I am sure I have posted this before but just in case for those who missed it regarding quirky frames. Anybody who visited Tom Boards workshop in the basement of Cycle Workshop in All Saints Road W.10. Might have seen the tiny photo pasted above the bench of a Paris Galibier with Diadrant forks and Vibrant (curly) rear triangle. Yes there is one somewhere. All Saints Road is in the heart of Notting Hill basically a stones throw from Portobello Road. All Saints Road is famous due to the Christine Keeler affair in the 1960's. This is where the West Indian club was located where Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies would visit with John Profumo the Conservative Cabinet Minister of War. This affair eventually brought down the Government. Christine Keeler what a beautiful woman saw her in a pub not long after her prison release. We were on a club run and stopped in a pub in Ashwell of the Seven Springs in Hertfordshire. She was sitting at the bar, none of us could take our eyes off her. Her look in my mind was the ultimate 60's look. The VCC uses this same pub when they put on one of their annual display at the Ashwell village show. Portobello Road had a wonderful bike shop who's name I can't remember, this shop was one of the few British retailers of the famous Carminargent aluminum bicycle. They also had another shop in Westbourne Road close by. This has long gone but the Portobello shop remains. My Dad use to take me in there most Saturdays, could only have been aged eight or nine. Tom and Ninon of Bicycle Workshop still remember them skipping all the old lightweight stock. This ain't that long ago. Sacrilege! Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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