Tandem Cycling - Tandem Identification

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timandhuw
04-21-09, 01:55 PM
My friend and i have just bought an old tandem frame. It has had a couple of bad paint jobs and here are no manufacturer logos or identification marks other than a frame number just below the seat post which is 106651. Does anyone have any idea how we might be able to identify it? We're from england and bought the bike here so i'd assume its english. It has a very old chunky headset and an eccentric bottom bracket, hub brakes and 3 speed sturmey archer. We've stripped it down and are respraying it.

Ritterview
04-21-09, 02:41 PM
Let me be the first to advise to post a pic.
zonatandem
04-22-09, 05:58 PM
A 3-speed may put into the circa 1940s-50s category.
There were a plethora of UK framebuilders at that time.

zonatandem
04-22-09, 06:01 PM
1 fart = 8 grams.
t4mv
04-22-09, 07:08 PM
^^^^^
Is there empirical evidence of this?
Stray8
04-23-09, 10:54 AM
My friend and i have just bought an old tandem frame. It has had a couple of bad paint jobs and here are no manufacturer logos or identification marks other than a frame number just below the seat post which is 106651. Does anyone have any idea how we might be able to identify it? We're from england and bought the bike here so i'd assume its english. It has a very old chunky headset and an eccentric bottom bracket, hub brakes and 3 speed sturmey archer. We've stripped it down and are respraying it.



Well, with nothing else to go on, I'd venture a guess that it is an old heavy steel framed English tandem equipped with eccentric BB, hub brakes and a 3 speed Sturmey Archer (#106651). :D



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onehanded
04-29-09, 04:25 PM
can you post a picture so we can all have a look at the frame?
timandhuw
05-04-09, 02:40 PM
i don't have a picture that is under 100 kb to load up, how else can i do it?
masiman
05-04-09, 03:30 PM
i don't have a picture that is under 100 kb to load up, how else can i do it?

Try a search on "picture posting" (all forums). Covered many times.
LWaB
05-04-09, 04:01 PM
Will generally be difficult to identify, most English builders of the time used the same lugs and tubesets. Were there any cranksets on it? They will often identify the maker.
Stray8
05-04-09, 08:43 PM
i don't have a picture that is under 100 kb to load up, how else can i do it?


Otherwise, just resize the picture smaller using Paint or some other photo editing software.


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timandhuw
05-05-09, 11:03 AM
photo upload testing
timandhuw
05-05-09, 11:05 AM
although it doesn't look like that any more, we've stripped it and resprayed it