Thanks for all the input on my post the other day about my singlespeed project. I would like to base it on a vintage frame rather than a new one.
Any thoughts on these available frames would be much appreciated. I am good mechanically, but I am a relative bike neophyte, especially on the vintage stuff:
I would pick the Raliegh with the 531 tubing. It is most likely made for 27" wheels so you could have some trouble getting the reach on the the brakes to work with 700c wheels. If you go fixed gear you won’t need brakes.
Go for either of the first two (by the way, that 1970 Raleigh is more like a '78 or '79 I think).
As for for cache’ it’s a toss-up; are you a Franco or Anglo-phile?
Those framesets bring back a flood of memories. Both were the envy of me and my junior racer friends. Superb club racing bikes. I actually have a built Super Course in my garage right now; it’s my townie commuter bike. Sometimes a fixie, now a six speed.
I would pick the Raliegh with the 531 tubing. It is most likely made for 27" wheels so you could have some trouble getting the reach on the the brakes to work with 700c wheels. If you go fixed gear you won’t need brakes.
Sseldon Browns site sells a flip flop 27 inch wheel expecially for such projects. SS hob on one side, fixed on the other.
T