Electrics-Elephant Brand Bottle Dynamo and Lights
Elephant Brand, chrome, Chinese made bottle dynamo, taillight and headlight set.12V.
Parts and accessories, chiefly for Chinese roadsters, but most are easily transferable to other makes.
Elephant Brand, chrome, Chinese made bottle dynamo, taillight and headlight set.12V.
Typical stap-on engine for a motorized bicycle. This is a mall copy of the two-stroke Honda 50 engine.
The Hongdu is a copy of the French Solex engine and operates via a friction drive on the front wheel. 33cc.
These trusses help strengthen the fork to carry heavier loads. Most commonly seen on 28" frames.
This is the 2nd mystery gear hub I purchased. You can see what sold me on this old part: It's from Flying Pigeon.
I bought this at Panjiayuan at the same time as the Mystery hub. It has 32 spoke holes as many of the 28" rims here in China have 32 spokes.
Jing Pai, "The Whale Brand" gear hub appears to be a copy of a 3 speed Sturmey-Archer AW, gear hub but with loose ball bearings, rather than caged bearings. The axle also has no flats, whereas the S-A hub does, which makes it easier to work on. Finally, Note the Jing Pai has an oil filler cap, just like older Sturmeys. However, this AW is from '96 and therefore the oil goes in through the axle hole.
Not this S-A hub's left side is designed to take a contraction band brake.
The mystery hub looks very similar to a Sturmey archer AB, but the reality is nothing on the gearbox side will interchange. The gearbox compartment is too small to take any Sturmey components. This gearbox has HEAVY chrome over a massive layer of copper. Even the brake is chromed which in SA components is usually just natural aluminum.
Posters on the blog have since indicated that this is a "pedal backward to change gear" kind of hub.
From diagrams of New Departure, Sachs and other hubs, it would appear that this hub is not a copy of any foreign gear hub but rather a unique design.
40 Holes.
I have 2 of these and have seen one other. Not very common.
The second Mystery Gear Hub I bought had a grease port, but upon examination, it proved to be useless.
You can buy these at any of the roadside bike doctors. I bought the biggest and blackest one available. Goes nicely with the Pigeon.
Apparently of English origin, I have only ever seen one. It is essentially a circle spoke lock with three combinations dials.
These are probably the cheapest pedals you can buy, but still they are considered the "traditional" equipment for roadsters.
These are heavy duty pedals with braces in the middle to keep the rubber blocks from turning.
Many of the older bikes have these, but they are hard to find. Tape, of course, is a good substitute.
My own saddlebags created from two souvenier handbags. The Chinese says "Serve the People" a famous saying of Mao Tse Dong.
A black plastic seat. Flying Pigeon Brand. Virtually indestructible, if not necessarily really comfortable.
A black mattress saddle consists of springs covered with felt and vinyl. This is a typical stock seat on a Chinese roadster. Also sold as a replacement part.
Take the base rails and springs from a Red Leather Seat and hand it over to Mr. Jin to be re-skinned with real leather.
A premium brown "fox" leather seat offered from several Chinese manufacturers. Appears to be genuine leather covered with a lacquer to add some waterproofing.
The red leather seat is actually a "Lacquer Composite" which I suppose means leather scraps compressed together with a plastic binder. Definitely an improvement over the stock seat.
The springs and base are similar to a Brooks B33, but with simplifications. Heavily sprung with a hard plastic top.
Koba is a Japanese parts supplier. This is a Chinese reproduction of an old "Deluxe" Koba stand which was meant for 28" roadsters. It is all stainless.
Means "China". Zhongguo is also a brand from South China.
Note that the Chinese characters running along the length of the prop rod pivot.
Two brass bells are in this picture. One is a standard rickshaw bell, which is modeled after a British Miller bell. The closer one in the picture however is much larger.
Little chrome and rubber caps that fit over the cotter end of the crank arms. They help keep the hem of your trousers from getting caught on the cotter end.
Common equipment on most Beijing bikes and can be purchased at mike roadside bike doctors. This one is from Phoenix.
