SBDU 8545

Midlife":3q2oqq6n said:

I presume yours has an SBDU stamp?

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Oui!

Hes now come back to me to say that it does have SB8545 stamped on the BB and has added a photo to prove.

Yep, hiding under the new paint job on the new pic along with glue on head badge. Still an optimistic price....

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SBDU 753's were great lightweight touring bikes..
https://kickasstrips.com/2013/12/richar ... the-earth/

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Wow , that’s an amazing journey

Richard & Nicholas Crane , 1986 are they still Riding & still got the bikes ?

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Interesting geometry on the bikes ridden by the Crane brothers. The rear triangle has more racing bike length than touring bike (check out the gap between tyre and seat tube). That must have made for very close clearance between panniers and the riders heels - the Crane brothers are not short people.
From what I understand 753 tubing was not produced in Lengths suitable for touring geometry for many years. Tony Oliver built rough stuff machines in it but that might have been in MTB gauges and diameters or after a time when Reynolds decided to go ahead with ‘long tube’ production. However it seems it was never widely adopted. I bought a 753 Nigel Dean touring frame on this very forum on the strength of its rarity and even now it’s the only 753 tourer I have ever seen.

Nigel Dean made some fab touring frames, never seen a 753 one though

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‘Ere it be...

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it’s the only 753 tourer I have ever seen.

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http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... &start

753 touring bike?

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/reyn ... 1387391809

What do you gents think of the above? Is it likely to be 753. Seller thinks it might be Ribble because he bought it in Lancashire!