Holdsworth 1968 Catalog — Handbuilt Perfection: the Cyclone, Mistral, Super Mistral, Fastback, Continental and Typhoon

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HOLDSWORTH
HANDBUILT PERFECTION
1968

[The front cover of Holdsworth’s landscape catalog, plain purple, with “HOLDSWORTH” in white, “HANDBUILT PERFECTION” and the year 1968 in black.]

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The most famous of all—
SUPERBLY EQUIPPED
WITH
LARGE FLANGE
ALLOY HUBS
ITALIAN
UNIVERSAL 61
CENTRE PULL
BRAKES
RECORD
Gearing front and rear by
CAMPAGNOLO

[A photograph of a Holdsworth lightweight with dropped bars, center pull brakes and a derailleur gear, beside a drawing of a Campagnolo rear derailleur on a purple panel and a hatched arrow pointing down to it. The heading ends in a dash that runs on toward the next page.]

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Holdsworth Lightweight Cycles —
CYCLONE
BROOKS B.15 SADDLE
WITH PERFORATED SIDE FLAPS
CHROME STEEL CHAINSET
WITH 6¾” FLUTED CRANKS
27¼” STEEL H.P. RIMS
DUNLOP H. PRESSURE TYRES
G.B. REINFORCED VENTOUX BENDS
G.B. SOLID FORGED ALLOY STEM
REGINA QUINTUPLE FREEWHEEL
LYOTARD RACING PEDALS
18″ POLISHED ALLOY INFLATOR
WEINMANN RACING EXTS. OR
BLACK CLASSIQUE GUARDS WITH
CHROME PLATED CENTRE STRIP
‘531’ TUBING HANDBUILT INTO PRUGNAT ITALIAN STYLE SPEARPOINT LUGS AND SLOPING FORK CROWN. SLENDER OVAL FORK BLADES AND WIDE SECTION SEAT STAYS FOR POSITIVE BUT EASILY HANDLED CONTROL.
FRAME ONLY £12 0 0d.
OR WITH CAMPAGNOLO FRONT AND REAR ENDS £13 5 0d.
EX WORKS
Dark green flamboyant with white seat tube offset with light orange flam. bands four inches wide. Head tube is all white. Name transfer in ‘Blocks’.
Recommended prices
SIZES TO ORDER
Including P. Tax
FIVE SPEED CYCLE £43 19 6d.
TEN SPEED CYCLE £48 19 6d.

[A text page for Holdsworth’s Cyclone, with its equipment list, the frame and its finish, and the frame and cycle prices including purchase tax. There is no illustration on the page.]

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High Specification Cycles
Superbly equipped
CAMPAGNOLO
RECORD
COTTERLESS ALLOY
CHAINSET
RECORD
LARGE FLANGE
QUICK RELEASE HUBS.
RECORD
REAR GEAR
HANDLEBAR CONTROLLED.
RECORD
FRONT CHANGER
HANDLEBAR CONTROLLED
ON TEN SPEED MODELS.

[A photograph of a Holdsworth ten speed lightweight with a double chainset, quick release hubs, handlebar end gear controls and toe clips, beside a list of its Campagnolo Record equipment. The frame carries “HOLDSWORTH” transfers on the top and down tubes.]

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HANDBUILT MISTRAL
For the Connoisseur
A FIRST CLASS ROAD FRAME COMBINING SURE HANDLING WITH RESPONSIVE URGE TO BE OUT IN FRONT.
Made from the best tubing available —’Reynolds butted 531′ is used throughout this thoroughbred frame which is hand brazed into the very popular ‘long spearpoint’ Prugnat lugs and sloping shoulder fork crown.
Normally built to 72° parallel angles with a 17½” rear triangle and 10½” high bottom bracket, an alternative of 73° angles is offered with shorter fork rake and higher bracket.
ANY COLOUR Flamboyant, Lustre or Enamel with contrasts and lining to choice.
FRAME ONLY
£16 19 6d.
EX WORKS
Mistral Frames feature a tremendously strong rear triangle by dispensing with out-dated heavy solid metal top eyes. A hollow large section 9/16″ stay is fully wrapped over the seat cluster and capped by a precision cut light steel facing. This system developed in our workshop culminates in a considerable weight saving and greater strength where the frame is under heavy stress.

[Two photographs of a Holdsworth Mistral frame: the head tube with its crest transfer and long spearpoint lugs, and the seat cluster with the seat stays wrapped over the top of the seat tube. A crease runs across the purple frame price panel.]

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based on the MISTRAL range of frames
with—
FIAMME | Alloy Road Sprint rims built with 15/17 chrome double butted spokes on large flange Q/Release hubs.
KOWALIT | Komet ‘S’ 11 ozs tubulars.
UNIVERSAL | 61 alloy centre pull, translucent hood brakes.
IL PRIMO | Reinforced alloy bends. Solid forged headstem.
BROOKS | Professional saddle.
REGINA | Five speed freewheel. Flexible 3/32″ chain.
LYOTARD | No. 23 ‘platform’ pedals.
UNIVERSAL | Chrome toeclips.
ALPINE | Q/Release toestraps.
WEINMANN | Stainless guard exts.
Mistral COMPLETE
FIVE SPEED £80 0 0d.
TEN SPEED £87 10 0d.
Recommended price Including P. Tax
Super Mistral
FIVE SPEED £85 0 0d.
TEN SPEED £92 10 0d.

[A text page listing the equipment of the Mistral complete cycle by maker, with the five speed and ten speed prices of the Mistral and the Super Mistral including purchase tax. There is no illustration on the page.]

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SUPER MISTRAL
Fully sloping Prugnat fork crown of integral design with reinforcements concealed within the oval blades.
Strengthened rear bridge with tubular pivot hole insert and diamond shoulder fillets.
FRAME ONLY
£21 15 0d.
EX WORKS
Choice of Campagnolo forged ends with standard or vertical drop-outs.
FASTBACK
Built with up-to-date design features-
Seat stays are set close together behind an extended seat lug which carries a centre-pull brake hanger. The neat cluster produced allows easy operation of the Campagnolo quick release seat pin clamp.
FRAME ONLY
£22 10 0d.
EX WORKS
SUPER MISTRAL
FINISH
AS
MISTRAL
DISTINGUISHED
BY —
CHROME FRONT FORKS REAR ENDS AND TEN INCHES OF SEAT AND CHAIN STAYS.

[Photographs of a Holdsworth Super Mistral frame and fork with a banded seat tube, the crest on the head tube and a chrome fork, and a close-up of a seat cluster with a brake hanger and a quick release seat pin clamp. Faint show-through of large lettering from the other side of the leaf lies along the foot of the frame photograph.]

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Continental
equipped
with Weinmann 999 alloy brakes
Lyotard single sided pedals
Regina 5 × 3/32″ freewheel
Campagnolo
Gran Sport
FIVE
SPEED
CYCLE
recommended price
£36 19 6d.
including Purchase Tax

[A photograph of a Holdsworth five speed lightweight with dropped bars, a single chainring, a pump along the top tube and a banded seat tube, beside its equipment and price. Faint show-through of text from the other side of the leaf lies in the photograph’s background.]

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TYPHOON
Constructed by hand to a sound road design with built in balance and responsive steering.
COMPLETED WITH
BROOKS B.5. SADDLE
G.B. MAES ALLOY BARS
G.B. SOLID ALLOY STEM
SHORT RACING GUARDS
DUNLOP H.P. TYRES ON
STEEL H. PRESSURE RIMS.
Light orange flamboyant finish with white head and seat tube. Two panels of Brunswick green flam. provide strong contrast on seat tube. Block name transfer in black.
FRAME ONLY £10 0 0d.
EX WORKS
SIZES 21″ 22″ 23″ 24″ & 19½” with 26″ clearance.

[Holdsworth’s Typhoon, with its equipment, its finish and the frame price and sizes, beside an oval photograph of a rear derailleur and freewheel printed in purple. No complete cycle is shown.]

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TRICYCLE CONVERSION SET
Holdsworth conversion sets have enabled generations to enjoy the thrill of riding on three wheels. Safer under adverse road conditions, excitingly different.
IDEAL FOR SPASTICS AND THE HANDICAPPED who would otherwise be denied the benefits and pleasure of cycling.
Specially offset to adjust bracket height and frame geo-
metry to approved tricycle design.
PRICE LESS WHEELS
FINISHED
IN
WHITE
£12 0 0d.
Alternative fitments extra
26″ Endrick wheels and Dunlop, tyres and tubes …. £4 10 0
27″ Dunlop High Pressure wheels and tyres …. £5 5 0
Hub brake to offside wheel …. £3 10 0
Any other colour …. 7 6
N.B.—STATE WHETHER REQUIRED FOR FIXED WHEEL OR GEAR
Overall width only 28″
– EASY TO FIT –
Detach offside wheel and thread axle through rear triangle of solo machine. Insert bolts through large ears on axle, spacers and rear ends of frame. Replace offside wheel, bolting home axle stub. Telescopic stays fit either side of seat clamp with long bolt supplied, and clamp to small ears either end of axle. To tension chain, swing axle and/or adjust in rear end slots. Finally tighten all nuts, checking that wheels lie parallel to frame which must be vertical.

[Two photographs of Holdsworth’s tricycle conversion set: a bicycle fitted with the set as a tricycle, and a man fitting the axle and offside wheel to a bicycle’s rear triangle with a chain and small parts on the floor. Beside them are the set’s price, extra fitments and fitting instructions.]

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HOLDSWORTH LIGHTWEIGHTS—
Recognised for decades as in the first rank of Lightweight Cycle Makers: Holdsworth are now, by virtue of continual development, the leading manufac-
turers of quality cycles in the country.
HOLDSWORTH continue to employ Reynolds 531, the best tubing available in the world, but today build it into the famous range of lugs and fork crowns made by Prugnat, with brackets by Gargatte, the finest to be found.
Proof of the esteem with which these machines are held is sustained by the number of top riders regularly specifying “Holdsworth built”.
To get the best from your cycle —
Cyclists Touring Club
69, Meadrow,
Godalming, Surrey.
CLUB RIDING
INSURANCE
RACING
British Cycling Federation
26, Park Crescent,
LONDON, W.1.
— join one of the National Bodies.

[A text page on Holdsworth lightweights, Reynolds 531 tubing, Prugnat lugs and Gargatte brackets, with the addresses of the Cyclists Touring Club and the British Cycling Federation. There is no illustration on the page.]