This is a photo of me and my first ever road bike taken in the back garden in Letchworth when I was probably 12 years old! The frame is a Frejus, obviously not in original colours, but hand painted with dad's trade mark of world championship bands and some rather natty Campagnolo stickers to the head and seat tubes. Note the internal cable routing for the rear brake. The forks are chrome replacements, as the originals snapped!
Equipment includes a Williams double 47/50T chainset ..with no front changer and probably the ubiquitous Simplex derailleur at the business end. Brakes look Weimann centre pulls with matching levers and hoods. These could be the ones on the Allin? Wheels are probably 1 1/4" steels with HP tyres and maybe Milremo hubs. Recognise the saddle? Yes it's the same Unica Nitor saddle as on the Allin!
Equipment includes a Williams double 47/50T chainset ..with no front changer and probably the ubiquitous Simplex derailleur at the business end. Brakes look Weimann centre pulls with matching levers and hoods. These could be the ones on the Allin? Wheels are probably 1 1/4" steels with HP tyres and maybe Milremo hubs. Recognise the saddle? Yes it's the same Unica Nitor saddle as on the Allin!
Here is another photo taken at the same time with Leigh on Mum's bike....a rather lovely mixte stay Frank Lipscombe! Now I wonder what happened to that bike? Hang on...on looking closer at the photo I can see the handlebar and stem is the same Titan one on Kath's old Viking, which I rescued from a basement in Berkhamsted!!! Well at least we know where they went!
The final photo in the back garden included Ian on his first bike!...and me and Leigh astride a 1950's tandem. Note the Cushway traditional hand painted finish complemented by those oh-so important World Championship bands! I don't remember much about it, but I think it was either a single freewheel or fixed gear. The angles look very relaxed with probably a lot of rake on the front forks. Chainsets look Williams and the rear brake is a centre pull although I thought it had Resillion brakes? Possibly the tandem came from Uncle Dave, as it isn't the one Dad and I raced on.