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Now, i know these things are a bit marmite but ive always found them interesting and recently picked up this frame. It was a whole bike but with nothing nice or interesting on it, so i thought i would do something with it. There was one for sale on here a while back that i thought was quite pretty in a weird kind of way.
So, im going to get it repainted. The paint is quite good but not a colour i like and it has someones name painted on the top tube. Trevor Jarvis is still operating (his business partner now builds the frames) and has agreed to repaint it for me. After checking frame numbers it turns out to be the 5th frame he ever built back in 1978! Probably going to be light blue but not 100% sure.
Im guessing it was originally a tt bike as its only got 1 gear lever boss and has zeuss track dropouts so im either going to build it up like that or might build it up fixed, not sure yet. Also might not go totally period on it maybe mixing parts although i would like to take it to the eroica brittania so might be modern retro-ish ....
Lets see what happens.