taking bookings now. Limited slots available before Christmas/ New Year. Standard service checks are only $75, including wheel straightening, structural fastening checks (stem/bar/seat/pedals/cranks/wheel nuts), headset bearings adjusted, bottom bracket tightened, gear tune, brake tune, chain cleaned, tire pressure. Give me a call to discuss commuter bike…
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Custom rat bike for Maloney’s Barber Shop: stage 2.. hand-lettered sign: completion
Every now and then stuff falls into place and I end up building something particularly rad for a special person or business. In this case the person was the all round extremely nice dude/ business manager Julian Maloney and the business is Auckland’s well respected Maloney’s Barber Shop. The shop was in need of a…
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Custom Rat-Bike for Maloney’s Barbershop (stage 1)
Julian at Maloney’s Barbershop brought me a curious mid 70s beaten up old dusty Raleigh Arena that had been remodeled several times, leaving an interesting patina of paint layers. He asked me to give it a once over, with the idea to install a handmade wooden sign into the frame to park it outside the…
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Quick overhaul on Laura’s Raleigh 20 2-speed
My friend Laura asked me to overhaul her bike that had been sitting in the shed
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Another lovely second hand bike for sale! (SOLD)
Another lovely second hand bike for sale! Click on the text above for trademe listing.
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Giant ladie’s bike for sale (SOLD)
Just fixed this up, a cute little basic single- speed ladie’s bike. added a fruit crate to the front for a bit of panache.
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Custom assembled Mixte city bike
My friend Elspeth happy with her new vintage bike. I reconstituted an old (french?) Le’Esprit twelve speed frame with better quality aluminium 80’s parts and modern index shifters with a 7- speed wide range gear cluster at the rear. The sprung seat and nice wide chrome bars with a gentle backsweep were recycled from Elspeth’s…
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Queenstown bike trails
Me and my wife Louise recently took our vintage road-commuter bikes (custom built by me) on the aeroplane to Otago and did a little sight- seeing. The righteous feeling of riding on gravel trails on classic steel frames with 700c wheels and 1970s gear components was Choice.
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A new custom lightweight 3 speed, based around a repainted 70s “ten-speed” frame, with a fresh Brooks with copper rivets, 27″ whitewalls, brand new Shimano Nexus internal hub gears/ back-pedal brake.
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