Originally Posted by
oldmuthariley
Hi all,
i went to a cycle jumble ...and decided (wish i hadn't) to buy this frame....I very much doubt it's a Stan Pike as badged (he died in 1984 or thereabouts)... 27.2 seatpost size... it's reasonably light too,
any ideas???
I have an idea or two...
Almost definitely your frame is a Stan Pike. His later work often had that high fastback seat cluster treatment - some people like it, some don't. Mine is from late 1982 - your seat cluster looks identical to mine. . . I bought mine through Competition Cycles (now long gone) in Cricklewood. I had to wait ages for it – the proprietor Colin Freud (rip) didn’t always pay Mr. Pike in a timely manner, it seems, so it was only a few months after I purchased mine that Pike stopped dealings with Freud.
Although the angle of your photo doesn't give the best view, the headtube angle is much more upright than the seat tube angle - so tt is plausible – Pike was known to have built to this configuration. See the link http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20484 - read all of the threads, there’s a few BS posts.
Mr. Pike built completely to the customer's specification, no matter how odd.
The vertical rear dropouts look like Shimano, just like mine. I have a SABA cast BB – he liked to use investment cast bits.
I've still got the original fork on mine- I specified an aero crown with 531 sl blades. 72.2 mm seatpost says Reynolds 531 to me – it’s what Stan Pike usually built with.
Your lugs look as fine as mine too. What's not to like? That you have a lot of work to do to bring it back? Even though Stan Pike’s frames did not have the refined elegance of their Italian contemporaries, his frames were really top rate. Since he built under his own name only from 1975 until his death in 1983, there are not a huge number of these around. He was a master builder/brazer/welder. So treat it with respect!
I posted a picture of mine earlier in C&V. see
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=#post12333653
Last edited by CrankyFranky; 09-08-11 at 05:51 AM.