For Sale: Frame bargains from £55 Claud Butler, Condor, Bob Jackson, Merckx, Viscount etc

Hi everyone,
I’ve just sorted out some rather nice road frames which are suitable for singlespeed or fixed wheel use and one rather nice Japanese track bike. Shipping on frames within the UK will be £11 - other items can ship free of charge in the same box. I can ship anywhere in the world at a reasonable cost.

ALL ITEMS ARE IN BRISTOL

Payment can be via bank transfer (preferred), cheque or the dreaded Paypal which costs me 3%…

** If you dib an item, please PM me and pay the same day unless you make other arrangements with me. **

Viewing/Personal collection is welcome as quite a few have found and have been able to get other parts they are looking for at the same time.

Hilary Stone

CONDOR ROAD FRAME 55cm 1980s built by Bill Hurlow
Seat Tube (ctt): 57cm (22.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm (22in)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 55mm
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 DB
Condor frames have been built by many top builders over the years - Dave Yates, Vic Edwards, Roberts, Tom Board etc but perhaps the best of all of them wasw Bill Hurlow. I would certainly rank him as one of the very best British builders of the last 50 years. His career started in the 1930s working for Grubb in the middle 30s before working for Claud Butler and Holdsworth. He started working for Condor in about 1954 and devised some fancy lug designs which are true classics in their time - he also built frames for some other shops in the 60s - Mal Rees and Stan Miles being two but mostly concentrated on high end frames for these others. In the later 60s he built under his own name too. He also built some less fancy frames - this ione he built under the Condor name in I think 1957. It features his signature curved chainstay bridge (other builders did do curved c/stay bridges but they are not common). The lugs are beautifully and evenly filed, the brazing is immaculate... I am not certain whether the paint is original though the down tube transfers are ones I have not seen before on Condors. It has two small dings - one to the top tube where the bars have hit the TT on an occasion and another small ding on the down tube just up from the BB. It comes complete with headset and BB as pictured. A rare opportunity to get a genuine Bill Hurlow frame. £195** SOLD**

VISCOUNT GRAND PRIX BIKE c1978
Seat Tube (ctt of top tube): 55.5cm
Top Tube (ctc): 55.5cm
Rear dropout width: 125mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheels: 55cm
Viscount Aerospace bikes from the 1970s were extremely innovative with lots of parts being built especially for them and offered extraordinary good value for money at the time. They featured pressed-in cartridge bearing bottom brackets (the bearing are quite standard and are easily found if necessary and axles from some American bikes can also be fitted as replacements...). This bike is one of the their later production and does not have the aluminium fork which was said to be unreliable (the Americans called it the ‘Death’ fork!) but does have Viscount 700C wheels with cartridge bearing hubs. The frames were fillet-brazed from a light straight gauge Cro-mo tubing. This one is in beautiful original condition complete with a Sugino Maxy chainset, Shimano 600 derailleurs and Weinmann centre-pull brakes. Tyres are brand-new Schwalbe. £145 ** SOLD subject to payment**

BOB JACKSON ROAD FRAME 1984
Seat Tube (ctt): 22.5in (57cm)
Top Tube (ctc): 22in (56cm)
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: 27in/sprints/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 45mm
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 double butted
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
A gorgeous Bob Jackson road frame in beautiful almost unmarked original paint from 1984 Its ideal for a singlespeed or fixed conversion with its long horizontal dropouts. £165 ** SOLD**

HOLDSWORTH MISTRAL c1980
Seat Tube (ctt): 56cm (22in)
Top Tube (ctc): 57cm (22.5in)
Rear dropout width: 124mm
Wheel size: 27in/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 66mm
Seatpost size 27.2mm
The Mistral was Holdsworth’s top touring frame and this one dates I think from the early 1980s. It is in very sound condition with no dents though the paintwork is quite scruffy. Its ideal for a singlespeed or fixed conversion with its long horizontal dropouts. £85

MERCKX ROAD FRAME 1970s
Seat Tube (ctc): 55cm
Top Tube (ctc): 55cm
Rear dropout width: 122mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 50mm
Seatpost size: 27.0mm
Mercks road frames from the early 1970s are very rare in this country. Merckx licensed the use of his name to different builders in countries across Europe - in England inexplicably it was Falcon but in Belgium it was Kessels and I think Schauff in Germany... This frame sourced from Germany was probably either Kessels or Schauff built. Its obviously a quality frame with drilled lugs and heavily slotted BB shell. The frame weight is about 2kg and it takes a 27.0mm seatpost so is built from good quality tubing. The long Campy dropouts suggest it is from the first half of the 1970s. Its ideal for a singlespeed or fixed conversion with its long horizontal dropouts. £245

PEUGEOT 531 FRAME c1989
Seat Tube (ctc): 53cm (21in)
Top Tube (ctc): 53.5cm (21in)
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: 700C
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 main tubes and 531 forks
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 45mm
This is a gorgeous Peugeot road frame built from Reynolds 531 around 1989. Its in excellent condition. £65 ** SOLD**

ROY THAME c1979
Seat Tube (ctt): 56cm (22in)
Top Tube (ctc): 57cm (22.5in)
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: 27in/700C
Brake drop with sprints/700C: 65mm
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 DB
Roy Thame was the brand name of F W Holdsworth shop in Putney. Prior to 1975 their frames were also known as Holdsworth but the new owners of Holdsworthy who owned the Holdsworth frame brand insisted that the shop frames could no longer be called Holdsworth hence the Roy Thame name who was the current owner of the shop. Their frames were very nicely built in-house and were often pretty similar to the Holdsworths of the period - this one appears to be a touring or club frame and features lovely drilled seatstay top eyes. Paint is scruffy but its otherwise very sound. Its ideal for a singlespeed or fixed conversion with its long horizontal dropouts. £85 ** SOLD subject to payment**

CLAUD BUTLER ELECTRON c1965
Seat Tube (ctt): 58cm (23in)
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm (22in)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 27in/700C
Seatpost size: 26.4mm
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 64mm
This 1960s Claud Butler is in great original condition with no dents or dings. Its ideal for a singlespeed or fixed conversion with its long horizontal dropouts. £55 ** SOLD**

bob jackson is a beaut

Dibs on CB. Pm to follow (I'm on the train!)

bob jackson is a beaut

+1

the claud butler is quite a bargin

someone buy the Bob J soon, before i spend my rent on it...

pm'ed about the bob jack- your rent is safe Marcus, but im afraid mines not

If owee doesn't buy the claud butler I will have it!

Have sent you pm re the Viscount

Apparently the pm may not work for me soooo....
Are you willing to freight the Viscount either with parcel force or other carrier?
Please mail me at
skywalker62ATbtinternetDOTcom
I can pay by paypal or cheque...your preference.

Sorry should be
skywalker63ATbtinternetDOTcom

dibs on Claud butler - ready to pay once confirmation its still available...

yer still waiting for Hilary to get back to me aswell

Second dibs on the viscount (as if second dibs actually works!)

Can't seem to get through on PM, sorry if you have inundated with irritating emails, but just wanted to make it clear that I am still keen on the Claud Butler frame after putting in the original dibs. Could you give me a ring on [email received] to arrange payment by bank transfer as I'm not sure any of my other messages have got through (think I might still be stuck in the nursery despite making the requisite number of posts and so on...)

Cheers,

owee

hilary i will take the white peugoet. pm'd. cheers, jonny

Lovely!

Am I glad its too big???

Dibs on Roy Thame

Still waiting for a reply re the Viscount. Or did I miss the boat?

I am sorry not to have updated the list earlier but its been a bit complicated with some of the frames this week... with dibs on and off the posting and changes of mind - I think its now sorted - sorry to all those I disappointed...