This classic/vintage section of "This forum is to discuss the many aspects of classic and vintage bicycles, including musclebikes, lightweights, middleweights, hi-wheelers, bone-shakers, safety bikes and much more."

Many of the comments made to date in this thread have taken a narrow interpretation of the stated aim of this section.


There is a
Singlespeed & Fixed Gear section where readers are guided by "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)

Although, I would hardly think he would have mangled the spelling of derailleur like that set out in the 'quote'.

You may endure less angst in that section.
Across 'the ditch' there was another Healing brand, which was a different organisation to the NZ variety.

My current project is also a fixed gear, 3 speed variety (Sturmey Archer 3 speed fixed). It will be installed on a 1952 Hobbs of Barbican frame that spent its early life travelling local roads to you
It will have two brakes because I am reluctant to use back pressure to slow as the flanges on the body of the Sturmey Archer ASC hub are very thin alloy. I note that traditionally British fixed gear time trial bikes generally did only have a front brake. Have a look through Classic Lightweight's Time Trials 1940's/1950's
So if you wrote that you were rebuilding your bike boom frame to be of the style of a 1940s/50s British Time Trial bike you would be absolutely correct.