More Rat Bikes than you could shack a stick at!

[qwerty5oo]

An old neighbour of mine used to collect bikes????????
mostly 30`s-50`s rodbrake types, few racers. He died early summer, so his collections up for sale at Auction tomorrow. I went down to see whats for sale????????????
Loads as you can see. Left a bid on a Penny farthing, but I think its going to go well out of my price range.

Loads of Shop message bikes

And more outside??

And a rusty real rusty one.

 

[Rat Rod]

One word...SHEESH!

 

[CCR]

:shock:

uuummmm, anybody up for a vintage bike iroc race ..... or demo derby

 

[Evil Monkey]

Damn that are alot of bikes. I would love to get my hands on one of those realy old saddles.

 

[Boardtrack fan]

So thats where all the Brooks seats and 28" wheel went!

 

[schwinnmesa]

Wow... did you have any idea your neighbor had all of these? lol :mrgreen:

 

[TJK]

GOOD LORD!!!
I just hope those don't end up on a wall at some theme resturant.
-tj

 

[Rustinkerer]

Drool... :shock: ~Adam

 

[texasbigjon]

i`d love to get ahold of one of those messenger/advertise, style bikes.totally not my style, but dang cool!

 

[MaddMatt]

Why is this so far away?

 

[MadMick]

One of those bikes has my name on it.



On the sign!

 

[qwerty5oo]

We all knew he had a lot of bikes squirrelled away in different sheds n lockups all over, but I think it was a supprise to the family when they finally found them all??
The Auction sale starts today Wednesday 3rd at 2pm GMT, I can`t make it as I start work at 2pm!!! but i have my spies there and a few bids left. I will update you all later on prices etc.

 

[jackie chain]

ouch this hurts, such a auction is very dangerous for your fanincial situation

 

[qwerty5oo]

Ok report from the Sale, Prices were very high?? for some odd reason, Average messagebike went for £160, Penny Farthing I though would go for £1300 went for £2600??? The Police bikes went for between £50-£120 (Exchange rate today is £1.00 = $1.76)
I have now a list of bikes, and price they went for. If anyones interested they include Rover-Aerial-Balmoral-New Hudson-Hercules-Rudge etc
173 bikes altogether was sold.

 

[davidhud29]

WOW

 

[Sleeper Sedan]

Speechless... Sorry to hear about the old gentleman passing. Hope the bicycles [and such] all went to good homes. <snicker> Like texasbigjon said, "I'd love to get ahold of one of those messenger/advertise style bikes."

Clark

 

[karl]

Amazing,this Guy outcollected all of us..
Why?

 

[roadmaster]

a very cool euro collection. love getting lost in all these pictures and can't wait to get my pictures of my collection up, but nothing nearly as nice or awesome as this.