Hi
A friend of mine bought this old bike, and we'd love to know who made it. I'll quote his assessment of it:
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So - it's got path ends, but I think it was designed for time trialling rather than pure track racing, as the angles are pretty relaxed and there's even provision for attaching mudguards. Also, there are no braze-ons, either for gears or a rear brake, but the seat-stay bridge has been drilled for one. Two distinguishing features: (a) the front drop-outs: I've never seen this design before, but it's very elegant; & (b) it's got 'Nervex' decorated lugs, presumably imported from France - there's a website dedicated to these lugs, but I haven't yet got round to looking it up. Finally, the frame was evidently hand-built using Reynolds 531 d/b throughout - the chamfering at the top of the seat-stays (a dead giveaway) is exquisitely done.
The frame number is virtually indecipherable because of the nasty paint job, but as far as we can tell it's: 59-306-d222*536.
*this is a lower-case (small) 2! I'm afraid this number isn't guaranteed, & is probably not entirely accurate.
It seems that I need to make one post before I can post any links, so I'll post pictures as a response to this.
Thanks so much for any ideas!
A friend of mine bought this old bike, and we'd love to know who made it. I'll quote his assessment of it:
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So - it's got path ends, but I think it was designed for time trialling rather than pure track racing, as the angles are pretty relaxed and there's even provision for attaching mudguards. Also, there are no braze-ons, either for gears or a rear brake, but the seat-stay bridge has been drilled for one. Two distinguishing features: (a) the front drop-outs: I've never seen this design before, but it's very elegant; & (b) it's got 'Nervex' decorated lugs, presumably imported from France - there's a website dedicated to these lugs, but I haven't yet got round to looking it up. Finally, the frame was evidently hand-built using Reynolds 531 d/b throughout - the chamfering at the top of the seat-stays (a dead giveaway) is exquisitely done.
The frame number is virtually indecipherable because of the nasty paint job, but as far as we can tell it's: 59-306-d222*536.
*this is a lower-case (small) 2! I'm afraid this number isn't guaranteed, & is probably not entirely accurate.
It seems that I need to make one post before I can post any links, so I'll post pictures as a response to this.
Thanks so much for any ideas!
