Originally Posted by
-holiday76
Well, I brought this bike home today. Here's some pics:
now i just need someone to tell me how the heck i figure out what year it is. I'm thinking it might be older than the 50's.
There is some weird material under the brooks saddle, actually looks like horsehair.
It quite likely
is horsehair on the underside of that Mattress saddle. The bike has cleaned up nicely and it has a nice lucas odometer on it as well. Very nice score. Does the dynohub still work? What does the Dynohub say on it.
According to my book "The Sturmey Archer Story", the earliest known AWs date from 1937 and was not readily available until 1938. Also according to the aformentioned book the GH6 dynohub was introduced in 1946. So if your rear hub has a just a 6 visible and the front hub is a GH6 dynohub, your bike would date from 1946 at the earliest and more likely to be 1956.
The writing on the bike is of a very similar style and type to that on my 1956 humber.