Any one know anything about vintage pedal bikes?

[Farside]

There was a small thriving trade in picking up High Nellies (the traditional big black cast-iron bike) in Ireland and flogging them in the UK, to nostalgia buffs.
Not sure if the supply has dried up yet.

 

[winchman]

I should have pics over the next week or so, just need to be able to identify them accurately

 

[postie jon]

I cycle a 1949 Hercules to work in the summer. Lightly restored; new sturmey archer hub internals, cables, cranks, chain, brake pads and tyres. What advice are you looking for?

how do you find out what age they are?, we have my late mums one in the shed loft, she started work at 16 and said she used her first years wages to buy it,if i remember correctly

 

[Burdekin]

how do you find out what age they are?, we have my late mums one in the shed loft, she started work at 16 and said she used her first years wages to buy it,if i remember correctly

If it has Sturmey Archer gears the date will be stamped on the rear hub.

 

[Burdekin]

i want one.
A mate had a rod braked black bike when we were at school, everyone else had 5speed bikes with apes, he rode around on his grandads bike.
At least everyone thought it was his grandads. Over the years people have said they saw him on it, usually at the motorbike shop getting parts
for his bike. I was riding along a few years ago and saw him on it and asked about it, he used to get them from the town dump; it wasn't always the same bike if he needed to fix anything on it he used to go and get another one.

There’s plenty about and not expensive. Gumtree and eBay.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

There was a small thriving trade in picking up High Nellies (the traditional big black cast-iron bike) in Ireland and flogging them in the UK, to nostalgia buffs.
Not sure if the supply has dried up yet.

Not many imports coming over now. But the ones here are going for daft money.
But not to ride.

But to decorate trendy shops and bars.

 

[wookie]

how do you find out what age they are?, we have my late mums one in the shed loft, she started work at 16 and said she used her first years wages to buy it,if i remember correctly

If it's a Raleigh contact them as they have or at least they used to have records dating back, IIRC they narrowed down my mum's old bike to being built between 1924 and 1928. Just so I don't upset my mum R.I.P. it wasn't new to her but handed down the family.

 

[sardine]

My dad had one similar, pretty sure it was a Hercules, defo had rod brakes, he refused to sell it for about 20 years, then one day he sawed it up into bits and binned it !

The plonker.