Friday, April 1, 2016

Flying Dutch - Batavus Champion late 80s



This is a story about famous Dutch race bicycle from the end of 80s. Holland is also known as the Land of Bicycles.



there are three pictures where you can see how it looked when we bought it. Badly damaged paintwork, lot of surface rust, wheels in a bad shape, rusty brakes, broken saddle - complete mess :-)


But we were ready to move up to a higher level of creativity and our one month trip was started...
 Brake calipers before and after polishing
a paint job was finished and it started to be shiny again
Missing "Exage" hand livers joined to the groupset
covering a saddle with dark red leather
leather handwork on the brake levers
 



and finally!!! Our new Champ!