Help...This mornings hack buy...but what the is it?

[dablk]

So while the E3 still waits for its rims...I got bored and thought i should just get a proper hack as that was the orginal plan for the E3.

So i picked this up for next to peanuts. Wasnt expecting much for the price but seems honest enough... then i picked it up...built as seen it weighs 21lbs. Yeah i know theres at least 5lb of drive train to add. Still seemed light for a halfords special.

seatpost appears to be a 26.4 and seatube is defo smaller than the others. Has crud catcher bosses and only got one badge on it.

and some really tight seatstays... not even sure that those tyres will come off it without dissmantling the brakes.

Any ideas... really wont be offended whatever the answers are as its been bought to chain to stuff.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

It's a Raleigh Special Products jobby...

 

[dablk]

Cheers Stevo.. its looking a bit happier minus the cheing shizer brakes and some 03 avid/deore all over it.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I only know because I literally fell over one in Hampden Park a couple of months ago!

 

[hirameuser]

Just seen this, it looks a bit like a frame i picked up from croydon just before christmas same colour and lugless. mine is labeled as a radford handbuilt frame, has the same type of frame badge plus 2 others . To late and cold to go down to the garage and get a photo to post. will do one in the morning.

Phil

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Just seen this, it looks a bit like a frame i picked up from croydon just before christmas same colour and lugless. mine is labeled as a radford handbuilt frame, has the same type of frame badge plus 2 others . To late and cold to go down to the garage and get a photo to post. will do one in the morning.

Phil

Your 'Radford' is actually a Claude Butler, and it probably has a tapered threaded fork with quill stem as opposed to an unthreaded with an Ahead-set??

The later 'Radfords' looked very similar but were alloy framed...

...though they both had the wishbone seat stays.

 

[jax13]

100% its a claud butler kylami.

I bought one to build as a commuter for one of the guys at work.

rear stays & yellow colour give it away. his has a 1 1/8" ahead rigid fork - pretty straight with only a slight curve in them & a lot thicker tubed than a lot of forks from the same sort of time. exactly the same as yours.

it is probably one of these generic framesets that a few companies used, but it is what it is (and actually rides pretty nicely)

there is no doubt at all that this is the exact same frame.

 

[jax13]

the one i picked up...

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... highlight=

 

[dablk]

Cheers for the input lads. yep looks a hell of a lot like that butler frame jax bought...But i guess it could have been sprayed and then badged by anybody at this level.

Was £40 as seen above with some sun cr18 rims on stxrc hubs and some vvcg tioga wonder dawgs with tubes. so all in all very happy with it.... plus i wont cry if its not outside tesco when I come back out.

Might even consider a rattle can attempt at some point

 

[jax13]

the biggest arse with these is the stays. you either need to fully deflate the rear wheel or pull the brakes off to get anything bigger than a 1.5 tire in or out!