Greetings. OK, Bryan Warnett was a small time local (based in Pontcanna Street, Cardiff, Wales - Google street view picture attached - his place is the middle shop in need of TLC) frame builder. Bryan was a Domestic (washing machines, cookers, vacuum cleaners) appliance repairer by day and built specially commissioned frames by night in the back of his shop. Bryan did this not to make profit but because he cared about quality. Notoriously lengthy wait times for a frame wasn't uncommon and I mean months, sometimes 6-months but they were spot-on. The time that went into each frame could never be re-couped by the cost applied. I knew Bryan thru my early years of cycling and he was a Cardiff Ajax/Cardiff 100 milers club member. In 1980 after winning heaps of events and being selected onto the Great Britain Track squad, Bryan decided to help me out with some new bike frames. Two identical Track bike frames were built me, one ultra light (ishiwata 015 tubing) for Track Pursuiting only and one in standard Reynolds 531 (this one on here) for everyday Track work and training. They were both identical in measurement. These both were built in 1980 and used extensively until 1986 in national events all over the UK. How do I know this is mine ? well there's a few tell-tale signs, the seat tube transfers were run in the horizontal set (down tube set) and not the vertically stacked set you see on other seat tubes. Bryan did not like doing this as it used two sets of transfers on one bike (remember he didn't make on these) but he did this for mine so the bikes would get noticed. The front fork crown is drilled to take a brake for time trialling on fixed wheel (remember this is a track bike and normally not drilled). Looking at the other picture you can still see a small band of red tape on the top-tube, this was done as a marker of bottom bracket centre line. Now there's some comments about tight clearances well, these were built to take 27-inch wheels back then, not 700C so were even tighter, which is where we developed the idea of the curved rear brake bridge. I have attached a Picture of me on this bike and look how tight the rear end is ? The other factor is the the top-tube length, this was shortened considerably for me but this result in a much larger head tube distorting the size of frame. Bryan was a good friend to me but I lost touch in the 1990's and I emigrated to NZ in 2000 so, I doubt if he's still with us now. I used to visit him a few times a week, have a cuppa and watch my frame being built. Both these bikes were 'gifted' to me by Bryan but as Amateur status was so strict back then I have to pay (they couldn't be given to me) the princely sum of 1GBP each. BTW, there is also an identical Road bike that must be doing the rounds as well. If anyone could locate them, the Road Bike and the Track Pursuit Bike even had Cinelli Record engraved stems with his name on them. When I emigrated to NZ I donated all these bikes to the Maindy Flyers Kids Track Club for anyone who need Track bikes so that's where I left them. Bryan had a wife and a son but I wouldn't know anything of their where about's. I would imagine that there would still be an Aladdin's cave in his workshop ! Anyway, hope that informs people of who 'Bryan Warnett' was and the era of his frames.