The final product, our freshly restored BSA Shortbase Speedy.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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Welcome to Bishops
What is a Path Racer?
Path is the old fashioned Victorian/ Edwardian cycling term for track. So a path bike is purely for the track. High bottom bracket no clearances and no drillings for brakes. A Road-Path is a bike with track ends that is dual purpose for both road and track racing, angles not quite as steep and bottom bracket lower than a pure path (track bike). Normally the front fork crown is not drilled for a brake. They run 28" wheels, and feature horizontal drop-outs (Fish tails). Another term for Road-Path is Road-Track.
Who are Bishops?
Bishops formed in 2009 by a group of New Zealand bike enthusiast in a garage on Bishop Street, Christchurch. They are dedicated to restoring and building custom Path Racers for all to enjoy.
Contact Bishops Cycles by clicking here
Path is the old fashioned Victorian/ Edwardian cycling term for track. So a path bike is purely for the track. High bottom bracket no clearances and no drillings for brakes. A Road-Path is a bike with track ends that is dual purpose for both road and track racing, angles not quite as steep and bottom bracket lower than a pure path (track bike). Normally the front fork crown is not drilled for a brake. They run 28" wheels, and feature horizontal drop-outs (Fish tails). Another term for Road-Path is Road-Track.
Who are Bishops?
Bishops formed in 2009 by a group of New Zealand bike enthusiast in a garage on Bishop Street, Christchurch. They are dedicated to restoring and building custom Path Racers for all to enjoy.
Contact Bishops Cycles by clicking here
Bella pezzi di macchina!!
ReplyDeleteJ Ullfig
That is beautiful, guys
ReplyDeleteWell done.
Did you chrome or nickel-plate the shiny bits?
You have really done justice to an important bike
cheers, Al
The bike has a mix of Nikel-plate and chrome. Now I look back I should have nickeled the whole lot. But the life span of chrome is to hard to pass up.
ReplyDeleteHow did you prepare the parts for the chroming/Ni-plating? I went through all this a year ago, and couldn't persuade a metal polisher in Napier to do the job - they said the metal was too pitted, so I ended up getting it sprayed silver which was, as expected, not quite 'the thing', old PatherRacerChap!
ReplyDeleteBut you have an excellent finish, so what is the secret?
And when are we having the first All-NZ PathRacer race meet?
cheers, Al
We use a Christchurch based company called Escort Metal Finishers. 21 Maldon St, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone (03) 366 2708. Great service and fast turn-around.
ReplyDeletethat geometry!
ReplyDeleteits like a reverse mullet; business at the back (super tight) and party in front (Heaps of fork rake)
very nice resto Bishop- what are the hubs; vintage fixed? and the rims; velocity?
Hubs are BSA, using a fixed rear with flip-flop gearings. Wheels are vintage wooden rims
ReplyDeleteI think this is the frame I found years ago at Oxford.
ReplyDeleteOriginally only the seattube and stays.
I gave Jack King some tubing and a head tube and this is what it became.
It always intrigued me what its original use was.
You have made an awesome job of finishing it.
Love the site.
Why don't they make those adjustable stems and seatposts nowadays!!
ReplyDeletehi,
ReplyDeletei' valentino
from italy,
is possible to find a frame (also to restore) of this kind of path racer?
some of you can help me?
thanks
valentino
That is sick. Wow.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a very cool bike!
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