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Pristine Gillott 59-60cm
Ends today on eBay
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Someone needs to be quick to buy this.
Worth it just for the pedals, cranks & stem let alone everything else.
Collection in SW3
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Well done mate.
Frame looks interesting as well with those lugs and the writing on the head tube decal is in Spanish I think (Google translate)
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Any further pictures of your Hobbs?
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Advice on frame pump please -
Recent purchase of a 1951 Gillott and it had a Blumel Afa frame pump approx 18.5".
What frame pump would be period correct?
I've seen bakerlite Blumels and Apex pumps, Are these what I should be looking for?
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Excellent, When are you going to pick it up?
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The 1946 Hobbs of Barbican Raceweight
The 1952 Hobbs Blue Riband (in progress)
The red Dare handlebar grips are today having a treatment of 303 Aerospace Protectant before installation. -
Found it.
Tom later moved to the Clapham shop. I don't remember what name it was trading under when I saw him there around 1972, but he had started building frames that he named Ciclo Parigi which he claimed was Italian for Paris Cycles. He also built frames for Condor and is actually pictured in the chapter on Condor Cycles in "The Custom Bicycle" Kolin & De Rosa 1979 p.52.
From here:
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/hinds-builders-clarke.html
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Fabulous cycles and wonderful restorations @Big_Block
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Brilliant bit of research in finding the identity of the frame
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I found TDF set up instructions in English -
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/324825/?offset=125#comment14401373
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Thanks @SideshowBob
I have been messing around with my TDF all day.
I had the derailleur working well but it wouldn't shift into the lowest cog, to get it to work I have had to take it to bits and bend the swing arm out, see the useful side on views on your Gillott thread which shows the Simplex arm splaying outwards at the bottom, mine was bending inwards?.
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I have managed to get my Elsegood commuter resurrected and rolling.
It will slowly become a practical classic lightweight I hope.
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Holdsworth - Cyclone De Luxe on eBay.
Collection only from North Wales
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So went to see it, frame has some nice details (chain holder for when swapping wheels for example) and nice lugs, but heavy as hell. Right hand brake lever is quite nice, can't make up the brand. Best things were the chainset and pedals (and possibly BB) all Chater-Lea and rear hub and stem. Maybe seat pin.
Guy said it was his father's and that he had used it quite a lot in his youth and regretted to sell and also realised he might have made a mistake in selling (mainly for it being his father's)
Decided to tell him he could actually keep it and have a better thinking about it and that CL stuff was worth a bit more than the £50 he was selling the whole bike for.
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#rep for you.
Is it dusty in here?
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1930s - Caminargent Caminade
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Velobase is a little out.
Classic Lightweights has an advertisement for the brakes in 1945. I have a set on my September 1946 Hobbs of Barbican. The front stirrup arm is stamped with the common Hiduminium, and the rear has no Hiduminium stamping. This would indicate the approximate date for the adoption of the stamping.