Lee Cooper for me too. People tell stories about frames from the midlands being delivered to Overburys, no one has said so but I have always been under the impression that Lee Cooper was the mystery builder.🥸
I'm not quite sure why we are discussing provenance, the tooling required to make this would probably cost knocking on for £10,000 & also require a F'king great forging machine. Why on earth would anyone spend that much money & effort to fake it (I was going to say forge a forging!).
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Thoroughly enjoyed this.
It was great to chat bike shit with some of you chaps, buy more crap valuable investments to clutter up my garage & perv some awsome bikes.
Big thanks to Mike for setting this up. 👍
I have done the same as August Bicycles and never had an issue. I took it a little further & also drilled 4mm holes every 90 degrees in the steer tube either side of the join & welded the sleeve to the steer tube at each of these holes so even if the butt joint failed there is a bit of a fail...