Hello everyone, first post.
This is the frame I bought last week to run with a Sturmey 3-speed gear.
It's probably British, of unknown age (guess 1930s or 1940s) and unknown tubing, concealed under a really bad powdercoat job at the moment. A lot of care has gone into the construction, with perfectly mitred tubes inside the BB and pinned joints. It has a 21.5" seat tube and a really long top tube - about 23.5", so needs a short stem to fit me (very average-sized). This makes me think it may have been a custom job for someone with a long torso.
It is very light - the bare frame is only 4lb 2ozs on accurate scales. However, it takes a 26.8mm seatpost, which would seem to rule out 531DB. Maybe it has a p/g seat tube and uses 531DB elsewhere - I don't think anything else was so light until 753 came along.
The lugs are spearpoint, with a very odd double-lugged BB, and the frame number on the BB is just a 3-digit number (855).
Any ideas?
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It deserves some decent paint and it would be nice to get the right transfers for it, if it can be identified.
Roger Cantwell, Swindon, UK