| Re: Big Red Bike: Can You Identify It?
timothy.horner@villanova.edu wrote:
>I have had this bike for the last six years and have ridden it to work
>everyday, rain or snow or shine. I bought in High Wycombe, halfway
>between London and Oxford, and fell in love with it the moment I looked
>down from atop this 'sit up and beg' classic. The previous owner told
>me it was a BSA dating from around WWI! He bought it to use in war
>re-enactments. Supposedly this was the style of bikes used in the
>Bicycle Brigades during the Great War. I also brought it to a guy who
>collects antique British bikes and he said that the cotter pin
>(pictured on the site below) dates this bike to somewhere between 1914
>and 1917. I want to know if anyone can tell me if this is right.
>http://bigredbike.blogspot.com/
It's a Coventry, I'll wager.
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