Picked up this 1938 4 star track bike today off the original owner who had it made for him , He tells me it is made with 531 molybium (if thats the correct spelling) tubing usually used on the 5 star frame but got it at 4 star price . It has all the original BSA components , The wheels were replaced 20 year ago and the seat post bolt and bar stem bolt are replacements.Seat is Brookes b17 sprinter, Bars are Fitsgeralds. He stripped and serviced this bike every week in readiness for race day and won quite a few NQ championships on it. It was repainted years ago to keep individuality and has been kept indoors since. I also have the option of buying the track shoes hand made by Windsor Smith as worn in the first photo. .
I hope you’re not planning on riding that on the street. That’s gotta be a track only machine IMHO. Or even better, hang it on a wall in your loungeroom.
i love this bike.
all too few of them left now, and even fewer in this kind of condition.
i’d love to see it in the flesh, but since that would probably mean that it was being ridden brakeless on brisbane roads, i hope i never do.
it would be a tragedy to see thing eaten by some muppet in a range rover who forgot to look.
but proof that beautiful old bikes still exist out there of you look for them.
well done that man.
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