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09-18-13 | 06:47 PM

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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...

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Originally Posted by unworthy1

Remember: some CBs had only a transfer on the head tube, no badge...but if it's a Holdsworth-era CB it would be more likely to have had the badge.

Yeah, that is pretty much what I'm thinking.

I am as satisfied with the Olympic Sprint ID as I can reasonably expect to be. Sure, I'd rather it be a sixties Witcomb than a Holdsworth-built Claud Butler, but I'd still prefer a genuine Claud Butler to a bogus Witcomb. What I'm wondering now is, would anyone ever have copied a Claud Butler of this period? Did the Claud Butler bikes of the sixties carry the prestige of the Claud Butler marque of the early fifties? I think it pretty unlikely, but what do I know. So by Occam's razor, it has to be a Claud Butler Olympic Sprint.

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