Sid Standard Cycles · Beeston · 1975–2000
What’s the number on your bottom bracket?
Between 1975 and 2000, Sid Standard ran his shop in Beeston, Nottingham. It still exists today as Cycle Inn. From 1981 until his retirement, Sid sold handmade frames, some he made himself and others were made by master frame builder Peter Riches. Each one a work of art. 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 in 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 · 86 read into the register · 0 frames claimed
287 sheets photographed. 86 read so far.
The record opens at 81100, dated 19 March 1981, in a bound book; by the end of the eighties it had become a printed order sheet, one to a frame, filled in by hand. Both are here. The register grows as the scanning does, and it says plainly which sheets have been read and which are still only pictures.
The whole of 1981, read line by line
Every field on these was typed with the page in front of us. Nothing on this site is guessed: where a name or a measurement isn’t legible, or a sheet hasn’t been read yet, the register says so rather than filling the gap.
- 81100
Theresa Dark · 19-3-81531 DB · 22" · Pearlised blueUntraced - 81101
Mr Rhodes · 2-4-81531 DB · 23" · Pearlised whiteUntraced - 81102
Kevin Jackson · 9-4-81531 DB · 23½" road frame for cyclo-cross · Yellow enamel, black lug line, Superbe transfersUntraced - 81103
Mrs Doreen Leheup · 17-4-81531 DB · 20½" touring frame · Black, lugs lined pale blue, Superbe transfersUntraced - 81104
David Cuttill · 23-4-81531 DB · 25½" time trial frame, no guard clearance · P.O. red enamel, gold head and 5" seat tube panel, white lug lineUntraced - 81105
Steve Winfield531 DB · 22½" road · Medium green polyUntraced - 81106
Steve Lawton531 DB · 24½" cross · Ruby flamboyant, lug line gold, Superbe transfersUntraced - 81107
Malc Kennerley · 7-7-81531 DB · 23½" touring · Ruby flamboyant, gold lug line, Superbe transfersUntraced
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 two rooms, and keeps Sid’s plaque on the wall by the door.
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.