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General Category => The Knowledge => Topic started by: Tom B on 23 April, 2009, 06:52:33 pm

Title: Coventry Eagle
Post by: Tom B on 23 April, 2009, 06:52:33 pm
My girlfriend knows someone who may be selling one locally  - 531 and with a mixte frame, just what she's after  :). Hope I get to see it  - love classic lightweights

Are Coventry Eagle at all related to British Eagle? Anyone here got one?
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: robgul on 23 April, 2009, 08:51:27 pm
Pretty sure that the Eagles aren't related ... IIRC the British Eagle was a low-ish spec range of bikes.

My wife had an excellent step-through 531 Cov Eagle, pale metallic green, chrome forkends etc ... she liked riding it but we then found a Claud Butler Majestique Mixte frame which she preferred and so recycled the bits of the Cov to the Claud ... and sold the frame at a satisfactory profit!

Rob
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: nobby on 23 April, 2009, 09:54:04 pm
My girlfriend knows someone who may be selling one locally  - 531 and with a mixte frame, just what she's after  :). Hope I get to see it  - love classic lightweights

Are Coventry Eagle at all related to British Eagle? Anyone here got one?

Both owned by Falcon it seems
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Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: clarion on 24 April, 2009, 09:21:31 am
Yes, they are related, as Nobby says, and both produced bikes at varying points on the quality scale.  There are some really crappy Coventry Eagle bikes out there (ask Tarpaulin Dave.  Or, rather, don't - ask Nobby ;D ).  But some decent ones, too (though no great ones).  Check it out carefully.
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: LEE on 24 April, 2009, 02:51:51 pm
Pretty sure that the Eagles aren't related ... IIRC the British Eagle was a low-ish spec range of bikes.

British Eagle famously made one great bike


mine
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: clarion on 24 April, 2009, 03:50:04 pm
Yup.  The Touristique was a classic.  But they look crap in red  :demon:
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: nobby on 24 April, 2009, 06:57:06 pm
Yes, they are related, as Nobby says, and both produced bikes at varying points on the quality scale.  There are some really crappy Coventry Eagle bikes out there (ask Tarpaulin Dave.  Or, rather, don't - ask Nobby ;D ).  But some decent ones, too (though no great ones).  Check it out carefully.

Ah, now I refrained from mentioning TD's Coventry Eagle but since you mention it - it is a bunch of gas pipes, poorly joined by rust, with a thin coating of black paint that adheres only where the rust hasn't got under it. He loves it dearly because it has a 531 sticker on it (not double butted or anything) and therefore it must be good.  :D
I thought the only thing Coventry Eagle were renowned for was a pressed steel motorcycle and that only because it was out of the ordinary, not because it was anything special.  ;D
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: clarion on 25 April, 2009, 09:41:30 pm
Oh do stop sitting on the fence! ;D
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 26 April, 2009, 12:50:47 pm
Coventry Eagle were part of 'The British Eagle range of cycles' (according to the mid 1980's brochure I have). The other badge was 'Barry Hoban' used on their racers. They were at : Eagle Cycleworks, Mochdre, Newtown, Powys.

The 'Touristique' was their most expensive model at £283. In the brochure it's shown as a 'Coventry Eagle' but is otherwise the identical twin of the rather tired 'British Eagle' 'Touristique' I bought off ebay for £50 2 years ago as a ride it-to-town steed.  (After using it for a while, including trips to the North York Moors, I decided it was worthy of a total makeover that'll soon be complete).

Unfortunately the brochure doesn't show any mixte style frames in 531, only one in 453 for 'today's racy feminists'!  It was 'The Creation', model number 35, a snip at £172.

Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: LEE on 27 April, 2009, 02:17:36 pm
Coventry Eagle were part of 'The British Eagle range of cycles' (according to the mid 1980's brochure I have). The other badge was 'Barry Hoban' used on their racers. They were at : Eagle Cycleworks, Mochdre, Newtown, Powys.

The 'Touristique' was their most expensive model at £283. In the brochure it's shown as a 'Coventry Eagle' but is otherwise the identical twin of the rather tired 'British Eagle' 'Touristique' I bought off ebay for £50 2 years ago as a ride it-to-town steed.  (After using it for a while, including trips to the North York Moors, I decided it was worthy of a total makeover that'll soon be complete).

Unfortunately the brochure doesn't show any mixte style frames in 531, only one in 453 for 'today's racy feminists'!  It was 'The Creation', model number 35, a snip at £172.



The Touristique was a classic.  And they look great in red
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: matthew on 27 April, 2009, 02:26:16 pm
Coventry Eagle were part of 'The British Eagle range of cycles' (according to the mid 1980's brochure I have). The other badge was 'Barry Hoban' used on their racers. They were at : Eagle Cycleworks, Mochdre, Newtown, Powys.

The 'Touristique' was their most expensive model at £283. In the brochure it's shown as a 'Coventry Eagle' but is otherwise the identical twin of the rather tired 'British Eagle' 'Touristique' I bought off ebay for £50 2 years ago as a ride it-to-town steed.  (After using it for a while, including trips to the North York Moors, I decided it was worthy of a total makeover that'll soon be complete).

Unfortunately the brochure doesn't show any mixte style frames in 531, only one in 453 for 'today's racy feminists'!  It was 'The Creation', model number 35, a snip at £172.



The Touristique was a classic.  And they look great in red

Or as a gunmetal grey fixie  ;)

Though mine no longer has the origional forks due to a shoe, spokes , forks interface that the forks and my elbow lost.
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: vorsprung on 27 April, 2009, 02:29:18 pm
someone gave me a coventry eagle a couple of years ago
it was 99% rust and went to the tip fairly quick
Title: Re: Coventry Eagle
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 April, 2009, 07:16:43 am
Let me guess!  You are a binman waste disposal operative recycling technician?