Old 03-01-15 | 07:29 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...

Yes. I've considered it. If I went ahead with the thing, I'd do it myself. I love an art project.

But I don't want to give a bike a name it doesn't deserve. I've tried that: my Falcon commuter is currently sporting bogus Dick Power graphics that used to kinda crack me up but now just strike me as wrong. It should have a Falcon head badge; none other will do.

My Holdsworth is a mid to late 70s frame that a previous owner customized and repainted up the wazoo and in the process its head badge was lost. Nothing will ever make that bike original again, so I gave it early Holdsworth graphics including a 1930s style head badge; truly bogus and even custom, but it says Holdsworth on it so at least that much is true. And it's actually a very good copy of an early Hildsworth head badge.

Beyond that... I thought about naming my touring bike... and it's not happening. When I repaint it, the original Trek headbadge is going back on it and that's that.
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