Gorickewerk Bicycle

[Gord F]

I just picked up this bicycle recently and I am having trouble finding specific about it as far as the year manufactured etc...

It is German and it came with a leather case that strikes me as military and also has a spoke lock for which I do not have the key so any advice on that would be appreciated as well.

 

[Mercian]

Hi Gord,

I don't know much about German bikes, but if the coaster brake is a 'Torpedo', made by Fichtel and Sachs, then it is datable.

This site explains how:

http://www.torpedo-coasterbrake.com/hub-date.htm

http://www.torpedo-coasterbrake.com/

I don't think the case is military, just a nice leather case from the period.

The history of Maschinenfabrik August Göricke is here, in German, but easy to translate.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göricke

From the article, the badge dates the bike between October 1941 and 1964.

Hope this helps,

Best Regards,

Adrian

 

[JOHN DANGER]

it is a civilian bike but may be of wartime manufacture, many if not most bicycles used by the German army were civilian pressed into service

 

[Andrew Gorman]

Here is a good German language bike board- I linked to a search for Goricke:
https://www.altesrad.net/phpBB3/search.php?keywords=goricke
Lots of information, they are somewhat tolerant of questions in English, and google translate will get you close.

 

[leo healy]

Hi Gord

Nice Bike in your first pic were you got the bike held on the head tube, on the right side of the top tube is there a small wheel,if not a small hole ?
In the full view of the bike there looks to be two pump holder pins on the seat tube do they look original to the bike?
leo.

 

[anders1]

Pretty cool! Welcome to the CABE...