A.S. Gillott owners & appreciation club

Coorrrrr!!

Old man Wilson was almost blind and easily 80 something, totally cantankerous and pissed off in that way that all proper bike shop owners were back then. His eyes lit up when I first told him I had a 20’s Humber “have you, by Jove!‽” the shop was chaos and a real Aladdin’s cave,

Come for the bike nerdery, stayed for content like this...

Over £1300 now

I loved that Humber.
I rode all over London on it, steel rims and rod brakes were fucking deadly.
I ended up getting taken out by a blacked out Golf GTI on the then new Lewisham roundabout.
Bike was fucked.
I rolled over the roof and landed on my feet behind the car looking amazed, I’m sure.
I made the forks into this lamp I still use next to my bed.

Wiring up the teeny tiny fork blade!!

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Over £1300 now

I bet the seller is Antiques Roadshow Amazed.

Im guessing from the description and nds photo they’re a civilian.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-S-Gillott-Rare-Vintage-Bicycle-/224378819609?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
1380£. Now

Johnny Pound's Frame

I take it no one here is interested, although in the light of certain ebay auctions it will seem very cheap.

I know I haven't mentioned a price, but if you have got a use for it, pm me with an offer. Don't bid high, all those concerned are old blokes who are not eagerly watching the market!

If no bids, it will go in the V-CC mag which has a long lead time - so I need to do something in the next week or so.

Its tricky when its missing the forks and it's such a small frame.
Can you not put it on eBay.?

I just don't like ebay on principle. The aim here is not to get the best price, but to pass it on to some one who will enjoy it - that's why I offered it to this thread.

I'm sure it will eventually find a home in the V-CC.

@clubman I guess the forks are beyond salvaging? Sure you would have mentioned it if they were, I know you said getting the stem out was destructive, but was that to the blades as well as the steerer/column?

Was at Winston Vaz's workshop yesterday. Saw a dark blue Gillot hanging up and realised it was very strange shaped at the seat cluster. Well, it wasn't a proper cluster at all. The top tube and stays met a good two inches behind the seat/top tubes join. He told me it was one of Mario's. Anyone know anything about this shape? If it helps with dating, it had block lettering not script.

I will endeavour to take a photo next time I'm there!

That lamp is just so brilliant. I mean, to have made that with double-bladed forks is extra.

brilliant

ISWYDT

Ha! Too clever for me.

Anybody know of this Gillot seatstay weirdness?

Seriously that lamp is awesome. If you could get more bases, reckon those would fly if you sold em.

I used to make a lot of lamps in a post industrial stylie back when that was first in vogue in the late 80s/90s.
It’s getting the parts to make them from that’s the problem these days, there used to be loads of great (non ferrous especially) scrap yards in Deptford and Bermondsey and Greenwich
😔
The forks are the easy bit to come by (maybe not twin bladed Humber ones mind)

I made a killer ‘studio lamp’ from a spun aluminium Tannoy PA horn that I still use.

Of course, the lamp base you've used is ace, where you gonna find that shit?

where you gonna find that shit?

Donations gladly received.
If I had the energy I’d go to boot sales - old heat lamps etc are good.
But it was easier and more fun before it was #industrial

I called it Squat Chic ™

That Gillott is just around the corner for me. Crazy price it's going for!

It's still got a number of days to run as well :)

Beautiful indeed, but it's getting way too expensive.

Any progress with yours?

I reckon it’ll go over £2k.
The brake callipers would fetch £200 alone, there are some rare sought after parts on there, but the bidding is now from collectors who want it regardless of the value.

The Gnutti splined cranks look interesting. There is another set on ebay:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gnutti-Splined-Crankset-Bottom-Bracket-1950s-Double-Chainset/174672866407?hash=item28ab506c67:g:nxoAAOSw1VFgRL99

Nope :/