Recent content by glenfield2

Way back in the dark ages I only had one bike and used it for everything from going to school to time trials. All on sprints and tubs - which i fixed myself. My teenage sewing skills extended to turning my school trousers into ‘drainpipes’ - don’t know how my parents never noticed. They looked...

The late owner of these was a pretty handy time triallist back in the day. They have been left in his shed since he died about four years ago. Now his widow is moving and I’m disposing of them. They are both being sold ‘as seen’. They both need tidying but are far from basket cases. Seat posts...

Is there any great interest these days in wheels with sprint rims for tubular tyres. I have a few with Campag hubs - if there’s no interest I guess I will break them for the hubs. Shame though.

It took a while but the penny had just dropped 😂😂. FORKS! Yes it comes with matching gobbling rods. (The green ones obvs)

Now the pics have vanished so here they are:

Joining my little group of mystery bikes is this pretty little (21.5 in) Gerrard frame and forks which has Nervex lugs. This frame has plenty of numbers - the bottom bracket is stamped 919B and the NDS drop out has 1325. This would all be very helpful except I can find out little about Ted...

I’ve just come upon Apollo number KB365. Only the frame is original - the rest is 60s and 70s stuff. And the paint seems a mix of original and heavy handed retouching. Winter project looms.

Interesting comparison - but from what I’ve been reading HH didn’t necessarily make his own frames but bought them in. Frustrating isn’t it.

And frame number for the white one..

I’m taking a closer look at the blue/white bike. This is the only frame numbering I can find.

I’ve got a couple of bikes here which are proving tough to identify - no obvious frame numbers, no decals. I’m hoping a few picture details may help. Notably the white one has unusual seat stay/seat post joints. The blue/white one is in Reynolds 708 tubing but seems pretty generic otherwise...