O.K. List,
Since I last posted this bike, I have found out that she is most likely sure she is an MKM. Thank you Norris. MKM was named for Arthur METCALF, Ron KITCHING & Wes MASON. The shop was located at Chapel Works, Skipton Road, Harrogate.
Photos of her are here:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
For a bit about the history on the mark:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
This honey of a frame was a whole bike from the Aladdins Cave
group; a garage full of English bikes I recently purchased all for one money. I sell her now as a frame and bottom bracket.
Here she is:
Seat tube: 55 cm. ctr to ctr. (21 ½ inches)
Top tube: 56.5 cm. ctr to ctr. (22 ¼ in.)
Chain stay: 44 cm. (17 ¼ inches)
She looks to be a well made frame built of Reynolds 531 double butted through out with Prugnat cut out lugs and Campagnolo 1010 drop outs front and rear. The adjuster screws work fine.
I have left the Italian sealed bottom bracket axle and cups. F.T. brand Made in Bologna; looks to be very nice stuff! Looks like O.M.A.S. quality; very smooth
Paint is a dark anthracite metallic; very shinny but she has some very minor scratches in two spots (where the down tube shifter clamp goes and on the down tube where the cable guide goes ( there is some hard plastic protector under where the clamp would go that needs to be scraped off). There is also a really super tiny dent on the seat tube about two inches above the bottom bracket. Its like an eighth of an inch long and almost nothing deep. But its there and now you know. It affects nothing. I never noticed it till I took the bike apart. Im not good enough to even attempt to get it on film.
******Also included is a Silca frame fit black pump with a Campagnolo head with BLUE FEET! Blue feet are priceless; their made of unobtanium!******
I figure the bottom bracket assembly is worth forty or fifty bucks. At two hundred for the frame, take the whole enchilada for $210.00
Nice math, huh?
Take a look, its free.
Actual shipping where ever via UPS ground. Free packing.
Payment via cash, personal check, U.S. Postal money order and PayPal.
Pay Pal to: jtperry1@sbcglobal.net
Thank you,
John T.Pergolizzi
La Jolla, Ca.