FS: 80s Denton road bike 50cm/Small Suntour VX Rigida Paul Donahue/Mercian

I'm reluctantly selling my Denton road bike. Size is Small with 50cm c to t downtube and 53cm top tube. The bike's frame really is too small for me and I optomistically thought a forward sloping long seatpost could balance things out, (at least I now know how far this will take me) but now feel I should move the bike on. It has the majority of it's original parts, except for a few like the brake levers and chainset which I thought I'd upgrade with something a bit better. I've researched the frame and believe it's one of Denton's 80s models. The builder isn't all that well known, but Denton's was a shop in Newcastle that bought in frames from very respected builders including Mercian, Kevin Winter, Dave Yates and Paul Donohue (apparently, Donohue went into a business partnership with the shop in the 80s)and applied their own shop decals to them.
So, unsurprisingly, the bike's frame displays all the hallmarks of a quality road bike, going by its having been built with 531 tubing, using Campag dropouts, along with displaying nice details like the semi wraparound seatstay caps.
The paintwork is in pretty good condition, although there is the occasional chip around the frame (I've touched these up), and it's still very presentable.
All components are in fine fettle and work very smoothly out on the road. Amongst them, the wheels are nice Rigida ones and still the originals as per the Denton handbuilt decals showing on them:) The tyres fitted have been replaced and now they're sporting nice NOS Michelin ones which I reckon are period correct, and certainly improve the bike's looks thanks to their tan gumwalls. New innertubes and bar tape has also been fitted.
The bike is a very fast machine, with quick acceleration and great road manners. The fork blades give plenty of feel through the handlebars and their minimal rake provides crisp changes of directions at the whim of the rider. It’s a splendid road machine that will provide many miles of pleasure for the right person.
I've rebuilt and serviced the bike from the bottom up, checking all the parts for wear and tear, regreasing bearings and fine tuning the brake and gears setups. The bearings of the headset, hubs and bottom bracket are in excellent condition with virtually no wear. The other parts on the bike show minimal wear and were tuned up after the rebuild, and I've found everything works smoothly with no issues. Some of the bike's parts are the San Marco Turbo Bernard Hinault saddle, Suntour VX front and rear derailleurs and shifters, Shimano 6 speed freewheel, Tange Allez headset, SR Super Custom chainset and MKS AR2 pedals, SR Laprade seatpost and Atom hubs. For the cockpit, there's a Cinelli stem and bars, and Saccon brake levers. Brakes are Weinmann Alpha.
My asking price is £150 plus postage, and a forum donation will be made.
Questions are welcome, and viewing/test ride is also acceptable if you might live locally to me (Hendon, NW London). If there's no serious interest shown here after a while, it'll have to be off to evilBay.
Nb I'm also selling a good many single speed/track/time triathlon/triathlon parts in a separate thread on the parts forum, due to a pending house move prompting a serious clearout and fund raiser.

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Bike now SOLD.