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I like the Hobbs but can't see the tube creases mentioned in the listing.
I think some of the history of frame sizes is connected to the seat tube angle and changes to this. Article on the use of "Gallows" seat posts has a mention of this - https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/1046007-gallows-style-seatpost-english-roadster-cycles-why-were-they-discontinued.html
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Re Hobbs Blue Riband one of the pics the top tube looked pretty bent. Would be a few hundred quid to sort out, but worth it for starter £40. I’ll pick it up and drop at Argos for you ;)
Edit: looking again hard to say, that first pic looked bent but maybe the light / failing eyes / medicinal brandy. Offer stands :)
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I think I’m at the 1 in 1 out stage of bikes, or at least ongoing projects. I think that’s an inch too big for me anyway.
I checked with the seller on the Hobbs Blue Riband on Ebay - it is Bristol so local to me and £40 is a good price even with 2 tubes to be replaced. Anyway, 1952 by my understanding, so another nice project:
That’s probably an inch too small for me (edit - going on the seattube, which seems a worse measure than top tube imo).
I know that an inch either way isn’t the end of the world, can be solved with more/less seatpost, stem projection, etc. I’d be interested in @clubman’s opinion / experience, or anyone else, ... I know the fashion was for big frames with saddles on the top tube, short projection and now it’s small frame, long projection, weight forward. When was a big frame fashionable? 40s/50s? Has that fluctuated? Seems like it’s just been a move towards smaller frames.