Frame
2086
Deposit £50, eight weeks promised, and “will call Sat 10.5.86” across the top. A second sheet is filed with it, costing the whole bicycle out by hand: frame £185.00, 700c standard section wheels £72.80, 12 speed 36–48 with Ultra 6 13–32 £15.00, 90mm bars and stem £10.00, Madison G11 saddle £15.00, Laprade seat pin £11.00, Stronglight 99 chainset £32.00, Sedisport chain £4.50, Miche pedals £11.35, clips and straps £4.00, SunTour Cyclone GT gears £45.00 (an earlier VXGT struck out), ESGE silver mudguards £12.65. It is the only itemised build in the archive so far.
- Ordered
- 1.5.86
- Tubing
- Reynolds 531C
- Frame
- 23½"
- Forks
- Standard crown
- Headset
- Standard
- Wheels
- 700c, HPs (sprints struck out), with mudguard clearance
- Brazed on
- Allen key seat lug, two brazed-on gear lever bosses, all brazings for 12 speed (the printed 5/10 struck out), three eyes on the top tube, centre-pull brake bridge, TA bottle cage bosses. No h’bar control eyes, no gear lever clip pip, no lamp boss, no pump pegs.
- Finish
- Left blank
- Customer
- Mr W. Hayes, Wollaton, Nottingham
Own this sheet
£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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Nobody has come forward for 2086 yet. If it is in your shed, or you remember it being built, ridden or sold, send a photograph and whatever you know.
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One more page in the folder
Kept in the folder with the worksheet and scanned with it: the build written out and ticked off as it was fitted, a letter, a sketch, the second side of the sheet. The worksheet is the record; these are what was going on around it. Tap one to read it full size.
