Ah, so! A ride down memory lane!
Same stay/seat tube junction treatment as my 1984 Cecil Walker SuperTour roadie (ridden for Audax Australia Melbourne to Mildura and return, then in 1986, Bendigo Double Century (100m/160km/320km RTN). The bike was designed by a German, Wilf Erben who lived close by me and whose wife Anna introduced me to bicycle touring in late 1977. The most outstanding feature of the bike's design was that it was 2 sizes too big for me!!
Never ask a person of short stature to design a bike for a more-abouts 6ft-er...
The chamfered treatment of the tube was embossed with CW and painted gold (not a very good sole surviving photo, below). Rest of frame had very fine, ornate red/grey/gold scrollwork and roman lettering (my name). DuraAce front, rear derailleurs and crank arms were given red or red/black paint infill.
It is believed the frame was painted at the Bates workshop, like so many Hillman frames were also, but you wouldn't get the two shops (Cecils and Hillmans) seeing eye-to-eye about who-did-what-where-and-when!
It was rivalry on a grand scale — ridiculous really, and either/both shops wanted me to eavesdrop on what the other was doing in terms of products available! Shame I never got paid for the espionage, but I did get lots of discounts by keeping my mouth shut!!
• Cecil Walker SuperTour, pictured at sister's home in Leopold (SE of Geelong), October 1984,
conclusion of riding from home in North Melbourne to Leopold (and getting lost around Little River!)
EDIT: Viewers may note this roadie has mudguards. At that time, these were a requirement for long distance AUDAX rides here in Australia; I do not know if that regulation still holds. Lights were also required, with the lights on this bike a Sanyo DynaPower, bottom-bracket/chainstay junction mount, with jury-rigged halogen front and rear lights that belted the stuffing out of the feeble output of the Dynapower. Computer was a Cateye CC2000 Solar, replacing an earlier Pacer 2000 (pic below).
...And the rider hi'self, afternoon of the day prior to departure with AUDAX Aus. riding from Watsonia Army Barracks to Mildura and return. Bike was sold off in September 1987 after I returned to bicycle touring full-time with what was then Hillman Cycles first MTB to be seen in Melbourne — A Hillman Sherpa, painted royal blue, with gold and red bling (again!).
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