Three Suns on a cloudy day...

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Spokesmann

Keeping the Carlton and Sun names alive...
Location
Plymouth, Devon
My three Worksop built Sun bikes from 1962, '65 and '68. The green Snipe Plus is very original, save for tyres, tape etc, the Chris Barber '10' (a recent rebuild) has been kept as original as possible, finally the flam orange Snipe Prestige was rebuilt from a frame and forks only, mostly using parts from a Corsa. It originally had 10-speed Beneux gearing. Im rather fond of the (Carlton) Worksop built machines and will look for a Birmingham built Sun, maybe in the future.

These are bright and colourful machines and in my view every bit as good as the Carlton stablemates. It's a shame the marque was allowed to go to the dogs in the end.

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Cycleops

Legendary Member
Location
Accra, Ghana
You should really stop posting pics like this, I'm having a hard time wiping the saliva off the tablet fast enough.
 

davidphilips

Veteran
Location
Onabike
well done they are really nice you certainly deserve credit and they are far better looking than any new bikes on sale today,they look so good you could hire them out to a bike shop for display or even to a tv show i could just see them lined up outside the bar in something like heartbeat.
 
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Spokesmann

Spokesmann

Keeping the Carlton and Sun names alive...
Location
Plymouth, Devon
Thanks for the comments...

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