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    Apr 16, 2019 5 minutes

    IN RESPONSE TO SYLVAIN

    Dear CR

    Your correspondent Sylvain Jégo is hoping to identify the frame of the bike he’s just bought. It bears some similarity to a Jim Lee framed Yamaha TR2B I owned and raced back in 1974. The swinging arm looks like it might be chromed, or more likely nickel plated, as mine was.

    The front end is completely different as far as I can see, and the drive is on the opposite side.

    The frame itself looks quite similar though. I’ve no idea what the frame number of mine was, but it did have some distinctive repairs which could identify it as my old bike, but more likely it is a similar one of Jim’s very nicely handling frames.

    Please feel free to pass on my email address to Sylvain and I’ll try and help him ID the frame.

    Great mag, as ever. Particularly the article about

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