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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Let's roll together!
About Ebykr
Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Let's roll together!
Thank you for the well researched and written article. I have a 50’s track bike with B-W hubs; aluminium flanges w/chromed steel barrels. The rear is a fixed/freewheel flip-flop design. Front and rear spindles are semi-hollow. Very well made, good looking, and still operating perfectly!
I have just dismantled A JP Super push lawnmower and it contains a Bayliis Wiley freewheel on the rear roller chain wheel that drives the cutting cylinder. JP mowers were made in Leicester and extremely well engineered.
Thanks a lot for the very interesting note, Charlie. It sounds like JP mowers are similarly robust as Bayliss-Wiley freewheels. May your mower last another seventy years and then some…
Thank you for this wonderful article !
My name is Herbert Wiley, my uncle was Arthur Wiley, my fathers brother, born in the early 1900’s. I sorry i never met him, would have been nice to . I own a Dunelt & searching info about it. Yours truly, Herb Wiley IV
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Richard,
Thank you for posting this excellent, well written information regarding a great MFG most of us have never heard about before this.
Dan
Hirondelle’s Retro-Direct free-hub may predate Bayliss-Wiley’s.
Damn! That’s awesome! You won’t find that stuff at the fixed gear gallery.
Hi, A great source of B-W information. From what I have gleaned from adverts. in old cycling mags. I believe that Simplex beat B-W to the punch re. the unit hubs with their hex or octagonal one (which was closer to a cassette since the sprockets slid on rather that being screwed on). Also I think the unit hub was first advertised as a Perry hub, I have an old advert. around somewhere, that I will try and find.
I would also assume that B-W made the unit hubs that Cyclo sold.
Regards, Phil Easton