PT Stallard frame home to roost... first ever project!!

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I've brought this beauty back to Wolves for the princely sum of £31 (well, plus the cost of a night in deepest darkest Somerset with pot smoking, drink driving Somerset yocals - that's for another time!)

To say I'm pretty much going to have to learn as I go along with this - is a vast understatement, but one that I hope will be very rewarding! :D

This would appear to be its second lick of paint judging by the 531 renovated label and the appearance of allegedly the same bike in the image.

I'll be off to Wolvo library first, to check on the year it was produced. Appears to be the Cotswold model, and was made to measure for the guy pictured here, is this the same bike? Guy who sold it to me said it was?

Any guesses on age in the meantime, what finish I should go for paint wise, and what about parts,....Simplex? What is it likely to have run drivetrain wise?

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That's a decent looking frame! What headset/stem are on it? That might give you a good starting point for the components you'll need. Forks seem older than the frame to my eyes.
 
Stallard is a classic maker from a long while back.
I cannot help with ID currently from your pics, but I'm a member of the V-CC which has some catalogue info on their website, but it isn't working just now.... (Or I would show you: )

I would say any Stallard frame from the 50s is well worth restoration/preservation. This one looks a bit newer than that to me, but some more pics might be helpful.
Seat-stay cluster/bridge, drop-outs, fork crown would be good.

An excellent first project though; )
Go for it, I say.
 
Thanks for the feedback, ...once i've been to the library and dug around through the records i'll have my date, hoping to do that Saturday morning.

The headset is a tange, i think the guy i brought it off, put that on it possibly? The stem has no marking on it apart from it says the word 'custom' etched into it, right on the front.

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Diamant_Don":281lhy6q said:
CUSTOM stem is most likely Sakae - decent mid range 80s kit.
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Good to know, i was thinking it was actually custom made, learning already :D

it's a nice stem, but may of course not be fitting if I want to take it back to its origin.
 
Nothing wrong with a Sakae Ringyo (SR) stem. If you take it out & look at the hidden stampings below you will find dateable info I think. Date codes are available on Trek component dating here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/component_dates.htm

Looks to me now like a late 80s Stallard badged 'bought in' frame, but nothing wrong with that one necessarily. I know nothing about the company history after mid 50s.

If you look at the lugs closely you will see that only the head lugs look to have any filing/shaping on them. (An indicator of quality builds)

Bit like Falcon, Holdsworth, Claud Butler etc. who, after they sold out/went bust, the buyers used the name for various good & bad frames later....
This one looks good though, & well worth a bit of attention & use, I think!

Tange headset & Simplex rear ends say 1980s. As does the SR stem.
If you think of it as a cool 1980s frame/bike you won't be disappointed, I'd say.

Go for it & learn from the experience, & enjoy the results, especially if this is your first one; )
I got several interesting frames here in a similar situation. All West Midlands made.
All yet to be verified, but that's the tease... & that's what makes it interesting. For me anyway: )

Have fun riding it!
John.
 
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