BLIZZO Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 So ive always liked raleigh 20's as my gran had a gold one and we always used to ride it as kids. It dissapeared somewhere after the moved into a unit and now as they are both dead i have no hope in finding it so i went a brought one of some weird old fellow. It was named siliva, Something to do with the weird gollywog ontop of the light. Needless to say that is def going back on as its pretty rad. So here she is, photo makes it look better, its actually quite rusty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIZZO Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 So i wanted to give it a full resto but a bit of a rushed one as im flat out at uni, just have to have a project. So i stripped her down one night, got some meguairs metal polish which with a scourer pad managed to save all the chrome except the rear rim. Got my flatmate to beadblast all the painted bits for me. Found a NOS rim which is rare as they are a pretty obsolete size. Only gay thing is its brushed allow so no chrome look, o well ill keep the orignial for a one day when i get around to it thing. Took all the to be painted bits to action powder coaters in hornby, they owner there is a legend, looked after me so well, we went with a silver base with a lucent gold to start with which was close to the original colour. Unfortunatley the lucent gold is a tinted clear and its hard for them to know how thick it is when its in powder form and this resulted in some really brown spots and really silver spots, it looked terrible but in the bits it looked good it looked awesome. Well we was more than happy to repaint it for me so i chose the only other gold they had which was "antique gold". it turned out alright, not quite what i was after but it has grown on me and def has a retro look about it. Got the bike all back together, had the rear rim laced up at the bike shop. Front one is on the piss, not buckled, just slanting on the piss, its still rideable so will get done at some stage.got a sticker kit off ebay. Im happy with the result, now i can cruise around uni in style. excuse this next photo as its shitty and inside but its the only one ive got with the chain guard on 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixx Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Boss Blake I will bring my cruiser to the flat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIZZO Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 oh and feel free to comment, there aint really anything more to come so not worried about thread gettin full of shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Thread dredge cos I just bought a Twenny... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIZZO Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 still have this thing hanging on the wall in my shed, gave it to my now wife, although we don't get out on bikes together anymore with the sprogs. it is occasionally used to get me ass home when drunk from local bbqs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Pretty much what I'll be using mine for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimdagos Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Thread dredge 2, cos I’ve bought one now too. Gonna make it into an eBike for my missus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixx Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 LOL I have one too.. need to get it looking lush again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Can't be many of us who don't have at least one of these stashed somewhere. Kind of keen to attempt at least part of the Central Otago rail trail on one. Be a bit of a mission but not impossible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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