Frame

1989

Untraced

Delivery is promised “Xmas”, in the sheet's own quotation marks, against an order taken on 21 November; no deposit is recorded. “Beeston Rylands” on the address line is struck through but legible, and a six-figure number beside the frame number, worked over in heavier pencil, reads like a telephone number. The model is likewise written in quotation marks, “Light Training”, and the fluorescent pink finish repeats that of frame 1389 from the summer.

Ordered: 21.11.89
Tubing: 531.C
Frame: 22½"
Forks: Cinelli Ext crown
Seatstays: Fast Back Duo taper
Headset: Std
Wheels: 700c, with mudguard clearance (“no” struck out)
Brazed on: Two gear lever bosses, two brake eyes on the left-hand side at 45°, two sets of TA bottle cage bosses; all brazings for 10-speed (5 struck out)
Finish: “Flourescent Pink.!!” as spelt, lugs lined black, “Std” transfers but with white block on the top tube
Customer: Dave Trimble, Beeston Rylands

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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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A print of the 1989 sheet, framed — to scale above a two-metre sofa

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