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Finally I've got my hands on a big framed (23-20) Jack Taylor Tandem.
531 Tourist butted throughout with Campagnolo dropouts... Matching frame and rear rack numbers and by the frame count this would have been one of the last 4 tandems (8638/8639/8640/8657) made by Norman out of his garage after the main workshop shut, so also not a Jack paint job so I don't need to be too precious about keeping the current faded, chipped and flaking one.
Right now it's covered in all sorts of good, bad & ugly, so nothing other than the seat posts and rear stem are likely to survive the strip down.
Bittersweet day though as this was hopefully going to be just a case of swapping all the lovely 1990 DX & Stronglight kit from the Majestic Two and off we go! But no, unfortunately after an initial inspection of the tubes I've found a cracked fillet between the top tube and Captains seat tube & far worse an almost completely cracked through stokers seat tube.
Ah well, if I get them fixed it really will be a blank canvas paint wise!
Right now
531 Tourist butted throughout with Campagnolo dropouts... Matching frame and rear rack numbers and by the frame count this would have been one of the last 4 tandems (8638/8639/8640/8657) made by Norman out of his garage after the main workshop shut, so also not a Jack paint job so I don't need to be too precious about keeping the current faded, chipped and flaking one.
Right now it's covered in all sorts of good, bad & ugly, so nothing other than the seat posts and rear stem are likely to survive the strip down.
Bittersweet day though as this was hopefully going to be just a case of swapping all the lovely 1990 DX & Stronglight kit from the Majestic Two and off we go! But no, unfortunately after an initial inspection of the tubes I've found a cracked fillet between the top tube and Captains seat tube & far worse an almost completely cracked through stokers seat tube.
Ah well, if I get them fixed it really will be a blank canvas paint wise!
Right now
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