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A.S. Gillott, North Coast 500 ‘400’ Charity Ride.
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I intend to ride this adapted route fixed, not just for the challenge but because it means i can take my new bike.
The frame is at Argos cycles at the moment, it should be back by the end of April and then i can start building it up.
The frame is a 1946 A.S. Gillott track path frame. It was owned by John Dennis, a lifelong member of the "Norwood Paragon cycling club" , joining in 1946.
The pinnacle of John's career was being selected to take part in the 1948 Olympics racing with ivor cox in the tandem sprint. Unfortunately he had sustained injuries from a crash a few weeks earlier and was unable to participate.
He crashed again in 1951 damaging his collarbone and so was unable to ride competitively.
He then turned his attention to promoting track events at Herne hill, these promotions were world class and Herne hill stadium would be packed out at weekends for these.
John Dennis unfortunately died in 2013 and Apart from the bicycle frame I have no other links to him. If anybody has any other info on him I would be gratefully interested.
The frame itself has Spearpoint lug's, horizontal rear dropouts and tight clearances which suggest a frame built for road racing.
Tubular rims, brooks saddle, chater lea cranks and Carradice saddle bag will all be the order of the day.
I'm hoping to meet up with @gillotrider the gillott marque on our first day coming out of Aberdeen for a social.
I have most of the parts for the frame all ready so as soon as the frame arrives it should be just a matter of building it up.
The bike before sending to Argos.
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J. Dennis stamped into the huge steel plate rear dropout. Its stamped into both sides just to be sure, along with the frame number. "946171". 171st frame in 1946.
I suspect I will lose all of this info underneath the paint once it returns from Argos. We shall see.