For Sale: Chrome Carlton Track frame

^ nice tales. do you have any pics of yourself racing back then?

Mine is the same age as me

I do have a pic that keeps escaping ! Must find the lickle blighter- teapot pose with left elbow on hip lining up on the fence at Paddington Track, and looking very butch in a blue and white vertical stripe "silk" racing jersey and shiny hairnet helmet

Mine is the same age as me

One of the best bikes i have seen on this forum KC..

You still got it??

Sure have just had it on the rollers actually

red bar tape and a black Unicanitor saddle and that would be extremely similar to my old one

(no World Chump stickers though)

I have an idea Huge Porter rode a chrome Carlton when he won the World Pursuit Champion....no doubt someone will agree/put me right

^ Top Tube isn't quite lined up with the horizontal joint in the stonework and the chain looks a bit tight.

thread somewhere has tom simpson's carlton (if i remmeber correctly), and a super eight film i have he's riding what appears to be one at herne hill

I'm have a problem upload a pic for this thread - its low res. I've recently registered - what am I doing wrong?

Where's the problem exactly.

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This frame has been languishing in the garage for 30 years. The chrome was knackered so I've just had her sprayed British racing green and cream - a tradition Carlton combo.. About to rebuild and have another go at beating those times when I was 16...

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thanks Gueron for sorting out the posting problem..

^ great pics

Noice!!

Both days were breezy from memory - April 1980 so early in the season. I got down to a
24-01 which is 25mph on 81" fixed which became my gear of choice. Once you got it turning you just revved and revved. If the course was a rolling road you could fly up the drags. I always found fixed a better option in time trials. When I rode gears I tended to changed to much and loose time. Three years later I did a 25miler and was hoping to go under the hour (25mph ave).I did a 1-2-37 on the Sunday and the the following day - bank hol Monday in August I did 1-1-12 which remains my pb. Just 73 seconds shy of 'going under'. Tri bars would have seen me under the hour but they were not invented then. I'm still proud of that ride. Even in the early eighties not many rode fixed. I won the the fixed wheel prize - £3. Then I undid the wheel and turned it around for a 64 inch gear and rode the 28 mile ride back home.

This frame has been languishing in the garage for 30 years. The chrome was knackered so I've just had her sprayed British racing green and cream - a tradition Carlton combo.. About to rebuild and have another go at beating those times when I was 16...

So good!

I know that you posted this many years ago, but I owned a 22.5 inch identical frame in the 1970's. I am looking for a 22 inch. Was this frame ever sold?

Still available?