Ever just randomly buy things off ebay?

mudcow007
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Just bought a 1960's Royal Enfield off Ebay, its got a sterny archer dyno hub on the front an 5 speed svelto gears?!
i think i will leave it retro cool, i was looking for a bike to go on my trainer....i think i need to buy another one now
anyone know anythign about "Enfield's"?
i think i will leave it retro cool, i was looking for a bike to go on my trainer....i think i need to buy another one now
anyone know anythign about "Enfield's"?
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.303 calibre aren't they?Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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When I talk to my Dad (now 82) about cycling he always refers to his Royal Enfield bike he had in his late teens with Sturmey Archer gears and an oil bath for the chain. Best bike he ever owned, got him from London to Southend and back many a time, and apparently he cycled down there once with my Mum (his girlfriend then) who was too tired to cycle back so he towed her back with a bungy cord!
Doesn't help you at all, but it made me think about my Mum (who passed away 14 years ago), so thank you!0 -
I thought a Royal Enfield was where the Queen kept her chickens?FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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My father in law, who coincidently lives in Enfield but doesn't keep chickens for the Queen*, used to have a Royal Enfield too. I believe they were decent bikes back in the day, although more famous for motor bikes though weren't they?
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I thought Royal Enfield made motorbikes. Then again, I think BSA and Triumph also made bikes, so perhaps there was that crossover. Anyway, the motorbikes were really very cool back in the day.
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Non merci.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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To the lithe open air girl of today fitness is everything, and rightly so.
I love it! Plus ca change!FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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Manufacturers of Cycles, Motor Cycles and Motor Lawn Mowers
Now a vintage motor lawn mower - that would be a good random buy.Then again, I think BSA and Triumph also made bikes, so perhaps there was that crossover
BSA also did guns didn't they as did Royal Enfield?Bianchi Infinito CV
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t4tomo wrote:Manufacturers of Cycles, Motor Cycles and Motor Lawn Mowers
Now a vintage motor lawn mower - that would be a good random buy.Then again, I think BSA and Triumph also made bikes, so perhaps there was that crossover
BSA also did guns didn't they as did Royal Enfield?
BSA = Birmingham Small Arms Company... so yeah, they made a gun or two...Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
UndercoverElephant wrote:Then again, I think BSA and Triumph also made bikes, so perhaps there was that crossover.Pannier, 120rpm.0
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TGOTB wrote:Don't Triumph also make ladies' underwear?
I think you're right. I seem to remember doing some research on them in my Mums Kays catalogue when I was 13!0 -
well hopefully pickign the wee beasty up on wednesday night so i will take pics an upload them
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Their showroom was on Holborn Viaduct, that's just down the road fro9m where I'm sitting now...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
Leave it standard. Does it have rod brakes?
I want to get a Triumph bicycle. I have owned several of their motorbikes, still got 2, and had a few of their cars in the past.
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i don't think its early enough to have "rods"
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Royal Enfield made rifles. As KB said, the .303 bolt action (think Micheal Caine not shooting "until you can see the whites of their eyes") and they also jointly designed and manufactured the Bren and Sten guns with the Czechs in WWII.
The 'en' in Bren and Sten stands for Enfield (The 'br' stand for Brno.
The former factories are now largley social housing (with a really bad reputation, the buses don't go into the estate) and what was the local nightclub (called Rifles) is now closed and derelict.
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Rolf F wrote:mudcow007 wrote:now, leave it standard or fixie time?
Bleagh! Why not fit a front suspension fork as well!
Now no messing it up!
I'm with Rolf. I vote 'no' to a fixie conversion.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
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You make something fixed to simplify the drive train maintenance and increease robustness over a deraileur. To convert a hub gear to fixed doesn't give you that advantage as it pretty much maintenance free already, it just gives you less gears.
leave the poor thing alone.
Hopefully my sturmey archer gear cable will have arrivd in the post tonight and I can get Mrs Tomo's new / old Puch back up to 3 gears.Bianchi Infinito CV
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t4tomo wrote:You make something fixed to simplify the drive train maintenance and increease robustness over a deraileur.
leave the poor thing alone.
its got a derailleur, a svelto i think!
the description says the paint is rough in places do you all think i should get it resprayed similar colours or should i bask in its vintage goodness?Keeping it classy since '830 -
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mudcow007 wrote:t4tomo wrote:You make something fixed to simplify the drive train maintenance and increease robustness over a deraileur.
leave the poor thing alone.
its got a derailleur, a svelto i think!
the description says the paint is rough in places do you all think i should get it resprayed similar colours or should i bask in its vintage goodness?
I think you need to wait and see. Duff advert pictures plus 'rough in places' - it probably looks like a Grimsby trawlerFaster than a tent.......0 -
mudcow007 wrote:t4tomo wrote:You make something fixed to simplify the drive train maintenance and increease robustness over a deraileur.
leave the poor thing alone.
its got a derailleur, a svelto i think!
the description says the paint is rough in places do you all think i should get it resprayed similar colours or should i bask in its vintage goodness?
Ok was assuming it was Sturmey archer 3 speed. wait and see if deraileur works first then, as that could force a change of plan if you can't get hold of a replacementBianchi Infinito CV
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I have an old wheel with a period (1967) 3 speed sturmey hub...
As for being 2 new for rod brakes - you can still buy brand new bikes with rods so not sure how that works!
My first bike was a Puch, green it was and I remember it had a funny twin top tube arrangement - got it new in about 1973-74.
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Hmm...nice 8)
26x13/4 wheels?
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fantastico!
cheers guys i feel like a big kid, im all excited
it was only £25 i couldn't refuse it for that
if the paintwork is shocking with rust etc we have a shot blaster in my work an i could get it sprayed too...people will do anything for chocolate digestives in my work
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mudcow007 wrote:if the paintwork is shocking with rust etc we have a shot blaster in my work an i could get it sprayed too...people will do anything for chocolate digestives in my work
Quote "People will do anything for chocolate digestives in my work" - and you are using that kind of an opportunity to get a frame shot blasted?Faster than a tent.......0 -
Rolf F wrote:mudcow007 wrote:if the paintwork is shocking with rust etc we have a shot blaster in my work an i could get it sprayed too...people will do anything for chocolate digestives in my work
Quote "People will do anything for chocolate digestives in my work" - and you are using that kind of an opportunity to get a frame shot blasted?
good god yeah, it would be rude not too, i reckon it will cost me 2 packs
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