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Can anyone please help regards finding one of these wheels? - good condition essential with or without a freewheel block and reasonable price plus any postage and packing or can collect within 25miles of RG6. Hoping to match up with the front wheel on a vintage C W Alexander lightweight...

Hoping there is a follower of all things Viscount out there. Up for grabs is a 24" Viscount frame which is pretty good condition wise with various parts attached, in fact everything one would need for a complete ride other than wheels, bars and brakes. The gears are Simplex and the rest fairly...

I think there were two types of downtube lettering, the one you have and a signature style Stokes of London, not sure which one came first. As and when you get the bike back up and running I'd love to see it, my email is in the book (also M E for Mal Rees). I recently found an A. Walkling of...

The head clips were used post war as well, at least until the late 40s. If memory serves me the numbering system wasn't very obvious so may not be a guide as to year of build. Likely it was built either 1930s or 40s and generally they used a head or seat tube transfer that gives the name and...

I'm in the book, 4924. I mentioned this one to Bryan yesterday, says the lugs are typical Stokes.

Thanks for that, I think he'll have to delete or amend the post. You've got yourself an interesting frame. If you're a V-CC member given Bryan Clarke a call, he knows the background on Stokes. All the best, Shaun

Hi Bruce, tried messaging on the post for the Stokes - how big is the frame - centre of BB to the top of the seat tube. Thanks, Shaun

I am interested - what is the actual size of the frame - centre of the bottom bracket to the top of the seat tube. Thanks, Shaun

Thanks, do you know anything about their frame building? Apparently they were built in a small workshop away from the shop in Abbey Parade but that's all I know, no knowledge either of the frame builder(s).

I've found one!

Thanks very much, I'm chuffed to bits with it.

I get the impression that Reynolds 531 frames don't always seem to share the same diameter seat post. The one originally fitted - size unknown had been drilled through to secure a wooden plug within the post and into the saddle clamp, bit of a Frankenstein job so that was readily consigned to...

Thank you. It's a satisfying project.

After more cleaning and careful art work the frame is now moving a step or two nearer completion. I've fitted a pair of alloy mudguards, red bar tape, an SR double alloy 52/40 chainset, front and rear Campagnolo mechs and twin shifters. I have to admit to a little sacrilege in that I cut off...

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