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Due to a combo of it being too small for me and there being a new member of the stables on its way (oh how I love thee, accursed eBay)…
I need to sell this, my original puppy slayer:
She saw a little over one Summer's riding before being superseded by a series of track frames. Specs: 54cm c-c Seat Tube, and 55cm Top Tube, with 126mm dropouts (and since she's 531, cold-setting for 120 hubs is easy as the proverbial pie). She's a Holdsworth Elan, with a paint colour that suggests the early '80s. Overall in great condition, saving a few nicks in the paint here and there and the expected paint loss on the dropouts.
Plus, there's even a free Hatta headset thrown in.
Now the bad news. When I got the frame, the previous owner had managed to wear down most of the slot for the seat post binder bolt and not point this out to me, so it looks like this:
But, with a flat bolt, with washers to protect the rest of the metal, and a homemade shim, it worked absolutely fine. Or you could get it fixed, I suppose, but I never really needed to bother.
I'm after £70, or very nearest offer, before I end up giving more money to the eBay beast. Oh, and it would need to be picked up from my place in Shoreditch.
Please, someone nice give her a home. She's a real beauty, and it does sadden me to see her leave - 'first love' and all that…