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British Bikes / Re: British Bike Identity
« on: July 11, 2017, 03:13:04 PM »
Thanks once again for all your kind help. I am glad I set such an apparently interesting challenge.

To sum up I believe the following to be our best guess,

1. Its a Rudge frame
2. The date is later than thought, at least 1930 or maybe later
3. The registration is from Surrey
4. The engine is a little less certain. I think the consensus is that it is  a JAP unit and this was not a standard engine for the frame so presumably a home-built modification.

Have I summed up your views correctly?

Obviously I would really like to know the full story behind this machine but I guess now that the owner has been gone for 40 years I will never know for certain. But thanks to the erudite folk on this forum I have a much better idea of the story.

Best Regards

QP

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British Bikes / Re: British Bike Identity
« on: July 10, 2017, 05:31:04 PM »
Quote from: mini-me on July 10, 2017, 12:44:09 PM
Yes Rudge fits, I thought Rudge for a sec, when I looked at the brakes, but the JAP engine scrubbed that; I didn't know Rudge fitted JAP either.

Looks to be well put together if its a home build.

Thanks for the comments so far, it's beginning to look like this was a homebuilt bike using parts from various donors. Knowing my uncle (much later in life admittedly) I would not put that past him. He did have some rather interesting skills.

QP

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British Bikes / British Bike Identity
« on: July 10, 2017, 10:35:39 AM »
Dear Forum Members,

Let me start out by apologising to you all for intruding in your forum. I know absolutely nothing about classic bike be they British or anyone else's however I do have a question that I was hoping one of the forum members could help me with.

I have a picture of my uncle taken in 1926 somewhere in South Wales, and I would like to include as many details as possible into his life history that I am currently writing.

So can you identify the bike that he is sitting on and can you give me a flavour as to whether it would have been new in 1926 or was it an old bike by then. Was it common or rare etc, in short anything that you think may be of interest.

Many thanks in advance and I am now going to try and attach the picture.

Best Regards

QuePee


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