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If you're getting that Storck then i'm a jealous man Adam...:(
That's the plan, but I just made a impromptu trip to Montreal so am currently cash poor /extra bike bits rich, so it'll be dependent on selling on some of my excess bits. Will definitely let you know how I get on :) I also have a bit of a secret weapon in the cupboard coz I think Roberto wants my monoblade fork almost as much as I want the Storck!
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57/58cm's???
Which one? If you're asking about the Bob Weston, it's in the description, honest, both the seat tube and top tube are 55cm centre to centre.
If you mean the Lo-Pro, just measured it and I hadn't realised the seat tube was quite this long it's 65cm centre to top. Difficult to give a centre to centre measurement for this but if you trace a straight line to the seat tube in line with the flat section of the top tube it comes out at 50cm, though even as I'm typing this, I'm wondering just how useful a measurement that is.
I'm 5'8" but have short legs and it's too big for me, with absolutely no, and I mean absolutely no seat post showing I can just about get on it, but the geometry was just too steep, I'm guessing this would work for someone 5'10" and taller as long as they had a more typically proportioned physique than me. I think I've made it to polo something like twice, but if you're interested happy to do my best to get to polo this Sunday and bring it along so you can have a look, with no pressure or implied comitmment to buy.
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Sorry for not replying sooner to the people who've pm'ed me re. the Lo-Pro, I'll do so know. The 650c wheel on the Lo-Pro has a Wolber tubular rim, not a clincher, sorry it that disappoints, I may have a matching 700c rim that could be used to build a rear wheel to go on this.
Doesn't look like anyone's remotely interested in the Bob Weston, so I'm going to strip it down, maybe I'm over valuing the frame, anyone interested in the frame feel free to PM me an offer, silly or otherwise, if I don't get any attractive offers I'll stick it on eBAy :)
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Just discovered that you were asking about Bob Weston a while ago. In fact he has a shop in Eastham on the Wirral (the bit of land between the Rivers Dee and Mersey) on the A41 halfway between Birkenhead and Chester. The reason you didn't find him is that it's called K Cycles (!) He used to have a sister shop (Longworth's) in Wallasey Village further up the Wirral but that has now closed.
Doubt whether he built any frames himself; like many frames (such as Dave Quinn, Graham Weigh etc) they would have been bought in or built to order elsewhere. His address and 'phone number are: 1186 New Chester Road, Eastham, Merseyside, CH62 9AE, 0151 327 1594.
In his youth he used to race (for the Larkhill Wheelers in Liverpool I think) and so there has always been a racing bias to the shop as well as the everyday stuff.
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For Sale: Nearly finished Bob Weston track frame project
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I originally bought this to build up as my track bike, but then realised it was going to be too big for me, so was going to build it up for my brother, but he wants something newer and lighter, rather than classic, so going to build up the Fort with a carbon fork. I'm having a bit of a clear out, but also need to raise funds to purchase a piece of exotica from Roberto, so this needs to go. Thought I'd offer it here first before stripping to put on eBay.
It's a lugged steel frame, I'm fairly sure made of 531, it's not heavy, but not featherlight enough to be made of something more exotic. I've not been able to find anything out about Bob Weston, but it's a beautifully built frame. Both the seat tube and top tube are 55cm centre to centre. Neither the fork crown or the rear brake bridge are drilled for a brake, it's a genuine track bike. It takes a 26.8mm seat post. The rear dropouts are stamped Gipiemme, the fork dropouts are stamped Campagnolo, both are "plug in" type rather than slot ins and both are nicely chromed. Worst aspect of the frame is that the paint is pretty badly chipped in places, especially on the rear seat stays and the fork blades, if I was keeping it I'd have got it resprayed, but you may just see it as part of its aging patina. No rust at the moment, but with this many chips in the paintwork rust will at some point become a problem.
Bike is fitted with a Gipiemme track headset, Ambrosio adjustable track stem and no name bars. The track stem is pretty battered, but works fine and these are sufficiently scarce that even in this condition their desireable. Wheels are tubulars, large flange 32 hole Campagnolo hubs laced to Mavic GP4 rims. The tubs fitted are perished, but have I have a pair of new, boxed, ones you could have for £20 the pair. The front hub has a hollow axle and quick release instead of a solid axle and track nuts, great for transporting the bike between meets, but I realise this might not appeal to the purists. I have a set of pretty good 28 hole Gipiemme track hubs and NOS 28 hole tubular rims that I was going to build up into a set of wheels for this that if the buyer preferred I'd substitute for the Campagnolo wheels.
The chainset is a 144 BCD, single speed, Campagnolo chainset, with 165mm crank arms. I hestitate to call it a track chainset as it's stamped Strada, not Pista. It is definitely a single chainset, not a double with one set of shoulders machined off. Someone told me, sometimes Campagnolo stamped track chainsets Strada, someone else told me this was rubbish, but that in the 80s Campagnolo briefly sold their track chainset as a BMX chainset and that this was stamped Strada. I don't know what the truth of the matter is. It's fitted with original Campag chainring nuts and dust caps and fitted to a Campagnolo track BB. I have a variety of Campag chain rings and track cogs, so will try and furnish the buyer with whatever combination they desire. The Cinelli Unicantor saddle would have been a real find if it was in better shape, but is in reality in quite poor shape. Not sure if anyone would want to use it without getting in recovered and note sure how doable/worthwhile this would be, so not pretending I'm doing anyone any great favours by including it. Sorry for the long description and sorry it it reads like an eBay listing, but that's where this'll go if no-one here's interested. Also hope that posting so many pictures isn't breaking any etiquette.
I'm looking for £275 for the frame, forks, headset, seatpost and saddle,
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£360 for the frame, forks, headset, seatpost, saddle, cranks, BB and chain,
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£425 for the frame, forks, headset, seatpost, saddle, cranks, BB, chain and wheels,
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£460 for the frame, forks, headset, seatpost, saddle, cranks, BB, chain, wheels, adjustable track stem and bars. I realise these aren't bargain basement prices, but I think they're fair and like I said I'm raising funds to buy a piece of exotica from Roberto. I also have a Gipiemme Lo-Pro frame that I'd consider offers on, couple of picture below, I'm not desperate to sell this but will sell if I get a tempting offer, frame would come with the 650c front wheel, but not the gear shifters or the 700c rear, which I just stuck on to take the picture.