Vintage Frank Herety Road Bike Restoration

Vintage Frank Herety Road Bike Restoration

A Frank Herety road bike restoration, built in my home town of Stockport. Frank Herety was a well known frame builder from my home town here in Stockport in the Northwest of England. He is also father to John Herety, an ex professional rider and professional cycling team manager. This actual Frank Herety bicycle belongs to a close friend who used to race it back in the day. Id noticed the bike hanging in his garage and knew it needed some love, care, and attention.

The bicycle is completely stripped down, cleaned components polished and some new parts purchased, before being rebuilt and showcased like new.

In this video we use the help of our good friend Mark from MRCreations who completely strips the frame repairs any minor dents and repaints like new.

The video also show's maintenance and restoration help, tips and tricks. I do hope these video's help you in your own projects.

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Frank Herety Bicycle's History
1:05 - Frank Herety Bicycle
2:13 - Stripping bike
3:57 - Degreasing cleaning Frame and Groupset
4:55 - Spray painting bicycle frame
6:00 - Restoration update
7:33 - Metal Polishing
7:52 - Wrapping handlebars
8:20 - Bicycle build
11:15 - Bicycle photography hints and tips

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[BikeItUK]

Message recieved from Gareth the owner of the Frank Herety - Once again many many thanks for really making a fat old bikie smile for the first time in site btw! www.bikeituk.club

Hey Andy, this is Gareth - writing under his internet sudonym Lord Lucan - the owner of the bike.

I cant thank you enough for doing this. I gave the bike a lot of hammer about 7 stone ago and it was a joy to ride. I rode a Criterium in Stockport town centre 1987 which Frank came down to watch. I was looking forward to see what he thought but at the end of the race (I finished 10th) his opening gambit was "i didnt build that frame for someone to sprint like you just did. Im surprised you didnt snap the frame!" The guy was a genius builder and is a real loss to the cycling world. Its great to notice from the comments that there is one in the museum. Thoroughly deserved. Andy I cant thank you enough for doing this. I had to admit I was a little nervous when you asked to do it as, even though it has been on ice for a very long time now as it holds a lot of sentimentality and history for me. Now and again i have even gone out for a ride on it when i looked at my name on the frame. The job is, quite frankly, astonishing. It has never looked so good. Im glad Frank is not here to hear this but Im sure that the paint job is better than I couldnt believe my eyes when I got it back and noticed a pair of campag record hubs at the centre of tubular tyres! I could never afford them when racing. John Herety, however, did lend me a pair of the Percy Builton pro tubs when i rode a 2 day stage race for Manchester in Yorkshire at the end of 87 and i couldnt believe how much of a difference they made. I was very jealous. Thank you so much, and please pass on my thanks to MRCreations. To all those reading this USE THIS COMPANY! The bike really looks a lot better than when I took delivery from Frank! Right. All i need to do is get back on it and loose some of this weight. However, I had forgotten it was kitted out with my time trialling gears which will probably mean that i will have to ride up and down the mad mile for a few months before i can start to turn those gears. Many Many Thanks. Gareth

[WARDANT]

Back in 1995 I visited Frank Herety's workshop. I was on a course at Stockport college. It was the first year that the course ran teaching cycle mechanics. Let's say the course had teething problems. Anyway the tutor knew Frank. The custom lightweight market was in decline so his principle work was chrome restoration for motorbikes & the like. The workshop was an old terrace shop with the kitchen off the back turned in to a workshop for frame manufacturing. Basically just a tiny room with a big bench. Frank was a little bemused by our visit, wondering why we would want to meet him. Lots of poor students! Perhaps if we'd gone in waving tenners? Anyway, good to see a Herety restored. Thanks, Andy.

[Ronin_Texas]

Thanks for making this Videos, I always love the steel frames, the happiest times in my life were riding my Steel frame with friction shifters back in 1984.

[tomhezza]

Lovely to see these about, frank Herety was my great uncle unfortunately never got to meet him as he died long before I was born

[chatburn]

I use to visit Frank Herety back in the day, his first workshop was near Strawberry studios lower hillgate.he built most of his frames out of Columbus tubing, as he said its was better than reynoulds to work with, in the last few years of his life he moved into a shop at the top of higher hillgate, i sold him a John Berry Frame, another great Manchester frame builder.wish i had kept that one, but we all do daft things from time to time.

[dfishpool]

Great to see these classic bikes lovingly restored.

[Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Great to see a rare one like Herety.
Wondering if we might see a Johnny Berry one day.

[SHGant]

Typically, you've done a masterful job on this one! She is a real beauty and you did her up proper like! Well done, well done!

[aluminati]

Lovely restoration again! That bike doesn’t look like new, it looks BETTER than new! Hats off.

[smoore]

Another cracking resto Andy👍🚴‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[MrDazPadvntures]

It has to be said that the respray is absolutely top notch Andy and the passion you share with these restorations comes across really well on this video.
Thanks you once again for taking the time to bring an old bike back to life . All the best for 2022 - Darren, "I'm a cyclist and I live in the Pennines "

[RJTheBikeGuy]

Beautiful work! Did you end up replacing the fork? Once it was cut off, it wouldn't have been too hard to dissolve the stem remnant with sodium hydroxide. I have a video where I do that.

[COFR]

Impressive work from MRCreations. The polishing just adds that pro touch, Andy. You're right, looks brand new again. Viva re-cycled bikes!

[paulhowell]

fantastic end result andy and no trains !!!

[xMrsmileyfacex]

Absolutely stunning! A masterful job on the paint. Beautiful job on the shiny parts. Love the retro Turbo saddle. You are a wonderful ambassador to the bike resto community. At least I think so. Hope everything is well in Manchester. Cheers from Ohio!

[WorldofColnago]

Lovely work and lovely bike. The owner will get a blast.

[austinbrierley]

Lovely restoration. Looks amazing. These vintage road bikes need to be kept alive and working.

[Armin_]

Absolutely stunning! 😱 I have no words for this bike! Beautiful!🤍💙

[FFSDenny]

Nice work. This reminds me of those long ago years when we sourced whatever quality parts that we could get our hands on for our club racers rather than having a complete gruppo.

[RiverCat]

Great restoration. Thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into your videos. Great job!