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Old 11-16-22, 07:49 AM
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That bike has some oddities, far as I know the 753 tube set came with fork blades, which may indicate that it was rebuilt due to fork damage. I would take great care on a test ride as 753 is famous for not being able to be cold set, you can find Reynolds literature stating that. It is not true for mild cases as our local framebuilder straighten the unrideable 753 frame and fork below for me on his Marchetti frame table and Lange folk table and it now rides beautifully. So I would certainly take a good ride before buying. I could see the one fork blade was tweaked forward on my cast iron table and could straighten it out only to have it pop back where it was as soon as I got on the pedals just as the Reynolds engineers said it would.
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