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This is actually the second respray. I'm afraid I wasn't as caring for the Ron as a teenager, so I've had two Cinelli stems seizing into rusty head tubes. Oops.
Original paint scheme (1987, mad blue/white '80s fadez) and build (tubs and lots of nice but mixed bits from my brother's Roberts):
A rare action shot, at the Junior Milk Race, Romford, 1988:
I didn't take many photos in its mid-life guise, in fact this one I took to enquire on this forum whether it would be worth selling, shortly before deciding to keep it and treat it to a revamp. (Phew!!)
Bumping into Ron (RIP) when I took it in to Colour Tech for the respray: