Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

I've just opened a tin of Cippolini - was that it?

If it's cannelloni you'll need an Italian-specific tin opener, I've got one for £120 posted

when did you buy the tin of food?

Sometime in the last 5 years. Could be paint. Tastes OK though.

Sometime in the last 5 years. Could be paint. Tastes OK though.

is it white? could be milk

If it's cannelloni you'll need an Italian-specific tin opener, I've got one for £120 posted

You'll just bugger the creak flange if you scarper it with a cheap one like that.

I have a Park one with a pizza cutter and collar stud extractor in the handle for £499.

I'm pretty sure it was paint. I may not make it to Easts tonight.

at least if something happens to you it will be easy to lead the traces to your body

I have a Holdsworth too, but having difficulty in finding what model it is. I think it is 1950s - frame number is 18569 I think - anyone any ideas what it is and what it's worth as would like to sell it?
Flickr url for quite a few pictures - http://www.flickr.com/photos/50314103@N02/sets/72157624931642036/ - would appreciate some help or offers if anyone interested in buying it.
Thanks

Hi,

is there a list/table about frame numbers/characters to identify/associate them with a manufacturer?

Does anyone know what manufacturer or frame builder might be behind a british 80's track frame starting with 'BW' followed by five digits?

Thanks

jetski

Try these

http://velobase.com/

http://www.nkilgariff.com/

That's great thanks

I did try the nkilgariff site before - pretty useful but no luck there with valuing it though. Not much luck on velobase either - seems to only have later model but again no prices.

Amieross,

I've got a similar age Holdsworth and have been looking at the lugs on Nik's site for a while working out that my bike is a Cyclone.. I think you have a early 50's Tornado - which went out of production in in 1955 - it has similar "ornate" lugs but they are shorter than those on the Cyclone..

I paid £120 for my Cyclone - as a "working bike" but really only for the frame and original wheels, the rest of the kit had been replaced with pretty crud low end bits and I'm slowly working through upgrading (as pocket money allows).

Hope this helps!

mid to late 50's cyclone or tornado.

(for a mate, car boot pickup from a few years ago, was going to do it up SS, but never got round to it. needs a bike now, so has pulled it out of the shed)
Ok, what I know so far:

Nervex Professional Lugs, matching fork, custom filing on the seat cluster seat stay ends
Cyclo Dropouts, no hanger
Frame number 11409
lamp bracket on right fork tang

What I don't know:
Make/model
age
tubeset (What should a 531 etc frame weigh?)

And some pictures:

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk43/statler_2008/130af7b5.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk43/statler_2008/6b7969e6.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk43/statler_2008/misc/4b40135c.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk43/statler_2008/misc/5e56bd12.jpg

Any help in ID'ing would be greatly appreciated...

cheers,

Alistair.

Definitely a Carlton...
Except for the ornate stays on the seat cluster.

Probably a high end model.

Very nice though!

Lucy, Why a Carlton? I thought Carlton stamped frame numbers on their fork ends, This frame has it on the BB shell, I believe...

Also, Calrton numbers start with a letter, don't they?

If it is a carlton, it's a nice high end model; nervex lugs were only used on the highest of the high carltons... 'far as I can tell...

Anybody know what bike fram this is?
The frame is 24.5 inch.

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I believe it to be an older Schwinn....

Hi guys im new to the forum, i found this old racer in my grandads garage and thought that it would make an ideal starter project. Can anyone help me name that frame?

cheers,

Tom

Oh oh oh!

how about 'Fire Engine'?

That'd be super rad!

Anyone have a clue as to what brand of bike this is?

Its reynolds 531 tubing but I believe its French.

Detailed shots of BB and lugs please...

The owner only has this shot of the bike, but it looks pretty imho.

It's a Peugeot, Gitane, Mercier or Motobecane, probably.

Those being the biggest French mass produced bicycle manufacturers of the 1970's which is what this bike looks like.