Strange how there seem to be so many studio posed photos featuring Coventry Eagles.  Maybe it was some kind of sponsorship deal. This particular bike bears the reg number CE 1927, from the same studio a photo has featured on the blog before with the reg CE 1930.Posing in a studio with a vintage...

There's really not much out there has been written on the subject of stayers. Sadly I'm not about to enlighten all with an exhaustive history of bicycle pacers as I just don't know enough myself yet but there's knowledge can be gained from looking at old images so I've gathered together a selection...

This isn't a quality photo by any stretch of the imagination but I like these images of regular folks and their bikes. The everyman's camera wasn't a precision instrument back then and in the pre-digital age you had to take a picture and then hope it came out well. If it didn't you probably kept the...

The EsWay prop stand has featured a couple of times before on the blog. Now it pops up again on account of the stand being back on the market. I'm a big fan of these stands, hauling a pre-war bike up on to the rear stand is a bind and carries fairly high potential for back injury.EsWay telescopic stands...

This BSA A7 Daytona rep build was jointly inspired jointly by an image of ace tuner and factory development engineer Roland Pike with a Gold Star Daytona racer at the MIRA test track and a project on the now dormant Beezagent blog. Rather than an outright replica the machine is a homage to the 1956/7...

Here's the 'abridged list' catalogue of Francis Barnetts for 1954. Francis Barnett brochure 1954 front cover. Francis Barnett brochure 1954 page 1.Francis Barnett brochure 1954 page 2.Francis Barnett brochure 1954 rear cover. Francis Barnett brochure 1954 insert page 1. Francis...

Found this old photo postcard. It seemed familiar and on checking out it is the same machine and studio as this photo.Late twenties Coventry Eaglecombination giving service as astudio pro...

Just back from a holiday in Slovenia. I hadn't realised before that Koper in Slovenia is the home of Tomos. There are plenty of them riding around (not to sure what the plural of Tomos is, Tomii?), I particularly liked the ubiquitous yellow post bikes. The Tomos GB site shows the current models...

Been away for a short while but now back and blogging...Summer is still here. Got in a sneaky short afternoon blast on the Norton Dommi today.1961 Norton Dominator 99S...

Easy enough to spot the bike as a Douglas but I can't go any further than that except to guess that it is from the veteran era. Great riding hat though!Veteran era Douglas with well kittedout ride...

Rather a scruffy old photo but oozing with character. A pre-war Royal Automobile Club patrol man with his late thirties Norton 16H combination. The box sidecar held his tools of the trade.  RAC patrol man with Norton 16H sidecar combinatio...