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Silk Hope~McLean Bicycle Frame
serial numbers
Frame sizes are as-provided by owner/submitter. McLean generally used "center-to-top" seat tube measurements ("British style")
Updated 3.14.2010 |
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Owner |
Description, special features |
Serial number |
Estimated year of manufacture or purchase? |
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| Henry Fonvielle | "McLean’s first frame (I think). He made it for himself but when he made himself a new one he gave it to me." (Henry is McLean's younger brother) | 0265 | ? | |
| Dale Brown | Bought from son of orig owner (deceased) for whom McLean made it as a custom touring. | None | ? | |
| Dan Borden | Silk Hope mod. "Perfect Pleasure" 57.5 x 57.5 cm Pictures |
402 9081
(Doesn't fit pattern) |
1974-5? | |
| John Poplett | Silk Hope, Burgundy | 21035 | Purchased at Turin bicycle shop, downtown Chicago '75 | |
| Cy Hogue | Silk Hope road racing | 02055 |
This was
said by the owner to be the 1st racing frame; only touring models before. 1975 |
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| Dale Brown | Silk Hope, fastback stays blind binder bolt, DuBois lugs Pictures | 17105 | Orig. owner, 1975 | |
| Karen Rawls | 53 cm seat tube, 56 cm top. | 18016 | Jan 18, 1976 | |
| 54.5 x 55.5 road Pictures | 18066 | June 18, 1976 | ||
| Sherman Coventry |
Silk Hope "Perfect Pleasure" Mack truck green 63 cm |
15076 | Completed July 15, 1976 | |
| Dale Brown | Silk Hope touring, Nervex Series Legere lugs. Pictures | 19087 | Orig. owner, 1977 | |
| Thomas Adam's | Silk Hope 531 touring 63 cm center-to-top, pictures | 12097 | Dec 9, 1977 | |
| Ken Toda | Silk Hope | 21038 | 1978 | |
| Tim McDonald | McLean (one of earliest "McLeans") | M21048 | ? | |
| Mike Dayton | Silk Hope road | 28048 | 1978 | |
| Jack Tharp | Tandem, "mocca-reddish" | M22098 | 1978 | |
| Bill Eberle | Blue 23-1/2", probably mod "Perfect Pleasure" | M09118 | second owner | |
| Doug Stephens | McLean road racing | 23108 | 1978 | |
| Scott Swimmer |
Perfect Pleasure design. The last "Silk Hope" made. Note unique serial number... Scott, being a close friend, had a hand in it's finishing. |
SLS•121 | Winter of 1979 | |
| Greg Krasovsky | Road bike | M12129 | ? | |
| Tom Hailey III | Burgundy | M21039 | 1979 | |
| Tim McDonald | M21048 | |||
| Mike Dayton | McLean 531 touring bike Pictures | M12049 | Purchased from Dale Brown at Toga Bike Shop in 1979. | |
| Dave Boston | McLean Criterium 5 speed | M26049 | "Picked it up at McLeans on May 31, 1979" | |
| Patrick Craft |
McLean racing, KL
tubing. originally ordered by Robert Kraus, partner, cycles de ORO. Pictures |
M20049 | 1979 | |
| Jack Gabus | Creamy white color, 54 x 54, cantilever brakes | M14099 | 1979 | |
| Neil "Gunnar" Berg | 60 cm Road racing or possible a "Perfect Pleasure" model, Reynolds 531, full Cinelli fitments. Pictures | M05030 | 1980 | |
| Bruce Wilcox. | McLean Perfect Pleasure 23 1/4" frame | M10120 | Purchased new from Two Wheel Travel in Richmond, Virginia March 26, 1981 | |
| Dale Brown |
McLean racing
tricycle (only trike McLean made, to be reconstructed) |
M17040 | Ordered by Erwin Elber, ridden once, then rebuilt into single speed bike, 1980 | |
| John Provetero | Perfect pleasure Pictures | M30080 | 1980 | |
| Jack Gabus | McLean road racing Pictures | M 17110 | 1980 | |
| George Milewski |
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M04021 |
May, 1981 Orig. owner |
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| George Handy | 48cm c-c, 531 with short-point lugs. Medium metallic blue. | M28031 | 1981 | |
| Mike Wilkinson | Silk Hope~McLean | M30071 | 1981 | |
| Tom Sanders | McLean touring Pictures | M26081 | 1981 | |
| Billy Boden | Road | M10101 | 1981 | |
| Steve Meier | McLean | M16022 | 1982 | |
| Wayne Bingham | McLean racing pictures | M 22012 | 1982 | |
| Tom Hayes | McLean touring | M29012 | 1982 | |
| Joe Young | Light touring 60 CM | M050302 | ||
| Tom Ash | Custom road still owned by original owner | M21082 | Durham 1982 | |
| Edward Coffman | Picked it up at McLean’s house in Durham and road it home | M27082 | 1982 | |
| Jack Gabus | McLean racing, heart-shaped cutout lugs Pictures | M16092 | 1982 | |
| Joe Young | 56 cm custom road for 26" or 700C wheels and used side pull brakes or Moots Mounts. | M09023 | "This bike was found in the bead blaster after McLean died. Could be his last frame?" | |
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