Re: [Classicrendezvous] Query: What's a Blue Riband bike?

From: "swampmtn" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Query: What's a Blue Riband bike?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 03:59:41 -0500

That would be Phil Scott, of Dayton, Ohio. He was selling the Hobbs for an elderly gentleman. I never heard of the bike actually selling.

AldoRoss

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Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Query: What's a Blue Riband bike?

> That be a Hobbs of Barbican model......(Not French at all, but veddy veddy
> British!)
>
> http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/hobbs_blue_riband.htm
>
> There was a pretty nice example, full chromed, for sale on Ebay a year plus
> ago by a Mr. Scott, I believe, in the Midwest.. Do others recall that
> gentleman who occasionally has early stuff for sale?
>
> Also I think the name has a significance that I do not know. Can one of our
> British members expound upon that for us?

>

> Dale Brown