Rudge with sidecar

[Gtpulse]

I do actually like the look of this but can’t stop thinking it’s perfect for a hipster and their dog with matching moustache.

https://www.easyliveauction.com/cat...ollectors-auction-to-include-life-si-lot-330/

 

[moonlite]

Wow - that's something a bit different. I wonder what it's like to pedal with someone in the sidecar . . .

 

[27motorhead]

Love that, but not at that price and already have a cargo bike... but still want it! God that will be murder on the hills!!!

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Look at the estimate!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

The estimate is as funny as watching Tim pedal it uphill in Wales

 

[Gtpulse]

I did have a very early Rudge roadster years ago, a lot nicer than this one. From memory that sold at auction for about £900 in 1995.

 

[27motorhead]

The estimate is as funny as watching Tim pedal it uphill in Wales

It hurts my legs just thinking about it!!! Plus you can't ride it in/through traffic.

Insane pricing/estimate, must have reference eBay for pricing?! Maybe someone with more money than sense can buy it and cycle it along their long gravel driveway and then put it away in the corner of the 6 car garage vowing never to ride it again!

 

[Gtpulse]

Hard to say on the pricing. The top end estimate does seem very optimistic. I’d guess there’s £500 max in the Watsonian Sidecar then the same in the bike on its own. You can keep all the other guff that’s accesorising it. Those bits look just a bit too curated to me and I don’t place £1k value on them.

Don’t know what it’s like these days but definitely saw those with young families on club runs with the veteran cycle club using bikes with sidecars regularly long distance. Usually a tandem though.

 

[LondonClassic]

I dont usually take offence to a bicycle but this looks like twee, hipster goading bollocks.

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Twee? YES! Hipster goading? YES! Bollocks? YES!
Well spotted.