I am a man of many bicycles: too many, some might say. Here are some:
there’s the c1924 Royal Sunbeam:
On which I once rode from Inverness to Dunkeld in a day, a feat alluded to here (where I see I have dated it 1923), and its younger brother, the 1934 Royal Sunbeam:
and of course that extraordinary machine, The c.1905 Dursley Pedersen (though it, too, has a touch of the Sunbeam about it at the moment, running as it does a 1910 Sunbeam ‘stepped’ 3-speed hub) :
(seen here framed by the old bridge over the Tay).
And just to show that I am not entirely in thrall to the past, there’s the little Dawes Tartan Tourist, currently running a fixed gear, which is certainly post-war:
And just while we’re at it, the Pedersen ran as a fixed gear for a while, and was featured here, in Dennis Bean-Larson’s Fixed Gear Gallery, though it never shows up in searches because the name in the link is mis-spelt (Dursley Pederson).
If you like this kind of thing, there’s lots more on my Flickr page.
i think the one by the bridge is the totally coolest bicycle
Thanks!
John, we had an on line conversation a couple of years ago re pedersens – please email me I have some more questions and the email used before now bounces back. AJ