David Benson asks -
>Does any one on the list know anything about Malvern Star?
If you cruise into the Australian bikes link at Dale's site
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
>I have a 22" frame, serial number 9A840 stamped on RH top of BB shell.
>The BB shell is marked Made in England GR23, excatly the same as the
>sandcast bottom braccket featured in Rivendell Reader #21. The BB shell
>spigots have been shaped , but differently to the shell in RR.
>Front dropouts have a single eyelet. Rear tips are rearward facing,
>about 1/8" thick, with undrilled eyelets.
>The headset races fit into cups which are part of the headlugs
>
>Can anyone tell me what I have, how old etc.
>I bought this frame from a second hand shop in New Zealand in 1978. My
>brother and I built it into a ten-speed for him to make his racing
>debut. For the last 20 years it has sat at my parents place- we're one
>of those families that don't chuck anything away.
Conversion to derailleur operation seems to have happened to several of these bike, and lots of cool older British iron as well - even Scottish bikes, as our dear Bob Reid's Flying Scot site will attest.
I will confess to being envious - being part of "one of those families that don't chuck anything away" has its benefits when family holdings include cool old bikes ...
Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood SC
rfitzger@emeraldis.com
http://www.emeraldis.com/
http://www.lostweekend.homestead.com