It's an odd thing: when I bought my 1915 Sunbeam (see here and here) I'd have thought I might spend the summer on it - yet here we are in Autumn and my rides have been few and far between. Of course, things have happened, but still... So this morning, having slept in and missed … Continue reading Out and about in October
Tag: Sunbeam
Buying the Sunbeam, 2 : The Auction
I have an anxiety about auctions which probably originates in the comics of my youth: it was a staple of The Dandy and The Beano that some character attending an auction as a mere spectator would - through the application of itching or sneezing powder, perhaps, or simply by waving to attract someone’s attention - … Continue reading Buying the Sunbeam, 2 : The Auction
The Great Sausage Mystery – or why Sunbeam abandoned the Newill Hub
You find answers in the oddest places*; sometimes to questions you hadn’t thought to ask till you came across them. I have already written about my adventures dismantling the William Newill-designed Sunbeam 3 speed hub; a recent article by Robert Cordon Champ, the Sunbeam registrar at the V-CC and the author of Sunbeam Bicycles & Motorcycles, … Continue reading The Great Sausage Mystery – or why Sunbeam abandoned the Newill Hub
In the belly of the beast
This one is for hard-core hub-gear fans - epicyclists? - only. It shows the dismantling of my hundred-year-old Sunbeam 'Newill' hub, which I did a few years ago. At the moment, the sequence is on Flickr as a set, and some of the shots are a bit dark, though if you blow them up, you … Continue reading In the belly of the beast
My Bicycles
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 … Continue reading My Bicycles
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