For Sale: chrome cartlon 2speed beater 57 cm

For sale is my much loved beater - sadly being a boater there are only so many bikes allowed aboard so she's gotta go

She's an old lugged carlton road frame not 531 light but not bad at all -fully chromed with black and red detailing and lovely orignal headbadgel. The chrome is in wonderful condition and cleans us wonderfully. Being old she doesn't have a mech hanger or downtube mounts which means the frame is clean looking and makes a single speed conversion. 57cm or whatever the nearest inch conversion is...

Rear wheel has a new 2 speed stermey kick shift rear hub (not the coaster brake version which is terrible) which has done 2 months around london and has just bedded in perfectly, working very slick. If you've never heard of these things before - they are awesome, you get one gear (average single speed ratio) and one considerably easier gear, so you can bust off the lights or just take it easy on your way through the park. gears are swtiched between by a slight back pedal, which comes to be so intuitive after about 2 minutes riding.

front hub is a new style shimano dynamo (which i've been using to charge my phone) Rims are both new box section chromey things of unknown manafacture.
old wrights saddle (almost identical to brooks b17) - with good old security chain
riser bars, new brake levers
fresh cables and leather bar tape
Mafac rear brake
exage front brake
panaracer passaela puncture resistant tyres with loads of life left.
new tange headset
decent enough cranks,pedals,stem etc

she rides like a dream and looks the business. All recently serviced and maintained.

Our boat is in victoria park at the moment so if you fancy a test ride just let me know or it'l be at my shop in hackney downs.

Looking for £200

PM me.

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