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Found this hand-painted chrome 80s freestyle frame the other day. Absolutely no idea what it is but it does look well built, lovely welds, proper chrome, light so cromoly probably... details of note are the curved brake bridge, matching curved seat-tube bridge and strange coaster bracket on the...

Re: Re: Don't know why, but I'm not seeing the pic you put up Dave so i'm attaching it again for all to see... Great Pic!! M.

Re: Re: Wow! Thanks Dave - Great to hear from 'Maggie' herself and what a great read - an interesting lady! The bike has indeed found a great home and will be cherished even more-so now!! Interesting to hear that she sold it in 1978 so I wonder where it was for the last 35 years or so...

Yes! I'm really chuffed with this one!! Just shame it's far too small! Still, I'm going to clean it properly, fit some new 'period' sprint tubs and that will be basically it I think... Cheers & Happy New Year!

Re: Re: Hi Dave, Oh ok, all very interesting stuff as I don't know anything about track! Yes the bike looks 'time-warp' and i'm sure the white cloth bar tape and red tape in the 1977 picture is still the very ones on the bike - lovely!! Just need to get a couple of period sprint tubs now and...

Re: Re: Are here she is - Maggie winning the 1977 National Pursuit event on my very bike!! Amazing Image!! Fantastic!!

Re: Re: Hi Dave, Thanks for letting me know you got the emails and even more so, for letting me know that my 'find' is all the more amazing!! This is indeed very interesting stuff and now feel I need to know more about Margaret Gordon Smith and her career and this bike. She obviously kept it...

Re: Re: Hi Dave, Checked the email address and was the same, but sent again anyway but you might just want to check i'm not ending up in your spam folder?? Let me know if you still don't get them. FYI, the frame number is M552 and sized at around around 50cm... Many thanks, Martin.

Hi Dave, So good to hear from you on here and many thanks for posting the link to the article - very informative and yes, the bike featured looks uncannily similar to my bike. I would be very interested to hear of any more info you can give me - original owner etc... and, actually I have already...

Re: Re: How interesting - I wonder if anyone has a copy of the magazine - was 'The Comic' it's actual name? Thanks for that!

Yeah, I hear that - I got my Harry Rensch Champion du Monde that way - pulled it out, covered in hammerite and no clue what it was and cost me 3 quid!

I've got a few Choppers - earliest is July 1970 Mk1 due to be rebuilt at some point, but old BMX's are the thing too - think i've got about 10 80s bikes... Becomes a little addictive!!

Re: Re: Who knows?? But i'm not knocking it!! ;-)

Re: Re: Not sure yet, it's very rare so probably hang onto it for a bit and get it up and running - shame it's far too small - would be a great girlfriend bike!! Cheers

In my experience, a path racer tends to longer and more standard in geometry and the older ones tend to have both gears and fixed hub arrangements to ride to the event, flip the wheel, do the event, then ride home again... a lot of my 50's Claud Bulters have this facility... The Dave Moulton...

Re: Even better than that, in my infinite wisdom, I seem to have photographed it so here it is/was...

In terms of Components on the PH TJ, I think, from memory, it had early satin silver 105/600 group on it or RX100 - certainly shimano tho and think it had a profile or ITM titanium stem in it and gold coloured mavic or ambrosio rims... Cheers

Re: Here ya go... just stuck a couple of random wheels in it for effect... The other bits came with it... Frame/paint is quite tidy to be honest and will clean quite nicely... Cheers

How interesting and funny how things come together sometimes! Yes, I will take a few pics of the Ridley for you and it will be for sale if you're interested? Cheers

As a local recycler of bicycles, I am lucky enough to constantly find interesting and rare machines in the local dumps, but this week has yielded something a bit more special I think... As a frame under a pile of wheels lurking behind a 60s Claud Butler, was, what turned out to be a 1975 Dave...