F Grubb track fixed wheel - black commuter now
By trigwill on 03/20/2012.
Bike tags: Fixed gear | F Grubb | FH Grubb | Freddie Grubb
F Grubb - possibly 50/60s looking at frame lug style
sakae custom road champion
F Grubb
modern weinmann track wheel
modern weinmann track rear, fitted with fixed sprockets (no freewheels here!).
zeus criterium e chainring crank (left hand shhhhh....imano)
selle royale (for commuting) F Grubb seatpost
Look A3.1 (deltas)
fixed
cyclo-cross brake lever and close reach calliper (unknown)
52T
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F Grubb - possibly 50/60s looking at frame lug style
sakae custom road champion
F Grubb
modern weinmann track wheel
modern weinmann track rear, fitted with fixed sprockets (no freewheels here!).
zeus criterium e chainring crank (left hand shhhhh....imano)
selle royale (for commuting) F Grubb seatpost
Look A3.1 (deltas)
fixed
cyclo-cross brake lever and close reach calliper (unknown)
52T
Looking for zeus lh crank. If you have further information that may help me date the frame (I have the serial number)it was last used in the 70/80s on the Mountbatten track Portsmouth competitively.
By Richard Evans President Portsmouth North End Cycling Club:
"Regarding the F H Grubb, the original owner was Denny Williams, locally known as Willy.
from the now extinct Portsmouth C C, great rivals of the North End in the Track League
Hay days.of 1946 to the late 1950's
Colors.--Front forks , rear seat and chain stays Gold, main body Dark Royal Blue.
Fast forward to 1951, posted from RAF Yatesbury No 2 Radio School to RAF St Athens.
On arrival , directed to my Billet , propped out side, Willy's Freddy Grubb !!!!!
And in the next Billet Haydn Cobley a North Ender.
Willy and myself represented RAF St Athens in the inter services Track Championship at
Herne Hill , curtsey of an Avro Anson, dropping us off a North Holt aerodrome.
Willy died young, so the frame was passed on to a Southern Olympic rider, he also died young,
so it finally arrived at John Martin's door, thus braking the Jinks".