Rebuilt Bianchi and Saronni

I have been very slack at recording

all the beautiful, interesting frames and 

bikes I restore for other people,

so after enough tut tutting from everybody,

I have started to record the bikes that come through 

the workshop.

Here are a couple I have finished of late.

 Neils Bianchi.

 This one didn't actually have chrome on the fork crown,

lugs or rear caps, but when Neil stripped it, we saw that the 

whole bike had been chromed, just to have 

it's fork tips and right stay in chrome.

I spent the better part of a day polishing the lugs, 
fork crown and you can see the result,

  quite nice we both thought.

Dennis Saronni  

 This Saronni was the proverbial sow's ear, it's chrome

was very rough, and the frame had numerous little dents.

Rechroming was not really an option, as the work to get

the steel back to a condition where it could be redone was

just too prohibitive, especially for this frame set,

 maybe if it was a Colnago Saronni.....be it isn't.

 I managed to save the chrome on the fork ends,

cable guide on the rear stay and the chain holder, 

the rest was epoxy etch primed, and slowly built

up with spray putty.

Came out pretty nice.

Neils other Bianchi 980

 One of those rare frames that you don't have to do 

anything to (apart from one small dent), just

prime/decal/paint/clear-coat.