Trade: Keyhole Hetchins

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  • I recently acquired a very nice Keyhole Hetchins from the original owner.

    Whilst it is a beautiful machine, I have to face the fact that it is too small for me.

    Key dimensions are:

    Seat Tube ctc 54.5cm
    Top Tube ctc 55cm

    I am looking to trade for either another Hetchins of similar quality or for a machine from a comparable classic British builder - Ephgrave, Bates, Jack Taylor that sort of stuff - none of yer foreign shite.

    Ideally, I will be looking for something 57cm Square.

    This bike is in pretty good condition. At some point in its life it has been resprayed (I believe at Bob Jacksons), and is in two shades of blue with gold lug lining.

    Groupset is Campagnolo Record. There is a very small ding in the Top Tube, impossible to photograph but it is there. Otherwise it is pretty much unmarked.

    Anyway, here are some pics:

    Really interested to see what might be available - this would be my daily ride if it was a little bit bigger.

  • Just replied to your other post.... This one is nicer IMHO... And that rear italiente stay is quite unusual, if not rare. You are lucky to have got two of em!

  • Thanks - they were on eBay about a month ago - I bid on both to hedge my bets and won both for a fairly decent price.

    The original owner was a really nice old timer - originally from North London, but now resident in the Yorkshire Dales.

    I drove up a couple of weeks ago to collect them - it took ages and when I got there I found they had been incorrectly listed, and were smaller than stated. Since I'd gone all that way - and they are such lovely bikes - I bought them anyway.

    They are however just too small for me, and will never get ridden. I can't see the point in owning bikes if you are not going to ride them, so they have to go.

    I reckon I would easily make a profit if I were to put them on the Bay, but I think that would be a bit of a shame - and I didn't buy them for that reason.

    Hopefully, someone will have an old classic that's just too big for them, in which case life, for a brief moment at least, will be win-win.

    Cheers

  • Nice thought....hope you get one your size ;0)

  • Beautiful bike.....classic Hetchins....lovely.

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Trade: Keyhole Hetchins

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