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    Readers’ Letters

    May 31, 2023 5 minutes

    Give Ken credit for the P30 frame

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    I had to write in, due to the oft-repeated errors in April 2023’s TCM about the P30 frame being Rob North designed. This is absolutely not the case.

    Anyone with an interest in the P30 Bandit/Fury story should read my long article printed in an early 2017 Old Bike Mart (UK) and in Vintage Bike Magazine (USA), which clearly and irrefutably explains the frame’s design, with back-up from Ken Sprayson, in a hard copy letter to me from the man himself.

    Those seriously interested in the true Bandit/Fury story should also read Brad Jones’ excellent 2017 book ‘From the Inside’, which has a truly informative chapter on the P30 Bandit/Fury project.

    Also, it is not true that there were ‘...two known, original

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