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OMD! The worst must be CAMPAG-NOLA ?

I won't be damaging anyone's frame. I'm a mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience doing "this sort of thing".

I won't be doing that ^^^^ jail break method, my hands are far too delicate.

The 53 looks "well worn out", to me...

Running a cassette on a singlespeed with an ever-so-slightly slack chain is a bit silly... if the chain shifts onto a different sprocket, you'll break something. I bent the dropouts on my beater doing this - but it was only a beater, not a Fondriest.

With a quick release hub fitted at a 'reasonable' tension, it just pulls the wheel forward if it hops up, down a gear.

I'm in E11 but will be over in E9 in a day or so.
What materials are we looking at, frame and post?
Are you wanting to preserve the frame's paint around the seat tube?
I'll take this on... unless it's carbon.

This year's rat #1 stole the guards from rat #2, to good effect for it's 110 miles / week.
Rat #1 was a 1990s Holdsworth ATB thing.
Rat #2 is a '50s Coventry Eagle.

Nice job there.
I rebuilt a scruffy Raleigh '42' mini racer for my nine year old last year. I turned the original white padded saddle into a 'mini swallow'.

Here's my '50s Hawkes. Now with a proper rusty chainset.

http://s912.photobucket.com/user/a111r/library/#/user/a111r/library/?page=1&_suid=136382994790602531748438345247

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/a111r/new%20531%20frame/DSCN4325_zpsdd82548e.jpg

Hello.
I've been trying to i.d. this rather nice 1950s frame. Pics here:
http://s912.photobucket.com/user/a111r/library/new%20531%20frame#/user/a111r/library/new%20531%20frame?page=1&_suid=13638278907030275664187717904

Bought off ebay recently as a complete bike, now stripped, tat discarded / sold.
Best guess so far is a H.E. Green. Initially I was thinking it may be a Gillott but some marque experts have pointed me toward Green.
Any others ideas?
Cheers.