Final piece of the jigsaw
Although the bike is finished there was one little thing that just wasn’t right. When the forks had been removed for re-chroming there where 2 little team mechanic’s tweaks, first McLoughlin written in permanent pen on the steer, which was saved, secondly a nylon plug up the steer, presumably done by the ANC team mechanic to stop water and dirt going up into the steer and corroding the forks.
Anyhow Ellis Briggs got it out in once piece but couldn’t get it back in. This week I spend hours with a file, and finally managed to get it in as tight as when originally installed.
I’ve also enclosed a picture to the frame number you’ll see its one number different to Paul Watson’s team bike from 1987 which is shown earlier in this thread.
So that’s is totally finished, and I can have my life back