They say that a good paint job can hide multiple sins- I prefer to say a stunning paint job compliments a stunning build.Was this painted in a state of the
So, how do you recreate something you have never seen in person, don’t have measurements for, and are uncertain of exactly how it’s built.Well, you give it a crack. From
With the frame complete, the question was, how do you replicate rare parts. The seat post topper- fortunately, with my English Lotus frame, I received 2 seat post toppers. The
My good friend Graeme Pearson, has been building bikes for nearly 40 years, and for the most part, using carbon fibre. I have Graeme’s first carbon fibre bike, from 1986,
There is nothing like getting a build finished, but this project has now been going for longer than 2 years, so it’s not going to get rushed now.I have worked
So, the ‘problem’, is that this frame, is one of the original 56 bikes, built by DPS composites, in England. (6 prototypes, and 50 further frames for Team Lotus).With these
In September 1996, Chris Boardman rode an Aerodyne (South African) built Lotus 110 (badged as an Eddy Merckx) to a world record of 56.375km in one hour. To this day,
It goes without saying, that the sum of the expertise that was called on for this build is incredible.I could not have turned my dream into reality, without the help