The London Cycle Workshop

UPDATED JANUARY 2012!     SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW BUILDS

We though it would be nice to show off some of our customers bikes so have added this gallery page. If you would like your trusty steed to be featured send me a pic in an e-mail along with your name and perhaps a description of the bike. Maybe it is one we have worked on or serviced, or perhaps you just feel your pride and joy doesn’t get enough attention!

First up are a couple of Staff bikes, mine and Nick’s. Although we do not sell bikes here at The London Cycle Workshop we have recently become a Cinelli dealer which was so exciting we rushed out and bought ourselves framesets! Cinelli is an Italian bike and componentry company based in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1948 by Cino Cinelli a professional road racer, the company is renowned as one of the finest in the industry. So pretty!

Above is a bike we built for James Norris. It was a bit of a dream build, James had been collecting the parts for it for a while. We helped source a few of the final parts and put it together for him. What a pretty bike.

A few other bike builds:

Below is Simon Hilliers beautiful Coppi. This really is a special bike and Simon has been painstakingly building it as a new commuting machine. He found the frame and fork, and many other parts at the Hungarian site MatuzMaster which has an amazing range of hard to find frames, forks and componentry. Click the link to check it out. Thanks for the pics Simon, the third was too big for me to upload, the max seems to be 2MB.

Next is John Humans classic Gazelle which he has recently had resprayed at Bob Jackson. He bought it to us to strip and rebuild. The paint job is one of the finest I’ve seen and the attention to detail is amazing, from the quality of the paint down to the lug lining. Check out the pictures he sent me below. Thanks John.

Below are a couple of pictures of a classic Carlton frame that we had at the shop that Nick built up out of his spares box. She’s a dreamer!

Nick recently rebuilt the Carlton with gears, (down tube shifter), mudguards and a pannier rack for Winter cycling! See the very artistic picture below…

Below is Dave’s Planet X. Dave is a service customer of ours with a very nice collection of bikes. Below is his ‘winter bike’, a lightweight Planet X which we had just fitted a Campag Record groupset to. Very nice. When not cycling, Dave runs the Rose and Crown in Clapham Old Town.

Below are a couple of pictures of Dave Germain’s Colnago Master after we gave it a full strip down service and supplied and fitted a Campag Veloce groupset. Pretty bike.

Below is an awesome Canyon we built for Mike. It is the first of these frames we had seen in the shop and we were very impressed with the build quality and the low weight.

However, Mike did not have a good august and had a bit of a crash in Richmond park, damaging the carbon fibre chainstays effectively writing the frame off. Bad work. But, Mike bought another Canyon frame through their crash replacement scheme and the second bike is pictured below with a new pair of Mavic Cosmic Carbone SLR wheels. Very nice. (The London Cycle Workshop is now a Mavic dealer).

Below is a special project we helped complete for a customer of ours, Jim. Jim decided he wanted to restore a Rossin road frame and really put 100% into the project. He had the frame and fork sprayed and sourced the original decals to ensure the end result was as true as possible to the original. Pics below. More can be found on his dedicated blog. (He’s not really trying to sell it by the way…)

Below is a mountain bike build we helped finish for James. He did most of the assembly himself with us doing some of the bigger jobs, (such as bottom bracket facing and thread chasing, and headset fitting). We then gave it a final service to get it really tuned. Very nice build.

Here is a very fetching picture of our friend and customer Will, or Super Cycling Will as he likes to be called.

And below is a rare picture of Will performing a little light maintenance on his bike before a Sunday ride…

On a more serious note, Will rode from Tooting to Turkey to raise money for World Cancer Research and Parkinsons UK. He is making a final push for donation to break the magic five thousand pound mark. If you can help please follow this link to his website.

Although it wasn’t a custom build in the end, this is Simon’s weekend road bike. He opted for a Giant TCR in the end, aluminium with a full Ultegra groupset. It is staying pretty much standard for now, (can’t justify any upgrades until it has done some serious milage), the only changes have been black bar tape to replace white, a set of Conti’s excellent GP4000 tyres, and a new saddle, (still testing, pictured with a Selle Italia Flite Gel Flow test saddle – test saddles are available from The London Cycle Workshop). Good times…

Below are some pictures of a build we completed last week. It is a classic Vitus frameset belonging to a customer of ours called Peter. He has had the frameset for a few years now and decided it was finally time to get it built up. He had most of the parts already sourcing the last of the groupset from Hilary Stone. We mocked up the bike to get a rolling chassis so to speak, and then Peter came in to give it a try. He decided on a classic drop bar after considering a couple of options and we went from there. It is a fantastic bike and was a real pleasure to build and see it complete. We hope you enjoy riding it Peter!

Right, quick update with some December builds. We thought this would be a quiet month but actually we have been busy as ever. Below are a few of the bike builds from December…

Above is a picture of Paul’s Surly Troll. It was a frame swap after Paul cracked his old trusty Cannondale. Paul is a keen cyclist, this is one of three bikes and is used for fun and commuting. Surly make great frames and we were really impressed with the design and build quality.

Above are pictures of Liam’s bamboo bike! This is perhaps the fourth we have seen in the shop and is by far the prettiest. It is handbuilt in Zambia by Zam bikes, (website here). The frame has been produced to take derailleur gears with full cable routing for both gears and brakes. It also has horizontal rear drop outs so we built it up as a single speed.

Above and below are pictures of the recent frame swap we did for Luke from a Cervelo to a custom steel Guru. The Cervelo was a nice bike, but the Guru was something else, a real thing of beauty. Check out the botto picture of the rear dropout for instance, there is real attention to detail in the design and manufactuer. Nice bike.

Next for the gallery are a few pictures that should be further up the page. We built the Litespeed below for a good customer of ours Chris almost a year ago but lost the photos we took. He came in recently for us to service his beautiful Bob Jackson recently and popped back in for a quick job on the road bike so we took the opportunity to take a few fresh snaps.

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There you go Chris, sorry for the delay! (Not sure what’s going on with the captions though…)

January has come and funnily enough the newest build of the year is a beautiful Bob Jackson for the very same Chris that we built the Litespeed above for! Chris wanted to build up a winter training bike so he could give the Litespeed a rest. The Bob Jackson frame, not suprisingly, is very pretty. Chris bought an Ultegra groupset as he uses Shimano on the Litespeed, and Mavic wheels. Full fitting SKS mudguards are the perfect finishing touch for a proper steel framed winter bike. Quite a collection of bikes you have there Chris!

Next up is a little project bike Simon has put together. Beneath the re-spray and decals is a classic Raleigh Carlton frame, the same as Nick’s commuter. Simon has built it up as a utility bike, (hence the outrageous but beautifully made rear pannier rack), with some handbuilt wheels, Mavic’s legendary Open Pro rims with a Sturmey Archer front track hub and three speed aluminum rear hub. Full fitting SKS mudguards and a Pletscher rear mounted propstand give it those practical finishing touches, while the trusty Brooks saddle and matching grips give it a touch of class!