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Bike tags: Road bike | unrestored
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About 1910 or therabouts...





1910?!

With derailleurs?! Please, more like 1980. Cool bikes though!

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The bike's a 1910'er ok, maybe 1920 no later, I'll upload some pics of the head badge sometime. My wife's bike. It was purchased second hand before WW2, then ridden ever since. The wheels originally would have been 28 ridged steel, through the years they rusted and bent or broke, so about '75 the bike got straight steel cheapo 650's, the back with a three speed freewheel, a simplex cheapo was thrown on the back, a likesome cheapo simplex shifter on clip got fixed to the plumbing up front. The brakes date 1940's or thereabouts. I aim to put it back to something more original while still remaining rideable. So far, I only got to adding a 1940's leather sprung saddle ! Too much on my hands...


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