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One small detail, which I mention to give credit to my partner who might otherwise go unnoticed: if you look at post no. 114 you may notice that my jersey has a shirt style collar. This was typical at the time that my Gillott was imitating, but the jersey wasn't genuine. My partner had taken the collar from a shirt made of similar fabric and inserted it into my Hounslow jersey - I thought it was completely convincing although I don't believe our racing kit ever had this feature. Sadly, I don't think anyone noticed this detail.
Looking at the first picture, the side on view of the bike, it's noticeable that the head angle is so shallow that the (contemporary) GB stem is pointing slightly upwards, which it was certainly not intended to do. I never felt this frame was anything better than average from the riding point of view, although to be fair to Gillotts, the front forks are not original and it's possible this may have been part of the problem.