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£450 wouldn't buy much of a retirement!
Weird frame anyway. The seat clamp plate drilling/slot is quite neat so I'm surprised to hear that it's a repair. And also no idea how someone managed to bust the seat tube just above the BB! It's all very strange. Maybe it was some limited run before or after the classic brazed white ones like yours or a prototype or something
Edit: or maybe it's Apprentice's First Practice Frame™
frankenbike
Hulsroy
That I should sell mine and retire ;-)
But honestly it looks shit.
The plates suggest repairs. I can't believe a framebuilder would do that from new. Decals look hella fake which also suggests repaint. The rear hanger is definitely OG GT style (and what @edscoble should have had made on his Rando bijk sorry).
Rear dropouts and forks are unbelievably ugly with a skinny head tube.
Overall I find it hard to believe this would be a Tiemeyer creation. But it is def TIG welded with (shaky) hands and it is def steel (hence the rust on inside of chain stays).