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Charlie Betterley was the frame builder for Poyner for a long time. I still have Poyner frames from the early 80s which I still use for training and racing. My most recent frame was built in 1991 and then I lost touch with the shop as I moved to London. The "L" prefix to the frame number was Charlie's and I believe it was originally for another make of frame to the Poyner frames. My earliest frame number is about L109 (if I remember right!). I have recently started renovating my old road race bike to original condition and my time trial bike is going back to its 1982 state including stopwatch in a clip on the bars.
Last year I was on the start line of a time trial with just under a minute to go when the starting timekeeper said "You're going to have to do a good ride today, Tim", "Why is that? " I asked... "Because you'll have to be back in time to get that bike back into the museum before it closes!"