Holdsworth

[Warny]

HI all,

Managed to take a few photos last night, please see attached The saddle is a Madison one and has seen better days, but it's quite comfortable!

Mark

 

[Drago]

Nice work. Those Holdsworthy era machines are very comfortable. A good coming together of materials, design, and geometry. Ride one and its easy to see why they were so well regarded in their day.

 

[Warny]

Thanks, it has cleaned up quite well. The front derailleur is a bit bent though, does the job but needs replacing. I have both a Suntour VX and Campo Gran Sport at home, I guess the Suntour would be better as I think the Gran Sport was produced in the 60's, so might not go that well?

 

[midlife]

Campag relaunched the Gran Sport in 1978, might be the same age as the VX and better built

 

[Warny]

Ah thanks, didn't know that. It does look better than the VX so I think that's what I'll do

 

[midlife]

Kevin Sayles at Woodrup is a collector of Campag front mechs.....good read too

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/components/campag-front-changers.html

 

[Warny]

Great, thanks. I'll check mine and try and work out which one it is!

 

[Warny]

Having had a look I think mine is an earlier model, so I guess is from the 50's! It looks exactly like the Gran Sport in the comparison photo's v the Valentino, so it's definitely going on the Falcon Cotswold