1955 Vintage Claud Butler Restoration! Race Bike rebuild service!
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- In todays episode we rebuild this retro Claud Butler road bike. It needed slight adjusting everywhere that all came up to make the bike ride like new...
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1996 i bought a Paul Donohue racer, 25" frame lugged Reynolds 531c including 531c forks. Groupset was 16 speed Shimano RX 100. 52/42 chainset and 12/24 eight speed cassette. Sti shifters, dual pivot brakes. Mavic open pro rims, 32 spokes, rx 100 hubs. Continental grand prix tyres 23mm. Rolls saddle. Look pedals. Did 10 and 25 mile time trials on it, and audax rides up to 300 km. Recently overhauled it, not to your fantastic standard. The brakes are still very good and the gears work flawlessly, the only negative that this bike has is that its extremely flexible. Im no slower on this bike than i am on my most recent 2022 shimano 7000 equipped bike. Its down to the power one can produce. Training is all. Thanks for showing us another extremely thorough restoration, heartening to watch.
BTW i meant to say i bought the bike from Byercycles of Clifton Bedfordshire
Awesome! it’s great that you keep it going all these years later! Many thanks for watching🧡⚙️
Bought a new Raleigh Royal tourer back in 1984. Still riding it today!
Wow that’s awesome Christine!🧡⚙️
Congratulations for bringing this bike to a new old stock condition❤
Thanks very much!🧡
Really wish I had a shop in my area that had the level of dedication to service and attention to detail you do! Great videos guys! Keep up the great work! 👍
Thanks for the kind words we really appreciate it 🧡
1990s also saw me on a Raleigh Equipe but with the grey / yellow stripes. Got me into cycling and have never looked back
Anything Raleigh is always a great bike🧡
Everyone all together now. 1 2 3. ‘They don’t make them like they used to!’
No they don’t! We say it a million times when we’re filming them
My first road bike was a little 5 sp Peugeot my Dad bought me when I was about 10. I loved that bike, wish so much I still had it now.
Great story. Cant beat an old bike 🧡
Beauty. My 90s bike was a Luigi Daccordi Road Bike, had Shimano 600 STI. Buggar, wished I still had it! Thanks for the great video.
Awesome! Thanks for watching David 🧡⚙️
My Saturday morning relaxing therapy session!!! Keep em coming boys 😊
Thanks Andrew! We had a good chat about this comment and it always blows us away how much people enjoy the videos 🧡⚙️
I also feel you may be responsible for a sudden rise in ultrasonic cleaner sales, may be worth trying to capitalise on?! 🤔
Early 90s I was running an Allez Epic with a late 80s Campag groupset taken from my previous bike. Lovely job on the Butler there, years more left in her now!
Nice to run campag on it! Great bike🧡
I was a younger kid in the 90s, and had a black and orange Diamondback mountain bike. Cheap thing from Walmart. I also remember having a chrome Royce Union BMX bike with some kind of weird frame. I tried finding a picture of it later in life, but never found one just right. I don't know what happened to that thing, but it was so cool to me.
Great 90’s bikes there 🧡
My first bike was a Giacomelli. I bought it wit the money of my first vacation job.
Loved it. I think it was painted white and blue.
nice video
Awesome!🧡
I was riding a raleigh nitro mtb in the 90s, I was aged about 12 years old.
Found one for sale in the same colour locally recently so purchased it. Modded it with modern components, it's a little bit like Triggers broom now!
I use it for gravel riding, nostalgia is a powerful thing!
Sounds awesome!🧡⚙️
I had a Raleigh Serengetti mountain bike. I loved that thing.
Awesome! Thanks for watching Gregory🧡
From ‘89 to ‘93 I lived in rural New Jersey. During that time I bought three bikes: Kestrel 105, Gary Fisher Procaliber and a Bianchi Axis. My time in NJ kickstarted my cycling hobby. I still have the Axis today. I guess today we would call it a gravel bike.
Awesome!
Had a Red Hanson with a Shimano 105 frame shifter set with Mavic wheels! 7 speed... had lots of fun on that! Great video!
Awesome! Thanks for watching🧡
Perfect video for a rainy wednesday. Cheers.
Thanks for watching Grant!🧡⚙️
In the late 80' I had a Somec with Campy Chorus. In the early 90's when I stopped cycling (til now) I had a GT that was a duplicate of what the US post Office Tour team was riding. Full Shimano 600. I had several bikes in between, but those were my favorites.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and supporting us Charlie 🧡
beautiful classic bike
love the geometry too.....less lower back pain
Haha yes much more rideable 😂🧡
I've been a bmxer since 1983 so as you can imagine I've had a ton of bikes, loved them all.
Awesome!🧡
Surprise the customer didn’t want the head bearings done great job nice color😎
This was actually in for a very basic service. The customer really just wanted it to brake and change gears but we couldn’t help ourselves from going as far as we did 🧡
Lotus Elan, still ride it today, updated hubs, rims, and converted to a flat bar/townie style. love your work.
Awesome!!🧡⚙️
In 1990 I bought a Tomasini, grey and black with the “new” fishnet paint style, all Campagnolo Record C with Delta brakes, Selle San Marco Regal seat, and Look pedals. That replaced my Scapin w/ Super Record. Now I spend all my time trying to chase down old road bikes!
Very very cool🧡
Loved my Raleigh Equipe. Mine was the grey/yellow trim
They were a great bike!
Nice video, my 90's bike was. Battaglin, with Shimano 600 Dura ace mix. Still on the road now with 7400 STI shifters
Wow great that you kept it going!
In 1994 I bought my brand new Raleigh Randonneur touring bike.I rode many happy miles on it and then life got in the way by way of relationships and hip mobility problems. I still have it but unfortunately it's at the back of my garage now covered in dust as the cross bar is too high for my arthritic hips to lift my leg over. One day I will get it restored and get it back out on the road where it belongs!
Good luck with it! It will be a very rewarding project when the time is right 🧡
Thanks for another great video!!!
Thank you!🧡⚙️
😁😁😁😁👍⭐⭐ Oh yes …..that’s the way to do it .
Thanks for watching Kevin!
Nice job. I was surprised you didn't replace the brake cables though.
Awesome work again
Thanks as always! We always appreciate the support 🧡⚙️
First bike was a Falcon Black Diamond, which, sadly, I grew out of. Then a Rudi Altig disaster. Currently on a 20 yr old Claud Butler Dalesman, which I’m using as a commute bike in Fiji! Great video, I’ll have to play most of it in slo mo to get some tips!!!
Thanks for watching mark! This video will have been right up your street then!🧡⚙️
Dawes Imperial that I bought in the eighties in a beautiful pale blue. My first brand new bike was the one I traded in for the Imperial, a Dawes Windsor bought brand new in 1983. Before that it was a series of bikes that were bitsa bikes that I built up from what I could find in the local scrappy!
Awesome! 🧡⚙️
You fellas are making me want to find an old steel frame bike and fix it up. I have learned to love that old steel aesthetic.
They’re very very rewarding to look after 🧡
A Raleigh Royal 531 in Woodland Green,I still have it. I love the older bikes. Nice job restoring this one.
Awesome!🧡
I just love watching your dedicated videos! Greets from Hamburg, Germany
Thanks very much! We appreciate the support🧡⚙️
Great job it’s often you see two bottle cage mounts on them old bikes👍🇬🇧
Thanks Leslie!🧡⚙️🇬🇧
Great service!! If you sold those syringes full of different types of grease / oil and the stand, I would be buying one off you right now!!
We are! We’ve been working for many months now to setup a website, we feel it’s just over a month away and are very excited to show it to you all! Thanks for the support🧡
@@Bikespeeds great stuff, merch is the way to go. Off the back of one of your videos I’ve bought everything I need to go to Di2..
I was riding an entry-level Liberia in 1990, a brand from Grenoble, where I lived.
Awesome!🧡⚙️
@Bikespeeds I bought it at the Cattin shop in Crolles. They also made their own bike frames and still exist today.
Nice restauration of a classic bike, that must have taken hours. In 95 I bought my first real bike, a peugeot competition 400 with rx100 7 speed groupset (except the brakes which were exage 300ex). The indexed shifters were located on the main tube like in this video. I upgraded to rsx sti shifters later but it was not as sleek. The tubing was made of columbus cromor, less competitive than the 531. The best steel tubing I tried later was probably the columbus genius and gilco tubes.
It seems a lot of people had the Peugeots in 90’s. That sounds like a great bike, thanks for watching!🧡⚙️
@@Bikespeeds Indeed it was easy to buy a Peugeot here in the 80's and 90's because there were many dealerships, and they would take back your old bike and offer a discount on your new bike. Also they usually had a good variety of bikes, especially the team line series, until 2000.. However I should have bought a Decathlon at that time, they had better equipment for the same price and their tubings were treated inside against corrosion.
My late 80’s bike was a steel framed Peugeot Harvard hybrid with the obligatory biopace chainrings.
Awesome!
Nice one.
Thanks Tony🧡
In the 90s I had a Peugeot Racing Bike with shifters on the down tube, it was my work horse, got me to and from work 12 miles a day, before I learnt to drive and became fat, wish I still had it
Lol🧡⚙️
Beautiful. I love a good steel frame.
As do we! Thanks for watching 🧡
My 1980 bike was a Dawes Equinox bought second hand. Still use it today on my turbo trainer. Suicide shifters like the Claude butler but I have the Shimano 600 group set. I also have a Claude Butler circa 2010 which is black carbon fibre 4k weave pattern which you can see through the clear lacquer.
It’s awesome you’ve kept your Dawes running that long!🧡⚙️
Great result once again!
In that time I was riding a Peugeot (P*** / H*** ? ) 10. With the checkered flag pattern on the seat tube, orange "Peugeot" written on the downtube, 10 speed -> 2 down tube shifters, loved it!
I had that bike since my 15/16th birthday (1980/1981) and rode many thousands of kilometers on it. It got stolen at a Metro station when I was 28 or something like that... I replaced it with a rather expensive Giant MTB / hybrid that got stolen within 2 weeks (and apparently I forgot to confirm the insurance I thought I got for it....). In the end I settled for a cheap "Limit 2600" from Halfords that nobody ever tried to steal 🙂
Unbelievable! That’s a great shame🧡
I wasn't born in the 90s, but my first bikes were from the 80s and 90s as that was the only kids road racing bikes you could get in the 2000s for less than a lot of money. I'm currently building up a 91 GT Karakoram as a cool retro XC bike! Should be done this weekend.
Awesome to hear someone younger getting into mechanics, enjoy all your time working on it!🧡⚙️
Lovely job!! Nice work!! I recently saw a video of somebody using nail clippers to cut off the zips as close as possible. Looked like a brilliant idea to get ride of the sharp zip ends. Cheers!!
Use the bigger ones. They do a neat job, but I broke a small pair.
I had a Peugeot rad formula back in the 90s it wasn't a bad bike only problem was as a teenager I ran it into the ground and got a lot of use out of it, would like to find one in poor condition and transform it as you do on this amazing channel
Love that colour. Looks a lot like a Peugeot optimum. Some of their first bikes that had CAD technology. Great riding bikes. Great Job!
I have a 1992 British Eagle touristique similar spec but with centre pull brakes and I love it. Had to spend time and money but now it looks superb
Awesome! Thanks for watching Rupert🧡⚙️
Lovely bike with good ole square taper bb. Bought my first road bike early 90's shop built 531c with 7spd 105, Cinelli bars/stem with Mavic ma2 rims on Huchinson kevlar tyres. All affordable and serviceable it took me everywhere.
Nicely specced!🧡⚙️
Hy guys, perfect cleaning and rebuild of the bike. I am 0:00 always curious to see what watch you wear 😃 I think beside bikes it’s a nice passion of yours 👍😘 Greetings from Germany and see you next week 😘
Thanks Maik!🧡⚙️
Another beautiful job on a classic steel frame bike. Love to see these old bikes back on the road. The dedication and care you give to these classic bikes is legendary. You solved lots of little issues along the way which will make this owner feel like he is getting on a new bike.
That’s what we try our best to do, a big thank you as always 🧡
Had a weird framed little 24" mtb in the 90s, silver with a pink fork. Just a thick maintube with a single wishbone instead of a rear triangle, lots of pink anodizing and the word 'hybrid' written on the main tube. Id Ppay some good money to get my hands on it again!
What a lovely old steel bike, great job again 😊
Thanks very much Martin🧡
Lovely job guys early 90s I was into swimming and then decided to have a go at triathlon and the bike I got at the time was an Orbit 531c road bike running a 105 group set and it was a shocking purple and pink colour 😂🤦♂️
Sounds good if you ask us lol. We always like a bright bike🧡⚙️
I really enjoyed this special bike's restoration. That Crank is quite eye catching.
Glad you enjoyed it we to love this work when we get the chance to do it🧡
I had a Raleigh Elix at around this time. Thinking it was 531 but may have been 501. Downtube shifters and biopace. Sold it to buy a mountain bike as they became popular, Carrera quatro comp GT from halfords!
Awesome! Everyone loves an old Raleigh🧡
There's nothing like a nice vintage bike. Good job watching out for these stickes.
Why did you use the silicon for the springs instead of grease?
Right now I'm sitting on a 1990 Koga Miyata Exerciser. Absolutely beautiful looking road bike, with an almost perfect paint condition. These well made steel frames from that era just ride so smooth, love it.
We use silicone for sliding parts because it’s simply better and thinner than grease. That’s also a great bike for you to enjoy!🧡⚙️
You can't beat a vintage rebuild. Loving your watch too 👍🏻
Cant beat a vintage watch either 🧡⚙️
Claud Butler ! Now that takes me back some years !! Great service as always guys ! First bike ? Raleigh chopper ! Second hand mind as everything was in those days 👍
Absolutely awesome! Cant beat an old chopper 🧡
My first road bike was a Dawes Renown. Beautiful 531 Reynolds tubing and 12 speeds. I thought I had arrived in heaven! Love these videos
Awesome! Thanks for watching🧡
I rode the heck out of my Raleigh Activator 2 in the nineties! Fundamentally flawed suspension system, but great fun all the same!
Awesome!🧡⚙️
In the 90s I was riding a all black Saracen ltd edition mtb which I think was a rebadged Tufftrax, bought from ribble cycles Preston and I still have it, think it was 1992/3
Wow that’s awesome that you still have it!🧡
Great job, that bike is very nice. The old chain was a bit too worn out, hopefully the new chain will not skip.
We think the customer might have just caught it in time, it hasn’t come back so we can only assume it’s running smooth 🧡
I like the bike.. but not the biopace! Great job!
I’ve never ridden a biopace but rode oval on my TT bikes. I find those joyful over a few hours.
Great video as always! The question of the day is Where's your Rolex?🙂. That's the first thing I've noticed.
I have a small collection I swap between every now and then, thanks Mirek🧡⚙️
nice frame!
I bought a Cannondale R800 in 1997. It’s a beautiful bike. I still have it and it’s in near mint condition. Fast, but a bit twitchy.
Awesome! Great that you still keep it running🧡
Great video
Much appreciated Mathias🧡
Super job as per usual, that would be a nice ride for VeloRetro
Absolutely. Thanks for watching!🧡⚙️
That bike cleaned up really nice. I was eagerly waiting for the Autoglym to make an appearance 😁
As always! We love Autoglym here and are very proud we got a trade account with them recently to stock it on our coming website 🧡
Bike that I was riding in the 80's for club rides, t/t ect was a Hetchins, (not a curly stay tho), was a great bike to ride, I also had a day hack for work and a chromoly 12sp touring bike which went all round the UK N-S-E-West all over.
Awesome!🧡
I love how you pay so much attention to details and never waste anything along the way. I have seen too many mechanics chopping of the cables straight away without even examining them, such a waste in my opinion. Thank you for the videos following you since the day one
Thanks Tubax we appreciate all the support from the early days. Thanks for the kind words on this one also, we’re always tying to save our customers money anywhere we can⚙️
You need to get yourself some flush-cut snips for those zip ties so there is no sharp ends left at all. Park do ones (ZP-5) which are ok, or the Rolls-Royce option would be the Knipex 78 03 140 Super-Knips XL. Both have grind with zero bevel on the back and make a nice clean job.
As always perfect video, I have been watching for sometime now and although they are all basically the same I never get tired of them. Your work ethic is so good and you have one of those voices that you can listen to for hours. You ask what bike we started out on, well I have a 1963 Dawes which I have had since 1967 and I still ride it, it's a lovely ride and I always come home with a big smile, I have two modern bikes but the Dawes is my favourite.
We worried initially that people would get tired of our videos but it’s great to see how much everyone still enjoys them. Each job is vastly different in the various things we find along the way so we hope that makes them interesting enough. It’s great that you still ride your Dawes!🧡⚙️
Per your request, I'll tell you about my 1986 Merckx. I'm still riding almost every day for work and errands. It has a Japanese Tange steel fork now, while both seat stays have been repaired due to cracking from my 175 pounds of enthusiastic flesh and blood. Suntour Command 7-speed shifters, with a Superbe 175mm crankset, Shimano derailleurs, single pivot Dura Ace brakes rocked by Modolo levers mounted to a Cinelli 66 deep drop bar clamped in a 13cm Miyata stem.
Awesome! That’s a great spec🧡
@@Bikespeeds Sir, I enjoy your site, I enjoy your attention to detail, and greatly respect how you restore old bicycles.
WELL SAID,IRVIN.TOTALLY AGREE.@@luckyirvin
I still ride my 1979 Dave Moulton!
Great to hear!🧡⚙️
Nice work 😊👍🏻👍🏻
Much much appreciated 🧡⚙️
In the 90s I was riding a ROSS Grand Tour that I purchased shortly after I got out of the Army in 1979. It was a steel bike that I had for 22 years before I bought another bike. I really kept after it keeping it in good shape and clean but it finally found it's way into the dumpster when I decided it wasn't going to be ridden anymore. At that time I had no interest in restoring vintage bikes.
It’s great that you kept it turning for that long!🧡⚙️
Excellent video as always. I wasn't riding in the 90s but I have built up an Olmo and Martelli frames from that vintage. I'll be honest in that they looked better than they rode! Maybe I'll have another go one day.
Haha we like the charm of how they ride, we find the mechanical feel of everything clunking into position very satisfying 🧡
Omg that bike takes me back! 😊 I love the fab job you done to it I remember at the time I used to ride raleigh mercury pink/white 18-23 tubing nothing special but loved the bike so much rode it many places etc no bike could ever take those times away 🥺❤ well done Lee for bike and Simon for camera work x
Awesome! Who doesn’t love an old Raleigh 🧡⚙️
Love your channel! I started cycling in the 90's my first love was a 1998 Schwinn Le Tour and a 1998 Giant Kronos road bike. I am a collector of vintage bicycles and have a 1953 Claud Butler Jubilee and a 1968 Claud Butler Corridore. Below is a list of my collection, please let me know if anyone has experience with these bicycles?
1976 Magneet flying Dutchman
1962 Eroba Race
1993 Karkov veleocepedny Zarkov
1979 Koga-Miyata gentsracer
2007 Fonlupt Pascal
1952 Denton Newcastle upon Tyne
? Custom tall bicycle
1976 Batavus intercycle Batafold
1968 Claud Butler Corridore
1953 Claud Butler Jubilee
1930 Hans Ohrt path racer
2001 Hetchins Magnum Opus Oakham frame set.
2005 Woodrup Frame set
1960 CH Marcou frameset
Awesome!
My first real bike was a Giant Peloton Lite and it had the Shimano Bio Pace front chain rings rather like this. It was a 6 speed but had he rear wheel relished and make it a 7 speed 😎🇫🇮
You’ve always been a Giant fan then! 🧡⚙️
@@Bikespeeds yeah, I suppose I have. Always found the quality and spec much better than the Trek/BMC of the world 😎
Nice job!
Thanks Andy🧡
Such professional work, very impressive. Respect to my county brethren!
Thank you!🧡
“Bio Pace” 😂 i have seen a new trend of vintage bikes to route the shifters off the down tube into bar end shifters (TT type). Could be safer i.e being able to change gear with hands in the drop position
I had a Raleigh Road Ace with Reynolds 531 tubing throughout and Shimano 600 group set, Mavic rims and many upgrades. Wish I hadn’t sold it 😢
Sounds great🧡
I love all the services, but doing the older stuff ticks all the boxes 👍🏻😁
We love it too!🧡
First good bike, Raleigh Suntour Superbe. The gold clear-coat over polished steel.
Awesome!🧡⚙️
What a treasure! Nice restoration, awesome job (as aways). Your work is such an inspiration for every bike mech around the world. Cheers!
Thanks very much! Glad to hear you’re enjoying all of the content we really appreciate it🧡⚙️
In the mid 90’s I rode a Raleigh Amazon until it was stolen (great bike). I replaced it with a Kirk Revolution, which was stolen three weeks later. I replaced that with a Saracen which I rode until I left home in 2007
Shame they all got stolen! All great bikes 🧡
@@Bikespeeds definitely, Bedford had a massive problem with cycle theft at the time
Very nice indeed. I would have put the toeclips on the correct side of those old pedals (Campag copies?), put some straps on, and told the customer to ditch that hideous saddle and find a nice Rolls, Turbo, Regal or similar.
Great video as usual. And just off topic I think you have a bigger watch collection than me 😆
Thanks Chris! It’s an interest of mine lol🧡⚙️
Carlton Sirocco I was riding in the day on the road and a Criterium on the track
Awesome! Thanks for watching Jonathon🧡
Very good attention to detail you would have made a good race mechanic 👍
Cheers Shaun! Thanks for watching 🧡⚙️
Good video. The decals and colour are very similar to my Claud Butler oddesy, so I believe it may be a similar vintage. Claud Butler were making very good bikes at this time. I only bought the oddesy to re sell (I paid virtually nothing for it) but it’s actually a really good ride, and will remain with me long term.
I was riding a custom built Roberts MTB,which I still have
Awesome!🧡⚙️
I wish we could see the owner riding this bike away!
Love the channel, great content!
Thanks very much Michael!🧡⚙️