Recently rescued from sleeping in a garage for a few years via ebay... if you look carefully, you can find beautiful things on ebay, including some British design classics, wonderful analogue cameras and boufriends.

This is a Harry Quinn road racing bike, probably built in the 1970's. I think the frame spray and badges are original, it has lots of nice Italian parts dating back to the 1970's. It rides well! I've jsut de-rusted it with Autosol and elbow grease, and I will touch up the paint on the frame here and there but leave the present paintwork and half-eaten decals intact for a bit of patina.

Bikes are addictive - I've just purchased a lime green Carlton Continental frame from the 1960's where I can get creative with a bit of paintwork restoring, then leave the men in the house to put wheels on :). perhaps they can start breeding, I would hoping for some classy offspring - I would love to have a Jack Taylor road bike (after all, he was my local framebuilder, long before I moved here)

A nice Northerner's bike photographed in a Northern back alley.