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Hey Jeff, we’re asking for £400 for the stallard, £25 delivery or free to collect from Farnham. I’ll see how we get on with hthis before I give any other prices..

Hey Jeff, we’re asking for £400 for the stallard, £25 delivery or free to collect from Farnham. I’ll see how we get on with this before I give any other prices..

Hey Jeff, we’re asking for £400 for the stallard, £25 delivery or free to collect from Farnham. I’ll see how we get on with this before I give any other prices..

From my dad:

The Stallard frame pre-dates the Campag cast rear dropout and, like just about everything else of that era, has dropouts formed in flat metal plate. So it will take a Simplex, or a Cycle Benelux, or a Campag Gran Sport rear derailleur providing that you have the accompanying hanger which came as standard with all these mechanisms. With the Stallard frame, there’s a hanger already in place, held there by a single screw. See photo. Therefore, fitting a Gran Sport changer should be no problem.

The down tube levers are conventional braze-ons, at the moment with Huret levers – ie, French, a rival to Simplex, therefore metric.

ok yes...thats fair enough! I will come back with prices, postage prices (location farnham which is SW of London) and more pictures. Thanks for the advice..

Hello,

I am in the process of selling some of my dad's old bikes, and I thought this might be a good place to start. He has quite a few bikes in his collection similar to this, and each one has a bit of a story to them, which he has written up. Please me know if anyone is interested in either of these three bikes before I try them on Facebook/ ebay etc... Lots more pictures but this seems to have a 5 pic limit

Thanks for your time,

Nick

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STALLARD

Percy Stallard was and is known as the Father of British Road Racing. He pioneered the sport as massed-started racing on public roads, during World War II, and he remained a leading rider for many years. He opened a cycle shop in Wolverhampton, and supplied frames custom-built to order. Without Percy Stallard cycle racing in the UK would have been confined to time trials, and massed-start racing only on private land, off the public highway.

The Stallard Zacopane, like this one, was top-of-the-range in the early 1950s. It was named in honour of Ken Clarke’s win in the Katowice-Zacopane stage of the 1949 Tour of Poland on one of Percy’s frames. Full Stallard frame records and other documentation are still available in the archives at Wolverhampton Library.

The Zacopane model was made in Reynolds 531 tubing and usually had a 72-deg seat angle, and 71.5 head. This is an early one, 22-in centre-to-top, with plain fork ends and a few braze-ons – eg down-tube lever bosses, and down-tube bottle bosses. The finish is green, with a full set of Stallard transfers and with “double-box” lining – very period, and probably original.

The price includes a letter addressed to me, from Percy, dating back to the 1990s, confirming this as one of his Zacopane frames, plus some Stallard frame transfers, and a VHS video version of The Percy Stallard Story.

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FAGGIN

Marcello Faggin (rhymes with far-jean) started building frames when he retired from racing in 1945, in Padova, Italy. Unusually, he was succeeded in the business by his four daughters, and the Faggin workshop is still a family business today, making classic steel frames to order. The Faggin clan have been described as quirky, and this nicely describes also the approach that has served them so well for nearly 80 years, through three generations.

This frame looks like it has never been built up, so is effectively New On Sale, from the 1980s or ‘90s – from the era when frames still had double butted (in this case, Oria) tubing, lugs, and level top tubes. It is finished in yellow, with chromed forks, seat stays and chainstays, headset already fitted, 21.5 in centre-to-top seat tube, 21.25in C-to-C top tube. Frame number is 218 J 4.

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HOLDSWORTH (Hurlow)

This is the La Quelda model, which was top of the Holdsworth range for many years, being fillet brazed (instead of lugged) and therefore very light, with angles precisely to customer requirements. It looks to be in the original ice-blue finish, but is “barn find”, needing restoration though in basically sound condition. The frame number (8174 H) dates it to 1947, and the H confirms it was made by Bill Hurlow, who went on to become recognised as probably the best among all the masters of English frame building. The frame is one of a small collection of Hurlow frames. It has a 21.5in seat tube.

fantastic...thats done it! thankyou very much

Hello there,

could anyone help me get these old campy levers off? i am stumped (stupid)..

I cant see any allen key hole inside the levers...the only thing that looks like it might loosen them is the bolt you can see...but its too small to get a screwdriver in?? arg

thankyou!

nick

thanks man...dont think its been resprayed but im not sure to be honest...ive bought it now anyway. cant wait to get it!!!

hmmm...how much would you pay for it? i saw some supers going ebay going for even more...but they were shinier!

there was no logo embossed underneath the bottom bracket...you think thats something to worry about or is that standard for the record?

hello mate - thanks for that info...the rack is from a company called trophy (website is outlineworks.co.uk). theyve only been making them for a few months. i bought one yesterday from grand designs show where they have a stall...not cheap but it looks brilliant up, and theyre very nice guys

does anyone know a good price for this? Its mainly campag parts on it (veloce and chorus) and the frame is in pretty good shape

I've always wanted a colnago and came across this one for sale kind of randomly...what do you guys think??? im being asked for £700 for it,which i think seems pretty fair, but I just wanted to check here with people that know more than me, before i went ahead with it..

also, would anyone here be able to tell the age or model range it is ...from just these photos? the guy who's selling it isn't sure...im pretty sure it's not just any old frame with decals put on it because of the embossed lugs..

oh ok...so i guess i should put this in that thread/? thankyou!

sorry if this isn't the correct place for this kind of thread - i'm not sure of the etiquette here..

I'm thinking of buying this bike, but not sure exactly of what kind of deal i might be getting, and whether its worth it (although i guess all this is subjective)..

Its mainly campag parts on it and the frame is in pretty good shape
I've always wanted a colnago and came across this one for sale kind of randomly...what do you guys think??? im being asked for £700 for it,which i think seems pretty fair, but I just wanted to check here with people that know more than me, before i went ahead with it..

also, would anyone here be able to tell the age or model range it is ...from jsut these photos? the guy who's selling it isn't sure...im pretty sure it's not just any old frame with decals put on it because of the embossed lugs..

http://i.cubeupload.com/51DJhd.jpg

http://i.cubeupload.com/6NJf5J.jpg

legend!! that was quick work. i didnt expect anyone to be around on such a nice day, let alone anyone who would know!

hello there,

i was at ripley jumble today with my dad, and he was admiring a part on an old bike that he wants to source - i want to find it for him but i cant remember the name of the part - i phoned a few bike shops and no one has heard of it!

its a rounded strip of metal that sits just above the tyres (its attached to the frame near the brakes), and is used to sweep away any chips picked up in the tyre, before they are ridden over again and pushed further into the tyre. i was not that taken with them but he loves it! he says everyone used to use them when he was racing in the early 60s.

if anyone knows the name of these it would be excellent, i can start my hunt for them!

thankyou very much for your time

nick

thanskyou, i shall ask hillary if i see him on here, and the geneolagy forums are a good idea. i hope i find my dad as well

thankyou ..i did a search of this forum before posting this, he has been mentioned so he is known, but i couldnt see any actual bikes ..

i think he used to build for holdsworth, but he also built under his own name, and not too many my dad reckons, so there is a chance of finding my dads old bike if we search hard enough...

hello there,

i am doing a search for my dad. he had quite a few hurlow frames in his day, some custom built by hurlow for him. he sold his favourite one in the 90s, and has always been absolutely gutted about it - he has been searching for it for years to see what happened to it and if he can persuade the owner to possibly buy it back.

Does anyone here own a hurlow? even if you are not intersted in selling it, it would be great just for the old bugger to see what happened to it. i dont know much else about it, i think he said it was cream - i shall get some other details if necessary.

thanks for your time, have a nice bank holiday :)

sorry, stupid small pictures!

i see! understood :)

hello this is me and my bike

would it be better if i left?

im gonna go searching right now!