Claude Butler
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This is the one I have (but not this one):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16266982@N00/4298960304/
Lovely.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16266982@N00/4298960304/
Lovely.
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unfortunately, the builders of my 1991 Spectre with its 531 frame must have been angry at somebody...
none taken.
she was my first breath of true freedom and kept up with everything my mates had. (saracen protrax tricked, trek 700 full xtr, klein adroit in purple, gt lts, and a dave yates whatever)
that is what its all about i guess. long days on the hills pushing up and crashing down. ive broken all sorts but she never budged and taught me everything i know.
"the only one who could ever teach me was the son of a preacher man"
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she was my first breath of true freedom and kept up with everything my mates had. (saracen protrax tricked, trek 700 full xtr, klein adroit in purple, gt lts, and a dave yates whatever)
that is what its all about i guess. long days on the hills pushing up and crashing down. ive broken all sorts but she never budged and taught me everything i know.
"the only one who could ever teach me was the son of a preacher man"
b
I sold their mountain bikes for a number of years - I say their bikes but the name was sold off years ago and the bikes became, at best, mediocre. The alloy ones were Taiwanese frames with Altus a10, the steel ones were woefully out-dated 18", 20" or 22" monsters (this was in 1995) with little in the way of ride quality - they were 80s mountain bikes without the 80s character and 10 year too late.
On the plus side they were cheap and I was safe in the knowledge that every bike we sold would stay off the mountains and be no danger to the owners as we swapped every bikes tyres for slicks.
At some point in the late 90s they did try and reclaim some of their cache and so the bikes that we used to sell as Claude Butler got changed to 'Radford' and this new range of CB stuff came through - didn't help much though, I sold my customers Treks over CB everytime as you could rely on the quality.
On the plus side they were cheap and I was safe in the knowledge that every bike we sold would stay off the mountains and be no danger to the owners as we swapped every bikes tyres for slicks.
At some point in the late 90s they did try and reclaim some of their cache and so the bikes that we used to sell as Claude Butler got changed to 'Radford' and this new range of CB stuff came through - didn't help much though, I sold my customers Treks over CB everytime as you could rely on the quality.
baca01":1k3nkt7k said:
Yeah, my first "proper" mountain bike was an alloy framed Claud Butler MAGNA, probably sometime around 1991-94, and yes as far as I remember it had the black/green paintjob.
I liked it, then it was stolen, so the insurance replaced it like for like... with another Magna!
This one I stacked heavily and broke the (non-replaceable:roll
rear mech hanger, after that I got an Orange Prestige.I have no desire to re-visit my Claud Butler owning days, at the time I viewed them as budget mountainbikes . A quick Google search just now and I can find nothing about the Claud Butler Magna, so it seems that it may have vanished from the history books... oh well....
All I can say is that if it was a Magna then the skip is probably too good an end for it...
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