Ahaha so good you chucked it into the canal and then fished it out!

Just a tip, if you force a seatpost into a steel frame with a mallet it might never come out. If you remove the seatpost bolt from the frame and put a large flat-bladed screwdriver in the slot at the back of the clamp brazed on the frame, with slight sideways pressure you can open the clamp and slide the seatpost in by hand. Lubing the inside of the clamp as well as the seatpost helps. This tip is for steel frames only!

Great little video and nicely shot! Thoroughly enjoyed seeing you renovate a discarded piece of junk into a viable transport option, thanks for sharing this little story with us :)

Great job. I personally would have fitted the battery behind the basket on the front, just think it would look better there.

Next week, Carl revives a postman that’s been lying at the bottom of a canal for twenty years.

Amazing! I really like how you reused as much of the old parts that you could like bearings etc! Great stuff subscribed!!!

I see what you did there.. Starts a TRshow restoration channel, intending to restore a bike.. Finds one, chucks it in a canal, waits.. Still not rusty enough.. Waits some more.. Gets bored, buys a farm in France. Gets bored of wine and cheese. Still not rusty enough, buys a rusty 4x4. Bicycle stil not ready, restores the farm, and a landrover, and finally.. The bicycle is ready to be restored!

Nice video and I'm jealous of the find. It looks like really good workhorse for town rides. One thing I would advise, use an electric tape for covering sensitive parts, it is easier to apply, doesn't break and much better to take off. Otherwise, really well done in fixing it, it's a beauty!

I really, really, really enjoyed this video. I got to see how you took that honk of metal and made it into a beautiful and functional bicycle. Love the electric kit and the conversion. Cheers and you got yourself a new subscriber.

Pretty amazing restoration here and looks like you saved quite a few bucks. Saw a lot of these electric bikes in Tel Aviv and very impressed by them.

Brilliant project. Watched from beginning to end and fascinated throughout! Bike looks great. As a recent convert to an electric bike, totally agree about the ease of getting about a city.

Lovely video some nice touches, I love the retro saddle and the wooden base for the luggage carrier. BTW Im sure a commercially manufactured kit will have got the legalities sorted out but I thought for an electric bike to be exempt from road traffic legislation (insurance/licence etc) power could only be delivered whilst peddling.

I kept watching thinking "any minute now he's going to pull and service that bottom bracket!"

Great workmanship as always Carl. Clever use of subtle snippets like the Mars Bar. 👍🏻 You have inspired me to fit an electric wheel to MY bike. Many thanks. 🙏🏽🙏🏽😷😷🦘🦘

People throw things away too easily. You were really lucky to find this vintage bike frame, and you did a great job! A vintage e-bike !!! Very good.

All I could think was a bottom bracket is like $15 on Amazon! I'm impressed on the results!

Dude, I'm addicted to your vids. It's a mix of ASMR with good taste, hand work and countryside of France. Who wouldn't like it. Also, sometimes you do come up with clever ideas. Looking forward to the staircase!

Nice job. The bike definitely looks like it was made to last. All the brazed joints were cool when it was stripped down to the bare metal.

This is a great video. I've done something very similar with a 30 year old Halfords bike and Swytch kit. I enjoyed the process and beautiful end result.

Nice rebuild! Also got a "older" front powered Pedelec, which allows me in "fake" pedal assist mode to travel arround 25km/h - really enyoing this.

as a kid there was an old timer who advised me against servicing that type of rear hub. he warned me that somewhere he had an exploded diagram and it was 6 feet long detailing some 200 parts. good advice for a kid I suppose, but now that i'm older, it doesn't look so bad. thanks for sharing, you've inspired me!

I thought it would have been a cool idea to repaint this bike its original colors since it was originally a Royal Mail delivery bike. I'm not sure if avocado green was a good color choice. At any rate, it's nice to see an old rusty bike get some new life.

Nice job. Hard lines your “pale green” paint turned out beige, but it actually goes really well with the tan coloured vintage style saddle & accessories.

Loved this vid...You had me at Swytch!!! Was not expecting that. I ordered mine 2 weeks ago can't wait. Beautiful restoration. The color of the bike along with the saddle 🤗.. The word that comes to mind is SVELT 🍾 Cheers

Very interesting. Those old Pashley Post Office bikes are brilliant, but you've only got one (pretty unimpressive) drum brake on the rear now... It might have been good to weld some disc mounts onto the frame while you had it stripped down - or find another way to put a brake back on the front wheel.

Excellent entertainment, Carl! And excellent outcome, creating an eBike!. I concur wholeheartedly that electric drive transforms my local commutes. I would always take the car, but now hop on the eBike for those less-than-5 mile trips. Your front drive means the rear wheel is available for belt drive. I'm looking forward to the update! What make is that *particular* bike stand in your garage? Where did you buy it?

Dude your video just pops in my recommendation today and now I'm addicted to it. I just started watching the rest of your videos. I think I still have few left. Good job. Just want to say that your so talented on what your doing. Keep uploading videos. Thank you!

Dear Carl, you did a great job and the surroundings are awesome. Greetings from Germany, keep on going and stay healthy 👍💪☃️🎅

This is such a beautiful build. Thank you for posting it. I work on my own bikes, but there's no way I'm going to pull apart that Sturmey-Archer hub, service it, and then get it back together like you did. Props to you for being fearless.

Nice project build, I didn’t buy the swytch, even with 50% promo it was still an expensive ebike kit. Love the final look and learnt something new - old style rear shoe breaks, are they any good?

What an awesome save, and a lovely bike. I think the Swytch idea is an great way to recycle older kit into modern relevant transport. Re your tear down. I did not see you remove the peddle cartridge from the frame. That also ahs bearings in it. if you did not remove it at the time, you're going to want to, as the grease will be stuffed after being in the cannel. Great work, stay safe D

Really cool project. That bike reminds me of the heavy duty bikes that newspaper delivery boys in Detroit used in the 60s and 70s. Those bikes were tanks. Well done breathing new life into an old bike from days gone by.

i just love that you put a brooks saddle on it. i have a 51 schwinn that i'm using a drum brake up front and i brooks saddle on it too. i really want to turn it into a e-bike i just can figure out how. my inspiration is the schwinn black phantom. i have a springer front suspension just like the black phantom has. the brooks saddle is just a beautiful piece of art on any bike.

Pretty impressive stuff!! More content like this please 👍💯

Nicely done. Thank you for getting that bicycle out of the canal and giving it a new life. Always wondered about the switch kit, looks like a nice setup.

Not entirely sure: would the handlebars be better the right way round? (Looks wrong to my eye?) Regardless of that, you’ve done another nice job.

That bottom bracket is going to haunt my dreams, lovely build otherwise!

What a fabulous job you've made... unique too! Yes, best way to travel.... and I am so grateful this was a Swytch battery.... I had wondered how they'd function. Thanks Carl x

We need more people like you in this world.

Well done, Carl Rogers! I would consider building an attachment and place the battery in the big triangle (under the top tube) or behind the saddle. To make sure you bring down the centre of gravity. :-))

Get job Carl.... very impressive work and superb finished job..... a second note, I love Hammerite direct on rusty gates works a treat! May not on Bike Frames though!! 😅

A really enjoyable video with interesting content. Many thanks for producing and Kindly sharing the wisdom. PS... Hope theres more to come and best wishes 🙏

Great to see a junked bike being brought back to life - even more so when its a Pashley!

Well done! Revived the vintage bike and upgraded to modernity.

Wow , that is a cool bike , good for Swytch for helping making it a little better .

Excellent project. And yes the best sytem by far to get around the city or any town. Well done 👏

Thought throttle control was only allowed on older ebikes, looks very nice 👍

What a beauty and what a good job done . Love your way of doing things and the way of recording the process .....

Always nice to see something that was thrown away receive some TLC and a new lease on life. Great project!

Spectacular job as always mate, it turned out awesome !

Wow, I just picked up an old bike and will be so glad to run this program again, watching this really gives me the confidence. Thanks mate!

Interested to know what weight the bike was (either without parts or completed) good video 👍 Subscribed!

This was awesome I not only enjoyed the transformation but learned how to load my bit faster, haven't tried it yet but Yea!😀

that recognisable sound of the three speed with disc brake is gold, done about 80k on that on one bike :)

Wow, imagine finding that half stripped bike 5 min after it was tossed in the drain! Nice bike, glad you used proper paint. I've got the even heavier crank top tube frame, had it powder coated.

As always a very cool project and well done!!!!

Mad props for remembering how everything goes back together!

Bravo and beautiful work for having recovered this beautiful bike and having put it back on wheel 👍

What a GREAT project ! Cheers from across the pond..Thanks for sharing your hard work !!

Great resto. You put a lot of TLC into it.

That WD-40 "treatment" of the rear brake pads is cosmic. It has a kind of ABS effect by not letting the rear wheel stop spinning during braking... PS: I watched it more careful, until the end, and noticed it has no brake on front wheel. This makes it pure gold.

Great job man. That bike looks amazing.

04:45 - it was like popping an infected wound 😅 Wow what a neat transformation, and the motorized kit is so simple!!

Great video. Really well done! I've got an old East German Cargobike I've been thinking of electrifying, and am very interested in Swytch, but need to have a bike with front and rear lights, so I'd want to have a battery connection for those, which I don't believe offers. I know they have a front light built into the battery pack, but that wouldn't be bright enough.

nice and clean job done. really enjoyed the flavour of simple and though good job. what i missed: new bottom bracket and addtional brake for the sake of pretty noticeable weight.... nice way to get over the covid in your cave. cheers!

Well done ! so inspiring. I might have go for beige/tan sidewalls tires. And is it possible to put the battery in the rack ? Thank you for you video.

Wow! Thanks for a great video. Super cool bike, love the color too!

Great build. Where did you source all of your bike parts? Also surprised you didn't remove bottom bracket. 😳

always wonder if a front hub drive is any good, seems like an ideal placement of weight, less complicated, but you would also be slipping all the time. This one looks nice

12-B-21 Moorland Green excellent choice! I used the facility where I worked to powdercoat one of my bikes BS4800 16-C-33 Duck Egg Blue but it was textured finish so came out like hammerite. Fantastic. I love more muted colours on my bikes.

That was really interesting Carl....well, all your videos are and I enjoy the production of them also. Thanks You did renovate the bottom bracket though didn't you?

Amazing restoration. Love the colour.

I notice he at least waited until the ripples died down before he pulled it back out.

Reusing something and making it functional again is excellent work 👏. Great job no matter how ugly that battery pack is.

Loved the video. What kind of speed could you get from these bikes, would they be similar to mobility scooters?

Nice! What did you use at 9:30 to remove the rust / clean the ball bearings?

What was the spray/ cleaner you used to clean the barring and other hardware? Great build, love the color and brooks saddle!

Honestly I really find that bike frame gorgeous, compared to this modern stuff that has all those ugly wavy and angled shapes. Something so simple and solid looks way better. Structural integrity > fancy design.

Of course it all depends on how long that bike's been in the cut. But if it's been a while then that bottom bracket will be fudged! Great video regardless!

Nice one, although I would have looked at a different solution for the battery position (lower centre of gravity) and less visible location maybe under the rack? Also needs some Fenders and lights from my point of view!

Pretty cool. I love trash to treasure videos. Very impressive man.

Great job!!!!! That was a great restoration job!

Absolutely Marvellous !. What terrific skills !. Great work, and most enjoyable.

The content is wonderful and the sense of humor is what unlocks the door to the Covid Cave!

so sweet to give another life to this bike !

Me encanta estos vídeos cuando restauran una bicicleta de la chatarrería u cualquier otro lugar que la encuentre. Así empezé! Con una bicicleta Clásica 26 1 1/4: la uso para pasear, y una Rally Tornado 24: la uso para ir al trabajo ^^

I'm very much crazy to watch a channel like this , because I love to have an assemble Ebike like what you done ,a restored bike , become an ebike, More power to you Sir

Un cordial saludo desde Santiago de Cali, Colombia. Fue un gran video y un resultado optimo, una gran suerte haberse encontrado el marco de la bicicleta tan fino al igual forma el marco habérselo topado a usted, ya que le dio una segunda vida y mas moderna, lo felicito.

the end product looks brilliant hats off man ! but am surprised you did not service / replace the BB

Question; why didn't you remove the bottom bracket? I would think that water would had contaminated it as well since the water was in the frame.

Smashing job! Looks great. Well done.

Great video! What is the product you use to clean rust off the bearings and small parts?

Parabéns pelo trabalho! Muito bom mesmo! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Cool looking bike. Quite dashing while you were riding. 👍

Nice job mate came out looking great. Love old bikes, proper workmanship. That even carried up until the early 80s BMXs with hand welded frames (often sourced out to Japan by Raleigh for their Top end bikes) for superior welding/craftsmanship. Unfortunately the bikes after that just weren't the same mass produced rubbish on the whole. Whereas you look at old vintage bikes and they're properly indestructible frames the care taken over the construction etc. Might be heavier but far superior in quality! Heavy bike just means bigger legs when you're younger in my book! (not good if you're using it for a commute though lol) And I'm a bit old for that mentality now.. lol 😅🤦🏻 Great job saving and modernising an old bike for another few years!

You know all bicycle restoration jobs are best undertaken with the headset and BB still fitted

Looks great! Would be concerned about rust inside the tubes. If you seal rust away in an airtight area it runs out of 02 and can't oxidize in the oxygen free environment.

Very nice project! Though I am surprised that three gears are enough.

hey boyo, I also do restorations but not to this extent, have picked up some tips though. An ultrasonic cleaner will do you wonders (get one big enough) especially paired with "gunk" the engine degreaser in a sealed container. Great for work inside the bearings and especially cleaning freewheels/derailleurs

very nice build , good paint choice , well done