Help identify cyclocross frame

[cesafacamah]

Hi

Any idea what brand might be this frame set? Has some really nice details and it's lightweight too.

Thanks

 

[mdvineng]

cyclocross? with mudguard eyes and rack mounts! tourer more likely

 

[mattr]

Yeah, not got the requisite clearance behind the bottom bracket, *most* steel cx frames would have the chainstays flattened there.
And front rack mounts as well, almost 100% not CX.

The boss on the back of the seat tube looks like a remote lever location for a bottom bracket mounted dynamo as well.

 

[Old Ned]

cyclocross? with mudguard eyes and rack mounts! tourer more likely

Absolutely. Canti brakes do not a CX frame make

Although I suppose it could be used for CX if necessary.

 

[mattr]

Downtube gear cables as well. Not exactly a dealbreaker, but many CX frames have (at least) the rear mech on the top tube along with the brake cable. Some have both gear cables there.

 

[cesafacamah]

Thanks guys, makes sense!
Any hints where this frame might come from?

 

[Midlife]

Nigel Dean?

 

[one-eyed_jim]

I think it could well be a custom build. The short serial number suggests a small builder, and details like the internal brake cable route and dynamo lever boss would be unusual in a production touring frame. Beyond that, I've no suggestions.

 

[otherself]

Looks to be in the 'Paul Milnes' blue. Similar to frames made by Argos of Bristol, too.

 

[baronsouthside]

Re:

This is a long shot but there was a Italian contract frame maker called Tecnotrat that used heart shaped lugs and fastback seat lugs and always seemed to stamp their frames in the same area of the BB although the stampings seem to be unique to the contract. My bike for example has an actual date as its stamp. The rear brake bridge seems like Columbus which they used and as they were made for export they don't necessarily have Italian threaded BBs as mine has British. Some pics here of my frame and some other examples of BB stamps.

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