Late 20's/30's E.F. Russ Build.

Posted on Thu 5th, February 2015

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Jonny69

I stumbled across this thread by accident, searching for something else. E. F. Russ is (was) my work colleague's grandfather. If you've got any questions, I can send them his way. He remembers quite a bit about the shop on Battersea Rise and still has the track frame that E. F. Russ built for his father to race on in the 60s, which he then went on to race on at Herne Hill in the 1970s. Same colour as yours.
• #77

jeff80

, that's cool, nice to find people that still remember frame builders from back in the day. I'm actually selling this bike now though- lovely as it is. It's really too small for comfort, and just not getting much use as my commute and general rides now include quite a lot of busy roads and the trail on this makes riding it on them quite hairy!
No room for more that 3 bikes and need a useful mudguarded track frame to go with the vintage bits I have lying around waiting to build, so this has to move on. Your never really more than looking after these bikes temporarally really I guess, they deserve a life with someone who'll use them.

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