• Baines Gate

    Another one for the completist, and it may well give pleasure to some one.

    But you would have thought that a professional trader, asking a thousand pounds, would have taken better photos. Apart from the poor focussing, surely it would have been better to put the (anachronistic) saddle up so that it's higher than the bars - it certainly doesn't look 'gen' as it is. Perhaps the seat pin is stuck?

    Also the front wheel is visibly off centre in the forks: is it buckled, are the forks bent, or is the wheel just badly fitted?

    I suppose the design isn't weird if you think the most important feature of frame design is to have a very short wheel base. I wouldn't agree with this theory.

  • My 18-stone mate has been riding a Flying Gate for years and finds them extra strong as well as extra ugly. More triangles than a GT.

    Golden Age Cycles never take a good photo and tend not to focus on presentation.

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