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Anyone looking for a vintage steel frame?

  • 16-03-2009 7:03pm
    #1
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    I've got a very old steel road bike if anyone is interested in it. It's in pretty bad shape and was going to go in a skip, but if anyone into restoring old frames wants it, it's theres.

    The frame is a Jack Taylor, from a British frame builder that went out of business a while back. More info on the company is here.

    Top tube length is 58cm, while c to c is also 58cm, so it is a large frame and would probably fit someone around 6ft.

    The tubing is Reynolds 531 and it appears to be fillet brazed. There are lots of spots of rust on the frame, but it does seem to be superficial. I don't know much about steel frames, so I wouldn't be able to say myself whether its salvagable by rubbing it down with wire wool and repainting it. Dropouts are horizontal.

    The bike used to be my Dad's and he raced it for a while. He reckons he bought it in 1959 and used it for much of the sixties. However, it's been lying idle in the back of a shed for over forty years and hasn't been looked after (hence the rust). My Da thought it had been binned years ago. The components look a total write-off, so I'd say the frame is the only thing worthy trying to salvage.

    If anyone wants it, they can pick it up. It's in Inchicore, Dublin.

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Comments

  • #2
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    yes please:)


  • #3
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Done.


  • #4
    NeilMcEoigheann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭NeilMcEoigheann


    should raam contract some sort of terrible illness that makes him unable to touch bikes again, i'll 2nd in line


  • #5
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    No problem.

    Raam, PM me and we'll sort something out about picking it up.


  • #6
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Next? I don't think this would be suitable for Raam :)


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  • #7
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    thanks El Tonto.

    Sorry boys, but I think I'll be keeping this one. I've been looking for an old frame for ages in order to do a fixie project. No doubt there will be plenty of questions coming about BB sizes/threads, chainring BCDs, wheel spacing, headsets and so on. Ideally I'd like to do it for as cheap as possible so I'll take all donations/cheap offers of old fixie parts :)


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