Patina. Show some!

[MattiThundrrr]

30" wheels, possibly the first real bike with equal front and rear, the dawn of standard size. Sadly still solid...no tubular would stretch that far...

Chain is L506 plate link, still available View attachment 910452

Well that's a new one (or more accurately, an old one) to me. I thought it was skiptooth.

@Nabeaquam are you seeing bikeworkshop's old beauty?

 

[Woz]

Personally when it's all fairly consistent throughout it seems to work well. This was as clean as it was going to get, wire brush for the loose stuff then the oily greasy rag. Could not entirely remove the oxidisation from the bronze headbadge but managed to sharpen up some details.



When there are blotches of this and that, comes across more as a defect. Still think to use the word patina can be OK, but yes in most cases just best to say used / signs of use / battle scars / showing it's age. Some MTBs or tourers if used as intended invariably will show some patina creeping in which I don't mind seeing. Many road bikes relegated to winter duties just appear a bit crumby / filthy / seen better days in my eyes.

 

[Nabeaquam]

Block chain will be incredibly difficult to find, they stopped making it over fifty years ago. I would suggest boiled linseed oil for the frame, it works wonders on old steel. Makes the patina shine

There was an older man that was making skip tooth chains in all widths for the Wheelmen club in the States. It’s been a few years since I’ve been able to find any info on the net. He might be retired from that now. I saw the Wheelmen on a ride around Mackinac island a few years ago and they were riding on new chains, real wide ones on the side by side tandems.

 

[bikeworkshop]

My chain's coming from RM Fowler

http://www.chain-drive.co.uk/

I believe they supply parts to the steam and veteran car enthusiasts
One of my colleagues speaks very highly of them.

The chain is coming from the New World.

 

[Nabeaquam]

30" wheels, possibly the first real bike with equal front and rear, the dawn of standard size. Sadly still solid...no tubular would stretch that far...

Chain is L506 plate link, still available View attachment 910452

The Wheelmen club in the States have used Robert Dean Tires reproduction 28 inch single tube, or foam, tires on 30 inch rims. They leave the tires in the sun and stretch them. Dean may not be making them as I haven’t seen any for awhile. You could occasionally find them on eBay that were made in Vietnam. These are just a tire wrapped around an inner tube, vulcanized around the tube, that were shellacked onto a wood rim, no bead.

 

[bagpuss]

https://flic.kr/p/3WS7RZ

 

[bagpuss]

https://flic.kr/p/6L17MB

Frame turned out to be 1948 not 1930's

 

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[bikeworkshop]

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