Two REEAALLYYY old bikes

[Reynard]

The vintage cycle club (or something to that effect) has an online archive with a whole load of Hercules brochures in it - worth a looksy if I were you.

 

[classic33]

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

That's from '36, the following year, just to give an idea of the price back then.

 

[classic33]

There's a LYCETT saddle on ebay at over £100!!

And I don't think the ladies is a Raliegh. The heron is missing from the chainset. And you're missing the chainguard.

Does the light still work?

 

[Reynard]

No, the chain ring tallies - the heron forms part of the "spokes" of the ring. Just like the one on the left: http://www.kurtkaminer.com/TH_chainring.html

Prolly hard to see on the bike in question cos it's covered in grot.

 

[scarygerbil]

the lamp on the gents looks like a ww2 black out lamp with the cover removed so could be a war issue rubber pedals would put it early or pre was is my guess

 

[scarygerbil]

is it still up for grabs?

 

[EltonFrog]

is it still up for grabs?

The gents is, someone showed interest but has not committed.

 

[Dirk]

That's from '36, the following year, just to give an idea of the price back then.

£4 9s 9d (£4.49) was an average sort of weekly wage in 1936.
Kind of puts it into perpective.

 

[hopless500]

There's a LYCETT saddle on ebay at over £100!!

And I don't think the ladies is a Raliegh. The heron is missing from the chainset. And you're missing the chainguard.

Does the light still work?

What do you reckon it might be if not a Raleigh?

 

[roadrash]

The chainring and lamp bracket certainly suggest raleigh

 

[EltonFrog]

What do you reckon it might be if not a Raleigh?

The ladies bike is a Raleigh, no question about it has a Raleigh head badge.

 

[mjr]

There's a LYCETT saddle on ebay at over £100!!

I can't see that one (Lycett also made motorcycle saddles which clutters searches, plus there are modern replicas for less than £10) but I think to achieve that, it'll need to be one of the horsehair padded ones with all clips, rivets and badges intact and nothing more than surface rust on the spring web.

 

[classic33]

I can't see that one (Lycett also made motorcycle saddles which clutters searches, plus there are modern replicas for less than £10) but I think to achieve that, it'll need to be one of the horsehair padded ones with all clips, rivets and badges intact and nothing more than surface rust on the spring web.

They started out making saddles for horses.

 

[EltonFrog]

@scarygerbil do you want the gents bike?

@hopless500 can you confirm you are having the Raleigh?

 

[hopless500]

@scarygerbil do you want the gents bike?

@hopless500 can you confirm you are having the Raleigh?

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