You are reading a single comment by @Buffalo_Bill and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Buffalo_Bill
Two or three suggestions:
check the OLN (width of read drop outs) - if it is 126mm (I bet it is!) then it is pre 89. If it is 122mm then older even than that.
check the underside of the dtube lug. If it is spear-point NOT rounded, then probably pre 80s.
Also it has the cable guides over the top of BB. I can't recall exactly but I think this pre mid 80s feature.
It seems to have allen key brake bridge - this would make it prob 80s.
The Reynolds sticker is late 80s, but as others have pointed out, it's been resprayed so original stickers would have been removed.
To me, this looks like a bog standard mid 80s clubman-style frame. But it always hard to date a frame exactly, unless you have access to the builders order book.