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Thread 'Large Austro Daimler SL - Ilkeston - £40' https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/large-austro-daimler-sl-ilkeston-£40.494290/ That struggled to sell on the bay. This one is nicer and in a more popular size...but a monkey is crazy talk.

As an aside I ran dia.compe(Gran Comp) 610s which are CNC manufactured on my Mercian winter bike and wasn't impressed at all. The cheaper forged alloy dia compe DC750.centre pulls are far better even on stock pads. On kool stops they are really quite decent and certainly way more powerful than...

What year Mistral? I would have thought anything before the 80s would have been on 27x. If it's got centre pull brakes then you're usually free to use either size given the range of adjustment available.

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Lovely looking bike. I wonder why David Hinds did not try and put more graphical distance between himself and Dave Hinde. He has used the same losenge panel graphic as Hinde.

As @bulgie has been kind enough to offer we download all we can it may be a good time to look at something like HTTrack - that allows you to download full sites. https://www.httrack.com/ Then with a local copy of velobase you need not sweat if the site takes a breather.

Norman Tebbitt would have loved this thread.

Fork decals look fine and I would lose no sleep on it. Looking very bling! Are those wheels the Batavus surplus ones from Bankrupt bike parts? I was eyeing them up as looked decent value.

Must have been some 'parts bike'

Looks recoverable - great looking bike.

I would be reluctant to media blast something this valuable. Too much risk of perforating the tubing. Wire brush on a drill to get it smooth, some hydrate 80 follwed by some 2K epoxy primer would be the way I'd go.

Sticking a decal over the holes for the headbadge...super naff.

Also this is a later Condor logo from the 80s...a further dent to 60s originality.

Damn, what a fine bargain this is.

If it really is a Hurlow build then not a bad price for the spec. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205628235233