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@Rik_Van_Looy
oops I did it again
Just acquired another unidentified £10 rat bike frameset.
This time it's a vintage tourer - as usual it has a shite red spray job but there are plenty of distinguishing features...
The first is the bottom bracket which is marked "British Made CR2"
This sort of thing was common on Flying Scots - don't know whether it showed up on any other framebuilders...?
The Serial# is on the rear dropout - also common with Flying Scot.
The Frame number is P4211 - I know that Flying Scot used letters to denote years (P=1971 which would seem reasonable for the frame), but I understand that they had theirs the other way round 4211P rather than P4211 - are there any Flying Scot specialists on the forum who can confirm?
The seat stays are pencil thin and nicely chamferred at the seatlug
There are also a pair of curious bosses at the top and bottom of the seat tube, I suspect that they're old pump bosses that have been ground or chopped off
There are no cable routing braze ons, just the standard chrome plated cable guides on the top tube and down tube - the brake clips are Dia Compe and the gear clips Shimano.
There's another curious boss just below the rear canti mount on one side only
and the head tube lugs are quite distinctive too - plain and (IMO) curiously attractive...
Any ideas????
Cheers