Dunlet

[mongeese]

Evelyn Woodhead has a sped reading course.

 

[Oilit]

Not the best pictures but my phone isn't very organized when it comes to pictures

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Just out of curiosity, what kind of Roadmaster is that?

 

[Thaddeus]

Cleaned this one too today, could of posted all on the what i rode today , i compare this as riding a single sealed bearing.never rode one so tight, although feet hit fender and knees on handlebars, got it for my wife

 

[Allrounderco]

Cleaned this one too today, could of posted all on the what i rode today , i compare this as riding a single sealed bearing.never rode one so tight, although feet hit fender and knees on handlebars, got it for my wife

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Looks like a perfect match to my ‘72:

 

[Thaddeus]

Like it, have a west end 3 speed , i stole the fenders to use on my specialised, not a fan of rooster tails, my hill is a 500 ft drop, 1st time i milked it, 2nd i took it like on my kx 500 .oops, saved by experience .

 

[juvela]

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This 1962 gents Dunlet came up recently on CL -

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[sykerocker]

I have a few Raleighs, one Armstrong, hoping to get a Rudge, but have been searching for a Dunlet for years with no results. Alas.

Try looking in the Northwestern Pennsylvania area. The Schwinn/Raleigh dealer in Erie, PA (A.R. Adams Cycle) sold a lot of them in the early 70's during the Bike Boom. They were usually quite popular with trendies who HAD to have a bicycle, thought they wanted a 10-speed, which rapidly evaporated as soon as they straddled one and felt the saddle on their butt. Once you got them over "gotta have a 10-speed with drop bars" mania, they'd usually look at a Triumph or Dunelt (blue and red respectively on the bikes we were getting) instead of a Raleigh Sports because that Sports cost as much as a cheap 10-speed and there was no way they were spending three figures for a bicycle if it wasn't a 10-speed.

Didn't hurt that the shop owner, Merle Adams, was a fervent 3-speed roadster fanatic, and his head mechanic (me) rode an ivory Raleigh Sports to work every day. So we were able to slightly buck the Bike Boom fad. Slightly. Maybe 10% of our clientele.

Looking back at that red '62 brings back some memories.