Barry Chick/Shorter

[peetee]

Picked this little beauty up last week. It’s a Shorter built by Barry Chick. It has a right old mish-mash of parts fitted, some of which will be available if anyone is interested. The drive side Mavic crank is miss-matched to a left hand Campag!
The plan is to get the brush-and-bucket paint job off and think of a suitable alternative. Pale metallic or pearlescent pink is an idea, for the moment.
Then it will be decked out with a suitably 70’s TT mix of Campag cranks with single 54t ring, Weinmann 500 callipers and Mavic/Record sprints. A good sprinkling of drillium would be nice, but costly, and only worth the effort if I knew it was built for King Alf himself - which it almost certainly wasn’t.
Anyhow, watch this space.

 

[vcballbat]

Nice find, it doesn't look like a really tight swb TT frame more road orientated, can you post some pictures of the dropouts and fork crown. Can you be sure that it's a Shorter?... just asking because the bottle cage bosses give it a French look, similar to my Gitaine.

 

[Nob]

It’s not a TT frame as bottle bosses on Shorter frames never had them but this is more of a road frame. Unusual decal fonts also from the normal Shorter fonts

 

[biggs682]

This is my Shorter all original paint and chrome , complete with drilled bottom bracket and rear drop outs started life as a tt bike .

So my question to @peetee is how do you know yours was built by Barry Chick ?

 

[vcballbat]

Sadly I don't own a Shorter but have got a 'Plate fit for a King'

 

[Nob]

Alf give you that?

 

[Nob]

My Shorter..

 

[peetee]

Definitely genuine as the fork crown is cast with Chick. The number on the steerer and frame match and begin with C. I agree about the non-TT dimensions. Alf’s frame was very tight with next-to-no fork rake but I’m sure plenty of local wannabies rode a single Chick for road races and TT’s swapping bits as required.

 

[vcballbat]

My Shorter..
View attachment 598929

That's one really cool looking machine....can you split logs with it..

 

[vcballbat]

Definitely genuine as the fork crown is cast with Chick. The number on the steerer and frame match and begin with C. I agree about the non-TT dimensions. Alf’s frame was very tight with next-to-no fork rake but I’m sure plenty of local wannabies rode a single Chick for road races and TT’s swapping bits as required.

Superb.. looking forward to seeing the build..