Re: [CR]Help Idenitifying my Bates

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: inexpertbrit@tesco.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Help Idenitifying my Bates
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:23:13 +0000


Martin Coopland is a member of this forum, and may well pick up these emails. If not, his email address is Reclassicbikes@aol.com.

I suggest you have a look at his Bates website:

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/reclassicbikes/Bates_Cantiflex_Home.html

Martin can supply the correct decals and some other spares for your machine, and he holds the record of serial numbers, so he should be able to both identify and date it.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England


>From: <inexpertbrit@tesco.net>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Help Idenitifying my Bates
>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:16:28 +0100
>
>
>Dear Sam,
>I am no expert it says it all in my email address. From photos posted
>they don't tell me a lot as I can't see the lug patterns clearly enough,
>but at a guess from what I can see it look likes a B.A.R.
>Sometime ago I needed help on restoring a Bates and a smashing VCC bloke
>from Cambridgeshire gave me the Bates agents name. His surname is Copeland
>same as the guy in the "Police". He will be in the VCC Handbook I am sure.
>Sorry I ain't a member and I can't remember his christian name and yeah I
>have lost his address.
>Great bikes Bates they ride like modern machines shame my one was just a
>little bit to big and needed to much work doing, did an exchange on a TJ
>Flying Gate which rides as well as that old Bates.
>ATB Bert Palmer Greenford Middx.