Recent content by DutchIron

Just one last reply to my own thread: the frame number is definitely 40857, as confirmed by the steerer tube markings.

Here's a better photo of the frame no.

More on the frame number of my Holdsworth: with better lighting you can see that the number under the bottom bracket is actually 40357, or possibly 40857. Either of these points to a production year of 1974 in Pigman's table.

Thanks for the comment, Midlife. I had seen that website, but now I've looked again it seems like my number 0357 can't be complete. I see that the number may be duplicated on the steerer tube. I'll have a look down there asap.

Hi All, I'd like to find out more about this bike, which I suspect is from the 1970's. It all started with the Holdsworth-Campagnolo cap when I decided to buy a bike to go with my cap! I bought the frame on ebay in 2017 from someone living near Southampton. The components came from various bike...

Thanks, my old dad would be very proud!

Thanks for the tips, Keith. I thought Jonny69 had a good point. It took me a lot of experimentation and consulting Classic Lightweights UK to arrive at this chain routing. Last year I saw the same arrangement on a 1948 Wilier bike at an exhibition in Switzerland.

Magic!

That's a good point, silly mistake! Unfortunately I can't see how to edit a post @ beginner

I was very pleased with the answers concerning my "new" Falcon, so now I'd like to find out more about one of my other bikes. This Claud Butler tourer belonged to my late father. He bought it after leaving the RAF, probably in 1948, although he was no longer 100% sure about the date. In the...

If you worked at the factory you must have been based in N.Lincs/S.Humberside. My first racing bike, a gold-coloured 5-speed Falcon came from Lingard's bike shop in Scunthorpe in 1980

(continued) was a Tempo. I called the colour gold, but it could have been pearl yellow. Unfortunately that bike no longer exists, having been destroyed in a road accident in 1984

Thanks ever so much, Mandobob, that's more info than I ever hoped to get when I joined this forum! Interesting, I think my first Falcon, bought in 1980,

Can't see anything on the brakes or derailleur. On the front hub, underneath ATOM MADE IN FRANCE, there are two numbers, 26 78. On the rear hub it says 39 78. Could the 78 be a year?

Hi, this is my first ever post. I recently bought this Falcon in a shop in Rotterdam but apparently it was originally sold in Ipswich. It is certainly no lightweight at more than 15kg, having steel Rigida wheels and no Reyolds tubing. However it is in almost perfect original state and reminds me...