velocipede
Senior Retro Guru
I recently bought this on ebay from @colnagokid, who is the original owner........pressure of multiple projects on the go meant I had considered ditching it and moving it on again but sense has prevailed and I'm starting the build process.
I have just completed a retro-mod build of a very slightly later Swinnerton (see here) and will be doing this one to almost exactly the same retro-mod spec. I recently acquired a couple of Dolan roadbikes from an older couple who were moving on to e-bikes so I have exactly the same 10 speed SRAM Apex groupset and wheels to go on this, along with nice Nitto bars and quill stem and some NOS Gran Compe nutted brake calipers......all parts are already sat on the bench and ready to go so I'll be getting this together over the next week or so - it'll have downtube cable stops and a front mech clamp to accommodate the modernish groupset - looking forward to being able to compare it to the Swinnerton, which was built just down the road from this at Longstaffs in Stoke!
Will post updates but for now here's the frame, forks, headset as it stands:
I have just completed a retro-mod build of a very slightly later Swinnerton (see here) and will be doing this one to almost exactly the same retro-mod spec. I recently acquired a couple of Dolan roadbikes from an older couple who were moving on to e-bikes so I have exactly the same 10 speed SRAM Apex groupset and wheels to go on this, along with nice Nitto bars and quill stem and some NOS Gran Compe nutted brake calipers......all parts are already sat on the bench and ready to go so I'll be getting this together over the next week or so - it'll have downtube cable stops and a front mech clamp to accommodate the modernish groupset - looking forward to being able to compare it to the Swinnerton, which was built just down the road from this at Longstaffs in Stoke!
Will post updates but for now here's the frame, forks, headset as it stands:
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