Barn Find Batavus Flying Dutchman

[Gimletbikes]

what is the conditon of the machine's headset; have you opened it up as yet?

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The headset cups, threads & ball bearings are all fine and ready to go many more miles - thanks for asking. The one thing I have not yet dug into yet is the bearings, cups & cones of the wheelset. But since they roll fine, and all the other bearings in this machine are fine, I'm not too worried

 

[Gimletbikes]

I put the bad endplate on the inside and it helped appearances

 

[juvela]

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how diplomatic of you not to mention that the pedals are WECO rather than Union!

verily, thar be a career awaiting thee in the foreign service...

if the forum gave out demerits for posting incorrect information this writer would have been banned years ago


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[Gimletbikes]

Hahaa! Well, I didn't know enough to say you were wrong. The dynamo is branded "Union" so I assumed it made sense that the pedals be Union too

 

[juvela]

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dost thee envision to administer to frame a spa treatment in OA or Evaporust?

such will likely return to the lady's epidermis a good measure o' colour...

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pedalen -

here is a pair of the cycle's model fitted with white rubbers:

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[Gimletbikes]

My friend is restoring the wheel lock keychain. She's great with silver smithing and leather. She rejuvenated the chrome - the leather keychain is next. I can't wait to see it.

 

[juvela]

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Wonderful to see you are having such good fun with this!

When you disassembled headset did you remove crown cap to see what crown looked lilke?

Have you investigated the availability of the plastic skirt guards?

Looking forward to the next update.


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[Gimletbikes]

The crown is in surprisingly great shape after some heavy steel wooling & polishing.

 

[juvela]

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wow!

the welded crown is likely a BOCAMA pattern but lack the stock number for it

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"Robert Be Thine Uncle!"


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[non-fixie]

Late to the party, sorry about that. Wasn't paying proper attention.

I have been looking at a few Dutch market catalogues, and the 'Flying Dutchman' model name was used during the seventies, and was still in 1979 price list. It had disappeared 1983, wasn't available in 1985 and was back again in 1988.

The 1988 version had drum brakes, a Sachs 3-speed hub and only came with 26" wheels for the ladies, by the look of it:

So my best guess for now is that it is either just pre-'83 of just post-'85.