Someone please save me the grief… orbit tourer

So it measures as 22” top tube and I think 22.25” C-T seat tube which is the same as my Claud Butler but it seems odd for some reason and I can’t quite place it.

It’s totally decked out in DX apart from the shifters, levers, and 105 headset! Seems really well cared for but I’ll take off the lock holder and other gubbins and switch the saddle.

Think it’s going to receive my new on one Geoff bars but not 100% sure yet. They came in the post yesterday courtesy of a forum member here but they are absolutely f****’ng huge and quite unwieldy for initial impressions riding around Glasgow. The mrs has gone back to Scotland and I think I put the quill adaptor, my cycling shoes, and other necessary bits and bobs in her car so will have to wait until I join her at the end of the week.

Will be listing the DT shifters, brake levers and pedals are potentially already accounted for I believe. My wahoo bolt has disappeared and I fear it’s gone somewhere mid cycle and will need replacing 🤦‍♀️ what can you do…

Owner said he is not the original but it has belonged to someone at the top of the road for the last 30 years and that’s about as much as he knew.
 
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Here are the photos

Any questions please shoot

Only thing I’m a little upset about is that I thought there would be more tyre clearance! I just have been absolutely spoiled by the Dawes Galaxy I let go of last year. Would happily take 38s with mudguards but I think I’ll be limited to 32mm max on here but 30mm I imagine will be ok no problem. Was hoping for 32mm so will try it and see so fingers crossed
 

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We often heavily modify mudguard to enable an extra tyre size on a tourer

Let's face it, racers have 32 clearance these days🤣
 
25mm marathons pictured so there’s a bit of room there but there’s only really 28s laying about the garage and cant experiment too much

Interesting there are no cutout things on the close side to the tyre similar to a lot of touring frames. Will probably want to look into the history of orbit 531st and try and place it. I only know of the silver medal frames to be made of 531ST but it’s not labelled as anything specific

Will be posting photos (or maybe just one) at some point once I get the build going!
 

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