Ernie Clements

[classic33]

Pretty much as bought/sold in 1983. Bull Close Lane shop, Halifax.

It's missing a 531 sticker that should have been on the top tube, behind the head tube or on the seat tube.

Newtown in Wales, at the Coventry Eagle works.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Pretty much as bought/sold in 1983. Bull Close Lane shop, Halifax.

It's missing a 531 sticker that should have been on the top tube, behind the head tube or on the seat tube.

Newtown in Wales, at the Coventry Eagle works.

Thanks for the info.
Looks like the rear mech has been swapped - all the rest is Suntor but the rear mech is Shimano.
Regarding your comment about the missing 531 sticker; do you then think that the Tange 2001 sticker on the forks may not be genuine?

 

[classic33]

They said that it's pretty much as sold. But the forks didn't match the dates, which threw me. So I went and asked them.

It was a 531 build throughout, when new.

Now known as Cycle Gear, Horton Street, Halifax. Opposite The Railway

 

[GuyBoden]

Frank Clements, brother of Ernie Clements has a book that's worth a read.
A Bike Ride Through My Life by Frank Clements
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...rce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[midlife]

Frank Clements, brother of Ernie Clements has a book that's worth a read.
A Bike Ride Through My Life by Frank Clements
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...rce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true

Thanks for reminding me, I was going to buy that but then got waylaid by getting Cliff Pratt's book.

 

[ORO]

What size seat post does it take?

 

[Oldfentiger]

What size seat post does it take?

Just measured it. 26mm

 

[classic33]

Thanks for the info.
Looks like the rear mech has been swapped - all the rest is Suntor but the rear mech is Shimano.
Regarding your comment about the missing 531 sticker; do you then think that the Tange 2001 sticker on the forks may not be genuine?

I never asked the price, sorry.

 

[urbanfatboy]

This is Intersting, I've just been trying to make sense of my, similar, Clements. Fairly low end stuff on it. and the Frame sticker, seems to have said Reynolds, once, but it's not like any Reynolds sticker i've seen.

 

[midlife]

Reynolds SMS Sticker

 

[ORO]

With Ernie Clements connection with Elswick Falcon, have a look at the brochure and see if anything looks familiar. See link

http://veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk/ncl/pics/Elswick Falcon catalogue 1983 (V-CC Library).pdf

 

[urbanfatboy]

Reynolds SMS!! Thanks!
Never heard of it

 

[classic33]

With Ernie Clements connection with Elswick Falcon, have a look at the brochure and see if anything looks familiar. See link

http://veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk/ncl/pics/Elswick Falcon catalogue 1983 (V-CC Library).pdf

OP's bike wasn't a Falcon.

 

[Cycleops]

Regarding your comment about the missing 531 sticker; do you then think that the Tange 2001 sticker on the forks may not be genuine?

The sticker is probably genuine but the forks are certainly non original. They may have have had plain forks or possibly 531.

 

[ORO]

As I understand it Ernie Clements factory in wales produced Falcon and Clements bikes. Some of these bikes around this era did use Tange forks, like the Clements Super Pro. Although the op's bike is not that model.