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I have a 1961 Viking Severn Valley frameset for sale – it's a lovely frameset, and seriously light, but it's just too small for me. It's a 22" frame, with the seat tube measured c-t-c – 55.5cm in modern terms. Top tube c-t-c is 57cm. 120mm rear spacing. Obviously it is pretty rough as it...

That's a lovely example which is very worthy of a restoration, and I'm sure someone on here would be interested. As mentioned, there is a forum on here for selling bikes, so if you want money for it, you should post a thread there. All items for sale need a price, but that price can of course be...

Ideal for this bike, I’d say. 👍

DNP are a Taiwanese company. They basically made cheaper copies of Shimano derailleurs, as far as I can tell.

Guess I’m not buying from that bloke, then. I don’t think I’ve actually bought from him in the past, but I’ve certainly noticed his listings as he’s a fairly high volume seller, obviously. There’s buying cheap, and then there’s being unethical - it sounds like that line was definitely crossed...

You’re probably right. Lucky I’m not thinking about buying this one 😆

I think actually that would probably come out okay apart from some pitting in places after a shot blasting. But it does seem expensive, which considering I know that this seller usually prices things fairly sensibly is surprising to me. I know Hetchins have a strong following, but even so...

It really is, and even more so when you're asking big money for a bike like that. At least they were good enough to point out the naffness in the photos in case someone missed it.

This may be a silly question, but this bit of your post sounds a bit like you've kept the Campagnolo cups in the frame. Just to check that's not the case?

1962 frame, from the look of the serial. The lugs are definitely standard Nervex, as mentioned, so unless there's definitive proof Bill Hurlow made it (which I doubt), it seems a stretch to describe it as such. I noticed The Hackney Peddlar currently have a Bill Hurlow Condor up for a mere...

Yeah, builders like Hetchins would be an exception. And of course fancier styles such as those go in and out of fashion a bit, becoming less common in general over the years.

Very nice – and always good to see a frame like that being put to good use (i.e not having flat bars and/or a front rack ;)). To make a possibly somewhat sweeping generalisation, the style of lugged frames hasn't varied that much over the years, so a lugged frame from the 50s can feasibly not...

St Mary’s, Rostherne, Cheshire. The most notable thing about this one is perhaps the particularly nice church gate (or lychgate to give the proper name - ‘lych’ from the Saxon for ‘corpse’, obviously they had no time for flowery metaphors, those Saxons). The gate is self-closing, with a...

Aha. So not as weird as I thought. Nice looking bikes.

I want to see more of that one on the left. It looks like a decent track bike, which has been fitted with a belt drive and (naturally) a Brooks saddle. Top points for incongruity.