New bike unknown frame

[Saxo]

Hi Guys,

After 2 years training on an a 97 Scott MTB I saw an advert for a Reynolds 531 framed road bike locally and treated myself.

The story goes that the guy who built it up (various parts) owned a bike shop and bought a load of race frames back in the day. This is one of those frames built up.

I have no idea what it is and wondered if anyone can help, the decals say its a 531 competition frame but I'm not sure.

 

[oonaff]

the italian flag and union jack say to me,it could be taiwanese

 

[NeilM]

Re:

The Italian flag is green, white and red.

I'd say the frame is 90's, we could do with a few more shots of the lugs.

Looks like a nice useful bike, how does it ride?

 

[Saxo]

This for the responses, I know that none of the colours or stickers are original so not sure they are of much use.

Its my first ever road bike so I don't really have anything to compare it to, it certainly rides well as far as I can tell, seems incredibly fast and the whole bike is very light.

I only really wanted to dip my toe in to the road biking arena and have to say I am hooked

Here are some shots of the lugs, also it has internal cable routing (not sure if that is of any help)

 

[oonaff]

Re:

hi,the serial number on my halfords carrera 531[taiwan] starts with a U also. whether or not this has
any significance i dunno.
the forks [chromolly] and the rear drop outs look identicle to yours.i love mine its probably just as good as any other production line 531 out there .Im going to form comparisons with peugoet optima and m probably a ribble or maybe even something hand built in 531. mine does not have internal cable routing and my rear stays are fitted behind the seatpost lug not on the side.I have seen some olmo forks like ours, bent and tig welded to a pipe but feel a quality frame builder would use an aero crown and make it in four bits.

anyway ,here's to the next few!

 

[dihummer]

KHS of Taiwan frame numbers start with a "U", one digit for the year of manufacture, then two digits for the month, then 5 more digits.