Mid 1990's Club Tour Frame Size and date identification

[AdrianStone]

Hello - a first time poster here as I've bought an elderly Thorn Club Tour.  I've not cycled for years and wanted to start again as now retired and would like to get out more without taking the motorbike or dog. Just to explore our area (Dorset) more and go camping on a bike.

I understand the bike is a mid 1990's Club Tour, I can see no frame size stamp non the bottom bracket, there is a frame number, 595808, at the bottom of the seat tube - photo attached. Is it possible to identify the frame size from this?

Looking forward to getting out on this and hopefully restoring it as there's rust under the coating in several places in the future.

Thank you

An edit… is the build date likely to be May 1995? (595XXX) and assume 808 would be the build number?Anyone?

Frame wise it’s 53cm bottom bracket centre to seat post and 54cm top tube
Thanks

[Jags]

thats a beauty enjoy it.
dan will no doubt let you know what all those numbers mean.
i doubt its a 59cm frame  58 top tube.

[B cereus]

An edit… is the build date likely to be May 1995? (595XXX) and assume 808 would be the build number?Anyone?

Your bike looks a very similar vintage to my old Club Tour. I dated mine to around the end of the millennium by using the two letter date codes on the Shimano components. They can be a good indicator to the age of a particular bicycle. Be aware that an older bike may well not have all of its original components.

Briefly:

The first letter indicates the year, starting with A in 1976 through to Z in 2001. The whole process repeats on a 26 year cycle, so 2002 begins again with A.

The second letter indicates the month.
 A=Jan, B=Feb. C=Mar, --------- L=Dec

[Andyb1]

This one may be different but the Sherpa and Raven serial numbers stamped into the steel under the BB - you would have to turn the bike upside down to see them.  The pattern was Frame size (3 x digits), L or S for top tube length then digits giving the frame number.
Nice bike.