For Sale: Frame bargains Condor, Carlton, Major Nicholls, Koga Miyata, Gazelle

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

GITANE TOUR DE FRANCE FRAME c1976
Seat Tube (ctc): 54cm
Top Tube (ctc): 54cm
Rear dropout width: 125mm
Wheel size: Sprints/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 48mm
Seatpost size 27.0mm
This is a c1976 Gitane Tour de France made from Reynolds 531 tubing – the remains of the transfer can just be seen on the down tube. The frame is in very sound condition (there is a small dent on the top of the top tube but this will not affect the strength or alignment of the frame) and has the Gitane fabulous honeycomb rear dropouts which are slanting – this should mean that it could be quite easily converted to fixed wheel or singlespeed use. An unusual frame. £75 SOLD

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PALETTI ROAD FRAME 50cm 1980s
Seat Tube (ctc): 50cm
Top Tube (ctc): 52cm
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 46mm
Seatpost size: 27.0mm
Frame tubing: Columbus Aelle
Paletti are one of the lesser known Italian framebuilders which are really rather good. This frame features very attractively shaped and pantograpghed lugs and fork crown. Its nicely built and is in very sound condition; the paint needs some careful touching up and there is a small dent in the side of the down tube but that will not affect the frame structurally. £125

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CARLTON ROAD FRAME Early 1960s 19.5in
Seat Tube (ctt): 19.5in 49.5cm
Top Tube (ctc): 21in (53cm)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 26in/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 50mm
Seatpost size: 26.4mm
This is a rather nice little Carlton road frame from the early/mid 1960s. It has standard British threading (not Raleigh) but I am do not know what tubing it is built from. It has long horizontal rear dropouts making it very simple for a fixed or singlespeed conversion. The paint is in very sound condition. £75 SOLD subject to payment

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GAZELLE CHAMPION MONDIAL ROAD FRAME 1990s Reynolds 531C
Seat Tube (ctc): 53cm
Top Tube (ctc): 54cm
Rear dropout width: 130mm
Wheel size: Sprints/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 45mm
Seatpost size 27.2mm
This is a really very nice Gazelle 531C road frame from the early 1990s. Gazelle frames are well known for their beautiful handling and care in building – this is just gorgeous. The paint is very good with a only a few small marks. £165 SOLD subject to payment

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ALAN ROAD/TOURIST FRAME
Seat Tube (ctc): 52cm
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm
Rear dropout width: 130mm
Wheel size: Sprints/700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 47mm
Seatpost size 25.0mm
Most Alan frames are either road or cyclocross frames. This one is badged as a Tourist and when I got it was fitted with 26in aluminium wheels. It appears to be a standard road frame but with mudguard eyes front and rear. It has standard road frame clearances with 700C wheels. Its is excellent condition with no cracks or other damage. reduced to £95 SOLD

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CONDOR TT FRAME c1980 Track Ends
Seat Tube (ctt): 55cm (21.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm (21in)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 42mm
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
This is one gorgeous Condor fillet brazed frame built by Vic Edwards probably around 1980 with track rear facing dropouts and a derailleur hanger – there was a real fashion for TT frames in the late 70s/early 80s for using track dropouts with gears. It has very close clearances and I think steep head and seat tube angles. One really special frame. The paint is excellent with a few very small marks. Gear and rear brake cables are internal. £245

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MOSER LEADER AX ROAD FRAME c1990
Seat Tube (ctt): 64cm 58cm (ctc)
Top Tube (ctc): 57cm
Rear dropout width: 130mm
Wheel size: 700C
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Frame Tubing: Oria
The Leader AX frames were introduced by Moser in around 1989. They were really quite stunning, fillet brazed with silver solder and an oversize top tube they were one of the first of a new breed of steel road frames and looked truly stunning. This one is in very sound condition with good useable paintwork and no dents or dings. It has horizontal dropouts so is perfectly suitable for fixed or singlespeed use. £195.

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MAJOR NICHOLLS ROAD FRAME c1976
Seat Tube (ctt): 52cm (20.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 52cm (20.5in)
Rear dropout width: 125mm
Wheel size: 700C
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 46mm
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Major Nicholls was a very highly regarded Birmingham framebuilder. This frame built in about 1976 may well have been built for a rider who was a member of some team – with relatively close clearances and true race geometry this frame was built for road racing. It incorporates some interesting little features – the brazed-on fittings for bottle cage and top tube cable guides are not standard – such fittings were only just coming into use on Ittalian frames it is easy to see the Italian influence in this frame. The standard of workmanship is some of the best I have seen for a long while. But it does require a repaint. Decals are available. £125 SOLD

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MAXI SPORTS LO-PRO FRAME ex Lauret Roux Castorama 1995
Seat Tube (ctt): 58cm 54cm (ctc)
Top Tube (ctc): 51cm
Rear dropout width: 130mm
Wheel size: 700C rear, 650C (26in) front
Frame tubing: Columbus aluminium
This stunning looking frame was Laurent Roux’s TT frame for his 1995 season at Castorama. Maxisports was owned by Cyrille Guimard who was Bernard Hinault’s team manager and coach I think in the 1980s. This frame is absolutely gorgeous despite a few scratches to the paint and is very, very special. With vertical dropouts it is not ideal for singlespeed/fixed use unless you manage to get a magic chain length. Reduced to £225.

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RALEIGH ILKESTON FRAME 1980
Seat Tube (ctt): 57cm
Top Tube (ctc): 56cm
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Brake drop with 700C wheels: 45mm
Tubing: Reynolds 753 metric
Frame number SB3868
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 allen nut fitting brakes. The frame appears to be very sound condition with no dents. 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. The paint is in excellent condition with almost no marks. £375

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KOGA-MIYATA PRORACER 1981
Seat Tube (ctc): 51cm
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: 700C
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Brake drop with 700C/Sprint wheel: 45mm
Framee number: J376252
This is one of top end Koga-Miyata Japanese built frames which are truly stunning quality. Just take a look at the lug finishing and the drilled bottom bracket shell. These are really very fine frames. It has been horribly oversprayed in white but some of the original blue paint can be seen where the white spray has been poorly applied... The long horizontal dropouts make it am ideal conversion to fixed or singlespeed. £95 SOLD

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