Episode 7 - Series 4
My first repair on 'The Repair Shop' was a penny farthing bicycle owned by a gentleman from Cheshire who found and re-built the bicycle back in the 1950's when he was a boy. He submitted it to The Repair Shop for a rebuild. Like many very early bicycles, it had been through several lives and some of them had not been good to it. During filming, both wheels where re-built with new handmade spokes. The original brake hardware was missing and had to fabricate a replica in the style of what would have originally been fitted. But the main part missing was the saddle leaf spring. This was very time consuming to fabricate as it needed to take the weight of the rider, so when I was happy with the design, it was heat treated in the traditional way in the museum forge. The whole repair took 10 days with filming.