Claud Butler titanium(?) info/identification

[jimo746]

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If the price is reasonable (looks like it in the ad) and it IS titanium then i think you should buy it too.
A Google search brings up a few images in Croatia, Hungary etc. Not the first place I'd expect to find a Claud Butler MTB, but it may not have been sold in the UK..

Same frame is mentioned on page 3 of this thread... http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;start=20

 

[Spudly]

They were still assembling in Brigg, Humberside

Well I never knew that claud butler were a local bike until now..

Certainly didn't know they ever did anything in Ti either, but please don't use the H word to describe this area, we never wanted to be branded that and thankfully it was abolished many years ago.

Brigg is in North Lincolnshire

 

[24pouces]

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Seems to be a bounded titanium tubes on steel lugs, like some raleigh.
Nice and original frame

 

[longun]

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I know one of their old designers and engineers. I'll ask him next time I see him about this

 

[Stompy]

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I know one of their old designers and engineers. I'll ask him next time I see him about this

Cool, would be great if you could, Thanks.....

 

[Retro Spud]

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I know one of their old designers and engineers. I'll ask him next time I see him about this

Cool, would be great if you could, Thanks.....

Bloody hell Longun you live in Humberside as well, next we’ll have someone from Rutland



On a serious note I keep coming back as I’m drawn to the pic’s of this frame - it’s a thing of beauty I know this sounds dumb But it almost seems a shame that anyone would want to build it up and break up those majestic lines - it looks so good as it is !

Maybe that’s how or why it’s survived the years so well - left as pure wall art to be appreciated only by the eye and the mind

 

[Peachy!]

They were still assembling in Brigg, Humberside

Well I never knew that claud butler were a local bike until now..

Certainly didn't know they ever did anything in Ti either, but please don't use the H word to describe this area, we never wanted to be branded that and thankfully it was abolished many years ago.

Brigg is in North Lincolnshire

Quite right…fair point, well made. No such thing as Humberside, and never should have been!

N.B. Claud Butler/Holdsworth production went to Brigg early 1987, not sure if they are still there? If they are I think they just put the stickers on now when they come off the container :facepalm:

 

[Peachy!]

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On a serious note I keep coming back as I’m drawn to the pic’s of this frame - it’s a thing of beauty I know this sounds dumb But it almost seems a shame that anyone would want to build it up and break up those majestic lines - it looks so good as it is !

Maybe that’s how or why it’s survived the years so well - left as pure wall art to be appreciated only by the eye and the mind

Narp! stick some wheels on it and get it mucky!

PS, I wonder if you get a high pitched ringing in your ears when you ride it? :facepalm:

 

[Stompy]

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A few more pics.....

 

[drcarlos]

F for fairly? The factory in Taiwan where a lot of konas were made?

I think the 653 frames were the last to be made in brigg before production moved to the Far East and brigg became assembly only.

Carl.