The vertical rear drop-outs seem to be much too recent for the advertised age of the frame. Later replacements when it was refinished? Which begs the question "Why was it refinished"?
Tony Taylor Manchester NH
________________________________ From: Tom Forbes <tfbike@hotmail.com> To: peterg.brown@ntlworld.com; Classic Rendevous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Cc: Dale Cycles del Oro (CR site) <oroboyz@aol.com> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 8:38:21 AM Subject: Re: [CR] At auction on eBay: 1978 22" British CONDOR (Hurlow build?) frameset
Peter, thanks for the update. I am not interested in this frame, but are the details consistant with Condor? Why would they use Shimano rear drop outs? The couple of frames I have looked at over the last couple of years have always impressed me, so they are on my someday list. Trying to learn all I can.
Tom Forbes
Houston, Texas.
> From: peterg.brown@ntlworld.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:43:38 +0100
> CC: oroboyz@aol.com
> Subject: [CR] At auction on eBay: 1978 22" British CONDOR (Hurlow build?) frameset
>
> When I spent a day with Bill just over a year ago, and on a previous lengthy
> phone call a couple of years earlier, he told me that he didn't build
> anything for Condors after 1968.
>
> Peter Brown, Lincolnshire, England