1903 METEOR ROVER No 2 LIGHT ROADSTER. The handlebar is from the Rover Road Racer, but fitted with inverted brake levers, with Bowden cables to rim brakes. It still has its original Brooks B19 saddle. Just a few pics for reference after it arrived yesterday; now on its way into the workshop to be stripped […]
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I bought a 1914 Ladies Golden Sunbeam from a chap in N. Ireland in 2016. His photos weren’t brilliant, but i could see nice transfers on it. When it arrived i was pleasantly surprised to find a wartime front lamp with it, which still had its partially blacked-out lens. As you can see, I featured
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1920s ‘The Warrick Carrier Tricycle’ Underslung Model 26″ Wheels solid ‘Cushion’ tyres The frame geometry of John Warrick carrier tricycles are distinctive. The company was one of the country’s major suppliers, and operators could either buy or rent one of the company’s machines. Large companies – such as utility companies – usually preferred to rent,
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1904 Dennis Bros ‘Speed King’ Light Roadster Truss frame (strut from the back of the seat tube down to the rear fork bridge) Osmond’s patent back fork end and chain adjustment BSA Fittings. 25” Frame. 28″ Wheels The Dennis Speed King has many interesting design innovations. A novel feature is the brace from the lower seat tube to the
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1908 – 1910 Monopole Model Royal with Biflex front forks & rear stays and Concealed Rollr Lever Brakes 26” Frame. 28″ Wheels Not much is known about Monopole Cycle Co, but they were obviously quite active in the late 1890s, and were one of the companies that build Pedersen bicycles, which they exhibited in 1897 at the
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1907 BSA Spring Frame Roadster Sturmey-Archer 3-speed gear (#155241, dated 1907) 27” Frame. 28″ Wheels n the cycle industry at the turn of the 20th century innovation and invention was rife, and it was believed that improving suspension on bicycles would be an important factor in the development of the new-fangled motor bicycle. Bear in mind that
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1969 GROUND HUGGER Lowrider Recumbent 20″ Wheels The Ground Hugger has historic importance in the world of recumbent bicycles: ‘This unique human powered vehicle was developed and patented in the mid 1960s, and first introduced as “Ground Hugger” in a special plans offering by Popular Mechanics magazine in April 1969. Ground Hugger’s sleek lines and
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1904 ROYAL ENFIELD Tricycle Forecar Based on Royal Enfield’s ‘Large Carrier Tricycle No 1’ Chassis 26″ Wheels As you can see from the photos, a lot of care has gone into the factory construction of this passenger-carrying forecar. Although the rolling chassis of the Royal Enfield ‘Large Carrier Tricycle No 1’ was usually fitted to commercial
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1897 BSA Fittings Machine with Simpson Lever Chain 24.5” Frame. 28″ Wheels The Simpson Chain was invented and developed at a time when bicycles used inch pitch block chains with fixed wheel hubs. After its debut in 1895, the company went to great lengths to publicise it as an improvement on existing chain technology, employing famous racing
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1888 Humber Cripper Tricycle with Automatic Steering Front plunger brake with its connecting rod concealed in the head tube 40″ Rear Wheels & 22″ Front wheel with solid tyres Humber did not patent their tricycle design, with the result that dozens of manufacturers copied it after it was introduced, and the generic term for any tricycle of
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