Stuart Sinclair "Cadburys" 731OS

[juice.bikes]

Bit of lunchtime surgery today.. couldn’t find anyone who would do a repair for this under £200 so just bought a bit of epoxy and gonna hope for the best.

 

[JoeH]

The frame is beautiful, especially the seat stay into seat tube junction!

 

[chickendrumsticks]

That is a beautiful frame. Thank god you lost the green tyres ASAP . And I certainly agree about the wheels – those might work on some bikes, but not this one. Silver or grey will be a big improvement.

I've not heard of Stuart Sinclair, so it's always nice to see something new. Presumably a builder fairly local to Corby?

Red & green should ne"er be seen etc etc

 

[peetee]

Nice! I don't think you're wrong. I wonder why Reynolds stopped producing it. Also read somewhere a couple nights ago that Dave Yates said "it was a tubing time bomb".. wonder what that was all about!

Hmmm. Curious.
I did look into replacing the fractured tubes on my 708 Raleigh frame and enquired at Dave Yates establishment. He said he would replace the tubes with 631.
708 and 731 have similar butting profiles quite like anything else Reynolds have produced.

 

[biggs682]

This is my Sinclair unknown tubing .
Built for a Paralympic cyclist who used it as his winter training bike.

Rides well, when I asked Stuart Sinclair about it he obviously couldn't remember it but he is still around on face ache

 

[juice.bikes]

Been a while but back in London and managed a few up/downgrades on this. Had to sell the Mavics to cover the cost of the bike and replaced with some spares I had tucked away. I don't particularly like the depth on the CXPs so trying to source some shallow aero rims. Also slowly gathered some Dura Ace bits, brakes, rear mech before I left then found the shifters in pretty good condition at a street market in Mexico City of all places! Secured a Flite seatpost, chopped it down to save a few grams and paired up with the flite ha. Switched out the bars to some Nitto m106 for slightly closer reach and comfier hand position but after a few short rides recently think I'll be looking for a longer stem. Want something a beat neater looking, like a ITM Citta stem or maybe an Ibis titanium haha. Also kinda wanna fit some loud bar tape, maybe fluro pink or something wild but not sure atm. Theres a lot of potential!

Oh and side note, the carbon saddle project didn't really work. I came back from a sabbatical and it was peeling from the underside/edges.. the quest for a perforated flite or similar continues. Anyways, heres some photos of the build as it stands -

 

[juice.bikes]

This is my Sinclair unknown tubing .
Built for a Paralympic cyclist who used it as his winter training bike.

Rides well, when I asked Stuart Sinclair about it he obviously couldn't remember it but he is still around on face ache

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Looks tidy! Great story behind it too. Got any more pics?

 

[Ecurie Peril]

Been a while but back in London and managed a few up/downgrades on this. Had to sell the Mavics to cover the cost of the bike and replaced with some spares I had tucked away. I don't particularly like the depth on the CXPs so trying to source some shallow aero rims. Also slowly gathered some Dura Ace bits, brakes, rear mech before I left then found the shifters in pretty good condition at a street market in Mexico City of all places! Secured a Flite seatpost, chopped it down to save a few grams and paired up with the flite ha. Switched out the bars to some Nitto m106 for slightly closer reach and comfier hand position but after a few short rides recently think I'll be looking for a longer stem. Want something a beat neater looking, like a ITM Citta stem or maybe an Ibis titanium haha. Also kinda wanna fit some loud bar tape, maybe fluro pink or something wild but not sure atm. Theres a lot of potential!

Oh and side note, the carbon saddle project didn't really work. I came back from a sabbatical and it was peeling from the underside/edges.. the quest for a perforated flite or similar continues. Anyways, heres some photos of the build as it stands -

I just love that colour!

 

[Bigfish]

Stuart is a friend of mine, as is Bob Mitchell. I helped out in the shop too. In fact, I have the first frame Stuart ever built, which is a 731 OS TT frame. We were all members of the nearby Rockingham Forest Wheelers (I still am). The paralympic frames were all built for Tom Evans, a local lad, who won multiple world and olympic medals. A couple of them were badged up as Spirol Industries, who paid for some of the frames as a sponsorship deal (his dad worked there). Over a 7 or 8 year period, Stuart Sinclair frames were built for lots of local riders, from a great many different tube sets. A lot of them had Bob's hand in the build, and some of them were indeed completely built by Bob. Some were ridden on road and track to national medals by riders including Dominic Sweeney and Lindsey Clarke.
Bob must have bought a job lot of that purple paint, because many of the earlier frames were purple.
Little known fact:
Stuart didn't want his name on the frames for some reason, and my prototype TT frame was originally stickered up as Hot Cake-Very Tasty (Bob's wife's daft idea). I rode it once like that, and told Stuart he could damned well put his name on it, or I'd put my name on. I refused to put up with the piss taking that took place when I turned up with Hot Cake on my bike.
The rest is history.
We don't really know how many frames were built, but there a lot more than 100.

 

[Ecurie Peril]

Stuart is a friend of mine, as is Bob Mitchell. I helped out in the shop too. In fact, I have the first frame Stuart ever built, which is a 731 OS TT frame. We were all members of the nearby Rockingham Forest Wheelers (I still am). The paralympic frames were all built for Tom Evans, a local lad, who won multiple world and olympic medals. A couple of them were badged up as Spirol Industries, who paid for some of the frames as a sponsorship deal (his dad worked there). Over a 7 or 8 year period, Stuart Sinclair frames were built for lots of local riders, from a great many different tube sets. A lot of them had Bob's hand in the build, and some of them were indeed completely built by Bob. Some were ridden on road and track to national medals by riders including Dominic Sweeney and Lindsey Clarke.
Bob must have bought a job lot of that purple paint, because many of the earlier frames were purple.
Little known fact:
Stuart didn't want his name on the frames for some reason, and my prototype TT frame was originally stickered up as Hot Cake-Very Tasty (Bob's wife's daft idea). I rode it once like that, and told Stuart he could damned well put his name on it, or I'd put my name on. I refused to put up with the piss taking that took place when I turned up with Hot Cake on my bike.
The rest is history.
We don't really know how many frames were built, but there a lot more than 100.

Great story loving Hot Cake-Very Tasty!