#45882

Courtesy of Russ Fitzgerald:

Mercian Colorado,  #45882, with no. 8 on a line by itself above the serial number.  

Built as a team-issued bike for Tom Mereness, a Master's class racer for The Spoke/Harvest/Mercian, a team sponsored by The Spoke in Boulder, Colorado.  According to Jane at Mercian, this was number 458 built in 1982.  The separate "8" was the builder number, in this case, George Bryan.

Apparently, there was a batch built for the team, all blue with yellow barber’s pole, built of 531C tubing.