Sid Standard Cycles · Beeston · 1975–2000
What’s the number on your bottom bracket?
Between 1975 and 2000, Sid Standard ran his bike shop in Beeston, Nottingham. It still exists today as Cycle Inn. From 1981 until his retirement in 2000, Sid sold handmade frames, some he made himself and others were made by master frame builder Peter Riches. Every frame the workshop built has a story and a worksheet in some form. All of these are now on this site. Search the number stamped on your bottom bracket, or the surname it was ordered under, read what was written the day it was ordered, and tell us where it ended up.
287 sheets held · 287 read into the register · 0 frames claimed
Your frame’s own sheet, printed and framed
Every frame the workshop built has one of these, filled in by hand the day it was ordered: the name, the tubing, the angles, the colour. We print it A3 on 315gsm cotton rag, mounted behind glass in solid wood, under the traditional gold Superbe decal. What you hang is a high-resolution print of the sheet, not the original — that stays in the archive.
Search the number stamped on your bottom bracket and see whether yours is here.
Eight posters out of the same archive
Not documents but designs, inspired by the shop’s lettering, its window, and the line everybody who rode with Sid knows. Printed A3 on 310gsm cotton rag, rolled in a tube, or framed and ready to hang.
£8 from every poster and £15 from every framed print goes to the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance. That was the promise the shop made when it sold these at £25, and it is older than this website.
A corner shop in Beeston, and a hearth out the back
Sid built frames himself, though most of the Superbes were brazed by Pete Riches, formerly chief frame maker at Mercian. The shop is still on Chilwell Road as Cycle Inn, with a blue plaque on the wall outside.
The doors are still open
35–37 Chilwell Road never stopped being a bike shop. Jamie Ireland runs it as Cycle Inn now, sells and mends bikes out of the same shop on Chilwell High Road, with Sid’s blue plaque on the wall outside.
Own one? Tell us where it went.
Most of these frames are untraced. If yours is in the book, send a photograph and whatever you know about it, and it goes on the frame’s own page.