Vintage bikes, what have you seen?? Show us your pictures!!

[tyred]

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Are you mad?

Just wondering, like.

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Are you mad?

Just wondering, like.

Quite possibly!

 

[tyred]

But look at it another way. What I have spent on all those bikes would add up to considerably less than I used to spend every year on fags and they won't give me cancer (I think - better check and see what the Daily Mail says).

 

[KneesUp]

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How about these! A champion a bit past its best.

Chain's a bit .... absent.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

A 1930s BSA in need of some TLC!

 

[Cycleops]

A 1930s BSA in need of some TLC!

That looks like an auction house. Did you stay to find out how much it fetched?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

That looks like an auction house. Did you stay to find out how much it fetched?

It does doesn't it. I think you can see lot number labels, but maybe they're prices. It was seen in a place up north by a friend of my wife, she reckons it was just a general sale room. Not sure how much, she just asked me how much work it would need to restore. I'm not able to answer more than "probably quite a lot". All I could place was the manufacturer and probable decade, which the sale room didn't know, so it was a start.

 

[biggs682]

Any chance of a less blurry shot of those handlebars, please? At first glance, they look unusual.

here you go

 

[mjr]

Raleigh Caprice in a pinky purple (which stood out both against the green stand and in the dull light this morning), clean/new whitewall tyres, new mudguards, possibly original grips and Lycett-style saddle, nasty twistgrip controlling an AW hub gear, possibly contemporary ADIE metal basket, Woods valve at the back but Schrader at the front...

 

[biggs682]

Raleigh Caprice in a pinky purple (which stood out both against the green stand and in the dull light this morning), clean/new whitewall tyres, new mudguards, possibly original grips and Lycett-style saddle, nasty twistgrip controlling an AW hub gear, possibly contemporary ADIE metal basket, Woods valve at the back but Schrader at the front...

@mjr glad to see you didnt look to close

 

[mjr]

@mjr glad to see you didnt look to close

Heh. Such a well-kept example stood out to me in this town where tons of similar bikes keep soldiering on as a result of their low maintenance needs and the relative scarcity of recent mass-market replacements until the likes of the Pendleton Sommersby repopularised the style. I'm slightly kicking myself for not checking the rear hub date code - I suspect it was mid-1980s because the white twist shifter just seems of that era, but when it's been kept or restored so well, who knows how old it might have been? The model was introduced in the early 70s if not before and there's a Raleigh Caprice still on sale now, but it's a 6061 aluminium frame, generally uglier IMO and a couple of kilos heavier

 

[biggs682]

A selection from our visit today to the Coventry Transport Museum , some great bikes and cars on show.

Including this strange one

A very nice Rudge

The owner of this obe use to ride from Coventry to Reigate to see his Lady friend a total of 130 miles each way

This 50's Pollard was my favourite

Followed closely by this Triumph King of Clubs

 

[biggs682]

And some more including a Bromwich Mixte a Lee Cooper touring bike

This 1938 Caminargent was very interesting and ahead of it time surely

This 1952 R.O Harrison was owned by Edie Atkins who achieved some remarkable distance records (see above picture)

This Hercules was owned by Eileen Sherridan who in 1954 broke the record for Lands end to John O Groats for women by competing it in 2 days 11 hours and 7 minutes !!!

 

[scarygerbil]

some really nice bikes but the pug caught my eye as it looks like a precursor to the MTB

 

[FrothNinja]

Almost made me cry to see it reduced to this - still looks a nice bike, High St, Marlborough. Seems a bit cheeky pinching a bike stand for commercial reasons though...

 

[goldcoastjon]

As long as they maintain the bike in good condition and keep it rideable they are being good stewards.... Are they doing so?