Here's my Australian built 54 Malvern Star 3 Star. The Malvern Star range consisted of different quality bikes. This level of quality/components was reflected by the number of "stars" - A One Star was your average utility bike, the 2 Star usually had a better build quality, maybe with nicer lugs, paint and components etc, and the 3 Star was the top of the range road bike (although many of them were used for track and road racing), while the 4 Star and 5 Star were the companies premier racing bikes (road and track). I'm also lucky enough to have a 5 Star frame in my size that I'm saving for a future build.
I found this one in a junkyard a couple of years ago, and have just gotten around to doing something with it. The frame had about 4 coats of house paint on it and a number of dents and scrapes. I decided to leave all the dents and scars unrepaired, stripped it to bare metal and sprayed it with red oxide primer.
The rear hub is a NOS Sachs Komet Super, the front is a NOS Sachs Orbit V , and they are laced to a set of used Mavic Open Pro 700c rims. I scrounged through my parts bins for the rest of the components. Tires are Schwalbe Cream Delta Cruisers. The BB is a sealed Shimano, and the cranks are Shimano 600. Bars are cut down Soma Noah's Arc, and the saddle is a San Marco Rolls.
Gearing is 42:18 which I have found to be a nice "urban" ratio, and still allows me to go on slightly longer rides without spinning too much.
Here's some pics
I found this one in a junkyard a couple of years ago, and have just gotten around to doing something with it. The frame had about 4 coats of house paint on it and a number of dents and scrapes. I decided to leave all the dents and scars unrepaired, stripped it to bare metal and sprayed it with red oxide primer.
The rear hub is a NOS Sachs Komet Super, the front is a NOS Sachs Orbit V , and they are laced to a set of used Mavic Open Pro 700c rims. I scrounged through my parts bins for the rest of the components. Tires are Schwalbe Cream Delta Cruisers. The BB is a sealed Shimano, and the cranks are Shimano 600. Bars are cut down Soma Noah's Arc, and the saddle is a San Marco Rolls.
Gearing is 42:18 which I have found to be a nice "urban" ratio, and still allows me to go on slightly longer rides without spinning too much.
Here's some pics
. This has only happened since I fitted them to these rims 2 weeks ago. They are 18 months old and have done a lot of miles, but were previously fitted to wider rims (approx 25mm). The Mavics are much narrower, causing the tires to "balloon" a bit more....maybe this has something to do with it, maybe they've reached their use by date? The maximum pressure for these tires is 65psi, and I was running 55-60psi (checked with a number of different gauges), so I don't think it was caused from over-inflation. Any thoughts?
