8819

Not a pro-forma: the customer typed her own component list, and the frame number and her name are pencilled across the head of it, with prices worked up the right-hand margin in the shop's hand (90, 125 (100), 72 (50), 20, 25, 17, 12, 17, with “with block” and “SR” noted against items). The first attachment page holds her typed “Touring bicycle specification”, ticked through in the shop's hand with “Campag” written against the cable guides, margin figures 235 struck to 218, and on its lower half “my inside leg measurement is 29¾”” in the customer's hand beside the shop's “approx cost £600 see alternatives”, “Colour 078” and “8 weeks”; no shop pro-forma exists for the order. The second attachment is her covering letter of 3rd October, no year given, ordering a replacement for a bike she had stolen, asking only that the brake levers be easier to reach, colour to follow. With no year anywhere on the pages, year and order date are omitted.

Ordered

3rd October

Tubing

Reynolds 531C throughout including front forks (“531ST” struck out)

Forks

Cinelli crown or of a similar quality

Ends

Campagnolo / Sun Tour / Shimano

B/bracket

Cinelli or of a similar quality

Wheels

Shimano Deore hubs, 36 hole front and 40 hole rear, Mavic rims, stainless spokes plain gauge or double-butted, built 3-cross front and 4-cross rear; Nutrak/Specialized/Michelin tyres

Equipment

Shimano Deore Biopace chainset with 170mm cranks and 48/38/28 rings, Deore platform pedals with clips and straps, Sedisport chain, Deore XT front and rear gears with SIS levers, Cinelli 1A stem and randonneur bars with Bike Ribbon tape, touring saddle, Shimano seat pillar and headset

Brazed on

On the down tube two Italian gear lever bosses (“French” struck out) and bottle cage bosses; on the top tube three cable guides and a pump peg behind the front column; bottle cage bosses on the seat tube; cantilever brake bosses on the forks, with the low-rider pannier rack bosses crossed through; gear cable guides routed under the bottom bracket; a chain hook on the right-hand seat stay; cantilever brake bosses, a centre-pull brake cable hanger and Jim Blackburn rear pannier carrier bosses on the seat stays; an allen key seat bolt

Finish

Colour 078

Customer

Jane Hyde, Northampton

8819

1988 · Reynolds 531C throughout including front forks (“531ST” struck out) · Colour 078

Sid Standard Cycles · 35–37 Chilwell Road, Beeston