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Here's a pic of the bike. The frame was made by Dave Manders who was a member of the cycling club I raced for. He owned a light engineering company & started making frames. I'm not sure how many he made. A friend of mine had another one, but stacked it irrepairably. I recently found that Dave is still living quite close by & hope to bump into him some time.
Here is a detail pic of how I had the rear stays done, which was a style you sometimes got on handmade frames at the time. I always liked the look of bikes with the stays done like this becasue they formed a triangle, which I thought of as being a bit stiffer than the rhombus formed by tacking them either side of the seat tube. Probably makes no difference in reality.
