Might be able to help with that, I've got an old dunelt 3 speed women's from I belive 67, it's in working condition just some rust here and there and the rear rim is a little bent but other than that it works just fine, I'm looking to sell it because I feel like it'd take alot of time to restore the old bike, if you're interested let me know

Welcome. Nice of you to offer the bike. There are others, we presume.

It's 'kind' of you to offer. You have to be as member to sell on the sales thread. Welcome just the same.

I found two pair of these odd Raleigh 'Westrick' pattern rims, 36h in a dumpster behind a closed up bike shop the other day. (Along with a ton of other vintage steel wheels).
I'm not sure if these are Raleigh or something completely different. I don't think I've seen these before.
This pair is marked Supraseal 26x1 3/8" 590, the other pair is marked 27x1 3/8" 630. Both pair were banded together with straps.
the other rims were a pair of used 32/40 Dunlop Endrick rims, the front is nice, the rear has a good bit of brake wear.
Plus four sets of 26" Schwinn S5 rims in decent shape, with one set possibly being brand new.
I also found a parts bin full of New Departure Model A or old Corbin hub internal parts, most appear either new or super clean. No hub shells though. The rest of the stuff was newer China junk. I had stopped to grab lunch and noticed a closed bike shop and a big dumpster outback heaping with stuff so I drove around and parked next to it while I ate lunch. By the time I left the cab of my truck was stuffed. Scored 16 new in the box 26" tire tubes, four new 27" tubes, and about 30 20" tubes, a couple Schwinn branded LED light kits, and two new in the box Huret Cyclometers (Multito).

Not bad for a quick lunch while waiting out a traffic jam.

Here's a shot of the 590 rims, they have some peppering but I don't think they've ever been spoked.
Are these from Raleigh or just an aftermarket replacement? Maybe something besides a Raleigh or Schwinn used this style rim?
The serrated sides tell me their probably earlier 70's.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...3a8b5010e1.jpg

The 36 spoke holes says later model but the serrated sides makes me think early 70's.

36 holes were common on non-English bicycles long before the seventies. Luckily, I have a 1951, 36 spoke AW hub for use in my '53 Raleigh Sports as I want to replace the very rusty rims with new ones and 40 spoke rims are just not available.
I know, not original, but pretty close... :)

Peter

I had a Dawes with Supraseal branded rims in 27" years ago, they looked like the Dunlop Endrick wheels that used to come on some Raleigh bikes with smooth sides. Mine were 36/36.
I agree, the serrated sides look older but some French bikes kept the serrated rims till the very late 70's or maybe even into the 80's. I have a late 70's Peugeot Mixte with serrated side Rigida Chrolux rims. It was bought new as it sits in late 1978 at a local bike shop.

Raleigh and Schwinn weren't the only brands to use a 'Westrick' pattern rim, I've had a few 60's and 70's model German and Austrian bikes with the same or similar pattern and you can find various steel replacement wheels in 650B on various European sites.
I suppose there are many more out there, maybe even some replacement brand wheels.

That'd line up with Raleigh's transition to 36 holes in 1973.

It's probably fair to say these are the aftermarket replacement EA3's of their day.

-Kurt

The Supraseal is for a 36/36 Raleigh Sports from 1973 onward. They're good rims, and I like the serrated brake track. They take 590mm tires, which gives you at least some choice in tires. I still ride a set of these on one my 1970s Raleighs.

The Schwinn S5 is the Schwinn copy of the Raleigh pattern rim. They started about 1961 or so. They are very common on 1960s Schwinn 3-speeds. The point of the Raleigh pattern rim is to work with cable caliper brakes and inside-running rod brakes. Schwinn appears to have copied this, though I've never seen a Schwinn use rod brakes. The Schwinn rims are also sometimes called "tubular" because they took a tubular shaped piece of metal and stamped it to the cross-section shape of the rim, then bent the stamping and welded the two ends together to make a hoop. The slag was then removed and ground down. With the S5 rims, be careful to check the weld before building into a wheel. On some of the rims, there's a rough area in the brake track (and sometimes an inherent wobble) where the two ends were welded together. Also check the inside of the rim for sharp areas at the weld. Some of these rims are fine, and on some, they didn't clean the weld area up enough. The 597mm bead seat instead of the 590mm limits your tire choices.

The New Departure A was an early 20th century coaster brake hub, from well before WWII. It usually had an hourglass shaped hub shell, slender brake arm with a set screw, and it used a knurled spacer to link the reaction arm and the hub. The parts for these are relatively valuable if in good shape. They are unusual to find today, but not ultra-rare. The A was common on 1910s-20s era bikes, though appeared probably as far back as 1903. Save as many parts and whatever else came with that stuff. The hubs were made into the late 1920s.

The Corbin hub was probably a turn of the 20th century hub coaster brake hub, though Corbin made several models from the 1900s, with the Model 8 running into the 1920s. Again, this is all pre-WWII stuff, which is unusual today. These usually turn up on 1900s-1910s era bikes. Same as the Model A - save as much as you can find of this stuff. It's really old, and really hard to find today.

Good finds for what you paid.

Chock full of good info there Sir Mike!

Ladies' Tourist for cheap in TN.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...57369854911678

https://scontent.fric1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...30&oe=612456E3

Fair price and good shape - if the rear rim wasn't wrecked.

-Kurt

The lot of ND model A parts is roughly 20 lbs or so of internals, all look to be in decent shape, some look new.
I have some model A hubs from a cleanout i did several months ago, I opened those up and it looks like someone has gone through them completely. One was attached to a badly rotted wood rim.

The Corbin hubs look very similar to the ND hubs.

I have two later Raleigh Sports here, going by the rear hub dates, one is a 2/1977, the other a 11/1978, both have 36/36 spoked Raleigh pattern rims branded Sturmey Archer. Both came from different sources years apart.
I also have one with a hub dated 3/80, that has 36h Raleigh pattern rims but also stamped Sturmey Archer. I have a Raleigh LTD with 32/40h Endrick rims with a rear hub dated 4/78. I've known this bike since it was new, he bought it from a bike shop where I used to work back then.

So were the Supraseal rims English? if so there's no mention of it as there is on the SA and Dunlop rims. I was wondering if maybe they were from the Canadian built bikes or even Holland? I don't think I've ever had a Canadian built Raleigh here before though. I've seen bikes from England, Holland, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
Did only the bikes with Westrick style rims go to 36 spoke wheels?

There is some cross-over between the New Departure and Corbin hubs in terms of technology, though how much so depends on the model and year for what you have. It's all old, good stuff to have at this point anyway. If you're into pre-1930 American bikes, you'll want those parts. If not, they should be sellable to collectors. There is a small, but very devoted market to the pre-1933 stuff from back when the bikes had the 28 inch wood rims and the old-style frames. Corbin was at New Britain, Conn. originally, while New Departure had a long-running plant in Bristol, Conn, only a few miles apart. New Departure started as a bell maker, but eventually branched out into other things. The big thing they did were bearings and car parts. (And for trivia lovers, the Torrington Company, which made pedals and bike parts for many years was only a few minutes' drive northwest of Bristol and New Britain). All three companies are defunct now. Growing up, I had friends and family who worked at both Torrington Co. and New Departure (Corbin Screw of New Britain was long gone by then).

The 1970s Raleighs are hard to follow in terms of what the company was doing. They were still on the cost-cutting kick, but they also were manufacturing in different places, using different parts than previously, starting to use contracted rather than in-house parts in some cases, etc. I'll look at my Supraseal rims again and see if there's a manufacturing mark anywhere. The other place to check would be the recent book "Raleigh Past and Presence". I don't think the Supraseals are Canadian - I have a set on my 1974 Sports that has the "Made in England, Assembled in USA" sticker (rather than the usual "Made in England" sticker). The Supraseals are a well-made rim, whatever their origin. The 36 hole configuration opens up a wider range of hub options, but the downside is you can't then just go to the common 32/40 Raleigh spoke charts for spoke lengths. Learn-as-you-go sort of thing... The "590" marking and the general style of rim does have a Dutch kind of feel to it though...

Anyone want to hazard a guess on frame size on this triumph?
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...48d47d56b4.jpg
Just a screenshot but I think I'm going to pick this up.

I have no use for the early ND parts or hubs, my interests don't go that far back.
I've got a few balloon tire bikes, both pre and post war, a few middleweights, and a half dozen English three speeds myself.
I'm thinking that the 27" rims will be good rims to use on a 23" Sprite frame I've got here.

Wasn't New Departure a GM company? I remember seeing ND logos and part numbers in factory transmission training manuals back in the early 70's.

This might be of some interest, to some:
New Departure

Yes, it was a GM company. A portion of it continued to operate in Bristol into the 1990s (2000s maybe?). A large portion of the bearings business went to Ohio in the mid-1960s, but a portion of the company continued operating in Bristol, Conn. making certain parts for the GM cars into the 1990s. The surviving portion of New Departure and Torrington Company pressed on longer than most of the medium scale manufacturers here. They both closed around the turn of the millenium when years of gradual outsourcing by the parent companies caught up with them. My older brother worked at the Torrington Co in the 1980s and a couple of family friends worked at New Departure starting from the 1970s to the time it closed. New Departure's hubs were among the best in the world prior to WWII, but the designs did not receive a lot of development post-war. There was more money in cars.

New Departure also made some interesting two-speed and three-speed designs. The multigear hubs and hub parts are expensive today. I've seen a few American-made light roadsters that were 2 speeds or 3 speeds because of New Departure hub upgrades. The balloon tire bike guys tend to harvest the multispeed hubs from the roadsters because they want them for high-end ballooners.

Looks slightly larger than a 23", so my best guess is 24"?

Definitely a 23" - these would have been 21" or 23" only. The DL-1's were 22" / 24".

There's a possibly it's had a front ender that makes the headtube look longer than it is, but it looks OK.

-Kurt

I was thinking 23. I'll find out tomorrow. Always wanted a 3 speed sports that wasn't too small.

Don't we all? ;)

I've tried making a 21 fit but it just doesn't satisfy.

I find the women's frames to be more adaptable in terms of range of fitment. But then again, I fit a 21" like buttah.

lucky you. 23 works for me but 24 does too in a french fit sort of way. I really love porter or north road bars so all of my bikes kind of look like old English 3 speeds anyway.