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Managed to prise this from the clammy, Northern grasp of Leeds' famous Malaysian, as I'm not in the mood to wait for my Caygill to be repaired. Maybe further down the line I'll have it done. By my reckoning I'm the third person to be riding about on one of Tom's ex-frames, after the Les/Fort lo-pro double-whammy.
As I say it's ridable, as I've just finished building it to an incarnation which isn't yet appropriate for this thread. My hands are greasy, and I'm content. So satisfying screwing a bike together and not having it collapse underneath you.
The hubs were too good to miss out on when Pepe sold them recently, so going against a lifetime spent not doing so, I did the right thing and snapped them up. They'll be laced to rims which are yet to be decided on. This will not be a quick build, but as and when things happen I'll update. For now though I'm more than happy with the form it's in now - quite hard to make a mess of a frame this beautiful, but it's getting treated to new wheels and cranks, at which point it will be done and paraded in here.