Hello Rendezvousers,
I hope your holidays are better than my French. I've set up a Yahoo photo album with pix of a bike I've owned for about 25 years (see end of message). I don't know how many previous owners it had. I believe it to be a real track bike, not a path bike (but please check my reasoning here) as it has very aggressive geometry. It's 56 x 56 with a 98cm wheelbase. The frame and fork are quite light - haven't weighed them but I'm sure it's the lightest steel frameset in this size I've owned.
The seat stays are odd. The right stay is consistently 1mm smaller in diameter along its length than the left stay. The head badge is missing, of course, and needed 5 rivets to attach to the tube (1 at top, 2 each right and left).
It came to me with Bayliss Wiley BB cups and a rare TA Criterium crankset, the semi-cottered type. The spindle matches the cranks, so must also be TA.
Fork blades are round and mounted in a twin-plate crown with slightly rounded top edges. The drillium in the rear fork ends is scary. I stopped riding this bike because I could no longer suppress daytime nightmares of mangled body parts punctured by jagged fork end shrapnel.
So now that I have it apart, if (with your collective help) I can ID it, I will restore it to its original glory. BTW, I'll need parts, lots of parts, and a head badge, and some transfers... Santa? Did you read this?
While you're at the album, take a look at the other album with pictures of my new (to me) Super Elliott. Got it cleaned up and adjusted, etc. and took it on a maiden 30m voyage this afternoon. Lovely.
Dave "60 degrees and sunny" Ross Portola Valley, CA
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/