Hand-built Vintage Swallow Merlin Mountain Bike 1987 eBay

[27motorhead]

Same 2 guys pete and rob...just it will cost you 3k+ to get a frame and forks out of them now.!

Yes, they are that good!

Now that's not helping me not look at this bike! I do think it will fit and will be a bike I could ride for a long time (both age and duration) due to frame size/geometry...

 

[Tootyred]

Here's one i prepared earlier.....

 

[27motorhead]

Here's one i prepared earlier.....
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That's not helping either! That is stunning, especially with a double U-brake!

 

[7Speed]

That seat tube decal has a Basildon area phone number. Where exactly were they located?

I was in Stanford-no-Hope, just down the road. Swallow had a unit on an industrial park in Basildon with a small shop at the front.

 

[Markybeau]

I was in Stanford-no-Hope.

Yep, we used to call it that. Was it near Wybrow Motorcycles?

 

[7Speed]

Maybe -was a bit out of the way - mostly industrial units.