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Final bike of the three: the grey one, which is named #03.
This is the first one I acquired, sourced in mid 2015 via Gumtree, after having watched it not sell on eBay, from Chris Sherriffs, who now/currently rides for Ribble Pro Cycling (funnily enough, along with John Archibald, who's sister Katie rode the black one).
He bought the frame new in 2009, and had it powder coated blue. If you do a Google image search for 'Dolan Pursuit Champion, the frame is one of the first things to come up.
The frame had been ridden exclusively indoors, mostly at Manchester, and Chris, having trimmed the seatpost to suit his height as a junior, had outgrown it. This presented a pretty large problem for me because the seatpost was almost certainly too short. However, by this point I knew the frames were rare, and as it was the first one that cropped up after about two and a half months of daily searching, it wasn't about to be passed up.
The chronodredge should reveal some of the humorously desperate and naive efforts made in order to 'lengthen' the proprietary carbon post.
Here's the bike as it is built currently, used as my workhorse fast road fixed and sort-of-designated Hill Climb bike (with the swapping of a few parts), despite it being the heaviest of the three frames due to its finish.
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