I have just treated myself, to this thing of beauty.

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Paulus

Paulus

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I have just bought this, a 1979 handbuilt Mercian, The frame has been re-enamelled by Mercian of Derby. Reynolds 531 frame/ forks and all Campagnolo running gear and bearings. (Edited for a typo).

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I am going to ride the L'Eroica Brittania next year, so I am going retro, or back to my teenage years when I had a Peugeot with downtube shifters etc. The things you should of kept instead of selling cheaply eh? would of been woth a few bob now.
 
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stephec

stephec

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Are you going to hang it on the wall?

It's lovely.
 
cisamcgu

cisamcgu

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Paulus said:
I have just bought this, a 1979 handbuilt Mercian, The frame has been re-enamelled by Mercian of Derby. Reynolds 501 frame/ forks and all Campagnolo running gear and bearings.

$_57.JPG

I am going to ride the L'Eroica Brittania next year, so I am going retro, or back to my teenage years when I had a Peugeot with downtube shifters etc. The things you should of kept instead of selling cheaply eh? would of been woth a few bob now.
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Hmm..unlikely, since 501 tubing wasn't introduced until 1983 !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Cycle_Technology
 
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Paulus

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
cisamcgu said:
Hmm..unlikely, since 501 tubing wasn't introduced until 1983 !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Cycle_Technology
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I will have to see what the sound the tubes make when I ping them. I pick the bike up in a couple of hours time.--From the history of Reynolds tubing---

Reynolds began working in aluminum to meet the demands of the Royal Air Force. However, it has only been in the past couple years that Reynolds began to produce aluminum bicycle tubing (perhaps giving great weight to the argument that aluminum is far from being an ideal material for bicycles!). A more immediate product of their aircraft endeavors was the introduction in 1935 of the legendary "Reynolds 531" tubeset. A tubeset that still remains popular through the present day. However, 531 came about unintentionally. It was Chief Inspector and Metallurgist Max Bigford who spotted an aircraft tubing which he thought held the potential for making an excellent cycle tubeset and reworked the specifications along with Director Austyn Reynolds. So important was the introduction of 531 that the Cyclist's Touring Club awarded Reynolds their plaque for the most meritorious contribution to the sport of cycling.

In 1958 Charly Gaul of Luxembourg pedaled to victory (at a then record setting pace of 22.8 MPH) in the Tour de France astride a frame built from Reynolds 531. This would mark the beginning of what would soon become a near total domination of the Tour de France. Between 1958 and 1991 (the last year a Reynolds frame won the Tour) Reynolds tubing was used in the bikes of 26 Tour de France winners. Anquetil, Merckx, and Hinault all used Reynolds exclusively in their Tour victories (Indurain also used it in his first Tour win in 1991).
 
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