Hi Ken Congratulations on your new acquisition. You can easily accumulate more wife-points but bikes like this don't come around that often. I've got a couple of Gillotts with taper tubes, a '46 and a '55 and they're two of my favorites. You will soon find that a lot of people will assume the pronunciation is French and say things like "thats a mighty fine 'Jeel Oh' you have there", which admittedly does have a nicer ring than the correct hard G, hard T pronunciation. With regards to appropriate components, the nice thing about British frames is that anything British, French or Italian of the period is correct.Here's a link to pics of the Gillotts :
http://photos.yahoo.com/
Regards, Jay
Ken Sanford <kanford@comcast.net> wrote:Hmmm.....
it seems you folks have got me in trouble yet again!
Anyway, I seemed to have acquired this frame. (it does look lovely). (and my size of course)
So, my question is, what 'period correct' and most appropriate parts do I need to make this rideable? And do any of you have such parts available for a small fee?
Please respond off list.
Thanks and regards
Ken "have cashed in way too many wife-points today" Sanford Kensington, MD
> The Gillott discussed on ebay is a typically elegant Spear lugged model
> with straight tubes. The Taper tubes from Reynolds were seen by Gillotts
> as an answer to strengthen both physically and visually the frame for the
> tall rider. Most Gillott Taper tubed frames are 24" or above. Smaller ones
> than that are very rare. There was no specific model named "Tapertube".
> This misnomer is a recent "collectors" phrase. It was just the tubeset
> that they recommended for big frames of any particular model or use.
> Mark Stevens Dingwall. Scotland
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