Barry Chick/Shorter

peetee

Senior Retro Guru
Picked this little beauty up last week. It’s a Shorter built by Barry Chick. It has a right old mish-mash of parts fitted, some of which will be available if anyone is interested. The drive side Mavic crank is miss-matched to a left hand Campag!🤔
The plan is to get the brush-and-bucket paint job off and think of a suitable alternative. Pale metallic or pearlescent pink is an idea, for the moment.
Then it will be decked out with a suitably 70’s TT mix of Campag cranks with single 54t ring, Weinmann 500 callipers and Mavic/Record sprints. A good sprinkling of drillium would be nice, but costly, and only worth the effort if I knew it was built for King Alf himself - which it almost certainly wasn’t.
Anyhow, watch this space. F0EF3330-AA95-44F9-B474-C9A4024DB35C.jpeg
 
Nice find, it doesn't look like a really tight swb TT frame more road orientated, can you post some pictures of the dropouts and fork crown. Can you be sure that it's a Shorter?... just asking because the bottle cage bosses give it a French look, similar to my Gitaine.

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It’s not a TT frame as bottle bosses on Shorter frames never had them but this is more of a road frame. Unusual decal fonts also from the normal Shorter fonts 🤔
 
This is my Shorter all original paint and chrome , complete with drilled bottom bracket and rear drop outs started life as a tt bike .

So my question to @peetee is how do you know yours was built by Barry Chick ? shorter10.jpg shorter7.jpg
 
Definitely genuine as the fork crown is cast with Chick. The number on the steerer and frame match and begin with C. I agree about the non-TT dimensions. Alf’s frame was very tight with next-to-no fork rake but I’m sure plenty of local wannabies rode a single Chick for road races and TT’s swapping bits as required.
 
Definitely genuine as the fork crown is cast with Chick. The number on the steerer and frame match and begin with C. I agree about the non-TT dimensions. Alf’s frame was very tight with next-to-no fork rake but I’m sure plenty of local wannabies rode a single Chick for road races and TT’s swapping bits as required.
Superb.. looking forward to seeing the build..👍
 

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