Two REEAALLYYY old bikes

[Fab Foodie]

Oooh. It's kinda my size then.
Oh dear. Did I see @Fab Foodie was visiting you soon? Could it accidentally fall into his car? ♡

All things are possible....

 

[Mrs M]

Wee idea (maybe a bit mad)
Could always paint them in pretty bright colours and stick them in the garden as an "ornament"

 

[classic33]

@CarlP, is "K5" the only number on the hub?

 

[EltonFrog]

@CarlP, is "K5" the only number on the hub?

No, there's a long serial number.

 

[classic33]

No, there's a long serial number.

Just seen that. There's a "2" above the "7", anything else. Appears to be a "5" or "Z".

 

[davidphilips]

very kind offers,even town councils are painting old bikes and using them as art but even that seems a shame pity someone close would not rebuild them, know if i lived close i would take them as a winter/winters project, good luck with finding them a good home.

 

[classic33]

Hub dates from 1935.

Hercules Model G
https://bikeshedva.blogspot.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

 

[EltonFrog]

Hub dates from 1935.

Hercules Model G
https://bikeshedva.blogspot.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

Brilliant, thank you.

 

[classic33]

Brilliant, thank you.

Only a possible!
80 years old.

 

[EltonFrog]

Only a possible!
80 years old.

Could be right, I'll do more searching tomorrow. The owner would have been in his twenties back then.

 

[Tin Pot]

I'll measure, probably small, the lady that donated them is tiny, but then she is 102 (103 in May)

From the BB to the top of the seat post 21 of your imperial inches.

That's it settled then, I'm not throwing away my BSO Trax TFS.1. I'll keep it until I'm a hundred and two so some young whipper snapper can pick it up expecting it to be some hidden classic.

60 years for the punchline might be a while to wait, but comedy is all in the...timing!

 

[classic33]

 

[classic33]

Could be right, I'll do more searching tomorrow. The owner would have been in his twenties back then.

Hub available for one year only, 1935.

 

[Reynard]

Yeah, thought the gents one was a Hercules - it has the same lamp mount bracket as my Hercules Ranger. The ladies one I think, looking at the lamp bracket and chainring, is probably a Raleigh.

Both are worth cleaning up at least. Those bikes are built like the proverbial tanks, so they should be fine under all that rust. Hell, mine was a skip find and I rode it for two years without doing anything to it. OK, I was 13 at the time LOL...

 

[EltonFrog]

View attachment 340187

Looks similar, but the lamp bracket isn't quite right, and the dimples at the top of the front fork.