Vintage 531c Racing bike 'Competition' 1985-beautiful condition

£400.00 pick up only from Oxford.Open to reasonable offers.

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Is this still for sale?

Yes it is..thanks for looking. My brother bought this in Harehills, Leeds in 1985, then went off cycling or was too busy with his business to get much use out of it so he put it a cupboard in his basement where I saw it and bought it off him. Shame to sell it but I have several other steel beauties as well as this and I'm moving in with my girlfriend who doesn't have storage space. (My other bikes are an 80's Reynolds 531c Dawes Imperial, a 1990's Lemond Alp D'uez in cannibal orange in Reynolds 525, a Marin Fairfax alloy with hub gear, a retro/vintage Specialized Rock Hopper with double-butted chromo, as well as a lot of shiny parts ....) Idid try to upload more images but I don't think it worked-I'm not too good at this 'New Fangled' computer stuff.
All the best

Danny

Lovely! What size is it? (not for me although I'd love it, no space/bike budget)

It's twenty three and a half inches seat tube centre to centre, and the top tube is twenty two and a half inches. I've got 20mm tyres and its still really comfortable and springy-its got that steel feeling that you can't quite define..I think it just feels alive. I've got nothing against carbon or alloy though-I hired a two and a half grand Trek Emonda when I was in Puerto Pollenca, Mallorca and it practically rode itself. It was so light and you could go a lot faster than a steel bike but for the money steel is the best I think. I'd never pay such a huge amount for a bike. Anway I like to look at the scenery so 15mph-20mph is fine for me. Thanks for your nice comments.