List of frames and a bike for sale to CR members before they go to Ebay. Photo links are included - copy and paste the photo link into your browser if you have trouble clicking on the link - they will all work! Pics can be emailed if you still have trouble. The Carlton Flyer is back up for sale after I was let down by a CR member over its sale...
Payment can be made in cash with dollars or by money order in Pounds sterling ($1.70 to 1 GBP). American Express Travellers cheques in $ are also fine. I will take PayPal \u2013 due to the action of a few I now must charge for insurance on all items paid for using Paypal. I offer this for 3% of the value.
Regards Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
CARLTON FLYER 22.75in 1939 One Owner
Offered for sale is a 22.75in (centre BB to top of top tube) 1939
Carlton Flyer time trial bike with a 22.75in ctc top tube. This is a one
owner bicycle bought in early 1939 by R B Gumbrell of the Brighton
Excelsior CC. It comes complete with two scrapbooks containing press
cuttings relating to time trials he rode and a number of results sheets
for TTs from 1938 and 1939. Carlton Flyers were a popular choice of time
trail bike and one was ridden to victory by Shake Earnshaw in the
National BBAR competition in 1938. This is a rare opportunity to acquire
a bike with real provenance. The Carlton Flyer frame is beautifully
built with some lovely details, the Chater-Lea lugs have been given
great shape and note the lovely scallops to the tube ends at the
dropouts, the shaped mudguard eyes and cut out in the top of the seat
lug. This bike was fitted with some new equipment post-war - Harden
bacon slicer cartridge bearing hubs laced to Constrictor Conloy rims, GB
Hiduminiuim brakes and Chater Lea pedals. The original Chater-Lea
pre-war headclip, bottom bracket, chainset, bars and stem and one brake
lever probably a Bowden are retained. The paintwork is in generally very
good condition and the chrome plating on the head tube and forks is also
excellent. The chrome plating on the rear stays is not quite so good
being dull with a little fine bubbling. Post-war Flyers are not
especially common, pre-war ones are really rather rare. See
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
WOODRUP TOURER 18in c1985
Offered for sale is a 18in (centre BB to top of top tube) c1985 Woodrup
touring frame and forks with a 19.75in ctc top tube. Rear dropout width
is 126mm. This Reynolds 531 double butted frame is in very sound
condition but most would probably want to repaint it. Rear dropouts are
vertical and there are braze-ons for a rear rack. Clearances are for
700C with guards. Small frames such as this are really rather uncommon.
$175 - shipping to the USA will be $130, to Japan and Australia $160, UK
£12.
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RUSS 22in 1939 Original Paintwork
Offered for sale is a 22in (centre BB to top of top tube) 1939 Russ road
frame and forks with a 22in ctc top tube. Rear dropout width is 115mm.
Russ was the name behind Russ forks which were so popular in the 1930s -
of course this frame has Russ shape round forks and nicely detailed
lugwork which is definitely a cut above the average for a 1930s frame.
The paintwork is original though very scruffy. Russ\u2019 shop is still in
existence (I only went past it yesterday on my way to Herne Hill) on the
south circular road in south London but has been a model shop rather
than a bicycle shop since the 1960s. Russ was, in his time, considered
to be a proper engineer rather than a rider turned framebuilder... $145
- shipping to the USA will be $130, to Japan and Australia $160, UK £12.
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RORY O'BRIEN 23.5in 1950s Fancy lugs
Offered for sale is a 23.5in (centre BB to top of top tube) 1950s Rory
O\u2019Brien frame and forks with a 22.75in ctc top tube. Rear dropout width
is 115mm. This frame features rather beautiful quite fancy lugs and a
truly gorgeous wrapover seatstay top. Les Ephgrave built Rory O\u2019Briens
top frames - in part because Rory apparently lent Les the money to start
up in business but I have never seen an Ephgrave built frame with type
of wrapover. Stuart Purves worked at Ephgraves for a while and it is
more reminiscent of his work but I would not be certain who built this
frame. However it is very attractive and is in its original quite
scruffy and faded original paint. $245 - shipping to the USA will be
$130, to Japan and Australia $160, UK £12.
http://i141.photobucket.com/
GEORGE CHAPMAN 22in 1950s Lovely fancy lugs
Offered for sale is a 22in (centre BB to top of top tube) 1950s George
Chapman frame and forks with a 22.5in ctc top tube. Rear dropout width
is 120mm. George Chapman ran a cycle shop in West Green Road, north
London. Frames from his shop are really quite unusual and I do not know
whether they built by him or by another builder. Both the frames I have
seen are quite different but could not readily be ascribed to one of the
trade builders such as Wally Green or Ephgrave. The frame features
really nicely shapeed lugs, a bit like some late Holdsworth Monsoons but
different. Campag long ends. $225 - shipping to the USA will be $130, to
Japan and Australia $160, UK £12.
http://i141.photobucket.com/
GEOFFREY BUTLER ROAD/TRACK c1960 22.5in
Offered for sale is a 22.5in (centre BB to top of top tube) c1960
Geoffrey Butler Road/Track frame and forks with a 22in ctc top tube.
Rear dropout width is 120mm. This is a nicely built road/track frame
with Nervex Pro lugs throughout and of course track rearward facing
dropouts. It has been repainted probably in the early 1980s and a small
dent on one side of the down tube near the bottom, it would easily be
filled if the frame was re-enamellled and is not at all noitceable. $195
- shipping to the USA will be $130, to Japan and Australia $160, UK £12.
http://i141.photobucket.com/
ELLIS BRIGGS 22.5in c1980
Offered for sale is a 22.5in (centre BB to top of top tube) Ellis Briggs
frame and forks with a 22.5in ctc top tube. Rear dropout width is 120mm.
This Ellis Briggs frame from the late 70s/early 1980s features Nervex
Pro lugs, Campagnolo short rear dropouts and is really nicely built.
Most buyers would probably want to have it re-enammelled as the paint is
quite scruffy. $165 - shipping to the USA will be $130, to Japan and
Australia $160, UK £12.
http://i141.photobucket.com/