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A belated update to the orange Cadet subthread ... I cleaned up the frame, but I haven't bothered to treat the rust — at the moment it's not a mechanical issue, and it kinda looks the part. I swapped out the BB and found some old 700c fixie wheels in the shed. I had to invest in long-drop...

I received it today — She noticed, I got into trouble ... aaaanyway ... Yep, I think it's Orange too. Rusty Orange if I'm being picky — the photos didn't show up just how much rust is on this frame, not that that worries me, I just need to find out how to treat it. And it came without a seat...

Thanks, Peachy, that's good to know :) Can't wait for it to arrive now — it was supposed to arrive today (so I could sneak it into the shed without Mrs W noticing), but now it's likely Monday (and she'll be home then, oops!).

No fear involved — it's all good — I'm grateful for your time and insight. At a mere £32 it was always a speculative purchase, mainly to play with a steel fixie over the winter, and this will become my new town bike, as we live a few miles out of the centre of Cambridge and a cheap...

Thanks Peachy. I considered the Cadet, but I think the colour's wrong (the Cadet's available only in Orange Pearl, and I'm waiting to see this bike in the flesh to assess its colour), the Cadet's frame's not 531 (from my reading of the catalogue) and the fork's missing the light-boss. But the...

I found riding fixed released a whole new passion for riding. It helps if you're in a flatter part of the country, like Cambridgeshire — or Essex ;) I'm hoping that riding fixed-steel will be a new experience and a new buzz — my current fixie is a modern Langster, which is not that...

Re: One more data point for you: I've just purchased a Claud Butler 531 frame in gold on eBay. The frame number is 062287. Going by the catalogues on http://nkilgariff.com/ClaudButler.htm I think it's a 1981/2 Cassino frameset, based on the decals (Claud Butler up the seat post) as well as...