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Jocelyn Lovell was a seriously good trackman sprinter. Very seriously good. World-class seriously good.

When Marinoni went for (and eventually set) his age-bracket (75+, I believe) Hour Record a few years ago, he did it on a frame he had built for Jocelyn Lovell 30+ years earlier. of his second, succesful effort. (He fell a little short on his first try.) It starts with a great drive-side shot of the bike in the starting block.

Also, for the film "Marinoni: The Fire in the Flame" that was screened at one of the early Eroica events. I saw it there and bought the DVD - it's worth tracking down, if you can, and watching. Marinoni is, shall we say, quirky (a framebuilder with a quirky personality? Who'da thunk it?) but kind of endearing in his way. The film includes some footage of Marinoni and Lovell reconnecting after having not seen each other for a number of years. It also includes footage of him training for and riding his first (unsuccessful) hour record attempt, Marinoni gathering mushrooms, brazing a frame, and a visit with him to his old stomping grounds in Italy. As I said, it's worth watching.

Did Lovell actually build frames himself?

And that barn-shop posted is truly scary. You would think they’d have sured it up over time...

There are some cool stories about Jocelyn Lovell. Here's a story I remembered about his ingenuity. Bicycle Specialties: Two cranksets, two chains.

Yes, Jocelyn Lovell built around 100 frames, I'm lucky to have one of the last he built before his accident, then Mike Mulholland took over the business building his own frames called Cyclops, I own one of the first he built also.

Should be Aston, not Austin. Austin was another car brand.

Stumbled across this and thought I'd share a picture of my Cyclops. Softride carbon fiber "Crossbow" - was what Mulholland called the model. Groupo is Mavic Zap with the electronic rear derailleur (front shifter was still mechanical on downtube). I had Campagnolo Shamal rims - bike was gorgeous in it's day. Tear dropped CroMoly frame. Piece of art honestly. If anyone is interested, i'll put the Shamals on and take cleaned up picture. Some bar tape too.

Whoops - sorry new member - can't post a photo yet..

Just picked up a Cyclops frame in my size, will update on the build.

I worked at a co-op that sometimes had very nice bikes donated, and i had to figure out what to do with them/ how to sell them. Had a Cyclops come through, bilaminate if I remember correctly, looked very nice. I wasn't able to find much information at that time about Mike Mulholland, but i (sort of confusingly in retrospect) did find forum posts about disgruntled customers trying to get their money back on unfulfilled orders. So, either those posts were written a long time ago, in the immediate aftermath of Mulholland's death, before people realized what had happened, or there was someone falsely claiming to represent Cyclops bicycles in order to scam would-be customers. Or i was simply confused about some other situation entirely. Either way, I wasn't exactly sure how to sell the frame because I was under the impression that Cyclops was a disgraced name. Yikes! I'm glad to get some more back story and clarification! Sometimes the internet is a strange place...

Edit: found a picture of the one we got and sold:

Regarding the oot/out pronunciation--if anyone cares--it used to be prevalent in central Virginia when we moved here in the '50s so I'm accustomed to hearing it and was not shocked by Canadians using it. Don't hear it much anymore since those speakers have probably died off and their descendants have likely assumed a neutral accent.