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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    What make are the hubs and the rims?
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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    Any news on a date on the brakes?
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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    Perhaps the original got damaged?
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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    Thank you for that. The A prefix is either 1976 or 1972 - there are two theories on this at the moment. Yours does not look like a 1976 so it is more likely to be a 1972. The dates on the back of the brakes should help confirm this (and help us with the Falcon frame numbering logic!) Look...
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    Ernie Clements 531 Falcon San Remo

    I saw that bike and was tempted, but my project backlog is too big at present and my collection of Falcons as large as I can manage! You are absolutely right to keep the albeit old paintwork as that is original. A careful clean and screwed up aluminium foil on the chrome plus a good wax...
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    First Ever Steel/Other Bike Owned

    Raleigh Lenton!!!!!
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    First Ever Steel/Other Bike Owned

    Taleigh Lenton!
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    First Ever Steel/Other Bike Owned

    First bike was a Raleigh Lanton with 4-speed Sturmey Archer. £7.
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    Yet Another Purple One - 70’s Carlton Criterium

    The date will be when the lug was made, not when the bike was built. A lug from the year before the bike was built is perfectly normal and supports a 74 date for the bike.
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    Your bike has Weinmann brakes and they have a date of manufacture stamped on the back (I can...

    Your bike has Weinmann brakes and they have a date of manufacture stamped on the back (I can just see it on one of the photos but can't read it). If you undo the brakes from the frame (don't take off the cable so it is easy to put back) you should be able to read the date. Assuming it is the...
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    It is quite a late model Olympic. The head badge suggests between 1978, when the metal...

    It is quite a late model Olympic. The head badge suggests between 1978, when the metal headbadge was replaced with this foil type, and 1982 when Ernie Clements left the company and his signature on the bottom of the headbadge was replaced with the word Falcon in red. Does it have a frame...
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    Cycling Art: Important or Not

    They're great. You get the period style of illustration in so many. Advertisements are good too.
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    Vintage Falcon Road Bike

    Sorry I missed this earlier posting. It looks a real mix. The head badge was used on bikes between about 1985 and 1990 and I would guess it was just used to finish the refurbishment without being period correct. The components are interesting with what looks like a Campagnolo rear mech and an...
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    Ernie Clements build thread

    The top tube brake cable braze-ons were added from September 1980, so that gives you from perhaps mid 1978 to early 1980 as the window of manufacture. There are plenty of cable clips on ebay.
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    Falcon Help

    P.S. It is definitely a model 76 San Remo Equipe.
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