[video]http://youtu.be/FaxRQh03BOw[/video]

1000 hubs in a 8hour day 😯

Very good, see that crank and pedal spin! As a mechanical engineer in the steel industry it does make me somewhat sad though.

Brilliant!

I still have my grandads’ 1954 Raleigh Superbe which would have been made by the same people in the video!

Slightly smaller scale; i love this vid;

[video]http://vimeo.com/18969652[/video]

I had always wondered why a bottom bracket was a “bracket”.

Interesting how much work is done “in house”, even to the extent of case hardening their own components. I’ve been watching similar videos about the railway industry and they were much the same back in the 50’s They had their own laboratories and would test every item that the railways used, even down to the writing paper used in the offices.

Superb! – Loved that ?

Hats off to the workers! – Wish I could fit a tyre & tube in 50 seconds…..

Good vid duffer

Ciocc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgz-2WouyQ

Equinox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QjhGr73Ns

Jack Taylor / Taylor Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNsQpCL8LY

Peugeot

Thanks for putting that Soulcraft vid up Duffer. I’d watched it a few years back but haven’t been able to find it since.

Very good, see that crank and pedal spin! As a mechanical engineer in the steel industry it does make me somewhat sad though.

My grandads old 1954 Raleigh Superbe has a sprung loaded ‘oiler’ flap thingy on the bottom bracket that you flip open and oil the bearings with a standard oil can.

The cranks still spin as well now 60 years on!

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I bet some of that bike making machinery is still at work in some part of the world to this day.

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Not a single pair of safety glasses in sight!

A lovely insight into an old fashioned style manufacturing business.

I’m a Mechanical Engineer and my company still manufactures in England. It makes me very happy that we can still manufacture in the UK and be competitive – just not on the really cheap stuff anymore.

Loving the porn music in the Peugeot video. 😀

great videos 😀

‘how a bicycle is made’ is ace, I did some learnings on a saturday night. Why though were the seat stays not an integral part of the frame?

Soulcraft video next…

EDIT – Soulcraft video seen. Liked.

Fantastic, I bet that ‘special solution’ is something nasty, and the guy dipping his hand in enamel!’
Very sad though, the amount of proper engineering we had.

Best thing was the amount of other interesting film clips I watched off that 😀

Interesting how much work is done “in house”, even to the extent of case hardening their own components.

It really is quite impressive. Wasn’t sure if I was going to last 17 minutes through an educational video from 1945, but it’s pretty mind-blowing. Almost emotional.

Brompton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anivaFwHKeM

It’s a brilliant film, so much equipment I want – especially that truing jig 😉