Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

Trying to ID this 26er steel frame, found abandoned in Cornwallis Road N19 at the weekend. The front end MIA but I noticed the Surly dropouts out back and some interesting braze-ons, so wheeled it home. I’m guessing a Surly but not sure of the model: No serial number.
Paintwork looks like it was a decent gloss black all over but it has been ‘enhanced’ with gold lacquer at some point and the owner did a really REALLY bad job (including the back wheel) seemingly on purpose. Perhaps it was nicked? There’s ample patina from being stashed behind a shed for 15 years, and every open-ended tube had/has a spider lurking in it. YIKES.
As I say, 26er … canti/v-brake studs … Surly dropouts.

Any more photos?

http://sscycleworks.com/components/headsets-Campagnolo-parts.html

But you can have a new record headset at this price... (HS7-RE)
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/campagnolo-record-1-headset

Thanks for the links - SSCycleworks is an amazing place and Michael is a total star. He's helped me out with a few obscure bits in the last year, but I'm sorted on the headset front now. Thanks you replying! Rob

The rim markings don’t look right, Shimano usually put the model on the rim ie C24, C35.
Hubs look like 7900 but black instead of silver- maybe Ultegra?

https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/components/wheels/wheel-sets/shimano-dura-ace-carbon-review/ (not much detail on model though)

Sorry - didn't update this. Tossed the frame as hairline cracks where the stays joined the seat tube and bottom bracket. RIP mystery frame.

Would have made a great ratbike! RIP!

Can anyone find me this bike? I suspected ISEN / Talbot based on the seattube, but dont recognize the logo. More importantly I wanna know if the bar/stem combo is full custom, or just drilled and modified.

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Julie racing design
https://www.flickr.com/photos/krisjulie/with/9090026655/

Amazing, thank you!

Looks like a Kona, but can't pin it down. And what forks can I run?

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80s or early 90s Kona with their seat tube cable guide and derailleur cable under BB.
Do you have a pic of the BB serial number?

Reads F3016360. There's also another number reading 3I 181

Also, seat tube is oval shaped at the BB of that helps

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(Sorry fpr huge pics)

This is a Yeti something, asking for a friend.

Any ideas?

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Possibly off a bike roof rack? The bit the holds the front of the bike down.

Being Yeti there's a fair chance this is a MTB suspension linkage of some sort.

Similar on a Yeti

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Does anyone know anything about Condor's frame builders in the early 1970s....1972 to be precise.

It is a Baracchi 531 DB which is lugless....serial number is 7274 (fork column and NDS rear dropout)....Had the serial number been V7274 it would have been built by Vince Edwards (Rondinella)....all their frames were built in the UK and lugless frames were not common and it is a TT frame...the dropouts are Zeus and not Campagnolo....The only name that springs to mind is Tom Board....Does anyone have idea or know anyone who might....photos to follow.

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A couple more photos.

Tom Board?

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Give Condor a shout? They're a gem to deal with in my experience.

Ok...but online they say they don't have any records of individual frames built in the 1970s.

I have read online that Bill Hurlow built frames for Condor up to the early 70’s but other articles state only to the late 60’s. Apparently BH invented the fastback seat stays which your frame has, is the chain stay bridge curved or straight, with a small hole drilled into it?
I have a similar Condor Italia frame serial 7371. 👌

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Hi Lampman....thanks for your reply...that is interesting and yours is 1973 or 1971? 7371 could be inversed.

My brake bridge is straight but I need to check if there is a small hole drilled into it or not.

Your dropouts....Are they Zeus by any chance as mine are but without the MG eyes....I have checked in the 1970s Zeus's only dropouts had MG eyes... perhaps who ever built mine ground off the eyes? On mine the serial number is on the fork column and NDS rear dropout....Same on your Italia?

I believe 1950’s-70’s Condors had year first then production number but this format is flipped in the 90’s.
Serial number is on the NDS rear dropout & fork steerer. My frame actually has Zeus rear dropouts but Campag front!
Wouldn’t surprise me if the builder ground off the eyes. Actually maybe it would be odd to ground off the eyes?

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