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@Formatt
Hi There,
The bike was built by Cliff in 1988 and is made from columbus curly tube set with columbus aero forks and the front wheel is 26 inch. It's for 5ft 10inch rider. It was used by my dad from 1988 to the mid 90's for TT's and think the best times achieved were a long 55 for a 25 mile and long 21 for a 10 mile. I had a TT bike built by Cliff in the mid 80's which had a 24 inch front wheel, same colour made from an extra light weight japenese tubing and had mainly Corsa Record, it weighed 16lbs with Campag disc wheel!
The bike you have had an early Zipp Disc and deep section front wheel at one point, the surgino brake levers are very rare (they were from my TT bike) and it used to have red look pedals too.
I would go for all campag but not clinchers on a bike like that!
I'll send you some pics of the Cliff Shrubb I still ride to train on, Record C including delta's!! And see if I can dig out any other pics of my old TT bike.
Cliff Shrubb is still around and belongs to the Epsom CC. He still makes the VERY occasional frame too!
Out of interest, how much did you buy the bike for, the frame alone was over £400 in the late 80's!...and how long have you had it?