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Yeah mate I will, there is a Cub the same colour in the garage, I'll take a photo of the two in the weekend.

This is sitting in the corner of the lounge now, it looks like Christmas morning circa 1985, but for adult piners.

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Wow- only just discovered this thread this morning. Fuck me- awesome work Pete. Really fun seeing the bikes come together! I'll have to put you on to a mate of mine down there who used to work for Bauer and has made many a cycle- he's a proper Barry (although an exceptionally fast Barry and his brother has been NZ X cross and mtb champ).

Comes up here to stay, go riding and we talk bike building all the time. You'd like it.

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Here's another one I found on trade me about 6 years ago.

Another nice 30s/40s BSA disguised as a roadster. It's been hanging in the garage roof since then, I had planned to do something with it but never quite got to it. Sadly it has been in a big crash and the frame has been bent and creased so it's not a rider as it is. I have considered sweating the lugs and replacing the tubes but the paint is original with transfers and it would be a pity to loose that. Anyway with plenty of time to fill in it seemed like a good time to get it down, give it a good clean up. get rid of the crappy mudguards and so on, and push the frame back into place so it at least looked right hanging up.

Bike as I picked it up.

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OG Paint and transfers.

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Yep, she's fucked Trev.

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Frame straightening machine. High tech stuff.

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Nice BSA drop outs with the cams and stops still in place.

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Good quality cranks too.

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I really like the detail in the head tube lugs and the old transfer.

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All the chrome has been painted black, some one has made a very throughout job of it which makes me wonder if it was done to black it out for WW2. Either that of someone has tried to give the tired chrome a cover up at some stage.

Where I left it tonight. No rush eh.

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Yeah I could do but the top tube and the down tube are stuffed. It's far too small for me also.

The more I think about it the more I think I'll rebuild it with some chromoly from AFWE. I think leaving the chain stays in place and redoing the rest, extending the steering tube on the forks will be the go. I can keep the pieces of frame to reproduce the paint and transfers at some stage. Maybe I'll do it when the next pandemic hits.  

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