Nice old delivery bike..
- Thread starter Levo-Lon
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When I first left school I worked in a Fruit and Veg shop and used to ride a delivery bike very similar to that one, I'd sometimes collect produce from local farms, and also deliver customers orders, we had quite a few elderly customers and I would often deliver their shopping for them.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Tyres need pumping up 
Seriously - nice spot
Seriously - nice spot
raleighnut
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- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
I too rode a bike like that delivering groceries for the Co-op in Enderby as a youth although the one I rode had a stand that folded down from the front of the 'basket' frame, weighed a bloody ton.
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Levo-Lon
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Id say its old but i could be wrong? As for weight..?
the room is a sort of museum and everything was old farming type stuff.
old tools etc
Il try and find out next time i get my bird feed.
this is the place
http://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/
the room is a sort of museum and everything was old farming type stuff.
old tools etc
Il try and find out next time i get my bird feed.
this is the place
http://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Nice bike,
Pashley or Phillips butcher bike maybe?
Pashley or Phillips butcher bike maybe?
Globalti
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I don't think it's so old.... look at the alloy bracket for the rear mudguard.
I worked in Comrade Cycles bike factory in Darlaston in the late 70s where they made a bike like that, without the basket, which, unbelievably, they exported to India and China. They were damned heavy to lift into the backs of trucks though; we hated loading them.
A decade or so earlier my pal and I fished an original baker's bike frame out of the river Thame with a hook on a string. We discovered that it had a hole in the RH chainstay where for years the crank had been hitting the stay, so i took it to the village garage where the mechanic did a beautiful brazed repair for me for free. We cut off the basket and fitted it with a rear wheel with Sturmey-Archer hub, ape hanger bars and a small front wheel "donated" from my little brother's Triang bike. It had a dynamo and a huge chrome headlamp and I actually built a chopper seat out of bent tubing and wood. It looked as cool as anything. We moved to Newcastle and the chopper and two other bikes were stolen one Sunday from the cellar under our dining room while we ate Sunday lunch above. The two street bikes turned up on the town moor with their brakes cut but I never got my beloved chopper back. Sadly no photo exists of this amazing bike.
I worked in Comrade Cycles bike factory in Darlaston in the late 70s where they made a bike like that, without the basket, which, unbelievably, they exported to India and China. They were damned heavy to lift into the backs of trucks though; we hated loading them.
A decade or so earlier my pal and I fished an original baker's bike frame out of the river Thame with a hook on a string. We discovered that it had a hole in the RH chainstay where for years the crank had been hitting the stay, so i took it to the village garage where the mechanic did a beautiful brazed repair for me for free. We cut off the basket and fitted it with a rear wheel with Sturmey-Archer hub, ape hanger bars and a small front wheel "donated" from my little brother's Triang bike. It had a dynamo and a huge chrome headlamp and I actually built a chopper seat out of bent tubing and wood. It looked as cool as anything. We moved to Newcastle and the chopper and two other bikes were stolen one Sunday from the cellar under our dining room while we ate Sunday lunch above. The two street bikes turned up on the town moor with their brakes cut but I never got my beloved chopper back. Sadly no photo exists of this amazing bike.
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Levo-Lon
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Come to think of it @Globalti the old butchers or bread bikes did have a small wheel..
tho if this is a 70's bike its still old..
strangely the old chap im re-laying a load of slabs for this week is a good mate of the vine house farm guy..small world..
he asked me today if i wanted some old tools..
i said no but the guy at vine house has a old tool museum ,he might have them?
He replied he's already got most of them ..lol .he didn't know anything about the bike but he is late 80's and a little frail.
tho if this is a 70's bike its still old..
strangely the old chap im re-laying a load of slabs for this week is a good mate of the vine house farm guy..small world..
he asked me today if i wanted some old tools..
i said no but the guy at vine house has a old tool museum ,he might have them?
He replied he's already got most of them ..lol .he didn't know anything about the bike but he is late 80's and a little frail.
gbb
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- Peterborough
We used to ride a couple of trade bikes at the factory/farm in Cyprus, they were Rudges, I believe 1950s , they had same sized wheels.
Is that a headtube badge just sticking out in the photo, that may clarify what it is. Either way, theres always something kinda cool about them.
Is that a headtube badge just sticking out in the photo, that may clarify what it is. Either way, theres always something kinda cool about them.
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Good question!
