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ok, i can only presume this is some kind of 1950s HHSB, with a 27" rear wheel, complete with Sturmey AW 3 speed hub. Front wheel is a 26", with a dynohub. Bike also has numerous other things attached, and shitloads of tape which i peeled off. in the seller's pic it looked like this:
it looked like a path frame to me, so i bought it.
you can see the full glory of the front wheel thing going on here:
and other details (lovely handwriting logo):
so basically, i stripped it right down, gave it a brief clean, then built it up on the sly,swapped the pitted bars for a nitto stem i had lying around, few other bits and bobs, quick quick, to see what it looked like ((note pencil thin seat stays) :
and all was well, and it had a vintage pump on the bosses. and i rode it around until i got totally nailed by a bicycle courier on the wrong side of the road, who essentially flattened me and my nose pissed blood and hurt my shoulder. the pump also got flattened. well, things happen. the bike's fine, the pump and my nose and arm are not. i went to critical mass after walking roudn town in a bit of a daze, sort of shock, looking for somewhere to clean the blood. nice to see corny and lebowski and chug it and stevechugit, and mike c, and phil, seb, joel and others.
i'm going to get it shot-blasted and resprayed, should be nice. looks very much like a 1950s zephyr path frame.
oh and if that wasn't enough - whilst sat in soho square, licking my wounds, this happened: