Wanted: Small beater frame/bike

After a small beater road frame or complete bike 52cm seat-tube ideally. Looking for something pretty crap as will need to be locked up outside in london on a fairly permanent basis.

Can collect from most places in london this week.

Checked the 'bay but even pig iron is going for hipster prices at the mo.

I have this if that fits your requirements:

It's an old Dawes mountain bike frame (reynolds 500 cro-mo, lugged) that I found and converted to a fixed gear beater (using 700c). I do not use it anymore...

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/4628/dawesbeaterfr.jpg

It comes with a headset that needs replacement because is has a tight spot (you can not cycle with no hands because of that) unless, like I did, you consider that it doesn't matter as it is only a beater.

BB could do with a servicing as well, but once again, for a beater, it was fine to my standards.

It also comes with a mis-matching crankset: Shimano Exage on the drive side, that you can not remove unless you attack it with an angle grinder because the thread is f**ked and no crank remover can get it out, and a basic Stronglight left arm.

Finaly, it has vertical drop out, so you would need to use magic gear... I used 42X16 with a half link and chain tension was perfect.

After all the above, if you are interested, I would like £10 for the frame, as it took me a lot of work to shave properly all the braze on bits... The bottom picture shows how it looks like once built...

Ah damned!! I forgot... Size is:
Center of BB to top of seat post tube = 55cm (but as you can see the top tube is lower so I suppose you can take off 2cm from that...
Center of seat tube to center of head tube (top tube lenght I mean) = 56cm
Actually, is that a lot bigger that what you need...?

Hope that helps anyway...

Loic

... ah and if you put risers, you could bar spin!! Important to know maybe!?
Also seat post on picture is included of course...
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Sounds like a possibility, thats the kind of price/condition I'm after,just need to think about the size and get back to you, where are you based?

Just did some measurement's, think it's gonna be too big for me unfortunately, so i'm gonna pass. Sure someone would want it at that price though.

No problem!

Loic

We have a smaller frame than that in our garden, not sure of exact size and my girlfriend may want to keep it. It's a green raleigh road frame, think it's either 52 or 54 but def no bigger than 54.
I'll find out if it's for sale later and let you know.