No numbers!!

I can measure the BB tomorrow


Tidy lil cable guides

sure has the look of Britain, but some peculiarities (like the weird placement of the cable guides) those are BCM head lugs and a Brit HS (we need Juvela to chime in about now) and I know that forkcrown is a known make but will have to research. Wonder if ALL the cable routing was done aftermarket, the under BB is a bit odd for what I think may be original build date...
Stronglight crankset?
Matthauser brake pads?

Those Mathauser pads are cool-looking, but deadly! The rubber is just glued on, and now after all these decades, the glue is degraded. I have several of them in my junk pile, and on most of them I see the rubber starting to delaminate. I can flick them off with a fingernail.

I saw a couple of them where the rubber fell off in use, and that was back in the '70s when they were not nearly as old as they are now. Do not ride with them!

Later, they changed the design, to one where the rubbers were held in mechanically, not just glue. If you have those, you're probably OK.

As to what the frame is, maybe a Raleigh with new braze-ons? Definitely a repaint.

Crown looks like one of the feature cuts you could get on a Vagner crown, no.11 maybe.



I miss juvela !

if it is a Raleigh (or one of their sister brands) I'd expect there will be a serial number in one of the "usual places" that Worksop and Nottingham used to stamp

I always have to remember, that Portland had a decent frame building school and this could have been an homage to a certain brand/build.

I see zero numbers anywhere.

it's an odd mix of bits: BCM lugs with Vagner crown and then probable braze-ons added then repainted, so those 531 decals may not be 100% reliable, but the threading (BSC of FR) would narrow things down, as will the seat post size and accurate OD measurements of the main tubes (metric or Imperial)...

ALSO: what are we looking at here on this fork blade?


is that a bad scrape or just a leaf scrap?

Moth wing?

moth wing or leaf. It was stored in a shed.

OK then, nothing to see here, folks...move along...