Originally Posted by
unworthy1
Headbadge (or holes for one)? and I'm surprised there's no serial number on the BB shell, a Holdsworth of this vintage (has to be '70s with no braze-ons except the one cable stop) should have a number. The French 531 labels look to be re-pops...wonder if this is a repaint and therefore...is it a Holdsworth? Looks to be a good British bike, regardless of make.
Does it have one set of WB bosses? If so, they have to be added later.
If you look at the catalogs here :
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nkilgariff/
you see that by the time they went to sidepulls, they were pretty much into
the 80's. And They were pretty late in adopting cable braze ons.
No, there are no WB fittings, so that was not reworked.
This was made, I'm pretty sure, late 70's or earliest 80's
(80 maybe, by 81 looks like they had cable braze ons),
even though it's 5speed cluster and looks to all appearances
to be 70's. the 27 " rims are kind of a mystery, but what's
life without a little mystery?
Certainly a repaint was the first thing that came to mind,
but I dunno any more. they were using decals instead of
headbadges by this time, anyway......no holes.
