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Hilary,

I'd like the Milremo/Alesas please, what is the width of the front hub? To fit my 40s Hetchins Super Special which is 95 between the front dropouts (inner faces of course). Might have them anyway, but will need a decent hub still.

Will PM on reply.

Regards, Roadking.

Hilary.

I'd like the Miche/black Rigida clinchers please. Can I PM you once I've looked at the other thread as I need 27s too?

Regards Roadking.

Hi,

I also have a Carlton frameset that I'm currently building. You need to double check your frame number as the single letter prefix F is a 1957/1958 frame (as mine is).

Unless it is a Pro or a Giro - though these are harder to identify. If it has more than one prefix letter then it will be a later frame.

If this is the case with your then the frame is pre-Raleigh takeover. Raleigh took Carlton over in 1960 and produced bicycles in fairly limited numbers until the takeover (up to 1960 about 2500 a year, and therefore much more"exclusive"). The Carlton website is quite good but no longer maintained, and only covered Worksop Carltons and not Nottingham ones.

Photo makes identifying easier (lugwork is a major identifier to the model).

Some"collectors"can be a little snooty about Carltons, but they built fine frames and have a great competiion pedigree - Gerald O'Donovan ran Carlton and later created the Specialist Bicycle Development Unit at Raleigh - see my article on the SBDU on the classic lightweights website.

Any other help PM me.

Cheers, Roadking.

[This, I think is H.H Oersted, a friend of mine (a pro mechnanic: TdF etc) worked on his bikes in the 1980s (six days), I have a Campag C-Record on one of my bikes from one of Oersted's machines. Just brwosing as I'm snowed in and was intersted to see this pic. Thanx for indulging me, Roadking.][/QUOTE]

If pedals still available I'd like them please.

Roadking.

I have a 32h rear that's surplus to requirments - any help? I'm looking for a 36h myself.

Campag of course.

Particularly nice and not too far from the UK is the Loire region, great rides, lovely places to stop...chateau, lovely towns, museums of all kinds, good food and wine and the river of course. And notwithstanding the weather which always improves when you are south of the Loire.
I am a little biased as I know the area well, my Dad did a bicycle tour there in the 1950s on his fillet brazed Hobbs of Barbican which I now have.
If you go in July 2011 the Tor de France visits Le Mans, Redon, and Lorient.