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Matt_wood55":f4n0bab8 said:

bigfatron":f4n0bab8 said:

thank you bodie - i only have old rides, the 653 is my most recent bicycle.
at the base of my post is the list of my super u/castorama frames, including the dead - i also have a vitus from 1984 (partington cycles) and a systeme u colours gitane from 1987.
so all my rides are on downtube shifters - i've never ridden with bar controls!

colnagoc59 - i have made a note, citta di bassano i have heard of but never seen one for sale, so i will search!

Matt - both you and i are unlucky people then (you should play golf with me) but we both have great frames - my frame number is by the downtube, as is yours as the bb shell is exactly as your picture. unlucky or what?!

my choice to ride on tubs and not clinchers.....in the 1980s, when i were a lad, i dreamt of riding on tubs. now that i can afford to choose the rims and rubber i ride on, it's tubs only. i have to say, they don't feel like hard work, as per the research into rolling resistance, and it seems like you just kiss the tarmac as it slides beneath you. beautiful, even if they are only vittoria rally, and a long time in coming!

richie

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Could it be good luck though!! Have Cyfac confirmed that's it's not one of theirs? It will certainly be strange if it's not - seemingly not Raleigh, not Cyfac, but two frames in Castorama livery with a very unusual bottom bracket! Maybe we are due some luck (I am the same as you in golf terms as well!!)

Cheers
Matt

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fiks":25ucxnvx said:

Marie, Thierry?

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rusty bodie":27e651ly said:

bigfatron":27e651ly said:

so all my rides are on downtube shifters - i've never ridden with bar controls!
richie

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i salute you, sir!!! i was riding up a local climb on my corsa record 753 and these two
racing snakes powered past me - one did a "double take" at my bike and burst out
laughing at my downtube shifters!! :evil: i was so incensed that he was slagging
off my pride and joy (especially when he was riding a plastic blob and no doubt
cost three times what mine did) that i got the rage, threw it into the big ring and
blasted past them over the top and lost them on the descent!! :twisted:

idiots.

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Doubledee":1yo94105 said:

Im loving this attention to detail along with Bodie, im afraid I cant add anything here but the Thierry Marie may be right , look at pictures of him , the frame size is a good starting point I'd guess. RBOTM could be good if these all come together soon.

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Matt_wood55":sdea6iwh said:

Doubledee":sdea6iwh said:

Im loving this attention to detail along with Bodie, im afraid I cant add anything here but the Thierry Marie may be right , look at pictures of him , the frame size is a good starting point I'd guess. RBOTM could be good if these all come together soon.

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I have had a look at some pics, seems about the right size. Would be well chuffed if the frame has some history like that. I contacted Cyfac with the frame number today, so maybe they will be able to shed some light on it. It will be a long time before it's on the road though - skint!!

Matt

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Matt_wood55":v807aqh1 said:

Doubledee":v807aqh1 said:

Im loving this attention to detail along with Bodie, im afraid I cant add anything here but the Thierry Marie may be right , look at pictures of him , the frame size is a good starting point I'd guess. RBOTM could be good if these all come together soon.

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I have had a look at some pics, seems about the right size. Would be well chuffed if the frame has some history like that. I contacted Cyfac with the frame number today, so maybe they will be able to shed some light on it. It will be a long time before it's on the road though - skint!!

Matt

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