BSA = Birmingham Small Arms. Love the classic road bikes, great job. I have two classic road bikes, a fully restored Viking conquest, and an Elswick Turbo 12, which is still in original paint.
BSA Tour de France: They also did them in orange. Essentially a mid/late 1970s Raleigh that they decided to badge "BSA". They also used "Hercules" and "Triumph" up until that time, maybe slightly before. I have owned a couple of BSAs, one Hercules and goodness knows how many Raleighs. Several Carltons too, all from the Raleigh era. Would like to see an RRA on the channel one day.
You're a treasure. Customer service like yours is a dying art. People think the internet is killing brick-and-mortar shops, but we'd be ok if everyone had your philosophy.
Amazing job, I love your comment about don’t criticize the preferences of the customization. I’ve noticed people on TH-cam think their opinion is the only one that matters.. and this is a great example of how many different things can be done to a bike like this and doesn’t have to be one way. Great job! Cheers
This channel is gold. Your editing is superb- upspeed work, calm voiceover, relaxing background music. I much agree with your pragmatic restoration philosophy. Like others, I have been binge watching your videos. Great content. Cheers!
Thanks Benjamin. As a family we’ve always had an interest in watches, I love my older watches I tend to love watches with an interesting back story I’ve nothing mega, just interesting.
These videos are like therapy. So calming and satisfying to watch the progress in high-speed. Love the background music and way you explain things like which grease/cleaners you use and why. Hat’s off to you guys!
Absolutely glorious! So glad to see someone working with what they have rather than stripping, repainting and restickering. They're only original once! 😊
This Channel is fast becoming my favourite bike related channel, and theres plenty of good ones out there. Sympathetic restorations of ordinary, yet character full vintage bikes is just gold. Very well put together and very competent in relation to preservation. Brilliant.
Thank you. The format works for us, we are always open as a shop when filming which is why we don’t record audio and often stop to serve or remove a bike from the studio for a customers bike to be slotted in mid flow. It just works for us but seems to be a winning formula too. Thanks for watching
Brilliant result. Love these videos. Gear levers fixed on the frame with the under bar brake levers really brought me back in time. 1981 to be exact when my beloved father surprised me with my first racing bike. Much happier times because they were simple.
Fantastic job again! I used that same bare tape on two bikes I restored. Light blue for my neighbors and white for my wifes bike. I love the feel of it.
Thanks to you I now know what a large difference hot water with soap can make. Not good enough for chains but pretty much everything else cleaned up nicely. It's just a bit difficult to work on the hot parts.
My kind of restoration. Exactly the same cranks that I'm currently riding on. However with me, I don't love front derailleurs, so I neatly chopped off the big ring, and it left this lovely little chain guard ring aside my 40T smaller chainring. Quite a nifty look ! I have a few bikes from the 70's. I guess it was the bikes of youth which still move me. I love riding on fewer gears though. I just did an 1800 km trip heavily loaded on a five speed. My 40T was geared to a 16 - 32T freewheel, and that gave me everything I needed. Those Weinmann side pulls needed the special hollow key wrench to centre and adjust them. They were never my favourite brakes. I've always loved dia-compe. Cheers mate
I love your videos. As a professional for over two decades; it’s nice to see others holding a high standard of work. Nice to know I’m not alone! Always learning. I’ve learned a few tricks from your videos. I just started using shimano premium grease! Thanks for that. I do like using Phil Wood grease for most things. But for open ball bearing Shimano premium grease is so good. Thanks @bikespeed
Another excellent restoration. The mini mudguards were the equivalent to the car go faster stripes. I certainly had a pair on my bike in the 1970/80’s. Keep up the good work.
Another superb video, I cannot believe you bring these old bikes back to their former glory. I've said it before but will say it again, you are a credit to the cycling community 😎🇫🇮
Another great video, I’ve worked on a few US bikes from the same time period and it really is something to see them clean up and some of that shine return to the original paint and chrome parts. Keep it up, very inspirational! 🚲
Hy guys, what a fantastic job you did again on this bike restoration. I loved to watch you again and tomorrow I will definitely spend some time on my old bike treasures bought on eBay to give them a new shine ✨ thanks again and have a nice weekend! Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 to Britain 🇬🇧 🚴♂️
Another most enjoyable video. You are so right about this bike being a Sunday bike now. I did the exact same type of restore to a 1979 Raleigh Grand Prix, and I only ride it for short leisurely rides. Cheers till. Ext week.
Nice restore and excellent video! Glad to see you got a sponsor! I recently did a similar restoration to a 42 year old Nishiki Custom Sport. Lots of work but the end results are well worth it, just like in your vid!
Love the bsa bikes ❤❤ owned a few in the past super job 👍 well done lee and Simon awesome job too with the camera! And finally to owner of the bike enjoy it 🙌 🤗
Excellent job. No you can't convince me to drink coffee at 2am while I'm binge watching these! lol. I always grease parts I maybe shouldn't' too, seat post stem, seat clamp threads. just to stop sticking. I had a seat post one time that went too long without service it was locked in the frame, the bike shop had to drill a hole through it and cut down from that hole at the top to bend it away from the frame and then yank it round with pipe wrench. my mate who worked in the shop told me off no end for it! lol. Drew
Great job guys! As you say the level of restoration is up to the individual. Seems pointless sometimes to go for a full on restore then be afraid to ride it.
He tapes the bars correct too! great videos...keep em coming! Would love to see some videos of you doing a full service on modern bikes...ie. SL7, S5, Aeroad, Emonda, etc.
We really do film anything we can, our criteria for a “TH-cam job” is that it has to be a big job to make the video long enough, and modern bikes are usually so well kept they only ever come in for a new chain or maybe one cable but when we get the chance we always film one🧡
It’s vary rare for us to need to find that out as 99.9% of the bugs we work on are already set at their riders height so we have no reason to remove them.
I love your restoration/overhaul videos. Very different to other (also good) TH-cam-channels, but very interesting how you do things. I am already looking for an ultrasonic degreaser machine but can't find the right degreaser. It seems, that I can't buy "no nonsense" here in Germany, so I have to find something similar. To put it in a nutshell: keep up your great work. 😎
Love the channel, but wondering why you serviced the head set bearings before spraying de-greaser to clean the top of the forks around the crown. Surely the de-greasing agent would ingress into the bearing races.
my first proper road bike in 1990 was a holdsworth reynolds 531 steel frame with a shimano 105 groupset 52/42 with max 23 tooth sprocket , great bike, extremely reliable machine felt great to ride even though you had to sit down to shift gear ps remember duraglit for cleaning metal surfaces it was great for wheels
Vintage bike looks fantastic, id love to rail this around local circuits for fun :) also where is the vintage rolex oyster quartz two tone? Bring that beauty back in too ;) love the vid!
The cup (hard steel) on the drive side is often difficult to unscrew, since there is not enough grip for the tool. You can use a bolt and nut (with eventually washers bigger than the cup hole diameter) and place the bolt through the cup from the inside and then screw the nut to secure the bolt on the cup. Then continue to screw the nut clockwise, it will normally unscrew the cup which has reversed threads. If course you need to be careful not to damage the bearing track inside the cup with the bolt.
BSA = Birmingham Small Arms. Love the classic road bikes, great job. I have two classic road bikes, a fully restored Viking conquest, and an Elswick Turbo 12, which is still in original paint.
Enjoy! Thanks for watching Phil 🧡⚙️
These old bike restorations are quite possibly the most satisfying thing on youtube....
Thank you Spencer. 🧡
I love seeing vintage bikes getting restored, its like a soul being revived.
I would love to see the customers reactions and a first ride.
My first racer. A five speed bsa. Thank you for showing this, such memories. 😢
Thanks for watching Craig glad you enjoyed this one specifically!🧡⚙️
8:35 Totally agree, loose balls are much better, and properly adjusted are smoother than sealed bearings with less drag.
BSA Tour de France: They also did them in orange. Essentially a mid/late 1970s Raleigh that they decided to badge "BSA". They also used "Hercules" and "Triumph" up until that time, maybe slightly before. I have owned a couple of BSAs, one Hercules and goodness knows how many Raleighs. Several Carltons too, all from the Raleigh era. Would like to see an RRA on the channel one day.
You're a treasure. Customer service like yours is a dying art. People think the internet is killing brick-and-mortar shops, but we'd be ok if everyone had your philosophy.
Thanks Alex, we pride ourselves on treating bikes like our own🧡
Another great restoration completed with care and respect. BSA was acquired by Raleigh in the late 1950’s.
I love the made in England label after it was all done. Great job and keep the videos coming.
I enjoy seeing the restoration videos. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Amazing job, I love your comment about don’t criticize the preferences of the customization. I’ve noticed people on TH-cam think their opinion is the only one that matters.. and this is a great example of how many different things can be done to a bike like this and doesn’t have to be one way. Great job! Cheers
Definitely! We couldn’t agree more
I always like and share your vids and like every comment, hope this helps the youtube algorithm, another great job Lee and Simon. 😀
I am fairly new to your channel and I can say without doubt every single one of your posts are so entertaining.
Thanks Sweep we love to receive a comment like this! See you again soon🧡⚙️
This channel is gold. Your editing is superb- upspeed work, calm voiceover, relaxing background music. I much agree with your pragmatic restoration philosophy.
Like others, I have been binge watching your videos. Great content. Cheers!
Thanks Carlos we love a nice comment like this, means a lot to us, enjoy the videos!🧡🚲
You can’t go wrong with a vintage bike.
I always admire your collection of vintage watches accompanying your bike repairs!
Thanks Benjamin. As a family we’ve always had an interest in watches, I love my older watches I tend to love watches with an interesting back story I’ve nothing mega, just interesting.
These videos are like therapy. So calming and satisfying to watch the progress in high-speed. Love the background music and way you explain things like which grease/cleaners you use and why. Hat’s off to you guys!
Thanks Connor. Nice words 🧡👍🏻🚲
That was a post service crankset spin that Hambini would have been proud of..great work..
You don’t get misalignment on an old BSA! 💪
Absolutely lovely bike. That crankset spin at 13:11 was joyous. Great job, es ever 👊🏼
I agree about the old bottom brackets. Square taper on my vintage is miles smoother than any of the press-fit or threaded BBs that I’ve handled
They are more often than not amazing!
Amazing work! Man, I did not expect that paint to come back like that.
It shone up great on this one we were over the moon!🧡
Just finished my tour de france. Thanks for all the advice and tips.
Absolutely glorious! So glad to see someone working with what they have rather than stripping, repainting and restickering. They're only original once! 😊
That’s our mentality!🧡
Game changing coffee produced by sports barista 👌 perfect for any cyclist/triathlete etc who looking for an all day fuelling pushing the performance 💪
It’s great for TH-camrs on a long day of filming too!
Great sponsor! Great video! Craftsmanship is amazing!!!!! Watch collection is next level!!!!!!
This Channel is fast becoming my favourite bike related channel, and theres plenty of good ones out there. Sympathetic restorations of ordinary, yet character full vintage bikes is just gold. Very well put together and very competent in relation to preservation. Brilliant.
Thank you. The format works for us, we are always open as a shop when filming which is why we don’t record audio and often stop to serve or remove a bike from the studio for a customers bike to be slotted in mid flow. It just works for us but seems to be a winning formula too. Thanks for watching
Another phenomenal restoration and video. Thoroughly hooked!
Brilliant result. Love these videos.
Gear levers fixed on the frame with the under bar brake levers really brought me back in time. 1981 to be exact when my beloved father surprised me with my first racing bike. Much happier times because they were simple.
I had a Raleigh Equipe in red and white around that time
You are what "AMMONYC" is to cars, but for bikes.
Just love watching your methods and the result is always stunning!
We’re both petrol heads here and watch Ammo quite regularly, he’s definitely a big influence to the channel🧡🚲
@@Bikespeedswhat about Matt Armstrong then he makes millions from TH-cam
Fantastic job again! I used that same bare tape on two bikes I restored. Light blue for my neighbors and white for my wifes bike. I love the feel of it.
Me too , white is the worst colour with my hands though! 😂
Can't wait to see the before and after shots
What a beauty 👍 certainly a bike to cruise to the pub on a sunny afternoon ☀️🚲
Absolutely! A great bike for just riding
Great Restoration! Lovely Bicycle.
Thanks billy🧡🚲
Lovely. I’m always amazed at the number of manufacturers of lightweight bicycles in the UK years ago. Not so much here in the US.
Not so many here these days either but for a time it was an awesome era🧡
Thanks to you I now know what a large difference hot water with soap can make. Not good enough for chains but pretty much everything else cleaned up nicely. It's just a bit difficult to work on the hot parts.
That’s pretty bang on there, putting time in can do most of the cleaning
My kind of restoration. Exactly the same cranks that I'm currently riding on. However with me, I don't love front derailleurs, so I neatly chopped off the big ring, and it left this lovely little chain guard ring aside my 40T smaller chainring. Quite a nifty look !
I have a few bikes from the 70's. I guess it was the bikes of youth which still move me. I love riding on fewer gears though. I just did an 1800 km trip heavily loaded on a five speed. My 40T was geared to a 16 - 32T freewheel, and that gave me everything I needed.
Those Weinmann side pulls needed the special hollow key wrench to centre and adjust them. They were never my favourite brakes. I've always loved dia-compe. Cheers mate
Thanks David!🧡
What a beautiful bike. Wonderful work!
Good to see you using the super coffee from Sports Barista too!
We find making these videos tiring. We’ve been having a coffee before starting and it see you through!
I love your videos. As a professional for over two decades; it’s nice to see others holding a high standard of work. Nice to know I’m not alone! Always learning. I’ve learned a few tricks from your videos. I just started using shimano premium grease! Thanks for that. I do like using Phil Wood grease for most things. But for open ball bearing Shimano premium grease is so good. Thanks @bikespeed
Thanks for watching!🧡
Another excellent restoration. The mini mudguards were the equivalent to the car go faster stripes. I certainly had a pair on my bike in the 1970/80’s. Keep up the good work.
Great job. Oxalic Acid (often sold as Wood Bleach) is your friend for de-rusting chrome. I had amazing results on my 1969 Flying Scot.
Lee lookin tip top with a fresh trim!
Great work! Always enjoy watching your videos and learning a thing or two! Watching from Arlington VA. USA
Another superb video, I cannot believe you bring these old bikes back to their former glory. I've said it before but will say it again, you are a credit to the cycling community 😎🇫🇮
Good for another 40 years!
Top job and quality bike...had a BSA in the 80s as a teen...it up and took of from my work place one morning leaving the lock chain on the floor..
Gutter. They were great bikes🧡
🎉🎉🎉
I love spotting all the watches you wear! You like the weird and wonderful ones I can tell!
Correct!😉⌚️
You do the bike proud, what an awesome job, Any sponsor out there needs to move fast and get themselves to Lowestoft.
Love to spot what cool watches you wear in the videos!
The restoration came out lovely and fresh. I would like more vintage bike restorations
We’re always making them wherever we get the chance, definitely gonna do more in future🧡
@@Bikespeeds thanks
Another bang up job! That headset and cranks spun so smooth after your work.
An incredible difference!
Nice job and love the nice way of explaining the process and the reasoning behind it.
Thanks Tommy🧡⚙️
Beautiful machine. I love putting your videos on in the background while I work on my own bikes
Enjoy it thank you🧡
Old bikes need to get restored because is part of cycling history.
Never mind the coffee, where can I get a Bikespeeds mug? 😀
Once we are big enough we’ll have a Merch store.
Wonderful restoration, and the bar tape was perfect.
Another great video, I’ve worked on a few US bikes from the same time period and it really is something to see them clean up and some of that shine return to the original paint and chrome parts. Keep it up, very inspirational! 🚲
Another great video. These types of restorations are my favorite videos. 👍👍
Hy guys, what a fantastic job you did again on this bike restoration. I loved to watch you again and tomorrow I will definitely spend some time on my old bike treasures bought on eBay to give them a new shine ✨ thanks again and have a nice weekend! Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 to Britain 🇬🇧 🚴♂️
Beautifully done!
That came out very nice. Just cleaning and repairing this was the correct thing to do. I am so glad you kept the paint and stickers as is!
We like to keep things as original as possible
Another most enjoyable video. You are so right about this bike being a Sunday bike now. I did the exact same type of restore to a 1979 Raleigh Grand Prix, and I only ride it for short leisurely rides. Cheers till. Ext week.
Enjoy your Raleigh Kevin thanks for watching and commenting, goes a long way for us🧡🚲
Awesome job once again ,I would be proud to ride this great work
Beautiful old bike , great work again guys 👍
Nice restore and excellent video! Glad to see you got a sponsor! I recently did a similar restoration to a 42 year old Nishiki Custom Sport. Lots of work but the end results are well worth it, just like in your vid!
Again a lovely job, everything looked perfect.
Good to see you in the comments again gold, thanks for the support!🧡
@@Bikespeeds
I like watching you work on bikes, you do great work.
I just saved a Claud Butler from the scrap man, and it's turned out nice.
Enjoy it!
@@Bikespeeds
Thank you, it's lovely to ride.👍
Nicely done sir!
Love the bsa bikes ❤❤ owned a few in the past super job 👍 well done lee and Simon awesome job too with the camera! And finally to owner of the bike enjoy it 🙌 🤗
Appreciate the kind words as always John😎🧡
Awesome work !
To me what you do is a restoration, after all you do the results are amazing.
Thanks Mario!🧡
Excellent job. No you can't convince me to drink coffee at 2am while I'm binge watching these! lol. I always grease parts I maybe shouldn't' too, seat post stem, seat clamp threads. just to stop sticking. I had a seat post one time that went too long without service it was locked in the frame, the bike shop had to drill a hole through it and cut down from that hole at the top to bend it away from the frame and then yank it round with pipe wrench. my mate who worked in the shop told me off no end for it! lol. Drew
We’ve never made a mistake by greasing anything. It’s only the things that aren’t greased that come back to be a problem!🧡⚙️
Wonderful restoration. Love this channel.
Thanks Todd🧡
Takes me back to my Raleigh Medale,Bluemels short alloy guards,Pifco or Eveready on front light bracket, happy days, great work guy's 👍
The best era for bikes!
i cant get enough of ur videos
Enjoy them, thanks for watching🧡
Another great video guys. The mudguards look nice being that small.
Love the variety of bikes, detail and effort that goes onto this channel. Awesome work!
Thanks Nissar comments like this always keep us going🧡
Beautiful vintage bike and the service you did, amazing!
Great job!
Great job guys! As you say the level of restoration is up to the individual. Seems pointless sometimes to go for a full on restore then be afraid to ride it.
Another beautiful restoration! Great work lads, keep ‘em coming
Thanks for the support Josh🧡
Just subscribed, can't believe I've only just found your channel. Hoping to find an old classic to restore. Nice one 👍🏻
Welcome aboard Andrew 🧡👍🏻🚲
He tapes the bars correct too! great videos...keep em coming! Would love to see some videos of you doing a full service on modern bikes...ie. SL7, S5, Aeroad, Emonda, etc.
We really do film anything we can, our criteria for a “TH-cam job” is that it has to be a big job to make the video long enough, and modern bikes are usually so well kept they only ever come in for a new chain or maybe one cable but when we get the chance we always film one🧡
@@Bikespeeds Can I ship my S5 to you? Give it the full Bikespeeds service? 😁😆
Always a great job 👏 👍
Thanks very much! 🧡⚙️
Nice see those Huret derailleurs and Weimann brakes
Takes me back to 1979 , 12 yo on a Dutch coastal bikelane in the The Haque area
Takes us all back!
Beautiful old bike!
Loved watching this 👍
Awesome! Thanks Daniel!🧡⚙️
Love this channel beautiful work as always keep them coming bikespeeds.
Always look forward to Wednesdays now 👍🏻
Good to see you again thanks for the continued comments and support🧡🚲
Great work as always; loving the variety this channel brings. Was the seatpost seized ?
It’s vary rare for us to need to find that out as 99.9% of the bugs we work on are already set at their riders height so we have no reason to remove them.
nice restoration
Great work team! What chain is that? I'd love to get one for my 1980 Benetto! Thanks for the video, great passion!
A taya chain🧡
I love your restoration/overhaul videos. Very different to other (also good) TH-cam-channels, but very interesting how you do things.
I am already looking for an ultrasonic degreaser machine but can't find the right degreaser. It seems, that I can't buy "no nonsense" here in Germany, so I have to find something similar.
To put it in a nutshell: keep up your great work. 😎
Thanks henning! Enjoy your bikes 🇩🇪🇬🇧
Another great looking bike!
Thanks for watching!🧡
Love the channel, but wondering why you serviced the head set bearings before spraying de-greaser to clean the top of the forks around the crown. Surely the de-greasing agent would ingress into the bearing races.
my first proper road bike in 1990 was a holdsworth reynolds 531 steel frame with a shimano 105 groupset 52/42 with max 23 tooth sprocket , great bike, extremely reliable machine felt great to ride even though you had to sit down to shift gear
ps remember duraglit for cleaning metal surfaces it was great for wheels
Vintage bike looks fantastic, id love to rail this around local circuits for fun :) also where is the vintage rolex oyster quartz two tone? Bring that beauty back in too ;) love the vid!
I used to have an orange bsa tour de france bike when I was a kid .and managed to get an fully original one again.
Awesome! Enjoy it🧡
The cup (hard steel) on the drive side is often difficult to unscrew, since there is not enough grip for the tool. You can use a bolt and nut (with eventually washers bigger than the cup hole diameter) and place the bolt through the cup from the inside and then screw the nut to secure the bolt on the cup. Then continue to screw the nut clockwise, it will normally unscrew the cup which has reversed threads. If course you need to be careful not to damage the bearing track inside the cup with the bolt.
these videos are so satisfying