bromwich cycles ?

[mikee]

was reading thru the classified section of some old mbi's and
saw some bromwich cycles for sale
531 magnum pro 1991
small hand built marque ,or asian badge engineered things ?

 

[biglev]

tom bromwich made awesome road bike and a small number of mountain bikes. i have only seen two in 20 years so quite rare.

 

[legrandefromage]

 

[kaya]

:shock: That piccy is wrong in sooo many ways




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[mikee]

is that cx or a mountain bike race ?

 

[flyingwelshman]

is that cx or a mountain bike race ?

Mountain Bike race at Eastway I think - where the 2012 Olympic Village is. My old man still has a mint Bromwich which he had made for him BITD

 

[justbackdated]

Tom Bromwich used to be an occasional visitor when I worked at John Atkins Cycles in Coventry in the late '90s. By that time he had retired and Jim McIlwaine had taken over the Bromwich name. Tom was well known for building excellent road frames and was a real character of the old school. He helped Lee and Alan set up LA Cycles framebuilders.

Jim was keen to build custom Mountainbikes and I helped a little with the frame design and some building work. They were mostly lugless fillet brazed drop-top tube designs and we spent a lot of time trying to get the chainstays short and steepening the angles! Reynolds 531 AT and Columbus tubing was used.
I also produced the "Serious Mountainbikes' ad for the magazine.

Phew, that brings back memories. Following Jims VW bus to races would leave a deposit of oil on the front of our car :roll:

 

[legrandefromage]

courtesy of Wu-Tangled

and maybe a Bromwich?

 

[justbackdated]

could well be-seat tube reinforcement rings a bell!!

Trying to think who's hand is supporting the bike in the ad photo :roll:

 

[legrandefromage]

could well be-seat tube reinforcement rings a bell!!

Trying to think who's hand is supporting the bike in the ad photo :roll:

well, it has a Hayden BB shell and dates from around 1987....?

it would be nice to know if this is TB MTB