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For Sale: Frames from £39 Raleigh, Witcomb, Condor, Bird, Dawes mixte etc
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Hi everyone,
I’ve just sorted out some rather nice road frames which are suitable for singlespeed or fixed wheel use. Shipping on frames will be £11 - other items can ship free of charge in the same box.
ALL ITEMS ARE IN BRISTOL; viewing/collection is most welcome. Payment can be via bank transfer (preferred), cheque or the dreaded Paypal which costs me 3%…
Hilary
BIRDS CYCLE CENTRE SPECIAL ROAD FRAME c1975
Seat Tube (ctt): 56cm
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm
Rear dropout width: 124mm
Wheel size: 700C
Frame tubing: Columbus SL
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 43mm
This is really a rather special frame - Alec Bird built most of the frames for his brother’s (Ken Bird) shops - this one has obviously been built for road racing and shows many influences from Italian frames of the period - the Campy dropouts have their trailing edges squared off, the centre bolts for the Campy brakes are built into the frame, the simple but exquisitely filed lugs with a single hole and the drilled bottom bracket shell. The headset is not included. £195
CONDOR ROAD frame c1979
Seat Tube (ctt): 56cm
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm
Rear dropout width: 122mm
Wheel size: 700C
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 DB
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 57mm
This late 70s Condor road frame has mudguard clearances and would make an excellent frame for winter training either with gears or on fixed wheel. It is very good condition with quite a number of marks to the paint but nothing at all serious... No dents or dings etc £95 SOLD
DAWES GALAXY MIXTE FRAME c1982
Seat Tube (ctt): 52cm
Top Tube (ctc): 55cm
Rear dropout width: 124mm
Wheel size: 700C/27in, 65mm brake drop with 700C wheels
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531
Seatpost size 26.6mm
This Dawes Galaxy mixte frame is in excellent condition. It can easily be converted to fixed or singlespeed use. £45 **SOLD **
GEOFFREY BUTLER ROAD FRAME 1960s/70s
Seat Tube (ctt): 62cm
Top Tube (ctc): 57cm
Rear dropout width: 125mm
Wheel size: Sprints or 700C
Tubing: Reynolds 531 DB
Seatpost size 27.2mm
This frame features extremely beefy seatstays and top eyes. It was probably built in the late 60s/early 70s. With long horizontal dropouts its ideal for budget fixed/singlespeed conversion. The paint is in poor condition and there are no forks hence £39
MIKE MULLETT ROAD FRAME 1970s
Seat Tube (ctt): 54cm
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm
Rear dropout width: 122mm
Brake drop with 700C wheels: 50/44mm
Tubing: Reynolds 531 DB tubing
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Mike Mullett was for several years the foreman at Raleigh’s Ilkeston works which produced the 753 frames for the Ti-Raleigh team. This frame dates from the 1970s and is in very sound condition. The front fork is not original - but is a Raleigh 531 fork. £89
RALEIGH TOURING/ROAD FRAME 1980
Seat Tube (ctt): 57cm
Top Tube (ctc): 57cm
Rear dropout width: 130mm
Brake drop with 700C wheels: 50mm
Tubing: Reynolds 531 DB tubing
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
This Raleigh road frame has been extensively modified - with braze-ons for a rear rack, dynamo on the front forks and a new seatstay bridge with the rear end altered to 130mm wide. It has also had a repair to the seat tube (under the seat lug, see pics) where a stuck seat post has been crudely removed - this will not affect the strength of the frame. £49 SOLD
RALEIGH ILKESTON TIME TRIAL SPECIAL FRAME 1978
Seat Tube (ctt): 56cm
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Brake drop with 700C wheels: 50/44mm
Tubing: Reynolds 753 metric
Frame number SB1942
Seatpost size: 27.0mm
This was made at the Raleigh Ilkeston plant under the direct supervision of Gerald O’Donovan. Mike Mullett was the foreman in the framebuilding shop when this was built. There are some gorgeous touches such as the slotted bottom bracket and oversize seatstay cap. It is designed for use use with hex nut fitting brakes. The frame appears to be very sound with no dents. It is one of the comparitively rare Time Trial Special frames with drilled and reinforced vertical dropouts -and is built from the lighest version of 753 - the bare frame weighs just 1550g! It has had bottle cage bosses added.
In autumn 1974 Raleigh established a specialist workshop (SBDU) capable of frame building to the very highest standards at Ilkeston in Derbyshire. Frames were built for the Ti-Raleigh continental pro team from the very beginning. They produced the only British frame to ever win the Tour de France (Joop Zoetemelk, 1980). The unit worked with Reynolds in developing Reynolds 753 and the first frames were tested by the Ti-Raleigh team in 1974. Genuine Ilkeston frames can be identified by frame numbers with 1 to approx 9500, prefixed SB. For a company as large as Raleigh, the SBDU was quite an unusual operation. Its production capacity was modest – at a maximum only about 1000 frames or so a year from about four framebuilders. SBDU frames were mostly built in stock designs except for the actual team frames. £225
WITCOMB L'AVENIR ROAD FRAME 1970
Seat Tube (ctt): 51cm
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm
Rear dropout width: 124mm
Brake drop with 700C wheels: 60mm
Tubing: Reynolds 531 DB
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
This is an exceptionally nice small road frame built by Witcombs of Deptford in 1970. The paint is in excellent condition but the chrome to the rear stays is poor - the trick here would be to rub down the chrome areas and paint. A lovely frame. £89 SOLD