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It looks like its from the time when Harry Quinn sold his name to Falcon and they turned out some real tat in his name...... Harry later bought his name back and "proper" Harry Quinn frames reappeared.

Doesn't look very Falcon like, Used to sell them in the bike shop I worked in and it doesn't look familiar. Theres Mandobob on Cyclechat who I think is the VCC guy on Falcon but not sure if he comes on here?

I wore Atala shoes when I raced, they had a stylised "A" on them. Those shoes have stripes, maybe not a good corporate image lol

It seems to have had a pip added to the back of the head tube... Third digit looks like a 9 so that's a 1979 carlton or raleigh with extra chrome. The oversize seat stay caps ate there but the rear brake bridge has no diamond cutouts which should be there, (they might have been a later...

Way back when I raced in the 70's, my TT and track wheels were large flange. Theory was the spokes were shorter making for a rigid wheel for energy transfer. Often with tied and soldered spokes. Not sure where my radial spokes fitted in :) My road race wheels were small flange, more flex in...

Top tube guides, under BB cable guides but nutted brakes sort of puts in early 70's. Glue on Raleigh badge and a Raleigh seat bolt can de additions. Don't recognise it as a UK Raleigh but could be wrong. Maybe an export, overseas made or not a Raleigh

I wonder if Nigel Dean was involved somewhere, I think he was building frames in Hull about that time.

If you post a few pics of the frame the details often give a clue.

Blimey...Eric Suffill built my wheels back in the day (70's) not heard his name for years on end ! I rode for Hull Thursday and quite a few of us had our wheels built there. Eric had every excuse under the sun for wheels not being ready, plus hated doing radial spokes lol

A bit after my time as I'm the 70's but is it a Team Corsa 12 from the mid 80's?

Just out of curiosity what frame is it

Did Raleigh change their numbering system in 1988/89? Dropping the N and another letter prefix. Memory flaky lol

It's certainly a TT special but with an earlier CSM bb shell with the points at the side of the chainstay so Metric tubing. Wonder what the Reynolds decal says My Holdsworth Classic TT was meant for single chainring but came out of the factory with braze ons for two. Edit I'm in two minds...

Too many gears :)

You could well be right, I'm 65 this year so my memory of the time isn't cast iron. Probably mistaking it with seeing the Carlton Corsair /Pro Am duo at the Harrogate Bike Show '78 lol