shadaboot27
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What are these?! Im in love!
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Daddybus
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^Like the orange one...! What's the idea behind the double forks?
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shadaboot27
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Those forks were made on a lot of Humber bicycles. There is no purpose for them in particular, they just look nice.
Daddybus
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That orange one is double forking cool... Lol
Can't help with the model tho...
Can't help with the model tho...
Fab Foodie
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Chain's a bit slack ....
rhm
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There was a guy on bikeforums.net (user gbalke) that bought one of those a few years ago and did a spiffy restoration. He made it into a 'clubman' type bike, but I believe the frame had started out as a Humber Sports.
Raleigh had a model called the Trent Sports that was basically your garden variety Raleigh Sports but with drop bar and a couple other minor changes to make it look more like a 'clubman' type machine. I imagine Humber had a similar model; perhaps that's what these are?
I'm sure someone argued that the fancy double tube fork gave the bike a more resilient, springy ride (a similar claim was made about Bates diadrant forks). I can only speculate.
Raleigh had a model called the Trent Sports that was basically your garden variety Raleigh Sports but with drop bar and a couple other minor changes to make it look more like a 'clubman' type machine. I imagine Humber had a similar model; perhaps that's what these are?
I'm sure someone argued that the fancy double tube fork gave the bike a more resilient, springy ride (a similar claim was made about Bates diadrant forks). I can only speculate.
Daddybus
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shadaboot27
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Raleigh had a model called the Trent Sports that was basically your garden variety Raleigh Sports but with drop bar and a couple other minor changes to make it look more like a 'clubman' type machine. I imagine Humber had a similar model; perhaps that's what these are?
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I think you might be right. The Trent Sports and the Ulster Sports (Rudge version) both had the typical Raleigh/Rudge logo cranks, but flutted (groove down the middle). The bikes I pictured have the same but with the humber design. The Ulster Sports is very rare so I'd imagine that the humber version is even more hard to find. That would explain why I have never seen one for sale.
Raleigh had a model called the Trent Sports that was basically your garden variety Raleigh Sports but with drop bar and a couple other minor changes to make it look more like a 'clubman' type machine. I imagine Humber had a similar model; perhaps that's what these are?
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I think you might be right. The Trent Sports and the Ulster Sports (Rudge version) both had the typical Raleigh/Rudge logo cranks, but flutted (groove down the middle). The bikes I pictured have the same but with the humber design. The Ulster Sports is very rare so I'd imagine that the humber version is even more hard to find. That would explain why I have never seen one for sale.
