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  1. vcballbat

    Road Racing Pictures •

    I'm thinking there's a cable guide on the back of the seat tube, then a short length of outer, then a cable guide replacing the cable clamp bolt on the front mech and the cable clamped lower down, the rear is running down the seat stay. This is Bert back with the Team for the 83 season with...
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    Road Racing Pictures •

    Talking about forward thinking Bert Ooesterbosh Raleigh's time trial specialist and leadout man was the only Raleigh team rider to experiment with the latest Aero ideas using bar-end shifters to maintain an aero profile... loving the cable routing, am i a weirdo 🤔...na.. just love looking at...
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    Road Racing Pictures •

    ...a one for ladies pose... for the gentleman old enough to remember Fiesta magazine 😉
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Hi Joe, looking at the pictures of Beryl on the Viking and Eddie Soens the bars appear to be the same with the bottom of the drops at a steep angle. Your Viking appears to have a different style of bar and drop stem, it's hard to see if Beryl used a drop stem in the pictures 🤔 Just wondering the...
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Brilliant stuff... mystery solved 👍.... your next task is to find the bike..🧐
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    How rare is it

    British team on a British bike👍
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    How rare is it

    No doubt the UCI will find some obscure reason to ban it.. maybe they have already 🤔 https://bikerumor.com/felt-ta-frd-left-side-drive-olympic-track-bike-now-available-anyone-26000/
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    How rare is it

    Did it have the full set of bars..?
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    Did Raleigh UK ever make a 650B road bike?

    What version of Royal, centre pull or canti? Wondering if a frame built for 700c and canti's would work with 650b..🤔
  10. vcballbat

    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Yeah same same but is it the same as the one Beryl's on..🤔
  11. vcballbat

    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Reckon you could be right Ned ..🤔
  12. vcballbat

    Witcomb frame model id

    Can you post some pictures 👍
  13. vcballbat

    Jack Taylor Tourer

    Love it, great city bike 😍
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Looks very similar, top dollar on eBay but a bike owned by one of the Worlds greatest cyclist definitely worth it..👍💲💲💲💲
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    This the one...
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Thought this may be of interest, as mentioned earlier Beryl's later frames were built by Raleigh's Specialist Bicycle Development Unit. This is from Gerald O'Donovan's record of frame geometry specifications...
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    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Whilst researching my 82 SBDU Dynaflite frame I found this snippet of information about Beryl's frame built at the same time 👍
  18. vcballbat

    Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

    Probably down to a higher bottom bracket on the Viking track bike 👍
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    Long cage Super Record mech’

    Those don't look like chrome bolts, that's the alloy bolt version you mentioned earlier. I have this one in my collection as well 👍
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