Creakycrank
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
Hello all,
Just a quick hello from somebody that likes to service, fix up or restore bicycles that fall into what I call "Old English Bicycles" or, fixed & three speed transport made in England from the 1890's up until the 1970's when the British bicycle industry started to decline, from companies like Hercules, BSA, Rudge, Raleigh, Elswick, Humber and Sunbeam that produced millions upon millions of bicycles, many of them exported to our former "Empire" to be worked hard as primary transportation for the masses.
I also like finding out the history of the machines that I fix and writing a blog about them while I do it, recently starting a blog here: www.oldenglishbicycle.wordpress.com
My latest resto is a 1936 Sunbeam, the last full production year of the true Wolverhampton Sunbeamland factory before been sold. 1936 was also the Year of the Berlin Olympics and the Zeppelin Hindenburg and the Supermarine Spitfire made their maiden flights within a day of each other. Cracking stuff.
I will probably be found in the vintage bicycle section mainly, although I am not adverse to ogling a nice handbuilt racing machine from the likes of Jack Taylor or Hetchins!
Just a quick hello from somebody that likes to service, fix up or restore bicycles that fall into what I call "Old English Bicycles" or, fixed & three speed transport made in England from the 1890's up until the 1970's when the British bicycle industry started to decline, from companies like Hercules, BSA, Rudge, Raleigh, Elswick, Humber and Sunbeam that produced millions upon millions of bicycles, many of them exported to our former "Empire" to be worked hard as primary transportation for the masses.
I also like finding out the history of the machines that I fix and writing a blog about them while I do it, recently starting a blog here: www.oldenglishbicycle.wordpress.com
My latest resto is a 1936 Sunbeam, the last full production year of the true Wolverhampton Sunbeamland factory before been sold. 1936 was also the Year of the Berlin Olympics and the Zeppelin Hindenburg and the Supermarine Spitfire made their maiden flights within a day of each other. Cracking stuff.
I will probably be found in the vintage bicycle section mainly, although I am not adverse to ogling a nice handbuilt racing machine from the likes of Jack Taylor or Hetchins!
