As some of you may know I recently picked up an Alan frame on ebay. It was built up once but never ridden. I'm building it up with Campy SR.

Not knowing much about Alan's at all I emailed some information about my frame to AlAN Usa to see what they could tell me.

I sent them the pics seen here, as well as the numbers I found on the BB shell:

541807
3* 61x60

and some text on one of the seat stays:

ALAN 281

I assumed the 541807 is the serial number?

Anyway, here's the short response I received:

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Hi Brian,
Alberto, the owner of ALAN, said that this is a “Super” model made Feb. 1981.

Best,

Sally

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I think she meant that it's a Super Record? Here's a link to a 2 page catalogue which shoes a crappy pic of a SR frame:

http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/Alan/

So, are there any other ALAN owners here? If so I'd be great if you could post a pic, and maybe even your serial number to see if we could make sense of them. In general any info you wish to add about Alan bikes would be great as there doesnt seem to be too much yet.

As for me, as soon as I get a suitable set up handlebars and brake levers I'll have mine built up.