Vintage Australian bicycle decals
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Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:40 am
Start with Tassie Bikes:
Cyril Abel Cycle Works, mens roadster from about the 1950s. From a quick google search they appear to have had a shop in Elizabeth St Hobart.
Down tube decal
Seat tube decal
The King! Seat tube decal indicates they were at 125 Elizabeth St Hobart. This bike is a ladies roadster from about the 40s.
Down tube decal
Seat tube decal
Head tube
Kevin McBain "Maxwell Cycles"Mixte from about the early 80s ish
Seat & head tube decals
Down tube decal
Tassie cycles mens racer from about the 40s (ish). Not sure if this is a respray and later decal.
Head & seat tube decals
Down tube
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:26 pm
Kinnane deluxe ladies bike from 50s ish. Somebody resprayed it blue over the top of the decals and this is as well as I could clean them up.
Down tube decal
Seat tube decal
Ken Self early 1980's locally built racer bike. I removed the decals for respraying and forgot to take photos before doing so The round rooster decal is from the head tube, the square on the seat tube.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby P!N20 » Sat May 04, 2013 9:04 pm
Some interesting bikes you have there. I've got got a soft spot for Tassie frames as I grew up there (now living in Melbourne) and although not directly involved, was certainly aware of Tasmania's proud cycling history. I restored a McBain a few years back and am still riding it regularly - it even won a category at a recent show n shine!
A friend of mine's colleague dug out his old Kinnane Special and rode it to work! There was a whole story to go with it, but in short it was used in the 50's (?) on a turf velodrome. Kinnane was a bike shop in Wellington St, Launceston until quite recently. My Dad seems to think they built frames there back in the day.
Anyway, keeping the decal theme going, these are some shots I took of my McBain just after I bought it and pulled all the components off:
I'd love to see some pics of your Ken Self, do you know much about it? I've come across a couple, but they're so few and far between I've come to the conclusion they are just re-badged something or other.
There must be so many Tassie frames stashed in people's garages down there, if only there was a way to uncover them all!
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby cotterpin » Sat May 04, 2013 10:03 pm
I'll try and jump on board with some decal image's in the next day or so.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby hiflange » Sun May 05, 2013 12:35 am
coupla Swansea decals for ya
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Sun May 05, 2013 8:37 am
Wow, a Kinnane special is very high on my desire list and yes, the special frames were built locally. Very nice piece of Tassie history there.P!N20 wrote:Hi LG,
A friend of mine's colleague dug out his old Kinnane Special and rode it to work! There was a whole story to go with it, but in short it was used in the 50's (?) on a turf velodrome. Kinnane was a bike shop in Wellington St, Launceston until quite recently. My Dad seems to think they built frames there back in the day.
I'm hoping to get to a fella's house later next week to take some photos of a 1970s Ken Self track bike sitting in his shed, custom made for his father who raced it and has custom decals on it. Maybe I should have called this the 'Vintage Tassie bike decals' thread
There are some locally built Ken Self road and track frames of a very high quality, but with a whole heap of bought in frames as well. Mine is a locally built road. I'll post a photo or 2 on the forum at some stage (may already be one here, can't recall).P!N20 wrote:I'd love to see some pics of your Ken Self, do you know much about it? I've come across a couple, but they're so few and far between I've come to the conclusion they are just re-badged something or other.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby Clydesdale Scot » Sun May 05, 2013 10:23 pm
more to do with you looking at it at on a low resolution setting/monitor. All images look fine to meKermit TF wrote:Arrrgh, its frustrating that this website due to some technical thingy, crops 1/4 of pic ....agree awesome thread.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby P!N20 » Mon May 06, 2013 4:41 pm
Mischa's (of Bottles & Chains fame) Ken Self, unfortunately came off second best in a collision:
This dude did an amzing resto job on his Ken Self:
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby steampunk » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:58 pm
I'm trying to find out more about the Kinnane Special. i have just received one in my shop to sell on commission - but i'm more interested in knowing the history. I saw there was a comment about turf racing... the local museum speak of him racing on a beach also!
this link will take you to my facebook page?
https://www.facebook.com/andyssalvage/p ... =1&theater
Note the wooden wheels!
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:57 pm
Nice bike.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby steampunk » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:53 pm
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Postby gazo » Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:53 pm
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:13 pm
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby gazo » Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:24 pm
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:17 pm
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby jacko665 » Sun Aug 20, 2017 4:28 pm
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby P!N20 » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:37 pm
Regarding the Ken Self tandem, your best bet would be to contact someone behind the Bottles & Chains blog: http://www.bottlesandchains.com/
The image of the tandem above came from the following blog post: http://www.bottlesandchains.com/?p=461 There are some more pictures, too.
Let me know if you have any trouble, I kinda vaguely know a couple of the Bottles & Chains dudes.
So do you have any Ken Self bikes? Do you know if they were built in house or did he have them made elsewhere? There was always a little bit of mystery surrounding the Ken Self bikes.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby LG » Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:32 am
Missed your post from last year, have a look at this link for some information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oks7L-YtumgP!N20 wrote:So do you have any Ken Self bikes? Do you know if they were built in house or did he have them made elsewhere? There was always a little bit of mystery surrounding the Ken Self bikes.
Somehow my photobucket lost photos seem to have reappeared in this thread, great.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby P!N20 » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:37 am
Awesome! Some great footage there. Would love to see the whole program.LG wrote:Missed your post from last year, have a look at this link for some information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oks7L-Ytumg
Somehow my photobucket lost photos seem to have reappeared in this thread, great.
Between McBain, Self and Kinnane, there must be quite a few frames buried in sheds throughout Tassie. Although I guess a lot just got neglected and taken to the tip.
Re: Photobucket, the third party linking fiasco has been lifted.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby Chivers » Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:49 pm
Any luck on finding some info mate? Just picked one up myself.LoopyMick wrote:LoopyMick
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby reeva65 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:18 pm
The only letters I can see on the decal are REN on the left side. Other than that it has all faded. It has BSA raised text on the bottom bracket. The chain is a coventry. British or Australian I suspect. The bicycle looks 1930's though the seat is most definitely earlier. I am aware of an early builder called RENSTAR. Could anyone confirm that or suggest something else? I hope to be put out of my misery
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby hiflange » Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:40 pm
Another poster (Wolly Walters) on another forum (Facebook) was recently asking about a bike stamped HEN. Probably unrelated but you never know.
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Re: Vintage Australian bicycle decals
Postby Jase28 » Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:53 am
Kind regards
Jaaon
jacko665 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 4:28 pmI know it is a long shot seeing as this thread is a few years old, however I am very interested in those Ken Self bikes. Ken was my grandfather and my family is trying to track down some of his old bikes. I see there you mentioned the tandem- we have been trying to find it for years. My grandfather and grandmother used to ride from Moonah to Lauderdale on it of a weekend. If by chance this post reaches the guy who posted the Ken Self bikes I'd love to get in contact!
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