Eclipse
04-14-18 | 06:50 PM
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Bikes: Raleigh Sports 1963, Phillips 1959, Cannondale F700 1999, Cannondale Crit 500 1980s, Bianchi Limited 80s, Bianchi Brava 80s
Eclipse
What is this bike? I have searched trying to get some info and haven’t found much.
The lugs are beautiful.
Serial 851873
https://flickr.com/photos/142311368@...57695644365055
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Untitled by v cycleta, on Flickr
The lugs are beautiful.
Serial 851873
https://flickr.com/photos/142311368@...57695644365055
pic assist.
Untitled by v cycleta, on Flickr
Last edited by cb400bill; 04-15-18 at 12:20 PM. Reason: added pic
04-14-18 | 08:50 PM
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04-14-18 | 09:42 PM
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04-15-18 | 08:12 AM
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Cool. Thanks for the info! I will probably move it forward as it’s too big for me 24” even if I do smaller wheels it ll be too tall.
04-16-18 | 09:21 PM
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04-17-18 | 12:41 AM
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Eclipse were an English shop brand making mostly touring and a few clubman type bikes.
Frame building was mostly outsourced to Orbit and many if the frames even have the Orbit embossed seatstay caps still present.
I’ve seen a few come through shops and the co-op here (in the UK) but they’re not what you’d call common.
Quality is usual Orbit, either very good or a ‘Friday afternooner’ with a bit of sloppy work, normally good though and ride well enough but Eclipse were always very workmanlike on the finish, plain paint nothing fancy etc.
Frame building was mostly outsourced to Orbit and many if the frames even have the Orbit embossed seatstay caps still present.
I’ve seen a few come through shops and the co-op here (in the UK) but they’re not what you’d call common.
Quality is usual Orbit, either very good or a ‘Friday afternooner’ with a bit of sloppy work, normally good though and ride well enough but Eclipse were always very workmanlike on the finish, plain paint nothing fancy etc.
04-17-18 | 10:06 AM
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This is the bike! So wait, Eclipse was a frame designer separate from Orbit? I love the detail on this bike. I started to clean it up last night and can tell this bike was well cared for even tires are in good condition.
04-18-18 | 06:59 AM
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That is a different Eclipse brand. It's the USA based company founded in the 1970s by Shaun Jackson and Leslie Bohm, to manufacture bicycle panniers and other bicycle luggage carriers. They diversified and offered a carbon fame in the late 1980s.
Last edited by T-Mar; 04-18-18 at 07:07 AM.
04-28-20 | 03:14 PM
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Eclipse
Hi - I have an Eclipse I have had from new, frame no: 060855. It is plain 531 frame and front forks and Suntour rear forks. I am guessing I bought it in '85 (From BIKE UK Charing Cross) - Made May '85 perhaps from the frame no.? Would you have any idea if that is an Orbit frame number format, I read Jeremy Torr of English Cycles did some of their frames?
Eclipse were an English shop brand making mostly touring and a few clubman type bikes.
Frame building was mostly outsourced to Orbit and many if the frames even have the Orbit embossed seatstay caps still present.
I’ve seen a few come through shops and the co-op here (in the UK) but they’re not what you’d call common.
Quality is usual Orbit, either very good or a ‘Friday afternooner’ with a bit of sloppy work, normally good though and ride well enough but Eclipse were always very workmanlike on the finish, plain paint nothing fancy etc.
Frame building was mostly outsourced to Orbit and many if the frames even have the Orbit embossed seatstay caps still present.
I’ve seen a few come through shops and the co-op here (in the UK) but they’re not what you’d call common.
Quality is usual Orbit, either very good or a ‘Friday afternooner’ with a bit of sloppy work, normally good though and ride well enough but Eclipse were always very workmanlike on the finish, plain paint nothing fancy etc.
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