Scored a 1970 Robin Hood on Craigslist, now I have a question!
04-16-16, 09:21 PM
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09-16-16, 12:11 AM
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Sorry for reviving a totally dead thread, but I want to report back on my Robin Hood. After getting it fixed up, I rode it stock for awhile and enjoyed it as a town bike.
Then I took off the fenders, put Schwalbe Delta Cruisers on it, flipped the North Road bars, and replaced the original John Bull brake pads with Kool Stop Continentals. You can see what it looked like.
I also experimented with some Soma Lauterwasser bars and an old Raleigh quill stem I bought off feeBay. I really do like those bars! Very easy to ride upright or lean into them. You can see a pic of them too.
I plan to use the Lauterwasser bars on another path racer project. That will come in a separate thread. Stay tuned!
As for this, I'm probably going to flip the North Roads back up, put the fenders back on, and enjoy this bike for what it was made for.
Then I took off the fenders, put Schwalbe Delta Cruisers on it, flipped the North Road bars, and replaced the original John Bull brake pads with Kool Stop Continentals. You can see what it looked like.
I also experimented with some Soma Lauterwasser bars and an old Raleigh quill stem I bought off feeBay. I really do like those bars! Very easy to ride upright or lean into them. You can see a pic of them too.
I plan to use the Lauterwasser bars on another path racer project. That will come in a separate thread. Stay tuned!
As for this, I'm probably going to flip the North Roads back up, put the fenders back on, and enjoy this bike for what it was made for.
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09-16-16, 06:32 AM
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Nice catch for $40. The larger frame sizes are not that easy to find. I had a secondhand '69 Robin Hood when I was a teen. Cost me $45, in pristine shape, from a bike shop. Red with chrome fenders, Brooks B-66, and a Pletsher rear rack. Beautiful bike. The one I liked, and remember, the most.
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I built a version of the "path racer myself this year, using Bluemels tour de France fenders, keeping with the made in England theme. mounted continental city ride tires, and stainless spokes inside aluminum rims..
09-16-16, 10:20 AM
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If you might ride in wet conditions, aluminum rims are a welcome upgrade, just to be able to stop safely. The 590mm Sun CR-18 rim is a drop-in replacement for the original steel rims, and is available in 32, 36, and 40 hole drillings (your bike looks to have traditional British 32h front, 40h rear wheels).
Swapping the bar and stem would ruin the bike aesthetically, and won't change the performance at all.
09-16-16, 01:15 PM
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09-16-16, 03:00 PM
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Sorry for reviving a totally dead thread, but I want to report back on my Robin Hood. After getting it fixed up, I rode it stock for awhile and enjoyed it as a town bike.
Then I took off the fenders, put Schwalbe Delta Cruisers on it, flipped the North Road bars, and replaced the original John Bull brake pads with Kool Stop Continentals. You can see what it looked like.
I also experimented with some Soma Lauterwasser bars and an old Raleigh quill stem I bought off feeBay. I really do like those bars! Very easy to ride upright or lean into them. You can see a pic of them too.
I plan to use the Lauterwasser bars on another path racer project. That will come in a separate thread. Stay tuned!
As for this, I'm probably going to flip the North Roads back up, put the fenders back on, and enjoy this bike for what it was made for.
Then I took off the fenders, put Schwalbe Delta Cruisers on it, flipped the North Road bars, and replaced the original John Bull brake pads with Kool Stop Continentals. You can see what it looked like.
I also experimented with some Soma Lauterwasser bars and an old Raleigh quill stem I bought off feeBay. I really do like those bars! Very easy to ride upright or lean into them. You can see a pic of them too.
I plan to use the Lauterwasser bars on another path racer project. That will come in a separate thread. Stay tuned!
As for this, I'm probably going to flip the North Roads back up, put the fenders back on, and enjoy this bike for what it was made for.
Here it is:
09-16-16, 03:56 PM
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I like where you are going with the Robin Hood. I tried to turn a Raleigh Sports into a path racer and it just didn't work for me. I replaced the original stem with a GB girder stem from the parts bin and tried that as well, but ended up flipping the bars back to an upright position. Now it feels very comfortable. It has temporary plastic Esge fenders, but tomorrow I hope to buy a parts bike that has aluminum fenders in good condition.
Here it is:
Here it is:
09-16-16, 10:25 PM
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My love affair with old 3 speeds goes back to the mid 60s when most kids rode American tanks. I had one for my paper route. Compared to those, an English diamond frame with a 3 speed hub was like a Ferrari to us. Ours were mostly junkers fixed up as best as we could. No fenders or chain guards. Even the kickstands came off. The northroads would get flipped around and maybe, if tips were good, we would spring for a racing seat (anything that wasn't a mattress) or racing pedals (steel). Today it's hard to think of a 30 something pound bike with 1 3/8 tires as sporty, but to us kids back then a stripped down Sports was pretty hot stuff.
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