ID This Brooks Saddle/bike
10-14-20, 12:50 PM
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ID This Brooks Saddle/bike
Found this bike on FB Marketplace I might buy as a project/possible grocery getter. I think it's a 1950s Humber Sport. I know they came stock with Brooks Saddles and I've found a few catalogs but still can't quite place the exact model/year of the saddle. The logo plate says maybe 50s/60s. Not sure about the bag loops though. Any thoughts?
10-14-20, 12:55 PM
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Saddle looks to be a B.72, and bike likely from the 1960s. Humbers had far fancier features in the 50s.
10-14-20, 03:24 PM
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On the underside of the metal plate on my Brooks saddle is a date code. I emailed it to Brooks and they told me the most likely time frame of a few months that the saddle would have been made in as well as its original price. Perhaps there's a date code on that metal piece on your saddle?
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Assuming the saddle is original to the bike, the Sturmey-Archer hub should have a date code on it with year digits (space) month digit(s) that should get you pretty close.
10-15-20, 06:12 AM
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Found this bike on FB Marketplace I might buy as a project/possible grocery getter. I think it's a 1950s Humber Sport. I know they came stock with Brooks Saddles and I've found a few catalogs but still can't quite place the exact model/year of the saddle. The logo plate says maybe 50s/60s. Not sure about the bag loops though. Any thoughts?
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10-15-20, 06:32 AM
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Is that a Raleigh decal on the fork?
10-16-20, 05:41 AM
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10-16-20, 05:44 PM
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I ended up passing on it. The saddle was really more beat up than in the pictures (not a deal breaker) but the hub was just spinning, not turning the wheel. I little more advanced than I know how to fix. It was an older lady selling it who had a packed garage full of stuff and didn't really know anything about it. It was a cool bike though.
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10-16-20, 06:28 PM
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I ended up passing on it. The saddle was really more beat up than in the pictures (not a deal breaker) but the hub was just spinning, not turning the wheel. I little more advanced than I know how to fix. It was an older lady selling it who had a packed garage full of stuff and didn't really know anything about it. It was a cool bike though.
I ended up passing on it. The saddle was really more beat up than in the pictures (not a deal breaker) but the hub was just spinning, not turning the wheel. I little more advanced than I know how to fix. It was an older lady selling it who had a packed garage full of stuff and didn't really know anything about it. It was a cool bike though.
Oh - you didn't happen to get the year off of the hub, did you?
