Frame

1586

Untraced

£180 written at the head of the sheet, delivery ASAP, and OK scrawled across the middle of it in a heavier pencil. SPRINTS is written in capitals and underlined in the top corner, above the date. The lining and transfer colours were changed twice before settling on gold.

Ordered: 15 Mar 86
Tubing: Columbus, with 531 struck out
Frame: 23½"
Top tube: 22½"
Angles: 73° / 73°
Forks: Cinelli engraved crown
Ends: Campagnolo Super Record
Seatstays: Fastback
B/bracket: 10 7/8" height
Headset: Standard
Wheels: Sprints, 700c, no mudguard clearance
Brazed on: Gear lever clip pip, Campagnolo cable tunnels for 10 speed, TA bottle cage bosses. No lamp boss, no pump pegs, no centre-pull brake bridge.
Finish: Medium blue flake, from a sample the customer supplied. Lugs lined gold, gold transfers — both written over “white”, which was itself written over “gold”.
Customer: Mr Clive Sleath, Loughborough, Leicestershire

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£110

A high-resolution print of the sheet, not the original. Giclée on enhanced matte art paper, mounted in snow white, glazed, in a solid wood frame. Free UK postage. £15 goes to Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance.

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