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as jumble sales are very scarce in Australia, most purchases are off ebay.
This one was on the Italian variety. He had NOS pedals for the Ladies Legnano, the next bike to try to get the wife to ride, as she felt the last one I did was too good to ride, so the combined postage was bearable.
The Simplex (as a part of a thread)
1946 poses real conflicts. I have been struggling with this for a few weeks. The best I can come up with is it needs to have been designed before the war if you want it correct. So in addition to the Osgear Super Champion, there are the Cyclo's including the Oppy, the Simplex Champion de France /Campione Del Mondo.
Disraeligears designs by decades show the gap from the late 1930s until the late 1940s
After the removal of my freewheel on Monday, the Chater Lea hub is double fixed. The Simplex Campione Del Mondo arrived yesterday.
But, I am now likely to build it up as a time trial bike. Classic Lightweights has a page that I am reading again.