Le Turbo Bicycle Restoration
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- This video covers my restoration of this vintage Le Turbo bicycle which was manufactured in South Africa.
The bike is built using South African made steel but the frame was built in France by a small company called Meral. It is sporting a mixed groupset.
It has Weinmann brake levers & calipers.
A Solida crankset.
Simplex rear derailleur and Suntour AR front derailleur.
The wheel set is built using Pelissier hubs mated to Mavic MA2 hoops.
The frame is 54cm CTT seatpost and 54cm CC on the toptube.
Nice having seen the bike afterwards, and then watched the video - a bike ‘saved’ for the next generation!
Beautiful comeback to life for this LeTurbo. Born and raised Despatcher myself.
its lovely to watch while hearing the history narrated
Beautiful.
I was recently helping to buy bike to my friend, it was second hand Le turbo, but I had exactly and absolutely the same frame gazelle in workshop where I was working, both mixie
Great job. Its a very rare bike and i didn't hear the brand. Thanks for this videos.I saw so many bikes with weinmann brakes and i didn't know its a swiss brand. Thanks & good luck!!!!
i love your work, understated but accomplished. thank you for all the effort required to produce this content.
Thank you Liam, I appreciate the feedback 👍🏼 You’re right, these videos take time and effort so it’s great to hear that people gain some value and appreciate the content 🙏🏼👍🏼
Good
brought back my own early teenage memories of Saturday mornings at the LBS admiring stuff I couldn't afford :-)
Led Davies Cycles in Morriston , Swansea South Wales. Long, long gone now. But I still remember the smell of the place - oil, grease and rubber - and the sounds of Sandy, the mechanic, in the back room. Holding back a tear now...
Ah the smell, so true. Those old bikes shops just oozed character 👍🏼
Good job,Amazing bike 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💛
Top video!
Going to look at a burnt-orange Le Turbo tomorrow in Brisbane, Australia. Fingers-crossed it's a good size!
And… did you buy it? 😁
@@BuffsVintageBikes I was too slow!!! I've reset my sights on a potentially lovely 80s Peugeot. Exact model unknown but looks similar to your Rapport build. 🤞🤞
@@BuffsVintageBikes picked up the Peugeot! Much older than expected, 70-74ish model! Here we gooooo 😬
@@kickjack Wonderful, good luck with the restoration 👍
Great job once again to a "local" steel bike to get it back to being a head turner. :-)
I had a Le turbo BMX
nice restoration 🔥🔥
Bro???,,,,,jy is 'n absolute MEESTER in die restorasie besigheid!!!!.
Het my ALAN (Italy) in '77 by John Webb Cycles gekoop (onlangs oorlede).
Is ook nog in besit van Willie Marx se baanfiets wat 'n menigte titels verower het. Swen was 'n baie goeie baanryer. Was bevriend met Robbin Jones.,,,,,Wellington.
Dankie Gerrit, ‘n baan fiets van Willie is ‘n absoluut collectible, daai man is ‘n legend 🙌🏼 Sven het nou ook ‘n baie impressive versaameling van classic vintage bikes, ek praat gereeld met hom 👍🏼
good job, thanks for sharing
Wonderfull the best of de best congratulation.....
Great job!
Hello. Nice restoration o/ At 16:14, the numbers 4085 on the (Sachs) Huret speed lever stop are actually the build date of the lever assembly, namely the 40th week of 1985. So the bike might be slightly after that date depending on the amount of stock, speed of delivery, etc. ;)
Hi Nadia, thanks for pointing that out, I wasn’t aware of that fact, very interesting 🙏🏼👍🏼
If bike shops are anything like skate shops, they appreciate returning customers even if they don’t buy anything, because the staff know that it’s a future sale
LeTurbo only real with a Turbo saddle! :)
But again, this video shows what restoration is all about: Preserve/fix as much as possible before you start putting on new parts. Great job!
As a personal note, I wouldn't have went as far as gluing plastic parts together, because most likely it won't hold and maybe the part might not be worth salvaging. Still I like the approach: Work with what is there!
Thanks Marcus and to be honest, I had fitted a Turbo saddle but it had been recovered in navy blue leather and it didn’t suit the black bar tape so I removed it 😊
Just checked quickly, there is a Simplex FD that looks like the one on the bike, for only EUR 10 (about R 180) Yes, I know, shipping would be prohibitive if it was only for one part.
Thanks, I’ll take a look 👍🏼
If I need to bond anything I use a 2 part glue called araldite, leave it to cure over night, it’s never coming off, plane wings can be glued on with that stuff
Thanks for that Steven. I unfortunately haven’t seen that product locally but I’m going to try with Pratley’s before giving it up completely.
Nice job! Pink bikes are always pretty. I am restoring a bike of my father and it had a black handlebar tape like yours. Could you tell me which model is it? Thank you.
Thanks, the bar tape is call Good Horse bar tape. You can Google them 👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes thanks! I did it, but unfortunately, they’re not sold in Spain.
When the plastic was adhered together, may have been able to 3d print replica.
I managed to find an exact Simplex replacement 👍🏼