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Robbo4

Old gent's bike.
« on: 05 June, 2008, 11:26:31 pm »
An old mate of my fathers had his 1927 Buckley out today, he does every Thursday in summer, he's had it since 1940, the previous owner did 25 TTs in 1-06-some seconds on it.





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clarion

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Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #1 on: 05 June, 2008, 11:56:03 pm »
Gosh.
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Jethro

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #2 on: 06 June, 2008, 11:02:32 am »
Drew Buck's new bike for the 2011 PBP perhaps?
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Greenbank

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #3 on: 06 June, 2008, 01:52:04 pm »
Does it have interesting/twitchy/arrrrrrgh-i'm-gonna-die handling?
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Robbo4

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #4 on: 06 June, 2008, 08:56:22 pm »
Quote from: Jethro on 06 June, 2008, 11:02:32 am
Drew Buck's new bike for the 2011 PBP perhaps?

I'm trying to borrow it for L'Eroica - Cicloturistica d'epoca su strade bianche

Quote from: Greenbank on 06 June, 2008, 01:52:04 pm
Does it have interesting/twitchy/arrrrrrgh-i'm-gonna-die handling?

I'll tell you after Sunday afternoon.
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fruitcake

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Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #5 on: 06 June, 2008, 09:18:39 pm »
That's relaxed geometry.  

And I thought my Percy Stallard had shallow angles.

Is that the original seatpost?

Is it the camera angle or is the rear wheel smaller than the front?  That would explain things.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #6 on: 06 June, 2008, 09:57:26 pm »
Chain's a bit slack  ;)
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Séamas M.

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #7 on: 06 June, 2008, 10:39:07 pm »
That looks so cool, and almost as old as my Dad, amazing!
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Tom B

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #8 on: 26 May, 2009, 10:55:56 am »
What a delightful and unusual bicycle  :)
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Charlotte

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Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #9 on: 25 December, 2009, 07:48:06 pm »
Only just seen this.

Wow.  That's lovely  :D
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Bledlow

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #10 on: 25 December, 2009, 07:49:54 pm »
Uh-oh. Now we know what the Ordinary is going to get for company. ;)
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Heaney

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #11 on: 27 December, 2009, 08:59:53 pm »
Lovely, but why is the brake on the back wheel?
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robbo6

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #12 on: 04 January, 2010, 02:34:04 pm »
Because its owner is a 6' 2" 18 stone ex-Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestler, and if he wants his brake on the back, no-one's going to tell him no.
It is the original seat-pin, as they used to be called. It goes round corners as if on rails but is strangely responsive for such shallow angles . Wheels are the same size, he has a pair of  Constrictor "Circumferential" wheels hidden in his house, the spokes instead of an elbow, go round circular bosses on the hub flange and back to the rim, 16/18 gauge spokes and wooden rims.
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Heaney

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #13 on: 05 January, 2010, 08:17:33 pm »
I'll leave it at that then, discretion being the better part of valour.
Those wheels sound interesting.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #14 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:00:34 pm »
Interesting and wonderful. I'd never have guessed it was from 1927, I'd probably have put it at 1950s!
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spesh

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #15 on: 27 January, 2010, 12:10:16 am »
Quote from: rogerzilla on 06 June, 2008, 09:57:26 pm
Chain's a bit slack  ;)

More the frame-building jig, methinks. :demon:
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robbo6

Re: Old gent's bike.
« Reply #16 on: 20 March, 2010, 11:32:35 pm »
Quote from: Heaney on 05 January, 2010, 08:17:33 pm
I'll leave it at that then, discretion being the better part of valour.
Those wheels sound interesting.

Wheels explained here
Constrictor hubs 1950s
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