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Lovely bike worth more than carbon bikes

I like the decals and colour scheme. If you washed it it would look great even though neglected. NIce.

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I think you picked up a Tom Wallace bicycle I once owned also. Jeff had it for a while.👍

The first Spartan is a very nice bike indeed - perhaps we could be interested in some additional information, for example the number of teeth on the chainring and rear sprocket, the length of the cranks, the size of the frame and so on to give us a better insight into this exceptional racing bike

If that steel could talk. Imagine the stories it could tell. Really cool piece of Track/Fixed history! Thanks for showing it off!

I can't believe it... People on the West just throwing something that can be repaired and you can ride it again... Over here in Croatia, that Trek would probably go used for something like 200-300€! I would enjoy tinkering around those bikes 😅 Greetings from Croatia 😎

top effort bro and good finds there.great craftsmanship of yesteryear for sure.glasshouse mountains

Nice bikes man, lovin' the videos.👍

That thing is awesome. Thanks for showing.

A very interesting bike.

Very interesting.

Lovely bike with a great hi-story. Please show us your purple one . love to see it.

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Good on ya mate. Great history notes on your chanel. Thanks from outside Toronto, Canada.❤😊

Wow memories there for me.Like Grant had the green one in 75.Top bar shifter was like a Hurst quick shifter drag style.She was in good nick till left it at me Pops and he butchered it to ride for himself.Could of gut punched him kkkkkkk.Many thanks Arron from Glasshouse mountains

Top effort bro. Nice local knowledge shared.I think Malvern star dragster hangers on there.If only she could share the story hehe.I look forward to more.

You will be amazed at how great they are to ride and how fast !

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Another great vid, You need to do more mate. You have a lot of information stored in that good looking head, that needs to be documented.

BRATZ isn’t a show lol it’s a doll. They came out in 2001

I still have mine it was purchased in 04 it’s vintage as of this year 🎉

It came out in 2004, 20 years or more means vintage?

Aaron running out of space for heritage bicycles could eventually be a big problem , and make his living space untenable . I have seen this with other collectors and hoarders , even ones with large land holdings . Getting them all up to display standard would be an unfathomable task . His passion will likely get the better of him like other hoarders I have met . These items will likely lose value slowly over time as the people who grew up in that past era slowly diminish in number among us , as other collectible forums have shown us . Aaron would have been a boy when the early BMX era was upon us . My uncle has bicycles from pre World War two and has told me that they will be hard to get a return on in the next generation as people's interests change .

9:50 cameras would become targets for collectors next . This happens in my area .

Contact Rick Milne .

Revolve Re-Cycling in Alexandria N.S.W is similar but based on a "donation based model" . They are having a market day today . The Cycle Re-Cycle workshop in Waterloo will also be participating . There will be live music and food as well . I will be helping there today .

I have had bad parts from them twice during COVID 19 . I go to highly established sellers mainly for new or new old stock now due to customers requirements .

That back fender is drunk.

I'm in Brisbane myself and have acquired a collection of three of four of these after my father passed in January. Huge amount of parts and frames that were painted. New tyres, cables, and even windshields which I think would be hard to come across. Would be good to move these onto a collector.

Hello from New Zealand, My father (Rod Coleman) was the NZ importer/distributor of all Suzuki product from late 1959 to Feb 1984. He was one of the three earliest distributors of Suzuki product - the other being a company in Queensland (which became Morgan and Wacker Ltd), plus a gentleman importing product into France and Belgium. The model 50MA you have is the very first step-thru 50cc model Suzuki manufactured from late 1959 to late 1962. It featured a 12 volt system with electric start, plus the first year model was fitted with a rotary gearbox - meaning, it didn't have a positive stop once you had selected top gear.....the danger was, the rider could then again step down on the front half of the gear pedal and change straight back into first gear.....thankfully, Suzuki amended the design fault within the year. Your example raises questions about it's year of manufacture, as the "S" badges on the petrol tank were only red/maroon with a gold "S" on the 1959-60 models. Later models had black badges with a gold "S". The single seat was a Japanese domestic market fitment, with export models having a dual seat. Maybe your example was privately imported by someone who had owned and used it in Japan, prior to its importation into Australia. I currently have 3 X 50MA in my motorbike collection. I will email you directly - Cheers.

Im suprised there isn't no vidioes of the old carrier ' cargo bikes ' the type every corner shop seemed to have had in the 60s 70s ' some people called them the butchers bike 🤷‍♂️

Great explanation. Thanks a lot for sharing. eBay is the best way to reel in a good buyer this niche. There's only so many of us freaks for touring bikes out there. Yes they can reel in 2k but it's like the wrist watch market. Color, pedigree, and features make or break the deal. Personally I think a lot of the value this bike has is in it's complete original build and patina but for bigger audience value I'm worried it's not as financially valuable as just parts.

Nice! I had a beautiful olive green long frame with a 3 speed shifter in the early 70s, unfortunately it got nicked.

A little more info for you Aaron. That seat post lug was cleaned up quite a bit in the later iterations somewhere between your #75 and my #202. Mine also has a different seat, a chamois Kashimax but not sure if it was original or maybe a factory option orwhat? What are those wheels? My wheels are from Araya. Do those wheels have tapered spokes?

Hi there Aaron! Thanks ever so much for posting this! Its great to see my bike's older sister! Youve made my week! I sent you a really long response last night but it seems to have disappeared from the thread... Did you happen to see it? My grandfather bought one in about 1977/78. I think it was built in 77, number 202, but the papers were lost after gramps passed away. I used to drool over it with him even as a youngster when i had an old Raleigh, and i inherited it in the early 80s . He taught me to ride on a 26 inch bike when i was about 7yo and 4ft something in the mid 60s 😂. Ive mollycoddled it and ridden it daily since then except for a ten year period from 2005 - 2015 during which time we were separated by circumstance. It still rides like a dream. Ill continue this in a bit as ive something to do right now 😊

Great Video Aaron 👌 On the Malvern Sovereign Star . Top of Range Malvern Star were Produced from the 1970’s, They were a Miki Japanese Frame Electroplated a Product of Japan with Superb Detailed Lug work, Available Size were 53, 54, 56, 58, cm Also Custom Painted to Your Colour Choice The 1st Bicycles from Malvern Star Ever to be Fitted with High End Componentry 1st Generation SHIMANO DURA-ACE Complete Black 7100 Series 1973 Group Set, The Sovereign Star were in Production Between 1975 to 1978. Malvern Star Factory Received The Sovereign Star Brass Gold Plated Plaques were Numbered from 1 to 240 and were Produced by KG Luke PTY LTD Melbourne. The Question Still Remains Today Were There Ever 240 Built Since Their Release l’ve Only Come Across 16 Sovereign Star , The Lowest Number, No. 1 and Highest Number No. 124 Rare Thoroughbred, A Superlative Machine of Meticulous Detail From that Era 👌🇦🇺👍

Very nice and hard-to-find. The rear derailleur is a Huret Svelto. I've got a Svelto on my '63 Grubb. You can judge the era of the Hetchins by measuring the over locknut distance (at the dropouts). If it is 114mm, then late '40's early 50's. If 120mm, then late '50's-early '60's. If it is early-mid-'50's, then the shifter boss on down-tube for the front derailleur may have been ordered as an extra by the buyer. I did not know anything about the history of Hetchins. Thanks for that. Are you going to tear all the kit off of it and have it professionally re-painted?

That's an amazing bike. I'm mostly into British, but i have seen some really nice Malvern Stars and Speedwells. I did not even know about the Sovereign. That's amazing that you got it for free, but it makes me want to tear me hair out when i hear about nice bikes being discarded.

Thank you.

I'm after 1 because my beloved sister that I loss 20 years ago had 1 in the 70s when we was kids and I use to use it all the time, it was luxury with 4 speed stermy archer and suspension

I'm after 1 because my beloved sister that I loss 20 years ago had 1 in the 70s when we was kids and I use to use it all the time, it was luxury with 4 speed stermy archer and suspension

I have the same one, same color, same suntour xcd! My bike forever!

G’day Aaron, Australia had its own version, the Gemini World Randonneur, legend has it, Sydney uni students in the 70’s were looking for a bike to cart there books etc around. Originally made in Sydney then in Japan. I have an early 80’s, beautiful to ride.. now I think it’s marketed as the Vivanti??

Nice shirt mate. Been watching some of your bike videos. Love the concept. 👍👍👍

I have a 1979 repco mono shock I’m just up some information about it

Great history well told

Raleigh’s have the heron chain wheel, bsa have the plain one

I have seen them in Ireland and the motor powered an internal wheel which a lever would lower and raise to touch onto the front tyre thereby driving the front wheel by friction. Raise the motor and it became just pedal powered. I only ever seen them in black and they had a small petrol tank in built looking like the white "Solex" assembly on the front making look more balanced.

Would be cool to ride around. Looks like you can put your feet up on that board if you don’t feel like pedalling