HEALING frame number registry
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby smerrett » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:44 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby dejl240 » Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:36 pm
can anyone tell me is this a healing
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Clydesdale Scot » Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:52 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby jgel » Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:52 am
Any help at all which you can give me would be very much appreciated.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Tinker » Mon May 19, 2014 4:06 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Les. Cook » Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:29 am
I have a bike from Melbourne. The frame I have is Numbered 76084 and is located on the rear RHS fork circling around the axle nut. I was told the cycle is a 1950`s. Not measured it but it is a smaller size man`s (or teenagers) size. The rear axle forks are similar to Thurd`s bike as are the detail of the top rear stays where they fix to the seat post/top rail. The lug work is not as scrolled as his bike but more key slotted. There is an interesting heart shape in the centre of the head set, could be a mounting for something else or a emblem in its own right. The rear stay spacer is as RickAndra55 bike as are the tops of the front forks of his bike .The front forks are a cast dropout type. Frame lettering is comparable with other shown here, Much pinstripping, Light blue metallic paint, rust red infills and white decal panel on the seat post.
Any idea of a date would be appreciated. The wheels are not matching, front alloy and the rear steel. The crank set is Austral made in Japan.
Looking at other bikes that have similar numbers does give an idea of dating, more photos help.
Happy to post pictures if permitted.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Les. Cook » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:12 am
I have joined Photobucket and this is the link to the photos
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http://s1054.photobucket.com/user/les16 ... e=1&_suid=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Les. Cook » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:14 pm
Many thanks to Tinker, the frame has been identified as a Hartley of the early 1950`s. I have idea of when and for what reason a Hartley frame has been repainted and Healing decals fitted so completely. I am certain it happened in Melbourne. The more I look at the total bike I see it is a collection of spare parts. Does anybody know if Healing pin stripping is in fact decals. It would be interesting to Know if Healing had a connection with Healing.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Les. Cook » Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:50 pm
I mean Healing with Hartley.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Les. Cook » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:04 am
After talking to 2 others there seems to be a solution. Both people refer to a practice by Healing and other larger cycle manufactures taking in older cycles of any manufacture, stripping them of paint, repainting them, adding their own decals and new componentary, then selling them. I do not know if these where sold as new cycles or refurbished cycles. This could have been as a result of steel shortages but in the case of my bicycle appears to have been done in the 1970`s or 80`s well after post war shortages. My Hartley had the appearance of being a teens commuter cycle. Is this a well known practice.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby AnnaLB » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:56 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby AnnaLB » Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:43 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Landie » Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:52 pm
I own a very old Healing 28" ladies bike that I am very emotionally attached to. My dad brought it home, all dark green, some rust, unloved....it was 1966 and he told me that it was 70 years old at the time. It went to Eastwood Cycles in East Ringwood for a total refurbishment.....repainted with my name and phone number, new tyres, chain guard, elastic skirt guard for the rear wheel, new seat, basket. I loved it. Rode it to school (Form 1/Year 7) where I was a tiny girl riding a huge bike but I loved it....especially doing the big hill in Great Ryrie Street where I rode high on the pedals without stopping. Rode it all through high school, then up and down the hills of Launceston, Tasmania, where I did midwifery.
I have since had it done up twice but my husband has sabotaged my efforts, dismantled it, shoved it in the woodshed, hidden it under the house. He hates my bike but I love it. He bought me a Dunlop with all the gears but it wasn't the same and I gave it to my niece.
Now I want to get new tubes (the tyres are fine), spruce it up.....touch up and lacquer the existing body paintwork to preserve it.
I know there is a lot of paintwork so reading the numbers on the seat tube - looks like ? 4 111 and when I invert the bike the three numbers look like 97? I would have to strip layers of paint to get to confirm the first letter number before the 4 on the seat tube. And also the third digit on the frame underneath.
I now know that my dear dad's 70 years old could be a little out by a decade or so. (That was what he was told by the owner in 1966) It can't be 120 years old! But wonder if it is from the early 1900s. So leaving it to you experts. I will go to Abbotsford Cycles when I get a chance for an opinion regarding tubes, etc as I want to experience riding it again. So much fun and so tall in the saddle!!!!
http://aussievelos.net/healing-cycles/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; has details on Healing bikes.
Cheers
Debs
PS Excellent forum here.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby ldrcycles » Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:41 am
Moruya Bicycles have all the old tyre and tube sizes available, yours will be either 28 x 1-3/8" (642mm) or 26 x 1-3/8" (also known as 650B or 27.5").
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Paulfs67 » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:08 pm
The serial number is A78833, I think it is from the mid to late 30's, it is quite light coming in at 10kg, I think it has 531 tubing.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby LG » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:20 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Paulfs67 » Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:38 am
LG wrote:Wow, very nicely done! Beautiful looking bike, but even better is the family connection.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby old steel Bikes » Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:12 am
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby Paulfs67 » Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:07 pm
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby sharts » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:50 pm
I have a ladies Healing bike in reasonable condition. Its number stamped on the frame is 55943. How do I find out its approximate age?
Thanks.
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Re: HEALING frame number registry
Postby bicyclepassion » Fri Aug 12, 2016 4:37 pm
We still do not have enough serial numbers to break the Healing code, so keep sending them in folks.
Its possible to give a reasonably accurate dating from the frame features, decals, and parts, if its all original.
What we really need is some bikes with original sales receipts, dated, with serial number recorded.
This is how we sorted the Malvern Star numbers to some degree.
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