For Sale: Saffron Light Tourer frame and fork

SOLD ON THE 16/1

For sale is a Saffron Frameworks credit card/light tourer, designed for use with a Carradiace-style saddlebag support. It's one of my personal bikes. The frame has only done a couple of hundred miles which has resulted in a few minor cosmetic markets on the paint. Reason for selling is it is not really ridden and the money will be going towards more frame building equipment.

For sale is the frame and fork complete with a Campag headset. New price is £550, and i am selling it with a 10 year guarantee.

**I have just dropped the price from £685 to £550. This is what the paint alone cost me!
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Full specification is:

Columbus SL tube set
1 inch steerer
Hand carved/shaped arrowhead lugs
Paris-Brest fork crown
Polished Llewellyn dropouts front and rear
Bosses for mudguards
English threaded BB shell
Effective top tube 573mm
Seat tube length 598mm
Head tube length 160mm
Steerer tube length 244mm
Chain stay length 424mm
Horizontal top tube
Seat tube angle 71.9
Head tube angle 72
45mm rake in the forks
Built for longer reach brake calipers for good mudguard clearance
Paint: pearl black /pearl white and a dark gunmetal grey

Please contact me on matthew@saffronframeworks.com if you're interested. Inspection of the frame is available at my workshop (central London), get in touch to arrange a suitable time.

If you'd like to see how the frame looks when built up then you can take a look herehttp://www.saffronframeworks.com/build/columbus-sl-light-tourer/

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Beautiful.

this is awesome and a great price, love the lugs, matthew is a top bloke met him at a bike show last year.....would take this if it was my size!

Lovely details! The ends and crown in particular.

Beautiful and precisely my size ):

Ditto. Must resist.

Looked at this earlier today.

Had I not bought something on e-bay over breakfast, would have ripped your arm off. Might come and have a look anyway, as you are local to work.

In the meantime, have a bump.

Lovely bit of kit.

http://www.saffronframeworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Semi-touring-merged-1200x693.png

Absolutely stunning. If it was a 55 I'd have it. Someone buy this

My size, but just finished something similar. Very nice, looked at pictures of this build for ideas when I was shopping a couple of months back.

Beautiful and precisely my size ):

Should I get her out and ready for your inspection?

Looked at this earlier today.

Had I not bought something on e-bay over breakfast, would have ripped your arm off. Might come and have a look anyway, as you are local to work.

In the meantime, have a bump.

Feel free to pop in to have a look, just let me know before you decide to come

Thank you all for the bumps and kind words

Go for it Jingle Jangle. You know it makes sense, and there has to be some detritus in that shed of yours to fund it... GLWS Matthew

My size, but just finished something similar. Very nice, looked at pictures of this build for ideas when I was shopping a couple of months back.

Which frame did you go with?

I met Jake at your shop and talked to him about building me something, but in the end I found a second hand Roberts audax compact in 853 pro team in my size. The savings were too big to resist, and the frame was near new. There are some pictures and a projects thread here if you want to see

http://www.lfgss.com/thread115935.html

I still sorta regret not having something built for me, but maybe next time. I really liked the frame you are selling here. Maybe Jingle Jangle will buy it and hold it for me for later ....

btw liking that stainless and blue frame you have on the go now...

Should I get her out and ready for your inspection?

Sadly the frowny face at the end of my post represents my lack of available funds...

I have just dropped the price from £685 to £550. This is what the paint alone cost me!

The frame and fork new would be around the £1800+ mark, it has hardly been ridden

Saw this being built up today. Pure porn.

So it finally sold? Whew. Absolute bargain.

So it finally sold? Whew. Absolute bargain.

I presume so. Tom at Balfes was building it up for a customer when I stopped by earlier. 11spd Ultegra and some pretty Zipp bits.

I bought it, popped into see matthew and couldn't leave it behind. its very lovely, i'm very happy :)
only zipp bars btw

How did I miss this? If you ever feel like selling it on, I'm your man ^

I bought it, popped into see matthew and couldn't leave it behind. its very lovely, i'm very happy :)
only zipp bars btw

So pretty. Going to be a beast when it's built up. Please post photos of the full build.

thank you, will do mate!