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The wheels are from a much more modern machine!... but were just in the frame as the originals were being rebuilt, here it is a few years ago before it's latest rebuild. Every winter it does around 2000 miles in all weathers, then gets rebuilt every year!
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When I stopped racing I sold my TT bikes and got Cliff to make me this one in 1991, this is how it looked in November this year before it's winter training stint! Full Campag Record C, including delta's and the very first 8 speed ergo levers. Only thing missing is the seat post, this is an ultra light super record one.
Note the ITM stem is painted on this one too, like the one you have, the colour of yours is pillar box red and was probably painted by Argos. The surgino cap on the headset is from a Colnago bike, a friend worked in Butlers, Croydon and got it for us, the dots were then colour coded red.
Are you planning to race the bike, as you say, it's very twitchy due to the very short wheel base.
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Hi There,
The bike was built by Cliff in 1988 and is made from columbus curly tube set with columbus aero forks and the front wheel is 26 inch. It's for 5ft 10inch rider. It was used by my dad from 1988 to the mid 90's for TT's and think the best times achieved were a long 55 for a 25 mile and long 21 for a 10 mile. I had a TT bike built by Cliff in the mid 80's which had a 24 inch front wheel, same colour made from an extra light weight japenese tubing and had mainly Corsa Record, it weighed 16lbs with Campag disc wheel!
The bike you have had an early Zipp Disc and deep section front wheel at one point, the surgino brake levers are very rare (they were from my TT bike) and it used to have red look pedals too.
I would go for all campag but not clinchers on a bike like that!
I'll send you some pics of the Cliff Shrubb I still ride to train on, Record C including delta's!! And see if I can dig out any other pics of my old TT bike.
Cliff Shrubb is still around and belongs to the Epsom CC. He still makes the VERY occasional frame too!
Out of interest, how much did you buy the bike for, the frame alone was over £400 in the late 80's!...and how long have you had it?
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That was my dads TT bike, anything you need to know about it let me know, I have spare tubs for the front wheel too!
Headset just has a spacer, colour coded, the idea is the frame is smaller to make it stiffer, the seat tube extends beyond the top tube and the spacer in the headset makes it the correct size. Colour coding of the stems was just a family thing! It's made from Reynolds 653 by the way, with 753 rear triangle and Colunbus aero forks.
Here's my TT bike with 24 inch front wheel from the mid 80's, it had a campag disc too, I wonder where this one is now?
I'll try and dig out some pics of yours in action too.