For Sale: 2x Ken James Road Frames 55cm & 58cm Very Nice Detailing

As the title says.

Ken James was a cycle shop in Ashford Kent. And here we have two very clean examples with some nice detailing. Both built for 700c wheels

First the Electric Blue frame is made from 501SL tubing(includes headset)
Seat tube 58cm ctc
Top tube 57cm ctc
Rear spacing 126mm
Seatpost 27.2
Looking for £((((((((((((SOLD))))))))))))

Second the Smoked Grey(gunmetal) is made from 531 tubing has campag dropouts etc and really nice clover cutouts on the lugs (headset not included)
Seat tube 55cm ctc
top tube 54cm ctc
Rear Spacing 120mm
Seatpost 27.2
looking for £ ((((((((((((((SOLD))))))))))))

Both perfect for building single speed/fixed conversions

Dibs followed by PM's please
Collection/viewing Camden NW1

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lovely frames..

dibs on 'Second the Smoked Grey(gunmetal)'
will PM,
Thanks

one frame on hold which is the smoked grey(gunmetal)

both nice

i went into his shop when i was about 10.
just over the road from the cinema (now the eurostar carpark) it wasn't even a shop just a small single story brick building with a counter and the workshop behind and a tall chap wearing a workshop overcoat (everyone was tall to me then he could have been 5ft nothing) i wanted some ball bearings to put back in my bike as most of them were lost in the grass in the back garden, i don't think there was any other bike shop in town.
i can't remember much else but the blue in the top picture was the only colour i ever saw a ken james bike painted.
this was 30 years ago and regrettably i never got to order a ken james as cycling wasn't part of my life again until after i hit 30.

thanks for the info. I was near where the shop was as i bought the bikes off the original owners an oldish gent and his son in-law.

from the shop in ashford? because of the new road layout when they redid the international station i never went past it when visiting my folks and presumed it had gone? did it close recently?

edit:just checked on google streetview and it obviously moved or close ages ago

yes the shop is long gone. The frames we purchased from some local riders that were customers there.

lovely frames..

both nice

Thanks

They are gorgeous frames... Someone buy them... Quickly...

Smoked grey/gunmetal 55cm frame sold and collected.

Someone tallish buy the first one before I put myself on Max Crowe's rack.