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That Swan Guy:
PR all day long

deeman:
The PR frames were made under licence at Rickman after Brian taught the guys there to braze. The 6 number serial confirms this.....
To all intents and purposes it is still a 'Curtis' frame...just not actually made by Brian himself, depends on how much of a 'purist' you are. the frames are still made of T45 and have the distinctive flared headtube. There are a FEW guys who would be able to tell the difference in the brazing from Brian's work but it really is small details. The chroming is amongst the best on these frames too and cannot be matched these days.
Hope this helps a little, pm me if you need more info...
Damo  :daumenhoch:


Edit...The decals could cause you some problems. Because of their relative rarity the decal guy on here Del does not have any PR decals as far as I know. I was looking to have mine reproduced but in order to do this I would need to remove my original decals to scan and I don't want to do this! Peter Rose of Painter Rose (PR) does not have any of the original artwork either.
But...where there is a will there is a way...If you are lucky someone on here will take a pic of the originals for you (or there might be some images online or on here even) and you could possibly get some drawn up that would be very close. I have a PR Styler (freestyle) so the decals would be no use. However the head tube decal is the same so if you want a pic or 4 of that I am happy to help.

Drawn:
firstly you guys are legends, really do appreciate everything you've done.
and thanks for the history lesson, so now its time to find out as much as possible about them.
Probably will keep it stickered as is until there is a full set of decals to put on it. Am actually quite interested to set it up all original as it appears it may be quite the uncommon frame.

as for the decals/stickers.
If you could take any photos even with a scaling next to it (ie a ruler for sizing) then that would be awesome as.
Have a mate who his long term buddy can get the stickers remade. They have done it before where they actually redraw them from scratch but can have trouble. Normally they scan them in but have worked them off photographs before
looks like the fork and main logo is the same
so yeah, if you can grab any pictures that would be awesome as, and even if it takes time if I can get a set made I should be able to send a set over aswell.  :daumenhoch:

Hopefully you don't mind, I may end up using this thread to add pictures to in regards to the decals, just to have an easy spot to find them over time.
So far have found a fair few good ones, but it looks like the rear chainstay sticker may be the hard one, if anyone has the ability to take the picture of them that would be awesome as.

deeman:

--- Quote from: Drawn on September 12, 2016, 10:51 AM ---firstly you guys are legends, really do appreciate everything you've done.
and thanks for the history lesson, so now its time to find out as much as possible about them.
Probably will keep it stickered as is until there is a full set of decals to put on it. Am actually quite interested to set it up all original as it appears it may be quite the uncommon frame.

as for the decals/stickers.
If you could take any photos even with a scaling next to it (ie a ruler for sizing) then that would be awesome as.
Have a mate who his long term buddy can get the stickers remade. They have done it before where they actually redraw them from scratch but can have trouble. Normally they scan them in but have worked them off photographs before
looks like the fork and main logo is the same
so yeah, if you can grab any pictures that would be awesome as, and even if it takes time if I can get a set made I should be able to send a set over aswell.  :daumenhoch:

Hopefully you don't mind, I may end up using this thread to add pictures to in regards to the decals, just to have an easy spot to find them over time.
So far have found a fair few good ones, but it looks like the rear chainstay sticker may be the hard one, if anyone has the ability to take the picture of them that would be awesome as.




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Cool...I will get a some pics of the headtube decal and fork decals as mine are same and anything else that might be relevant. Unfortunately mine does not have the chainstay decals , just the green lightning flash, but on the seat stays. The chainstay decal says T45 Aircraft material above the flash and 'built to last' below but don't quote me on the last bit! Hopefully someone else may have be able to get you pic of them.
The PR's weren't available as complete bikes so you can pretty much build it how you want to....there is no original spec. If you want any advice on parts just ask... :daumenhoch:

Drawn:
So a bit of an update I guess.
Contacted Del and he has said that he has the Headtube Sticker so that's a start. (have to start the collection somewhere)

Also have found a fair few good quality photos of the fork and Downtube stickers, so will have to work on getting them remade from scratch at this stage. will be a bit of trial and error to get the sizing right.

the only hard one appears to be the Chainstay sticker.
pictures I have seen I cannot work out the top words, although it does look like as Dee has said Aircraft material
however I can work out the bottom words do say "Light Years Ahead"

If anyone has access to a frame with the true stickers or can point me in the right direction to those that might, that would be appreciated. Have tried to contact a few people and unfortunately they don't have the frames anymore.
really want to get the ball rolling and have it returned to its original glory

also just quickly, would it be better to start a new thread for chasing the decals? Am still getting used to this forum and don't want to rock the boat, that's all. (and if so where would be best to put it)

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