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Lovely frame, fun bike, but I have something else very similar and need to make space for a gravel bike (yeah, I know).
There’s almost no info out there about John Retallick but someone on Retrobike said he made frames in Hull in the mid and late 80s and this is a fine example. It’s Columbus SL, 56cm square centre to centre and has some really nice features including a fastback seat cluster and flattened seatstays. I believe the blue fade paint job is original, and it’s in pretty good condition - there are chips and some areas of paint loss/surface rust, but nothing that couldn’t be touched up. There’s a shallow ding in the top tube I guess from a swinging handlebar.
The groupset is 105 R7000, 50-34, 11-30. The cranks are 170mm. There’s heel rub on the drive side and minor cosmetic damage to the crank and shifter on the NDS from a stationary topple, but everything is in working order (the front mech is shifting ok but it does need a tune up to get it perfect). The bars are really nice Nitto compact ones. The stem is the only one I had I could get the bars through and is too short for the build really. I have a nice 3ttt one that I could chuck that would look better if you could squeeze the bars through (I didn’t try that hard). There’s a Tange sealed bearing headset in there. I’d like to keep the pedals, the Thomson seatpost, and the power saddle. I can provide alternatives.
The wheels are 50mm deep Chinese carbon. There are a few scratches on them and a tiny bit of damage above the brake track on the rear from where I dropped it fixing a flat, but I don’t think it’s anything to be concerned about. The bearings are smooth and they’re taped for tubeless, though I've been running them tubed with 25mm GP5000s (included). I reckon the frame has room for 28mm, but probably no bigger. I do also have an alloy wheelset (Superstar Pave) I could provide instead or as well. There’s a ding in the rear rim but it’s probably fine to use as is and could definitely be straightened out.
I’d really like not to have to split it so how does £420 sound, collected in Bristol BS5?