Great info thanks, yes I can confirm it had no rivet holes for head tube badge, I will use a 1" seat tube and a shim due to 'gronk' that survived the dipping process. ;-)That is a fairly epic recovery of what looks like an Olympic frame. Does it take a 26.6 seat post? It should do with plain gauge Reynolds 531 tubing. Were there two small holes at the front of the head tube? If not, it will be 1978 or later. The lovely metal head badge, which required two small holes for rivets, was dropped by Falcon after January 1978 when Ernie Clements sold his interest in the company to Elswick Hopper and became a director of that company. Your head badge is therefore correct for the period.
Are yo going to use period correct components?
Beautiful job. I sold my Falcon sadly. I bought a Dayton thoughsome progress made this weekend ( I don't think I ever used up so much metal polish on a bike resto)
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period components are so much more time consuming to fit and setup and the lack of braze-ons is infuriating - I still have work to do on the cable routing but it is at least rideable now.
I am old enough to remember (posh kids) boys with falcon bikes ( versus the regular dawes, sun, raleigh) that looked down on the rest of us in the bike sheds at grammar school - now I have one so there !
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