With the Panasonic finished I started looking around for the next project didn't really know what I wanted thou. But after speaking to a number of people at Eroica and seeing a number of threads on here I'd always fancied a proper team owned frame.
Whilst browsing ebay I saw a Raleigh Castorama team owned frame for sale but it was frame only no forks and by the time I had thought about it it had been sold. Then a few weeks later one popped up in my search when looking for 753 frames.
It said it was a Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech in the Castorama colours and that it had a SB frame number. And it was £95. I straight away thought whats the catch and there in the description it was. The frame was cracked by the front braze on mech hanger. It also said it had a 2nd frame number which read OCB.82.90. I took a punt and made an offer.
Once it turned up we paint striped the area that had a tiny tiny crack in the paint and result ..... it was only paint deep.
As for the 2nd frame number it actually read JCB.B2.90 and from what we can see that makes it the 2nd frame that was built in 1990 for Jean-Claude Bagot.
A few people said that the Dyna-Techs were never badged as 753, but I recall back in the day my friend bought one that clearly had a 653 decals on it but that one did have the single wish bone style rear stays. But more over from what I have been able to find out the team helped Raleigh develop the frames and they were badged with Reynolds decals before they came up with their own.
And here's a nice pic of Mr Fignon on his 753 Dyna-Tech in 1989
The only pictures I can find on line of the Dyna-Tech frames in use are from 1989 and 1990 all with Fignon riding them. All the 1991 pics I can find show normal steel frames and it was then that they went across to shimano from campag.
So I have decided to build it as per Fignon's 89 - 90 Dyna-Tech with full Campagnolo (will be my 1st ever Campag build) but put Bagot's name on the side.
Whilst browsing ebay I saw a Raleigh Castorama team owned frame for sale but it was frame only no forks and by the time I had thought about it it had been sold. Then a few weeks later one popped up in my search when looking for 753 frames.
It said it was a Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech in the Castorama colours and that it had a SB frame number. And it was £95. I straight away thought whats the catch and there in the description it was. The frame was cracked by the front braze on mech hanger. It also said it had a 2nd frame number which read OCB.82.90. I took a punt and made an offer.
Once it turned up we paint striped the area that had a tiny tiny crack in the paint and result ..... it was only paint deep.
As for the 2nd frame number it actually read JCB.B2.90 and from what we can see that makes it the 2nd frame that was built in 1990 for Jean-Claude Bagot.
A few people said that the Dyna-Techs were never badged as 753, but I recall back in the day my friend bought one that clearly had a 653 decals on it but that one did have the single wish bone style rear stays. But more over from what I have been able to find out the team helped Raleigh develop the frames and they were badged with Reynolds decals before they came up with their own.
And here's a nice pic of Mr Fignon on his 753 Dyna-Tech in 1989
The only pictures I can find on line of the Dyna-Tech frames in use are from 1989 and 1990 all with Fignon riding them. All the 1991 pics I can find show normal steel frames and it was then that they went across to shimano from campag.
So I have decided to build it as per Fignon's 89 - 90 Dyna-Tech with full Campagnolo (will be my 1st ever Campag build) but put Bagot's name on the side.
this campag gear is not cheep 
