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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    Nicklin or Williams spring to mind, can you see the logo? Typical 2 tooth difference in chainring size for 1972 :)
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    Holdsworth 531 special

    Nice :) Classic chamfered seat stays of the Special... Does Nick Kilgarrif website still work? there was a lot of Holdsworth info on there. the 7 in a diamond is the date of the cranks.
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    Record and Super Record brake levers

    Panto'd levers are usually NR or GS, no pesky holes to get in the way........
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    Raleigh Special Products Division Glasgow 56cm £100

    Not sure that's an SBDU. Has a Special Products sticker which is a bit different.
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    Target Road Ace Resto-Mod

    Smart Restoration :) BITD there were several brands that were made for catalogues (Grattan, Empire Stores etc). In the absence of any leads may well be one of them.
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    Best Non Aero levers and cantilevers

    Shimano SLR (Shimano Linear Response) non aero levers are meant to be up among the best as mentioned above.
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    Not a Holdsworth?

    Not a braze-on in sight, the seat stay arrangement and fork crown looks very Falcon like.....
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    Date of NYC Humber

    Anything stamped on the seat tube under the seat bolt ? common place for 70's Raleigh / Carlton.
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    Raleigh Banana 531c

    Nice :) I've still got my GHS 10 bike in the shed !
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    Help with Identifying Carlton Model and Year

    I had a look at the download here https://www.retrobike.co.uk/archive/1976-raleigh-catalogue.351/ Nothing matches exactly, however, there was a trend quite a few years back to grind off all brazings and convert to a "fixie" with a rattle can job. Could be one of those...........
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    Help with Identifying Carlton Model and Year

    1976 Carlton (3rd digit a 6 for 1976). Crespera lugs and wrapover seat stays in tru-Wel so used on a load of different models. Easiest to look in a 1976 catalogue for a bike with no chrome, no lamp boss and no brazed rear brake hanger (for centre pull) and that sort of colour.
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    Carlton, Grubb and others

    Carlton has shot in seat stays which were on their higher end models. Giro was one of them but not sure exactly what that is? It also has a Sugino Mighty chain set which is a nice reminder of the 70's
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    Harry Quinn in Somerton £100 inc spare set of wheels

    It looks like its from the time when Harry Quinn sold his name to Falcon and they turned out some real tat in his name...... Harry later bought his name back and "proper" Harry Quinn frames reappeared.
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    Yet another "what have I got here?" question.

    Doesn't look very Falcon like, Used to sell them in the bike shop I worked in and it doesn't look familiar. Theres Mandobob on Cyclechat who I think is the VCC guy on Falcon but not sure if he comes on here?
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    Road Racing Pictures •

    I wore Atala shoes when I raced, they had a stylised "A" on them. Those shoes have stripes, maybe not a good corporate image lol
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    Lovely but...

    It seems to have had a pip added to the back of the head tube... Third digit looks like a 9 so that's a 1979 carlton or raleigh with extra chrome. The oversize seat stay caps ate there but the rear brake bridge has no diamond cutouts which should be there, (they might have been a later...
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    Large flange road hubs.

    Way back when I raced in the 70's, my TT and track wheels were large flange. Theory was the spokes were shorter making for a rigid wheel for energy transfer. Often with tied and soldered spokes. Not sure where my radial spokes fitted in :) My road race wheels were small flange, more flex in...
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    Raleigh Serial Number deciphering

    Top tube guides, under BB cable guides but nutted brakes sort of puts in early 70's. Glue on Raleigh badge and a Raleigh seat bolt can de additions. Don't recognise it as a UK Raleigh but could be wrong. Maybe an export, overseas made or not a Raleigh
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    Frame ID - Retallick

    I wonder if Nigel Dean was involved somewhere, I think he was building frames in Hull about that time.
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