Hello Peter, I will try and answer some of your questions. The Sun Manxman is a conventional frame with two small bracing struts fitted from the seatube to chainstays. Manx TT is an ultra short wheelbased job with distinctive tubing slightly unconventional, too hard for me to describe in words, will try and find you a drawing and a Sun specification sheet next time I visit my Fathers. Sun had there own badged steel stems some with their coat of arms like a Cinelli and some badged as Sum Wasp, they also had their own branded alloy brakes. Have probably got a stem somewhere know I have a Sun Wasp badge for one. Cheers Mick Butler Hunts. UK.
> Who out there is big on Sun Manxmans? Or perchance
> has a mid 1950s
> catalogue? I'd be interested in knowing what the
> spec components would be
> for one. What I have is kinda basic:
>
> Frame: Reynolds 531 db
> Fork: Reynolds ?
> Derailleur: Cyclo-Benelux 4 or 8-speed
> Rims: Dunlop HP 27"
> Hubs: ?
> Stem & Bars: ? some Sun brochures show a distinctive
> stem with a protrusion
> behind the stem. Was this a special Sun model?
> Crankset: ?
> Pedals: ?
> Bottom bracket/headset: ?
> Brakes: GB Coureur with hooded levers
> Seat pin: ?
> Saddle: Brooks B-17N
>
> And what distinguishes a Manxman and a Manxman TT??
> "Cycling" lists Manxmans
> (not specifying TT or otherwise) coming in two
> choices of frame angles:
> 73/71 or 72/70 and this was in Nov. 54. Did all
> Manxmans have that unique
> "strut" between chainstay and seat tube?
>
> Finally when were Manxmans manufactured?? Is there a
> way to date one by
> serial number?
>
> I've run out of question marks here, so will stop.
> Thanks for any and all
> answers to them.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA
>
>
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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