I wonder if you could help me identify my bike's year and model. Here is what I know...

- The frame number is 6497
- It has a bronze 'prancing horse' badge on the head tube - just bronze with no enamelling
- There are no 'spear'or pierced lugs but it does have moderately 'fancy' lugs on most of the joints (including those around the bottom bracket). These are mostly in the form of two lobes and central point.
- The frame is painted a dark green with no sign of transfers
- There is a grease nipple for the bottom bracket
- It has a very old (original I suspect) Brooks Champion B17 Narrow saddle.
- The stem is a forged 'GB'

I suspect this is a red herring (as these items might be later) but it has a Campagnolo Gran Sport rear mech (with a 4 speed cassette), a campag fron mech, Normandy hubs and MAFAC centre-pull brakes

GDN26

Best way to find out is to look here:

Holdsworth history

Pictures would be good, sounds like a nice bicycle. What's the story behind it...

Grease nipple on the bb suggests 50's or earlier. If it doesn't have a headclip, it's probably late 40's/sometime in the 50's. Pictures...

some detailed pictures of the campy mechs would be very helpful in dating the machine..
if they are very early they could be quite rare

also, some periods of brooks saddles were date stamped on the frame with a two digit date

Thanks for the interest guys; it is much appreciated. I've uploaded some pre-cleaning images of the Holdsworth to my Blog so I'm hoping you can view them. One shows the bronze 'prancing horse', the other the Campagnolo Gran Sport Mech (which seems to work perfectly) and the other is a side view of the bike. https://ludicrousexploits.blogspot.com/

As Coelcanth suggests I'll have a look for the Brooks saddle's date stamp.

I'm thinking highlyselassie is correct about the rough date because of the bronze badge.

Have a great weekend. I'm going to take the Bianchi out into the oxfordshire countryside.


GDN