fillet-brazed Reynolds 653 Arthur Caygill frame

[ibbz]

Arthur Caygyll MTB

Amazing fillet-brazed Reynolds 653 Arthur Caygill 26" MTB frame. Will make a superb bikepacking adventure-tourer or similar. Long in the top tube, so not an ideal candidate for a drop bar conversion, this will make an agile and fast gravel and fireroad blaster, or an incredibly capable...

www.isambards.co.uk

I thought it was Arthur Scargil

 

[retrobikeguy]

I messaged them ages ago about it, no response sadly.

After a bit of research I found the self same bike sold for £200 with a full Deore DX groupset on an online selling site so didn’t chase it up

 

[ibbz]

I messaged them ages ago about it, no response sadly.

After a bit of research I found the self same bike sold for £200 with a full Deore DX groupset on an online selling site so didn’t chase it up

Cheeky b’stards! Probably a bait and switch advert or something. The problem with these shops is that they tend to cater for the metropolitan roadie crowd and millennials who want to be ‘retro’ - and Rip people off. Sometimes they do have some very rare items which a man might be reluctantly steered into buying - I paid over the odds for a Turbo Lite saddle yesterday - they (BLB) had me by the balls as I couldn’t find that saddle anywhere else and had been looking for ages

 

[KermitGKona88]

They have a rather beautiful Jack Taylor touring frame in emerald green for 650...

 

[ibbz]

They have a rather beautiful Jack Taylor touring frame in emerald green for 650...

...Guaranteed to draw gasps of astonishment and envy at the camp-site as you roll smoothly in, uncouple your Primus, and set about brewing up...
Eh?

 

[KermitGKona88]

Is a bit flowery and over the top, but the frame is a quality piece of kit. A primus is an old type of stove...

 

[ibbz]

Is a bit flowery and over the top, but the frame is a quality piece of kit. A primus is an old type of stove...

I know that !
have had a couple
Lovely frame - there’s a cheaper and not so exotic red one

 

[Tootyred]

Oh but it does come with a free beard and a tweed jacket thats too small for that £450.

 

[ibbz]

Oh but it does come with a free beard and a tweed jacket thats too small for that £450.

And you get to be covered in hipster tattoo ‘sleeve’ and a flat in Stoke newington

 

[Shaznaz786]

£450 Inc. A flat in Stoke Newington... deal closer.