Father browns bike

[ufkacbln]

Pashley have made "reproductions" for this type of program

I have a Delibike complete with rod brakes and period looking equipment, in Hovis Livery

There were a number made for Hovis, and whilst it looks like an absolutely immaculate restoration, it is in fact from the mid 80's

That would explain some of the discrepancies

 

[CanucksTraveller]

The barrel adjusters on the brake cables and the current brooks saddle were the giveaways for me that it was a camouflaged modern repro.

 

[Beebo]

I have nothing to add except.

Hello Sir. Full Lycra bib shorts under your cassock.
Ooh sir.
Suits you sir.

 

[Drago]

The give away for me was the isotonic sports drink in his hip flask.

 

[ufkacbln]

Have you tried getting Life Insurance in Kembleford?

The present quotes are almost as high as when I looked at living in Midsommer

 

[jefmcg]

The plastic pedals probably aren't 'period' though

Researchers & set-dressers hang your heads in shame!

Does any licence-payer really want the BBC to pay more for the set dressing of daytime dramas?

It's fun to spot the anachronisms, but I doubt the program would be any better with a carefully restored period bike.

 

[Tim Hall]

Does any licence-payer really want the BBC to pay more for the set dressing of daytime dramas?

It's fun to spot the anachronisms, but I doubt the program would be any better with a carefully restored period bike.

My Dad only chucked his Rudge (?) out a few years back. He bought it in 1948. I knew he should have hung on to it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Does any licence-payer really want the BBC to pay more for the set dressing of daytime dramas?

It's fun to spot the anachronisms, but I doubt the program would be any better with a carefully restored period bike.

I know, wrote 'in jest'

 

[petek]

Pashley Roadster made to look older IMO. I pinched their cable-ties for umbrella holder wheeze on my Pashley Sovereign. Most useful.

 

[alicat]

Oh thanks for the heads up @User . I love Father Brown. And we didn't even have to wait for the New Year.

 

[srw]

The barrel adjusters on the brake cables and the current brooks saddle were the giveaways for me that it was a camouflaged modern repro.

Bowden cables rather than rod brakes, too.

 

[burneggroll]

The show is set in the Fifties, so it's nice to see they went to the effort of fitting genuine period fifties plastic platforms.

Mark Williams stars in the Prime TV crime drama Father Brown, the television series based on author GK Chesterton's turn-of-the-century tales about a mystery-solving Catholic priest, is set in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford during the 1950s. Just like Midsomer, it is a village that is over-represented in the crime statistics.

"We don't always have murders but there is a lot of crime," says Williams, laughing. "Also, the village is a bit like the Tardis. It can expand and contract. One minute it's the size of a hamlet and the next it's approximately the size of Coventry. The other thing about it – I don't know whether other people have noticed – but it's like The Simpsons; it's always July 1953." -- https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainme...ther-brown-and-our-fascination-with-the-1950s