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jono84
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I got this probably 30 years ago from Mike Burrows before the whole Boardman olympics things with Lotus took off. I’d crashed my fixie TT bike and was looking for a new frame and knowing Mike pretty well I had a chat with him, and he told me his latest project had just come out of the oven and was looking promising, would I like one? And so here it is, the second of two prototypes.
It’s been sat in the garage for around 20 years now, and it’s looking a bit sorry for itself, much to my shame. The mylar cover for the rear wheel disintegrated long ago, and the wing handlebar was taken for another bike, and then broken in a crash. So my old TT set-up will have to do for now. It should really be an easy fix - I have to modify the stem as the Monoblade steerer is very short and is plugged so the quill won’t insert much at all. I should maybe fit an Aheadset but I’ve got a lovely 1” threaded Record headset I want to use, so quill stem it is.
Mike Burrows hasn’t been too well of late, so I plan to pop the bike into my little noddy car and go visit him in Norwich and he can help me fettle a few details , and maybe I can hunt around his workshop and find some better bars laying around in exchange for a few beers at the Fat Cat.
Hopefully it’ll be sorted reasonably soon and ready for a few unfeasibly slow laps around HH…
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