S1m0nR
Old School Hero
Hello all,
I got rather a bargain on eBay recently - a 531-framed touring bike, raced and built by Max Pendleton using parts from the family bike workshop.
The story goes that this frame started life as something else, before it was re-finished with Max's name because he was competing on it but then it was stripped and put together with all the components you see on it now. The chap I bought it from worked with one of the Pendleton family members (no, not that one!) and used the bike to ride to Spain and back it before putting it into storage some time ago.
It's a classic 'bitsa' bike with non-matching groupset and actually pretty much a motley assortment of parts seemingly from the 70's, 80's and 90's, but nice matching Wolber Modele 58 Super Champion 700c wheels.
I'm really wondering who might have built the frame in the first place. I can't find any serial numbers but it does have characteristics which might be indicative of a particular maker if you know what you're looking at. I reckon that it must date from very late 1980's or more likely early to mid 90s given the brakes and rear drop-outs.
Distinctive features are the wrap around tops of the seat stays, the cable guides which are brazed on top of the bottom bracket shell but also the braze-ons for the carrier.
Any ideas? Cheers!
I got rather a bargain on eBay recently - a 531-framed touring bike, raced and built by Max Pendleton using parts from the family bike workshop.
The story goes that this frame started life as something else, before it was re-finished with Max's name because he was competing on it but then it was stripped and put together with all the components you see on it now. The chap I bought it from worked with one of the Pendleton family members (no, not that one!) and used the bike to ride to Spain and back it before putting it into storage some time ago.
It's a classic 'bitsa' bike with non-matching groupset and actually pretty much a motley assortment of parts seemingly from the 70's, 80's and 90's, but nice matching Wolber Modele 58 Super Champion 700c wheels.
I'm really wondering who might have built the frame in the first place. I can't find any serial numbers but it does have characteristics which might be indicative of a particular maker if you know what you're looking at. I reckon that it must date from very late 1980's or more likely early to mid 90s given the brakes and rear drop-outs.
Distinctive features are the wrap around tops of the seat stays, the cable guides which are brazed on top of the bottom bracket shell but also the braze-ons for the carrier.
Any ideas? Cheers!
