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Mine's a rather late model - about 1977/78. Fortunately / unfortunately (depending on your point of view) this means it didn't have some of the more esoteric 'bespoke' components. It's a nice lugless brazed frame, though, and is pretty light too. The colour is not the original finish - it was previously my big bro's bike and when he got it (1980ish) is was banana yellow with bottom-half chrome on the forks. He had it shot-blasted and stove enamelled in the rather more subtle red you see above.
Actually don't think the original forks were "death-forks". Nevertheless, I replaced them to get a bit of a sharper ride from the front end and also to take 700c wheels with 100mm spacing (old forks were 95mm).
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