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The number looks like '6278' to me (I think it may be upside down in your photo)

measure from the string to the seat tube on both sides. The measurements should be identical if your frame is in alignment. Use a thinner string than I did though- that's just so it shows up in the photo.

Yeah you're right about the wrapover. OP could do worse though than contacting Rourke and asking if it's one of theirs, and if they reply in the negative, asking them who they think might've built it? That 'fastback/wraparound' can't be that common- probably the OP's best bet for identifying the...

If it has 1010 dropouts, domed stay ends, Prugnat points and takes a 27mm pin it's almost certain to be 531db. That seat cluster is screaming: "Brian Rourke"... to me, anyway..

Crown looks like a Milremo Giro that's had a bit of file work done on it. Common crown from mid '60s-mid '70s.

You should probably seek confirmation from a Frenchman about this- but if you can literally "pop it back in", it probably means that the wood has shrunk and the plug is not going to perform it's intended function. My understanding is that these plugs should be made of hardwood- as hard as you...

Ah what the hell... since it's been bumped, here's a picture of my last brush job- last in both senses of the word.. i.e. a) temporally most recent and b) I'll probably never have the time, inclination or peace of mind necessary to do it again... just to illustrate that this can be a...

Iirc Jack Hearne numbers are first two digits = year , so probably not a Hearne, nor a Mercian, nor a Holdsworth. Holdsworth numbers I've seen have been drive-side. That 4-digit number looks more Bob Jackson, but Jackson numbers I've seen have been central under the bracket. That fork crown-...

I've never owned a tubular or ridden one, but yes, as far as I'm aware 'sprint' rims would have been 700c, confused by the fact that a 'tub' had a nominal outer diameter of about 27", so might've been colloquially referred to as a "27inch tubular" in pre-metric Britain. Brakes-not much info...

Yes that's the point. As far as I'm aware, prior to Campag Record brakes in the late sixties, most brakesets had a longer reach brake at the rear, and most road going frames would have been built to accommodate it. A road/path frame would usually have been expected to be able to accommodate...

It does- as far as I can see, anyway. That's a very close clearance rear brake bridge for an early sixties road frame, or even a road/path frame- it might've been repositioned at some time ? or it could've started out as a track frame. I don't know if those wheels are 700c or 27" ? Those...

Yeah it all changed around '84: SIS index The last DA threaded hub Campag NR/SR obsolescent First sign of "more sprockets needed!" in about fifteen years- Campag 7 speed block Clipless pedals coming.. Saddles, shorts and shoes ain't necessarily black any more Petrochemical clothing replacing...

I guess the guy who shares what he learnt about building bike frames from twenty years at Claud Butler gets called a "lug nazi" or something? You can take a horse to water...

Err... that'd have to be: '90s' ...in my book, anyway. '90's music is the music of 1990, a subset of the '90s' music- presumably about 10% of it before factoring in a decade of technological/economic/population growth, with its presumed concomitant growth in the number of music productions...

Haha..Hoist by my own petard. Question is, can I logically use "edit" to put 'em in? To "edit" is to take stuff out, right?

90's not a decade, it's a number. The number 90. 90's a number. 90s is not a decade either, (unless you are talking specifically about the tenth decade of the first century AD.) It's the ten numbers between 90 and 99 inclusive. '90s is a decade, or at least it could be. '90's the first year of...

I still reckon my last raster file version 4.3.21 was closer, though..

From my point of view: whether you go back to Phil Bayton/Dave Lloyd pre-'75, or Hennie Kuiper/Jan Raas a few years later, or Joop a few years after that.. I think that we've produced something stylistically closer to what they had on their machines than that which has been generally available...

I might root for any decade or year that anybody could be bothered to apostrophise properly.. 🤓 🙂

If you rebuild the wheels, be wary of over-tensioning those. I rebuilt a pair, and a while later the rear one spontaneously pretzelised itself. Luckily the bike was standing on the patio at the time rather than rolling along the highway with me on board. That was a well-used pair admittedly, but...