Dave Yates frame

STATO · May 5, 2015

For sale, Dave Yates 853 race frameset. 60cm.

Beautiful steel racer built by iconic North East builder. It's a odd size with short seat and head tubes but long (60cm) horizontal top tube. I used it as a Time Trial frame and also as a road bike, so it can do both fine Max 23c tyre due to tight clearances at stays and fork crown.

Lovely pearl metallic finish but does have some marks and rust spots, see pics. Damage to chainstay near dropout where wheel slipped and cassette cut into the dropout early in its life. Matching steel fork with threaded headset for 1" quill.

Would love to keep this but it's been sat in the loft for a few years and can't honestly see me having space to keep it built up.

Due to dropout damage id take offers around £150 plus post.

Have a few bits and pieces that I had it built up with ill be putting on sale soon.

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xxnick1975 · May 5, 2015

That's lovely, good price too

sawston_vulcan · May 6, 2015

Effectively £200-250 inc respray for a 853 DY frame....bargain...pity it is not 53cm....or that I was taller.....GLWS.

coomber · May 7, 2015

Re:

How long is the seattube out of interest?

whats the score on the damage? Cosmetic only?

STATO · May 7, 2015

Hi,

Just been and measured as asked same question by someone else.

Seat tube is 54cm bb to top.
Head tube is 14cm
Top tube 60cm (effective and actual as its horizontal).

The damage on the dropout is a cut into the brazing of the dropout, not through the tube.

Got some better daylight pics im uploading now, will add link in an hour.

coomber · May 7, 2015

Thanks for reply. Afraid that will be too short.

Beautiful frame hope it goes to a good home.

Cheers

STATO · May 7, 2015

Im 6ft4, just needs a longer post than a tall frame and something to get the bars to your preferred height. I used either a quill/ahead adaptor with normal stem or a lovely nitto Technomic as they have a longer quill.

With the threaded headset the headtube is a bit longer than it would be if you compare lengths of modern frames. My current carbon frame has a 200mm headtube, but thats fork crown to base of stem, so the yates was in the same place with a mide length quill.

Midlife · May 7, 2015

That's a smart looking frame and a little after my time and the price looks good, just out if curiosity does it have a sloping top tube as the seat tube and the tube size don't compute (as Spock would say) for a square steel frame.

Shaun

STATO · May 8, 2015

Assuming you mean seat tube and top tube? No not sloping, as i said its a bit of an odd one, designed with a low headtube and long horizontal top tube. So not square, oblong ;0)

Forks are quite short too, but both brakes are short-drop so certain its not a weird 650c front wheel or anything. As i say, had it built up and rode for a good few years, first as road bike with a mid-to-long quill stem, then as TT bike with reversed post and slightly shorter stem, killed my back mind as you could get the front really low, aero as hell tho ;0)

Sadly no pics of it built up on this PC but got some better daylight pics last night.
More pics in my photostream, just click a link and scroll through...

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