For Sale: 70's Wilson track bike 60cm/24"

For sale is my lovely Wilson track bike because I need cash for a new project. It's a british frame that want to return to the UK.

Frame built by Wilson cycles of Sheffield in the early 70's. 24'' C-C. No number but the actual owner Nigel Wilson has pegged the frame as his fathers work. Nice drilled lugs, great original paint. Head badge ruptured but complete preserved.

Components:
CB Italia wood rims, NOS
Renak track hubs
Vittoria Rally training tubulars, glued with Tufo tape
Campy crankset, 47t Campy track chainring
Zeus track pedals with Ale toe clips
Campy track BB
Cinelli XA stem and Cinelli Pista bars, Benotto bar tape
basic Tange headset
Avocet seat post and Unicanitor style saddle

asking price 750 £
shipping to the UK 20 £

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49960641@N04/sets/72157623885993129/

Total knockout

wowza....will you deliver by helicopter?!

beauty! If you decide to split, i may be interested in the frame

That's incredible, those wheels are just something else.

Wow...now this I like!.....dare not look anymore...24" is my size....must resist....must resist....

J

Buffting

Shit the bed....
I've have this bike in my Flickr favorites ever since, pure awesomeness.

free pic bump
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That is absolutely lovely. Can you still get wooden rims? (new ones)

Ghisallah in Italy still make them...Hilary sometimes has them for sale

Yes. But try it yourself.
http://shop.ebay.de/zebrino95/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25

how do wooden rims ride compared with their modern alloy counterparts? Can you tension the spokes to the same degree? I've got to try some... They look great anyway.

how do wooden rims ride compared with their modern alloy counterparts? Can you tension the spokes to the same degree? I've got to try some... They look great anyway.

Yes. Look this guy or the other guys on http://www.cbita.it/

how do wooden rims ride compared with their modern alloy counterparts? Can you tension the spokes to the same degree? I've got to try some... They look great anyway.

No difference, not in my opinion. You can use wood rims even for cyclo cross... Look the guys at http://www.cbita.it

sex.

No interest in this beauty? Skint? Everybody on holiday?

thanks jagermeister...I think i might sell some wheels and get some hickory rims made up!

sold