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I’M BACK!
Well, not that I went anywhere but I’ve been quite quiet on the old bicycle work videos for the last couple of weeks. I hadn’t stopped... I was just working hard on getting a few builds done and so... here’s the first.
It’s a 1972 O’Brien Challenge. O’Brien is the brand and Challenge in the model. It’s honestly a bit of a mystery bike but if you look hard enough you’ll find a bicycle shop in Coventry under the name O’Brien that apparently produced this bike (and two others that I’ve found). Rumour has it small bicycle shops used to buy in bikes to spec and sell them with their own name on to try and recoup some of the lost business from the likes of Halfords, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad bike.
Looking over it, it had some nice components. The mudguards were in good shape, the derailleurs looked quite fancy and the lugs also look pretty special but the original paint was in pretty rough shape. I had hoped to clean it up and fix it up but the paint was too far gone. I stripped the bike (eventually - frozen stem video!) and took it to the powder coaters.
It was only there I decided to make a Holdsworth replica! Hours of polishing, finding some replacement parts and one rebuild later and I’m happy I made that decision!