PeachyPM":3ps8e526 said:My money is on a 1985 Cadet, nearly as good as any in the range that year, just came with lower end kit. still a well built frame by any standards.
wilkyboy":18rr5on3 said:PeachyPM":18rr5on3 said:My money is on a 1985 Cadet, nearly as good as any in the range that year, just came with lower end kit. still a well built frame by any standards.
Thanks Peachy. I considered the Cadet, but I think the colour's wrong (the Cadet's available only in Orange Pearl, and I'm waiting to see this bike in the flesh to assess its colour), the Cadet's frame's not 531 (from my reading of the catalogue) and the fork's missing the light-boss. But the equipment does appear to match the box'o'bits that's also being sent over ... edit: apart from the crank and rings, but those do get swapped over time ...
PeachyPM":3imd4dhw said:That colour in those photos is Orange Pearl, although you could be forgiven for calling it Bronze. The catalogue photos/printing are a poor reference I'm afraid. I'd put my shirt on your frame being an Orange Pearl Cadet from the end of the Holdsworth days.
PeachyPM":9eqcplbm said:You've got more than £32 worth of hardware there! And a really comfortable frame...Bargain!
PeachyPM":1klxjjea said:wilkyboy":1klxjjea said:That colour in those photos is Orange Pearl, although you could be forgiven for calling it Bronze. The catalogue photos/printing are a poor reference I'm afraid. I'd put my shirt on your frame being an Orange Pearl Cadet from the end of the Holdsworth days.
The Cadet had Truwel tubes but still had Reynolds forks, I can only see the 531 sticker on your forks not the frame?
The thing of interest is the lamp boss, but that could just be the result of Holdsworth using whatever they had around as the wolves were at the door mid '85.