help identifying a bike!!

[stedlocks]

I've managed to aquire a fantastic old bike

I think its a Raleigh as it has a sturmey Archer rear hub (dated 10/54!!) and an old Raleigh seat.........but what about those mudguards!!!!

What 'bracket' would you put it in??I.e., racer/tourer/ect ?

I has rod brakes that act on the inside of the rim and a proper funky old bell....

I'm thinking 'pub bike' unless its worth a bit of dosh, in which case i'm thinking 'ebay'

 

[Bigtwin]

It's clearly a full-on racer. It's got a number on.

 

[Steve Austin]

what a great looking bike!

 

[stedlocks]

It's clearly a full-on racer. It's got a number on.

Yeah, I know it was a silly question, but you do see some of the older bikes that guys raced on that look a bit similar.......the front is really raked out...

Don't it look the nuts tho???

 

[longers]

The tobacco pouch on the saddle looks handy.

Tidy bike.

Have you been paragliding yet Stedlocks?

 

[spandex]

I do not know as the old bikes are not my thing but Mickle is the best I know at that I will ask him to have a look. BTW what is the code there will be a 2 or 3 letters on the rear hub?

 

[simon_brooke]

What 'bracket' would you put it in??I.e., racer/tourer/ect ?

I has rod brakes that act on the inside of the rim and a proper funky old bell....

I'm thinking 'pub bike' unless its worth a bit of dosh, in which case i'm thinking 'ebay'

It's what used to be called a 'Roadster', and that style was basically the standard commuting and getting about bike from the thirties to the late fifties. I had one as a child.

Racing cyclists of the period rode bikes with drop handlebars, but (in Britain) often with Sturmey Archer gears. In Britain, until after the second world war, derailleur gears were mainly used by the serious touring community.

 

[stedlocks]

The tobacco pouch on the saddle looks handy.

Tidy bike.

Have you been paragliding yet Stedlocks?

Longers, you have a fantastic memory

No, not on that rig anyway.....apparently it would have killed me stone dead very quickly

I'll check the code this morning and post it back up here......

thats the term I was after, Simon, thanks for that.

Whatever it is, it looks great!!

 

[Globalti]

My first bike wasn't too different from that, except it had ordinary mudguards and no chaincase.

I'd have thought you could tidy that up and sell it to some female living somewhere like York or Cambridge who wanted to cycle to college.