Still they were insured and the payout meant I went to the area’s big name racing store ‘Deeside Cycles’ and bought a road bike meant for racing. This lovely red frame is badged as ‘Graham Weigh’ who operated ‘Deeside Cycles’ but I believe ‘Terry Dolan’ actually had a hand in their fame supply. 531 tubing, Campag groupset, lovely downtube shifters. This was the bike I won a TT on (reduced field due to incredible thunderstorm) and Hill Climbed against a young Chris Boardman (he won the overall event in a record time – 4 minutes quicker than my 12 minute finish time). Looking at it now I can’t believe how much seatpost there is,must have been a tiny frame!
I cannot remember how this bike met it’s demise, but I know what came next....
– it was an impulse buy, I needed a bike quick as I was commuting everyday and it had a sexy flat fork and unpainted metal finish – it looked sexy and I could afford it. It was branded as a KF and sold by a non descript LBS in South London. Even browsing the web now KF are an enigma. I loved it at the time and raced with Addiscombe CC on it for a year or so. I took it to my new friends at Pearson’s Cyclesin Sutton one day to ask about the lose headset and creaking. They told me that the headtube had been poorly threaded/bored or something and advised that it was unsafe to ride. So then I bought the bike that has so far eclipsed all others......
