Saracen
yes they are known for mountain bikes. Well in the UK Europe or Asia anyway. This isn't a mountain
bike frame though I can assure you it's definitely a road bike frame it's a very unusual indeed
it's the Morzine model never heard of it. I've never actually come across a road bike frame
from Saracen, but here it is it's in the stand and we're going to do something with it. The
frame itself well yes it's interesting it's got Aero tubing and it's the aluminum 7000 series
I think we've got this lovely scallop here on this down tube to accept the rear wheel
so the thinking aerodynamics and I'm sure at some point it had some Mavic on there wheels
or groupset I'm not too sure. It's a complete blank canvas I don't know where we're going with
this it's a viewers by Tommy. We have done a few of his bikes before already the Greg
Lemond the Colonago Master the Koga-Miata so he does actually have a few of his bikes here that
we're actually working through. However this is just the frame so it's a blank canvas and Tommy
has actually said that he just wants me to go at this one but he actually wants it black. So we're
going to be using our good friend Mark from MRCreations to actually give it a new lick of
paint but before we do so it's going to take off a couple of the components that I actually left
on the frame before we give it to Mark so let's Crack-On with that and get this Frame painted
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Wow! Well Mark certainly has worked his magic as he always does but this is absolutely stunning
he's dragged this Saracen frame from the 90s back to the current day loving this satin black into
this gun metal grey and we've got a nice red pinstripe down in the middle here he's even
managed to get the saracen name on the rear stays as well. One thing I have changed though is the
forks uh the original folks on the side there I did have some carbon forks available to me and I
couldn't resist because of the red pin stripe and it looks as though they were actually made
purposely for this frame set. So they look great, we've got a Richie handlebar stem and
also handlebars already fitted and ready to go and while I was shopping for bottle cages found
some amazing cages Elite ones that I feel will really complement this paint job. Here they are,
we've got basically the black into red and silver. So yes very excited to get these on and we've also
going to change the format slightly I'm going to jump straight into the rebuild and why not
because there has been no real restoration going on here it's more of a bike build. We've got a
Shimano black 105 group sets available to us. All I need to do is put assemble the crank sets fits
this bottom bracket and also put the cassette on the wheels and we are ready to go. So I'm
going to jump straight into it I'm also going to slow it down a bit and take my time and show you
guys actually installing everything so change the format slightly, sure some of you will like it,
so yes not much to do is say it's all there ready
to go so what are we waiting for let's Crack-On and get this bike built up.
Wow! Well what a transformation if you think of how this frame was when it first came in
the garage compared to now it's a complete transformation and looks like a brand new
bike there has never been a more important time to recycle things, and I can tell you
now it's so rewarding to recycle a bicycle. Hang around because we will be getting this bike out
and trying it out but if you don't watch these videos we finish these builds off with a water
bottle in this case it's a couple, and don't them at cages look great so we've got a couple here.
We've got a grey one and also a black one Elite fly water bottles let's pop them in have a look.
Brilliant the finishing touch well all that's left to do now is get this bike out and try it out.
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Well it's currently about minus one very cold indeed but it's extremely good so get out on this
bike and try it out. It's running like a new bike and looks amazing too I cannot recommend recycling
a bicycle enough and keeping these bikes on the road. This one was a viewer's bike and say Tommy,
in memory of his dad who'd left him his bikes so it's great to get a new one back on the road huge
thanks to Mark from MRCreations who does all our paint work I cannot recommend him enough.
I hope these videos inspire you to recycle these bikes and keep them on the road it's
such a rewarding thing to do, thanks so much for watching and bye for now [Music]