For Sale: Ultra rare Pre-war Baines Gate Stayer (Track)

To put peoples minds at ease I purchased this particular Baines (only one built) whilst at Sheffield uni during the late 70's from track ace Danny Childs. I can vouch for it originally being used as a Steyer as I had period pic's plus a couple of news articles featuring this very machine. I made it more user friendly by reversing the forks, fitting equal size alloy rims plus adding a front brake for road use. I understand that Trevor jarvis later modelled his Tony orme steyer on this early Baines example. Approx' ten years later I sold it to a keen collector by the name of Roy barrat, dunno the bike's history after that?

Seems like Rusty mudguard his pissed on all our bonfires after all!

Here is the stayer built by Trevor Jarvis in 1991 'modelled' on 'rusty highwheeler's" machine... http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/bikes/gate-stayer-rb.html This, correctly, has a top tube parallel to the ground so clearly NOT modelled on the lo-pro 'Baines'. The big collector of Stayer's is a man called Bill Corbett in the States. He thinks rustyhighwheeler's bike is a fake (as quoted by another forum member above) http://vintagetrackbikes-corbettclassics.blogspot.com/ It's worth looking at his blog... some nice stuff on there....